Jennifer Brown
Jennifer Brown
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Volunteer of the Month
March 2009.
Our March 2009 Volunteer of the Month, Jennifer Brown, is the kind of volunteer an organization dreams of. In addition to acting as Area Coordinator for the Northern Idaho/Spokane Washington region, she is also a Certified Trainer, helps Kirk Kief manage the busy Digital Retouch Artist "Call on Me" room in our photographer's forum. Jennifer not only agreed to take over the job of Digital Retouch Artist, she also developed a plan to make the whole system run more smoothly. Serving as a NILMDTS volunteer in an area where there aren't as many calls as in some of our busier, metro areas didn't diminish Jen's desire to help at all. Instead, she asks, "What can I do?".
There was a time recently that Jennifer had to have an emergency appendectomy. During her recuperation, she continued helping others by retouching files.
Forum Administrator Kirk Kief sums it up when he says, ""We have close to 7000 amazing Photographer volunteers, if we had 7000 Jennifer's then we could do the work of 14000!", and "NILMDTS Membership - $25.01
Monetary value of our gift to Families- $1000+, Jennifer Brown- Priceless."
Tasha Nicholls (VOM May '08) adds, "Jen has put countless hours into helping NILMDTS in myriads of ways. In addition to coordinating the retouching artists, she always makes herself available to assist other photographers with retouching questions and adds valuable insight and advice in the forum. She helps out whenever and however she can and has a true heart of gold."
Congratulations, Jennifer! You are clearly due this honor!
A huge thank you to all of our wonderful Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Volunteers!
The Process for choosing the Volunteer of the Month
The Co-Founders select the Volunteer of the Month by considering many deciding factors including -- Nominations from families, hospitals and fellow photographers
- The nominee’s established leadership in their community
- And their hard work following the necessary guidelines within NILMDTS including completion and logging of consent forms.
Nominations should be e-mailed to headquarters@nilmdts.org with the subject line of "VOLUNTEER OF THE MONTH NOMINATION". The Headquarters Office will accept nominations at any time throughout the month.
Each NILMDTS Volunteer of the Month receives a congratulatory plaque which can be proudly displayed in their studios as well as a profile here throughout the month of their award.
This is a wonderful way for us here at NILMDTS to recognize the outstanding achievements and the giving nature of ourvolunteer base.
Thank you to each and every one of you!