Our House e-newsletter February & March 2012 | Page 14

Georgia Mjartan Our House is a volunteer-driven organization, built and maintained through countless hours of service given by groups, individuals, and a good number of very committed full-time volunteers. Our full-time volunteers are our AmeriCorps and VISTA members who make up almost a third of our team and whose numbers increase to 29 during the summer months! Did you know that we rely on 13 full-time year-round volunteers and more than 20 in the summer months to coordinate meal servers, recruit and retain hundreds of volunteers who give over 40,000 hours of service annually, plan fundraising events, develop our alumni association, plan spring break activities for our school-aged kids, create this newsletter, implement our