Arkansas Single Father or mother Scholarship Fund West Area college students and supporters could have observed a brand new face aiding with fund growth actions.
That’s Haylee Moore! She’s a graphic design main on the College of Arkansas-Fort Smith who’s spending her summer season interning at ASPSF due to a partnership between Tyson Meals Inc. and United Means of Fort Smith Space.
Haylee Moore (second row, farthest left) is enrolled with 21 different interns within the Tyson Summer season Group Internship Program in partnership with United Means of Fort Smith Space.
The Tyson Summer season Group Internship Program offers paid internship alternatives at nonprofits for school college students. This yr, Tyson generously funded 22 internships within the River Valley. College students utilized via the United Means, which evaluated and matched interns to native organizations.
A Fort Smith native, Haylee mentioned she utilized for ASPSF’s growth assistant place due to her private connection to its mission of supporting single dad and mom construct a brand new future for his or her households via training.
“My mother was a single mother when she went to school,” Haylee mentioned. “When my dad and mom acquired married, my dad went to school, so I’ve skilled each facets of a father or mother going again to high school. I bear in mind how onerous it was for each of them.”
Aiding ASPSF
Throughout her internship, Haylee helps ASPSF Improvement Supervisor Abbie Taylor Cox for about 35 hours per week with outreach actions to additional ASPSF’s relationships with companies, faculties, and single father or mother college students within the River Valley.
ASPSF Improvement Assistant and Intern Haylee Moore (left) and ASPSF West Area Program Supervisor Sandy Nelson volunteer on the United Means Basic.
For instance, Haylee and Abbie volunteered on the Third Annual United Means Basic golf match fundraiser in early June. In addition they toured the Fort Smith Public Colleges’ Peak Innovation Heart, visited potential sponsors for ASPSF Logan County’s tenth annual golf match in July, and reorganized previous pupil and donor information.
“I’m so impressed with Haylee!” Abbe mentioned. “She desires to study each side of how the Arkansas Single Father or mother Scholarship Fund operates and what makes our program so profitable, with a 94% success fee right here within the River Valley. I’m so grateful for the contemporary perspective Haylee offers. She asks questions that permit me to see issues with a distinct lens. I’ve discovered a lot from her, and I am grateful to Tyson and our United Means for this partnership.”
ASPSF Improvement Supervisor Abbie Taylor Cox (left) and ASPSF Improvement Assistant and Intern Haylee Moore (third from left), obtain a tour of Peak Innovation Heart by Fort Smith Public Colleges workers.
Haylee mentioned the most important takeaway from her expertise thus far at ASPSF is seeing how a lot the group cares about single father or mother college students.
“They’re continuously reaching out, checking in with college students,” Haylee mentioned. “Abbie is continually interested by the scholars. We handed by a automotive dealership, and Abbie turned our automotive round to see if the enterprise would host a workshop. Individuals donate simply to ASPSF as a result of the group is so student-centered.”
Skilled Improvement
The Tyson Summer season Group Internship Program additionally consists of instructional periods performed by the United Means of Fort Smith Space. Like ASPSF, this system helps college students’ skilled progress in order that they’re outfitted to enter a profession with the delicate expertise wanted to succeed.
In a single instructional session, the interns discovered have a dialog, Haylee mentioned. For a complete day, they practiced speaking to one another, asking questions to find make connections with anybody they meet.
ASPSF Improvement Assistant and Intern Haylee Moore meets with Booneville Mayor Jerry Wilkins.
In one other session, they took a persona check, which confirmed them their office strengths and weaknesses, their stress behaviors, and careers that will make match for his or her persona.
“This internship program is pushing me out of my consolation zone,” Haylee mentioned. “I’m studying make connections, meet new individuals, develop new expertise, and additional my present expertise.”
She added that when she graduates in a couple of semesters, she’ll now know domesticate purchasers and relationships if she turns into a graphic designer — or every other profession she pursues.
Thanks, Haylee, for supporting ASPSF’s single father or mother college students! ASPSF works to interrupt the cycle of poverty in single father or mother households by offering scholarships and help providers — and this mission is simply potential via collaboration and partnerships with establishments like Tyson and United Means of Fort Smith Space.
ASPSF Improvement Assistant and Intern Haylee Moore (left) meets with ASPSF alumna and Logan County Public Library Department Supervisor Brittany Downs.
