Describe your position in Senior Services.

I am the Executive Director of the Mid-County Community Center. We are a non-profit, 501(c) 3 organization, whose mission is to provide services to older adults that enhance lives and unite the community. Because we are not sponsored by a city, and are funded only through grants, fundraising, donations, and program income, it can be quite a challenge financially. On the other hand, we get to be very mission driven, and never worry about someone telling us how much "money" we have to make on every program. In fact most of our programs here have either very low fees or are free.

This is my first experience working for a non-profit, but they broke me in well. In non-profits much is decided by voting. For instance, on my first day, they told me they had held a meeting the day before and voted unanimously that I had to have a nickname. I stared a little strangely at them, and being the eager-to-please new hire that I was, I said, "Sure!" They made some suggestions that had been brain stormed at the meeting, which are best not mentioned, and instead the "Bunny" was born!

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