Sonic drinks: still good, but no longer necessary

Campus Kitchen is looking to broaden its horizons in Spring 2011. Our marketing and PR people are working together to create a veritable storm of promotional material and hopefully reign in some new volunteers. We have more consistency than ever, so our focus is shifting to streamlining what we already do so we can do more. As we grow and change we hope to hear your thoughts and encouragement. To that end, we're going to start blogging weekly. There will be updates from the garden, stories (and maybe some recipes?) from the kitchen, anecdotes from delivery shifts, volunteer profiles and much much more. Stay tuned, let us know you're listening and come out to volunteer whenever you can.

Here's the first in our attempt to get up close and personal with the exec board of Baylor's Campus Kitchen. Ellie Keeling has been running delivery shifts for Campus Kitchen for several years. When other volunteers don't show, Ellie comes through, and has been known to keep the deliveries running almost single handedly. Here are her thoughts...

This semester Campus Kitchen has started off with a bang. For the first time in Baylor CKP history we actually have a different leader for every delivery shift. Yesterday, I had the privilege of training our newest leader. Not only was it exciting to be adding another set of hands to the team, but it was also really cool to witness the expansion of this organization first hand. Gone are the days of dragging roommates and close friends into volunteering. Helpful as they were, they generally only complied because I promised Sonic happy hour drinks as a reward. Now we have had several instances in just three short weeks of school where we have had an excess of help. Never would I have expected to be asking people to come back and help another day. Though this is an amazing victory for Campus Kitchen, I also think that it brings about more opportunity and responsibility than ever before. Campus Kitchens is on the verge of becoming an even more amazing organization as well as an asset to Baylor university and the Waco community.