NAPO-NY Members Contribute to
Get Organized Month!

Organize Office for Community Service Organization

Seven members of NAPO-NY recently volunteered to assist the staff at the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center with re-organizing their offices. The Center, whose goal is to improve intergroup relations and promote non-violent conflict resolution to the community, is staffed by volunteer workers. As the staff is constantly sharing workspaces, the goal was to organize the desks so that all essential items were accessible, create a go-to area for community resources, and organize the common areas, filing, conference room, supply cabinet, and kitchen.

NAPO-NY Members: Karen Guccione, Margaret Langston (Beautiful Corner), Angela Kantarellis (AKorganizing), Klara Carames (Klarify, Co.), Wendy Glickstein (REALLY NEAT! for an organized environment), Katie Boyer and Collette Shine (Organize and Shine).

Organized Stockroom at Service Organization

Three members of NAPO-NY spent a recent Saturday at the new Housing Works Hell's Kitchen location re-working the stockroom so the volunteers would have defined spaces for storing items that were being donated. By creating specific spaces for donated items and labeling the sections, the NAPO team facilitated the process of locating items for the selling floor for the ever changing group of volunteers charged with this task.

NAPO-NY Members: Joan Reilly(Life of Reilly Organizers), Jaclyn Gross, Petra Tabry.

In Store Event

Organize to Economize in the New Year with IKEA Products was held at the IKEA in Paramus, NJ on January 30, 2010. NAPO members educated IKEA guests on the benefits of getting organized Store-wide events included Tips Tables and GO Kids interactive mini workshops to show children (ages 5-10) the concepts of organizing.

NAPO-NY Members: Fern Silvernagel (Gifts of Order, LLC), Ellen Palestine (Finally Organized, LLC) and Deborah Gussoff (In Order, Inc.).

Organizer Panel

On Saturday, January 23, 2010 NAPO members gathered in the Upstate NY Rochester area for an "Ask the Organizer" panel discussion and answered questions ranging from how to find time to organize to the best ways to deal with paper. Of particular interest to the audience members was how to organize photos and how to store historical family memorabilia.

NAPO-NY Member: Dorothy Madden (ORGANIZE IT).

Office Re-organization at Entertainment Industry Non Profit

New York Women In Film & Television's Office Manager worked with a member of NAPO-NY to re-organize her office so that she would be more productive. By the end of the project, the piles of paper were eliminated and a paper management system instituted, a system for managing daily priorities was in place and the desktop re-organization was completed with the addition of in, out and to-file boxes.

NAPO-NY Member: Stephanie Shalofsky (The Organizing Zone, Inc.).

Closets Re-organized at Hunger Relief Organization

Island Harvest, the largest hunger relief organization on Long Island, was the recipient of this year's GO Month efforts by POLI, a group of NAPO members who are based on Long Island. The team spent two days re-organizing two storage rooms at Island Harvest so that all of the baskets, buckets, barrels, promotional material and other items stored in these spaces were accessible.

NAPO-NY members: Linda Goldfarb (Organize Anything, LLC), Vicki Faber (Encore Concierge Services) and Nancy Borg (Move The Mess).