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Snicker Doodle

My name is Ashley, but my colleagues call me Snicker Doodle. I got married after college and moved to the country where I have a ranch and three wonderful children. I am in fundraising for the IAPEF which stands for International Agricultural Production and Education Foundation. I enjoy my job because I get to make a difference in helping small town farmers make enough money to continue feeding their communities. It is flexible hours so I can work and still be a mom. My B.A. degree is in Organizational Communication, and after my third child turned five, I put my degree to work working for a small wedding planning company. I worked as a wedding planner until the unfortuate occurences of March 4th, 2017 took place. I decided then and there that I had to make a difference. That is why I went to work for the IAPEF, and have worked on feeding communities around the world ever since.

Our organization is non profit. We have a goal in providing education for local farmers all over the word, teaching them to farm properly (organically ideally). We will help them by buying there crops and selling it for a reasonable price for a world wide benefit. We have broken up our group into four parts. Production, distribution, education, and fundraising. My developing role in the foundation is in fundraising. The organization is non profit so fundraising is extremely necessary. I will be focusing on ways to not only raise money but to get the word out there so that people in the community want to help support. By giving them the knowledge of how it will benefit them will increase the numbers of contributers. Communication Theory: The theory we are leaning toward operating under is  transfer or transactional/dialogue theories. We have not fully committed to this yet.

Ravenous - Hero: Our company IAPEF  is known for putting small town farmers first and supporting them so that they will stive and our society will benefit with great products. We have grown and have been working in different countries, some are  harder than others. Our hero is Jimmy Dean and Nate Darnelle. Mr. Dean has done a wonderful job in international fundraising. Mr. Darnelle has helped and supported him in distribution and security internationally. There was a huge problem in organizing farmers in South Africa to provide enough crops and resources to feed the community around them. Jimmy Dean was able to not only travel out to educate the farmers on how to best grow their crops, but was able to feed thousands of people in the community with the best available crops. Mr. Darnelle was reponsible for distributing food for resonable prices and allowed these thousands the opportunity to eat affortably. The IAPEF was incredibly grateful for Jimmy Dean and Nate Darnelle success in providing the services we are striving to live out and for there dedication to the company and the communities that are getting healthier food along with an education. The two hero's will be promoted for there accomplishments and encouraged to make a difference in more international countries.  

We are the International Agricultural Production and Education Foundation (IAPEF). We have many responsibilities we cover and encourage our employs to do their job not only for the good of the company than the good of the people. There are four groups we have: Education and research, fundraising, Distribution and Production. Our superstructure's organizational identity in 2019 is accelerated in our work pace democracy. All of this falls under Paradoxes of Participation. We encourage and try to increase employee participation in decision making with the hops that our out comes with be improved. According to Cynthia Stohl and George Cheney (2001) "paradox is particularly thorny contradiction." They continue in description "pragmatic or interaction-based situations in which, in pursuit of one goal, the pursuit of another competing goal enters the situation so as to undermine the first pursuit" (p.354). This is viewed highly by the management at the IAPEF because it give employees a voice in this democratic organization. Their work matters and so do their ideas. I believe our team is a mixture of more than one type. We surly have aspects in us as Emergent Network of Communication as well as Team-Based. We do well working as a team with the four different sub-groups, and as a result we function as a living system. 

So far the IAPEF has advanced the organizations superstruct by expanding internationally. We have gone in to various companies in Africa because of the heroic event that occurred in South Africa by our very own Jimmy Dean and Nate Darnell. After they reached out to local farmers and invested in the education in teaching the local farmers to grow organically and help them expand and produce more crops to distribute they fed millions of families and communities in the country. We realized by our interest and capabilities we could make a huge difference in the rest of the world. We are excited to see where else we will be able to travel to. I think Hungary is the next place we will be heading to. We plan on helping and making a big enough difference so that hundreds of orphanages and allow the children in these countries the ability to have more options in food and healthier options. 

Nov 16


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