Michelle N. Hawkins : Daily Research Log

Monday, May 21, 2007

• Created data entries for non-profit organizations:
  • Visitation Home, Special Olympics of New Jersey, KidsBridge Children’s Museum.
• Created data entries for schools:
  • Trenton Elementary Schools and Trenton Community Charter School
• Hours Completed: 8 hours

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

• Created a list of research questions from CBLI
• Created a list of funding for non-profit organizations
• Created questions for PolicyOption website
• Created a list of different New Jersey departments
• Hours Completed: 8 hours

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

• Created a list of Mercer County departments (1st half)
• Helped to created the following charts:
  • Trenton and Mercer County
  • Created a mini-graph before the actual graphs were created
• Skimmed New Jersey budget to understand how it’s divided and saved it to server for others to read
• Hours Completed: 7 hours

Thursday, May 24, 2007

• Helped to create New Jersey Department graph
• Created a list of non-profit organizations and summaries
• In the process of creating a list of non-profit organizations to create a graph for the group
• Researched homelessness (briefly) and visited the following website to gain insight on current court cases and policy options:
  • Monarch Housing Association: Provides news and data on homelessness
  • Project Homeless Connect New Jersey
• Hours Completed: 8 hours

Friday, May 25, 2007

• I read the November Fifth Coalition examples of civic work and manifesto.
• Deleted information from the previous non-profit org. summaries and created a new document.
• Helped to create the non-profit graph.
• Brain-stormed with the other interns on how to create categories and issues for the website.
• Hours Completed: 8 hours
• TOTAL HOURS FOR THE WEEK: 39 Hours

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

• Created graph for foundations and helped hang them up
• Created a list of advocacy and policy organizations in the areas of:
  • Homelessness, Immigration, and Developmental Disabilities
• Started data entry for New Jersey Departments based on Trenton City Budget.
• Hours Completed: 8 hours

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

• Completed data entry and research for New Jersey Departments based on Trenton City Budget.
• Helped to complete the data entry for the non-profit organizations
• Started data entry for Trenton departments.
• Hours Completed: 8 hours

Thursday, May 31, 2007

• Continued data entry for City of Trenton departments
• Created questions for future interviews
• Created list of organizations/departments we might speak with in the future