My Summer With Paint Love

This is a guest post from one of our amazing summer interns, Jane Jacobs! Learn more about her summer with Paint Love in her reflections below! 

To learn more about Paint Love internship opportunities check out our careers page! 

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This summer I had the opportunity to intern with Paint Love and after the first day of a free lunch AND popsicle from Steel City Pops, I knew it was going to be awesome. 

I called my mom on the way home from my first day at PL and I told her that if it was ok, and not completely insane or irresponsible, that I would donate every dollar I have to Paint Love.

I remember leaving my first day of work in awe at how inspired I was at Julie's passion for making Paint Love the best that it can be. I am an athlete at a Division 1 SEC school, so I have quite a bit of experience being surrounded by passionate, committed, and hard working people (roughly 60 teammates to be exact) and I would honestly say that if you put myself and teammates in competition with just Julie and Laura, it would be a close call. 

Along with gaining so much knowledge on how marketing works within a nonprofit, my favorite part of this job was working with the kids at Our House and New American Pathways. I was able to learn how much I truly love working with young kids, and how much I valued the friendships that I built with them. 

 If you are interested in volunteering or interning with PL, I promise you it is the most rewarding feeling in the world AND you will have a never ending supply of popsicles (the good kind) at the studio! Thank you Julie & Laura for giving me the chance to intern with PL this summer and learn so much.

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