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Last Friday we attended Compasspoint's Nonprofit Day conference, where we spent the morning and afternoon going to breakout sessions and workshops (in the case of us interns plus Suj), tabling (in the case of Shari and Perla, mostly), and talking about GreatNonprofits with people (no pun intended). The Westin St. Francis Hotel is gorgeous, littered with period-style light fixtures and chandeliers, with rooms named after British royalty and ballrooms furnished with giant presentation screens-- having the license to run around a venue like that was a nice perk to the day.
The highlight of the day was the Happy Hour, post-conference. I really wasn't altogether too sure that we'd get many people to show up at all. I handed out flyers during the last breakout session as people left the room but that was the only time that I was able to do so in any systematic fashion, and the posters we'd set up on easels announcing the event hadn't been in super-prominent locations during the day.
When I ran out of flyers, I moved outside the breakout room to the main hallway on the second floor. There was a curious level of chatter and excitement from down the hall, and it took me a moment to realize that it was coming from the Happy Hour. So I stood there, holding a giant plastic bin to collect nametags and evaluation forms (the duty we'd been charged with as Compasspoint volunteers), with another one at my feet, and watched in amazement as people not only hurried towards the Essex Room, but came back out of it, cheeks flushed and glasses of Solaris wine in hand. The room was overflowing!
Perla came running down the hall. "We need all the students in there, now!"
I scrambled.
Needless to say, the Happy Hour exceeded all of our expectations. Looks like college students aren't the only ones attracted by free food and drink!
Signing off,
Erin
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