Three weeks in and my fear of getting bored of being at the same place the whole time has been proven merit-less. Part of the reason I think I’m not getting bored is the fact that I feel like I’m doing work that I actually enjoy and I’ve worked so hard on it that at this point I feel obligated to finish. This week was a shorter than my typical week as I was on a college visit for part of it. However, I was able to get some work done mostly on anchor tenants and a semi-emergency project I’m working on now. So now that partnership has committed to the idea of working with anchors it is now time to start finding potential anchors. My job is to look at each STLVW location, determine what type of company would best serve as an anchor based on industry, resources and location. The next step will be determining what advantages the partnership can leverage to make partnering with them a win for both parties. I mentioned earlier there was an emergency project, it is essentially an issue of disorganization. The partnership has to keep track of all of its investments for a host of reasons the main being legal obligations. I honestly believe that the partnerships government affiliation is such a hindrance it probably helps a whole lot more at higher levels of the company though. Anyway, the files for several investments have been lost and so I’m going through the account folders to at least try and find the money that went out, I know the company names so its a matter of putting dollar amounts to names. From there I will likely be setting up digital version of all of this information. I haven’t gotten to work on the inclusion and diversity initiatives as much this week but I’m pretty sure in the next I&E meeting were going to be discussing working with the Hispanic Regional Chamber which is exciting.