Jenny's  FABULOUS Home Page

NEW PICTURES Oh, Lord, I haven't updated my page in over six months!  I am far from "fabulous."  I am webpage scum. However, having just aquired a digital camera (Christmas present from me, to me) espect new and exciting pictures soon.  Possible ideas include: --the Garbage of Boston --Doors/door knobs of Boston --Trees of Boston --whatever else I can bore you to death with

My thought's on Bush's Inaugeral Address

Ideas for curriculum for Landlord University

Updated: Friday, January  6, 2006

Pages in Jenny's Web World: RESUME I'm leaving it here, but I don't really need right now, because I HAVE A JOB!!!! HOUSING An introduction to the affordable housing crisis and where to go for more information. BLOG I have decided to outsource my blog to Blooger.com.  To keep up with me, just go to             nonprofit adventures.blogspot.com!  You can still read past entries by visiting my Blog Index.             Entries of Note: Good News! (6/22) Great Find! (7/9) Great News! (8/6)            Amazing News! (11/30) Happy News! (12/21) LINKS It's by no means complete, but I try to keep adding new pages as I find them.  Updated Nov 1: more fun links! PHOTOS   NEW: Photos of my new apartment, and soon will be some to document the hideous wallpaper in Jon's apartment. Jenny's Junk Shop Jenny's going into business (sort of)!  Follow the link to my Cafe Press.com shop.  PAST FEATURES:  My letter to Rush, Landlord University... all my past crazy ideas are right here!

I now work for the Committee to End Elder Homeless--which has been officially changed to Hearth, Inc. Click on the logo to learn all about it.  The webpage is now mine, and I'm very proud of it. I'm totally psyched! FACT: 26% of the homeless population in Boston is over the age of 50

I recently finished one year as a  AmeriCorps Vista volunteer with the Greater Worcester Habitat for Humanity (GWHFH) in Massachusetts.  For one year I had the privilage of acting as the volunteer/youth coordinator (plus many other duties) for the affiliate.  Read all about it in my blog. Check out the progress we're making on the duplex!  (It was finally dedicated in March 2005... it was a long time coming, and the families were absolutely thrilled). Habifact: By 2005, Habitat for Humanity International will have completed 200,000 houses around the world!  GWHFH will have contributed 25 of those housing units.  Considering the scarcity and expense of land here in MA, that's a pretty good total.

Prior to moving to Worcester, I served as an AmeriCorps volunteer with the Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity in Texas.  Different worlds, right?  Well, oddly enough, there are few bizarre similarities between Dallas and Worcester, such as the potholes and the lack of road signs!  Kelly Square even rivals some of the interstate interchanges in the Dallas mixmaster. When not battling traffic snarls in Dallas, I was serving as an onsite volunteer supervisor, which is a fancy term for: making sure volunteers didn't saw an appendage off.  Fankly, if anyone ever got injured onsite, it was usually me.  Nothing serious, although I did have a wall fall on my head once--it was a small wall, though... and I wasn't even left with a lump.  Apparently, I have a thick skull.

So what is AmeriCorps? To put it simply: AmeriCorps is like domestic PeaceCorps.  On another level, an AmeriCorps volunteer is somewhat like a walking, talking grant.  Nonprofit organizations such as Habitat for Humanity write a proposal and submit it to the Corporation for National and Community Service.  Instead of cold, hard cash, organizations are given warm, caring individuals to help further the mission of that organization.