| This month L.A. Works
would like to recognize one of our newer project leaders:
Kayo Shiraishi-Adachi
Over the past year, Kayo has not only been
a new volunteer with L.A. Works, but also organized
a 25- person team from her office (Morgan Stanley) to
volunteer on L.A. Works Day. She has led or co-led numerous
monthly projects with an incredibly high level of enthusiasm,
and helped L.A. Works get a $10,000 grant from her employer.
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All project leaders should consider the opportunities
that exist in getting their companies to support and
be part of L.A. Works. We salute Kayo this month for
her great job leading projects and for taking the initiative
by making Morgan Stanley part of L.A. Works' corporate
supporters.
Kayo is from Tokyo, Japan, and has lived in LA since
1988. For the past 4 years she has worked for Morgan
Stanley as an office manager, where she has a variety
of responsibilities from supervising administrative
staff, managing facility issues, planning office events
and spearheading philanthropic efforts. In 2002 she
gathered a group of Morgan Stanley employees to participate
in L.A. Works Day, and she plans to organize more volunteering
events for her office this year.
Kayo has been a Project Leader for 4 months, and has
mainly worked on children related projects: Angel Guardian,
Good Shepherd Residence, Angel’s Flight and Gramercy
Place Shelter. She also led the Thanksgiving homeless
feeding project for One Incredible Family.
Kayo's views on being a Project Leader
"It has only been a short time, but being a Project
Leader has been a very rewarding experience for me on
many levels. I was heavily involved with volunteering
in high school through a club. After high school, I
wanted to keep doing work in the community but wasn’t
sure what to do - there are so many non-profits for
great causes but I was hesitant to make a commitment
to one specific organization.
L.A. Works is great in that I get to sample many wonderful
organizations and the people associated with them. I
had not worked with children much until I joined L.A.
Works and I really didn’t know what kids at shelters
would be like, but they are so great to work with. Seeing
the kids’ faces light up when they are playing
with the volunteers is priceless.
In addition to having the opportunity to work with many
CSPs, being a Project Leader allows me to bring the
gratifying experience to other volunteers. There are
many people out there with golden hearts, wanting to
do something but don’t have much time and/or don’t
know where to go. I know exactly how they feel, and
that all they need is a Project Leader making it easy
for them to get started, encourage them and make them
feel needed and appreciated. Sometimes it’s the
volunteers having a greater time than the kids! I love
it that I’m empowering the volunteers and bringing
out the best in them. I’m looking forward to sampling
more CSPs, meeting more kindhearted people and welcoming
the newcomers to L.A. Works."
Past
Project Leaders Recognition Pages
Sept, 2003
Aug, 2003
July, 2003
June, 2003
May, 2003
April, 2003
March, 2003
February, 2003
January, 2003
December, 2002
November, 2002
October, 2002 |
