Urban Solutions Fall 2014

I am Rob Aiavao and am currently interning for Urban Solutions. They work with small businesses who want to expand and individuals interested in starting a business. They provide different services such as small business consulting seminars. They also hold legal and banking office hours where people can receive help through discussing general small business legal issues with a lawyer or meeting with a banking professional for advice and financial education. They primarily focus on 6th street, Tenderloin, and Fillmore areas in San Francisco.

I wanted to work with Urban Solutions because I am especially interested in community and economic development. I thought this internship would be an excellent way to see how the three sectors (public, non-profit, and government) work together to empower and improve the quality of life for communities. This internship is a great starting point for someone like me who wants to pursue a career in government, particularly in public policy working to alleviate poverty.

 

Week 1 and 2:

The past two weeks I worked on various administrative tasks around the office. They trained me how to use Salesforce to look up contacts, update them, and create reports that we can use to find data on past clients. One project they have me working on is updating their contact list by finding duplicate contacts and consolidating them into one contact. In addition to that I helped send out the invitations for their fall fundraiser. I also helped set up their legal office hours and met some of their clients. Finally, I also requested quotes for window clings to put on the windows of stores we helped.

Bigger projects that are coming up are canvassing the 6th street, Tenderloin, and Fillmore districts to market their upcoming seminar about web design and development training, reaching out to past clients to get data about job creation and other relevant facts for their annual report, and more event planning for the fall fundraiser.

So far the internship has been interesting and I am very excited to get out of the office to work more face to face with clients. I am also very excited to do more planning for the fall fundraiser. I am leaving for Mississippi to visit my sister at Ole Miss (Hotty Toddy!) so today was my last day for the week, but when I return on Monday there is going to be quite a bit of work for me to do at the office.

Week 3 and 4

The past two weeks have been quite busy at the office. I left on the 1st to go to Mississippi and came back at midnight on the 6th. When I came into the office in the morning I immediately started to contact different clients that we needed to participate in our fundraiser. We are planning on using displays and tent cards to show off a couple of the small businesses that we helped to show donors what we did in the past year.
At the end of the week I started to start canvassing the 6th street area to market the web design seminar Urban Solutions is hosting on the 29th. Basically Urban Solutions is going to bring in a professional to help businesses start a website and teach them how to use social media and mobile services to reach out to customers.
When I was canvassing the area, I met many business owners who had no website and were very interested in attending the seminar. At the same time many business owners did not see the point of the seminar. They were more concerned with how city hall was handling the raising retail rent. Many worried about how they were going to stay in business with how easy and cheap it was to order alternatives to their products through online retailers such as Amazon. One woman I met felt like the people who are in charge of the market in the UN Plaza were discriminating her against. The majority of people I spoke with were unhappy with city hall and the mayor. They appreciated the work Urban Solutions was doing and were very friendly to me because they felt like city hall did not care about small business owners anymore.
The next two weeks are going to be very intense since the fundraiser is next Thursday. I am going to help with the event and hopefully get to meet some interesting and influential people. I also talked to Steve, our Executive Director, about going to meetings with him to see more of how Urban Solutions works.

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