Our House e-newsletter July 2013 | Page 29

hometown Ann Arbor, Michigan previous job Peace Corps Volunteer Our House staff since August 2012 I make the campus as efficient, comfortable, & useful as possible. My main project is an Energy Retrofit for The Shelter. Our House spends $79,000 a year on its electric bill for this building alone. With a retrofit, this could be reduced considerably. We have one partner, Arkansas Interfaith Power & Light, who will be helping us, but we still need more help to finish the whole project. I love my job & it changes one’s life completely. Working with kind & helpful people with similar goals. I want to run a social entrepreneurial business that would be a combination of a homeless shelter, an eco village, & an art studio. When you volunteer, you give not only your time but the monetary value of your time. If you volunteered two hours once a week for a year you would be donating the equivalent of $696, saving a charity from having to pay someone to do the task you performed & from diverting staff form other projects.