Cornerstone Case

This project of gathering resources for Cornerstone was a very important activity for us to do, as future social workers. We will help our clients ask for help from people and we need to understand what it feels like to have nothing and asking for help from other people. I also volunteered last fall at Cornerstone, so I was glad we were helping a deserving organization. They provide such quality care to those in need, which cannot be praised enough. Showing our support to this organization is what it takes to keep it running smoothly. Even an established agency, such as cornerstone, is still lacking the proper amount of funding to provide everything to it’s children.

I liked our groups idea to combine Stacey’s club basketball profit share with gathering that money for cornerstone. It was a very easy thing to set up because slu clubs ask for profit shares from nearby restaurants all the time. Also stacey had family nearby so she was able to gather some office things from them. I wish we had better planned out the tasks for the profit share. Because Stacey was on the basketball team and, I believe, she was in charge of setting up a profit share for the club, she made all of the arrangements without asking us for support. We did of course get people to the profit share by spreading the word on social media, through texts messages, and by word of mouth.

Our group of very easy going and supportive of the profit share. We were a functioning group, but I think we could have done more with the amount of people we had in our group. We could have made flyers, sent out emails, and talked more about other ways to find resources. We also had a little bit of confusion in our group. A couple of us thought that after the profit share we could go out together and buy supplies, but I guess another member thought that we would just present the money to Cornerstone so they could buy whatever they wanted.

From this group project I learned how awkward it can be to ask