Volunteer Work

 

Throughout the year, Michitsch Systems’ staff volunteer for our clients in various capacities.  Here are some highlights from the last year:

 

Fall 2009

Cathy solicits donations from AFP Vancouver Chapter members for the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy - Canada’s Every Member Campaign.

 

Summer & Fall 2009 – Global BusinessObjects Network (GBN) Conference

Cathy, as Crystal Reports Special Interest Group, Program Chair, monitors speaker presentations, coordinates upcoming webinars and presentations, and prepares for October 2009’s GBN / SAP Conference.

 

May / June 2009 & 2010 – Easter Seal House 24 Hour Relay

Cathy conducts the same data conversion support as in the previous year.

 

March 2009 & 2010 – Canuck Place Telethon

Each year, Cathy volunteers at this event and processes all the credit card donations, manipulates the data and has ALL the telethon constituents & gifts back into Raiser’s Edge the day after the telethon; thus saving Canuck Place week’s worth of data entry and the cost of hiring temporary staff to enter that data.

February 2009 & 2010 – Variety, the Children’s Charity Telethon

We volunteer at this event as data entry clerks; and post event, once the data has been merged together, we manipulate it back into Raiser’s Edge. 

November 2008 – National Philanthropy Day

Cathy celebrates her final year as co-Chair of the National Philanthropy Day event.

Guest speaker and celebrated author Lynne Twist enthralls the audience, while inspiring awards are distributed for Oustanding Philanthropist and Outstanding Youth Philanthropist.

 

May / June 2008 – Easter Seal House 24 Hour Relay

Cathy assembled a Volunteer Team that handled thousands of donor searches on the paper pledge forms to avoid duplicate records in their databases.  Paper pledge forms were then sent to a data entry firm; Cathy then converted this data and it was imported into Raiser’s Edge with minimal amount of duplication. 

 

 

Ongoing

 

Capilano College Volunteer Days

Cathy has attended as an industry leader, along with a number of Lower Mainland executives for the business courses in Organizational Behavior.  She enjoys spending time with students and sharing her experiences in management of staff and clients.