Major: Marketing
Hometown: Toledo, Ohio
Internship Site: Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
Morgan is pictured above with Otterbein alumna, Robin Campbell, who worked personally for Dave Thomas at Wendy's and now works at the Foundation.
Internship Responsibilities: As an intern at DTFA I worked on the Adoption-Friendly Workplace
Survey. The survey is published every year and lists the top 100
adoption-friendly workplaces. The companies are ranked on the amount of
financial aid and weeks of paid leave for adoptive parents. It was an exciting
time to work on the survey when Netflix announced unlimited paid leave during
the first year for their new parent employees. “Unadoptable is unacceptable” is the motto the employees at the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption live and work by every day. Created by Dave Thomas in 1992, his vision was to find every child a permanent and loving home. The Foundation is a nonprofit that is supported by Wendy’s. Every time you buy a frosty key tag or drop money into the canisters at their restaurants, that money goes to DTFA. The 18 employees, led fearlessly by CEO Rita Soronen, work every day to find homes for 100,000 kids who are still waiting to be adopted. When you walk into the foundation your attention is instantly grasped by the murals of kids who are the faces of adoption and foster kids. Sayings like “You have to be brave with your life so others can be brave with theirs” and “We exist for one reason: to find children forever families” are brightly printed on the walls.
What I Learned: No matter what projects the
staff at the Foundation are working on, they do it with all of their heart
because they love their job and genuinely want to help kids in need. Working at
the Dave Thomas Foundation has been an incredible opportunity and an even
better learning experience.
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