Servants Unite continues to work well as a volunteer run organization (20 hours per week):
- Continued the volunteer effort for Katrina relief
- Over 600 man weeks of labor sent into the disaster zone
- Organized 20 teams of volunteers
- Reached volunteers at over 60 churches and organizations
- Partnered with multiple hosting organizations
- Providing basic reporting and communications to members
- Occasional speaking on needs and opportunities
Servants Unite has the following outstanding work that requires full time focus (40 plus hours per week):
- Work more directly with volunteer groups and make more visits to the field
- Lead organizational meetings
- Speak to groups who have some interest
- Building the organization throughout Ohio and potentially beyond
- Setting up subgroups in major Ohio cities
- Building local mission opportunities
- Planning the next first response
- Training volunteers for reconstruction work that requires more skill
- Drywall hanging and finishing
- Installing windows, doors, cabinets, etc.
- Recruiting construction leads to mentor to unskilled volunteers
- Fundraising for response readiness
- Coordinating with Red Cross, Emergency Management, and other agencies locally and in likely disaster zones
- Developing web based applications and sites to aid in coordinating disparate groups in a disaster response
- Mapping directions to work sites
- Continue to help build and foster similar mutual aid organizations in other regions of the country
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