-: My name is Sarah, and I am the Senior Engagement Partner
at the Finnish Line Youth Foundation.
So, I work for the foundation, which is the nonprofit arm
of Finish Line, and a part of being an engagement partner is
I work with our two main national partnerships,
Special Olympics and Boys & Girls Club.
We get our employees to go out and volunteer with them
and to engage with them in various ways.
So I have the east half of the country,
my teammate has the west half,
and so I work with district managers and store managers,
and then all of my Special Olympics
and Boys & Girls Club contacts
to get them to volunteer.
It also comes with a lot of event planning.
We do a few fundraisers a year,
and then I personally do all of our social media and PR.
Throughout a typical week,
I will spend a lot of time writing.
We have an intranet at Finish Line,
so it's a place where employees can go
to look at everything and anything that's happening.
So I manage our page for that
And everything that's written on there is written by me,
so that's a lot of writing social media.
It's a lot of work as well.
We plan things out months in advance
and so writing all those posts
and making sure they're spaced out evenly
and they're going at the right
time of day and the right day.
We do a lot of different event planning.
So there are times when I'll just take a break from writing
to work on an event that's coming up.
But we take it by chunk so it's small and easy to handle.
For example, the next event we have
coming up is Bowl For Kids and it's in March.
It's an event where we invite our employees
and their families and friends
along with our business vendors, partners, and sponsors
to come out for a casual Saturday of bowling,
and all of those teams fundraise
which goes towards the foundation.
So it's a lot of fun, it's a very casual event.
So right now, we are working on a sponsorship timeline
to secure those and then I am finishing up
the contract with the bowling alley,
and before the end of the year,
we will secure team captains for about 50 teams,
and then we will leave it up to them
to recruit team members.
Come the new year comes nitty gritty things,
such as even details, what are we serving for food,
what are T-shirts looking like?
And then what other things are we going to add to the event
to make it fun, and special, and different?