Community Service Project
CSP Findings
Jessica Power
May 23, 2010
I have community service project for a class at Santa Clara University. I and 3 other people in my group have decided to collect hygienic products for Emergency Housing Consortium Life Builders (EHC) to give to homeless people. Most people readily donate food, clothes, and blankets but don’t usually think of donating hygienic products. We plan to collect 150 such products that can include: shampoo, conditioner, lotion, razors, soap, floss, toothpaste, and any other hygienic products we can find. We plan on asking from within our families and then seeking donations from hotels. We divided up the areas in which we will ask hotels so we our group members go off individually we don’t ask donations from the same hotels twice. We divided the areas in Campbell, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and Downtown San Jose. I was in charge of Sunnyvale. Yesterday I gathered together all the hygienic products I found from my family.
In total I collected samples of:
Cotton swabs, 3 floss, toothpaste, 4 razors, 3 soaps, 1 toothbrush, 4 lotion/skin cleansers, 3 body wash, and 5 shampoo/conditioners.
Grand total: 25 products.
Today I went to several hotels and asked for small samples of soaps and shampoos.
The first hotel employee I spoke to sat the front desk said the manager was not in to give him permission to donate products to our cause.
The second hotel said the same and gave very little interest in our request.
At this point things were looking pretty hopeless.
The third hotel said the manager was not there to authorize it, but the hotel would be very happy to donate supplies for our community service project and then he gave me a business card to get in touch with the manager to set up a time to pick up the samples.
I liked that hotel
The fourth hotel I visited said the manager wasn’t in, but the employee there took my phone number and said the manager would call me about donating samples when he returned to the hotel.
I then went to the Friendship Inn and decided to test the validity of the hotel’s name by again asking for samples. The woman at the front desk –who I assumed to be the manager- immediately went and gathered: 20 shampoo/conditioner samples and 12 soap bars and handed them to me in a zip lock bag.
This hotel was my favorite and should change its name from Friendship Hotel to The Friendliest Hotel.
I then visited 2 more hotels. The first said the manger wasn’t in – so no luck there. The second said they were willing to donate supplies, but were currently running low on them so they could not donate.
The last hotel I visited was a Motel 6. I didn’t think I’d get anything from them. The manger wasn’t in but the employee at the front desk told me he’d see what he could find. He went over to a supply closet and got 11 soap bars. When he handed them to me he said, “They’re a big corporation –they can afford it.”
I liked that hotel too .
At the end of the day I had gathered:
23 soap bars and 20 shampoo/ conditioner samples.
In total from hotels: 42 products (with a potential to get more if I contact the manger from that one hotel, or the other hotel calls me).
In total: 68 products.
I don’t know how my team mates have done so far, but if they get this amount each we’ll be ahead of what we anticipated to get.
I think it ultimately came down to the individual people who were willing to go out of their way to give. I thank them an appreciated what they’ve donated to our cause.
P.S. Econolodge and “Best” Western suck.
Jessica Power
May 23, 2010
I have community service project for a class at Santa Clara University. I and 3 other people in my group have decided to collect hygienic products for Emergency Housing Consortium Life Builders (EHC) to give to homeless people. Most people readily donate food, clothes, and blankets but don’t usually think of donating hygienic products. We plan to collect 150 such products that can include: shampoo, conditioner, lotion, razors, soap, floss, toothpaste, and any other hygienic products we can find. We plan on asking from within our families and then seeking donations from hotels. We divided up the areas in which we will ask hotels so we our group members go off individually we don’t ask donations from the same hotels twice. We divided the areas in Campbell, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and Downtown San Jose. I was in charge of Sunnyvale. Yesterday I gathered together all the hygienic products I found from my family.
In total I collected samples of:
Cotton swabs, 3 floss, toothpaste, 4 razors, 3 soaps, 1 toothbrush, 4 lotion/skin cleansers, 3 body wash, and 5 shampoo/conditioners.
Grand total: 25 products.
Today I went to several hotels and asked for small samples of soaps and shampoos.
The first hotel employee I spoke to sat the front desk said the manager was not in to give him permission to donate products to our cause.
The second hotel said the same and gave very little interest in our request.
At this point things were looking pretty hopeless.
The third hotel said the manager was not there to authorize it, but the hotel would be very happy to donate supplies for our community service project and then he gave me a business card to get in touch with the manager to set up a time to pick up the samples.
I liked that hotel
The fourth hotel I visited said the manager wasn’t in, but the employee there took my phone number and said the manager would call me about donating samples when he returned to the hotel.
I then went to the Friendship Inn and decided to test the validity of the hotel’s name by again asking for samples. The woman at the front desk –who I assumed to be the manager- immediately went and gathered: 20 shampoo/conditioner samples and 12 soap bars and handed them to me in a zip lock bag.
This hotel was my favorite and should change its name from Friendship Hotel to The Friendliest Hotel.
I then visited 2 more hotels. The first said the manger wasn’t in – so no luck there. The second said they were willing to donate supplies, but were currently running low on them so they could not donate.
The last hotel I visited was a Motel 6. I didn’t think I’d get anything from them. The manger wasn’t in but the employee at the front desk told me he’d see what he could find. He went over to a supply closet and got 11 soap bars. When he handed them to me he said, “They’re a big corporation –they can afford it.”
I liked that hotel too .
At the end of the day I had gathered:
23 soap bars and 20 shampoo/ conditioner samples.
In total from hotels: 42 products (with a potential to get more if I contact the manger from that one hotel, or the other hotel calls me).
In total: 68 products.
I don’t know how my team mates have done so far, but if they get this amount each we’ll be ahead of what we anticipated to get.
I think it ultimately came down to the individual people who were willing to go out of their way to give. I thank them an appreciated what they’ve donated to our cause.
P.S. Econolodge and “Best” Western suck.
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