January is
National
Get Organized Month
Since 2003, Tucson Professional Organizers has been proud to participate in the National Organization of Professional Organizers (NAPO) Get Organized Month. T-PrO members volunteer their time to enable a Tucson nonprofit agency improve the overall organization of its space and/or materials and therefore accomplish its goals more effectively.
Our group of Professional Organizers can help you organize just about any aspect of your office or home. Please enjoy viewing these Tucson area projects that members of our group have tackled, and consider how T-PrO can benefit you. If your agency would like to apply for 2008 Get Organized Month, click here. |
T-PrO Get Organized Month
Project January 2008
Shred-A-Thon
T-PrO thanks the Tucson community for their support and participation in the Shred-A-Thon held on January 15, 2008. We partnered with Arizona Small Business Association, Iron Mountain Shredding, and Jet Express Airline to host the event. Iron Mountain shredded more than 9 tons of paper brought in that day.
Jet Express donated one hundred $25 discount coupons toward tickets on their airline, and two free round trip tickets to the person who brought in the most paper. Winner of those tickets was Arnold Mendez, Jr. of A & M Shell Station on E Speedway. He brought in 40 boxes of paper.
Donations of $5 per box - with many people giving more - raised $3500 for The Giving Tree non-profit. |
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T-PrO Get Organized Month
Project January 2007
Habitat for Humanity
In sync with the efforts of more than 4,000 organizers nationally through NAPO’s (National Association of Professional Organizers) Get Organized Month, Tucson Professional Organizers (T-PrO), donated their organizing expertise to complete a project for yet another Tucson non-profit organization.
This year, Habitat for Humanity was selected to receive the services of our T-PrO members for five consecutive days, January 9-13!
Habitat Tucson has been building at the same site, Balboa and Laguna, for more than four years. There are 25 employees working with Habitat, including those at the construction site, store and office. Eight of these employees are on site, and supervise the construction of dozens of homes. The bulk of the actual construction, however, is accomplished by community volunteers, who, although often inexperienced with tools and construction, are committed to moving families into permanent housing.
In addition to sharing the values of Habitat, each member of Tucson Professional Organizers is dedicated to improving the quality of life for the volunteer crews. One way we did this was to house the tools they need in the same consistent location.
We spent our time digging through the contents of five-gallon tubs of intermingled screws and nails of all lengths and sorting them, physically separating power tools from other supplies, distinguishing finish hammers from other hammers, and labeling, labeling, labeling. At the conclusion of approximately 100 hours of work, even a new volunteer could enter the supply building and easily find and return materials during their volunteer shift!
Once construction at Balboa and Laguna is finished, and all of the materials are moved to the next Habitat construction site, we Organizers feel certain that Matt Brodie and his dedicated crew will have a firm grasp of the inventory they’ll be taking with them! In fact, we’re told that we inspired a regular volunteer so much, that he’s made organizing his assigned task every week he volunteers. |
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T-PrO Get Organized Month
Project 2006
Pilot Parents of Southern Arizona
We are delighted to describe how we improved the organizational status of Pilot Parents of Southern Arizona.
The mission of Pilot Parents is to provide encouragement and support to families who have children with special needs so that their children can reach their maximum potential. With that in mind, our approach was double-pronged:
• We reorganized their supply closet.
• We totally revamped and reorganized their collection of books and videos, dealing with special needs as diverse as Cerebral Palsy, Down’s Syndrome, Major Depression and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. We entered all of their resource materials into a new database which can be more effectively accessed by parents. This ensures that no matter what kind of information parents are searching for - medical information on a specific disability, or strategies to become more effective advocates for their children in both the school system and community at large - the resources that Pilot Parents has will be quickly and easily accessed in their office. |
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T-PrO Get Organized Month
Project 2005
Tucson Resident
In 2005, T- PrO not only reorganized this client’s home, but also moved it to a new location. Furthermore, throughout this process, this client discovered hundreds of items that could be sold and transformed into CASH.
T-PrO members feel honored to have had the opportunity, once again, to contribute to the quality of life for residents in our beloved city of Tucson. |
Before T-Pro arrived:
After T-Pro members moved this client
to the new location:
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