Homeownership SF (HSF) Spring 2015

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My name is Abrar AlHusaini; I am a senior graduating this May with a degree in Finance. I have been working with non-profits since 2009 and began developing my own non-profit human rights organization in 2014. My goal is to be able to exercise my business development and analytical skills to contribute to the growth of a non-profit such as HomeownershipSF. In addition I aim to understand and adopt the type of strategy and internal structure needed to effectively and efficiently operate a non-profit organization.

I am interning at HomeownershipSF, an organization that delivers resources and opportunities of affordable housing and foreclosure intervention education/counseling based in San Francisco. Homeownership SF is one of five member agencies providing homeownership services to low-income households.

At HomeownershipSF there are four employees that take on the demanding daily projects that it takes to run this organization. Carlos Serrano-Quan the Executive Director, Shannon Way Director of Programs, Catalina Valencia Programs Coordinator, and Jamar Deal the new intern.

I work directly under Catalina Valencia, who assigns me projects on a weekly or daily bases depending on how long they take to complete. My main projects include work for the annual EXPO in June, Day-to-day tasks and Data entries. The tasks within these projects range from data entry, research, developing outreach connections, producing and printing documents and flyers, updating the website and more.

It is an exciting field because although some projects take a while to complete, there are always new things to work on and that allows me to exercise and develop new skills.