{"id":1116,"date":"2012-08-01T09:31:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T14:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.joecurry.com\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2012-08-01T09:31:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T14:31:50","slug":"potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/joecurry\/7688927546\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Regional Autism Center\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7276\/7688927546_2f175181f5_z.jpg\" alt=\"Regional Autism Center\" width=\"640\" height=\"465\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><strong>   365.205<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During my last semester in Notre Dame&#8217;s MBA program, I took a class called Community Partners, and my team of friends and I were paired with the autism center in South Bend, Indiana. We were tasked with developing a marketing communications plan to increase awareness for the Center for Autism in the Michiana area (man, I kind of miss saying <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michiana\">Michiana<\/a>) and with awareness, increased volunteer and monetary support. First, I needed to do research because I knew next to nothing about autism.<\/p>\n<p><em>So, what is autism?<\/em> Autism is a life-long developmental disability that affects a person\u2019s ability to process sensory info and causes difficulties in developing communication skills, interpreting social relationships, and learning appropriate ways to relate to people, objects and events. <a href=\"http:\/\/ansaricenterforautism.org\/autism_faq.cfm\">Learn more here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As thanks for our volunteer work, Martha McMillian, an active participant in the LOGAN Center (a community center that serves people with developmental disabilities and also operates the autism center), painted a watercolor of the Notre Dame campus for each of us. I love it, and it reminds me that no matter what our individual abilities or disabilities are, the talents we&#8217;ve perfected or the imperfections we acknowledge, or even our failed attempts (see: elementary school wrestling), each of us has the potential to make a unique contribution to the world of those around us. In big ways. In small ways. And ways that are uniquely yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>365.205 During my last semester in Notre Dame&#8217;s MBA program, I took a class called Community Partners, and my team of friends and I were paired with the autism center in South Bend, Indiana. We were tasked with developing a marketing communications plan to increase awareness for the Center for Autism in the Michiana area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5wQXH-i0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}