RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE

Ronald McDonald House

Ronald McDonald House

Introduction

Healthcare has always been a huge issue around the Twin-Cities area. Families have a hard time supporting the health insurance that is outrageously expensive so when something bad happens, families can apply to stay at the RMH. The mission of the RMH is the commitment to helping families and communities live with children that have serious illnesses (Fleming). The goal our group hopes to accomplish is to further our own understanding of how the RMH assists families through their time of crisis and to create awareness of the organization around the campus.

Ronald McDonald House

Our aim is to encourage people to volunteer at the RMH. The plan for our further understanding of RMH was first to look online for background information on what this non-profit organization is about and what they do. Then we set up an interview with an administrative staff member to get more information on how the operation of the house is being handled and where RMH get all its funding to operate the house. We also want to set up an interview with a volunteer for the RMH to get an idea of what volunteers could do to help run the RMH and how people can become volunteers at the RMH. Lastly, to get a real idea of the RMH, our group decided to volunteer at the RMH and get a chance to interact with the children.

During high school, I was always a fan of volunteering to help to make a difference at my school and community. I have been working with little kids in preschool since my junior year in high school. I love being around little kids because they make me happy. I think that I could be a positive role model for them and I hope that one day they would do the same things that I have done with them. It is sad to say that I have not really been volunteering at all in college. I hope this project can jump start my commitment to volunteering again. My personal goal for this project was to help in any way I can to make the children at the RMH feel as comfortable as they could during their stay at the house.

“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” Vince Lombardi used this famous quote about the positive impact of working in a group. Throughout most of the project, I would say that our group had a good chemistry together. We had a group vision, we set our goals, and we knew what we were going to do and how we were going to achieve our goals for this project. However, with all the planning that we had done, none were being accomplished because the project was assigned a month before it was due. So after our group got done planning there were a few weeks of inactivity for the ...