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Stef Arck-Baynes. (Zac Hulayev.)<\/p>\nStef Arck-Baynes. (Zac Hulayev.)<\/p>\n
Stef Arck-Baynes has always enjoyed working in communications, but found her true calling in nonprofit communications. That career shift has led her to where she is today \u2014 running her own business, Achieving Good Communications.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said, \u2018Well, if I really like volunteering and helping people this much, I should do it for a living.\u2019 So I switched to the nonprofit world,\u201d Arck-Baynes said. \u201cI thought there are so many different missions that I want to support and so many people who need help. So that was one of the reasons I decided to go on my own.\u201d<\/p>\n
As any entrepreneur knows, setting off on your own is not an easy path. Arck-Baynes said she has always been someone with high anxiety but other aspects of her life helped her put things in perspective.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething about having a kid [makes] almost everything else seem low stress,\u201d she said. \u201cI felt, if it doesn\u2019t work out, I can always go back to full-time work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Through an impressive network of contacts and lots of hard work, Arck-Baynes has built a business with a lasting imprint on the Philadelphia area. The Mount Airy resident said that one of her most rewarding experiences was working with Jewish Relief Agency a few years ago. Arck-Baynes helped create a video that was shown at the JRA gala, which featured testimonials by clients of the agency, Jewish and not. One client was the wife of a Holocaust survivor who had since died.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other client they connected me with was not Jewish, he was a single man with cancer raising his daughter \u2026 he had bills he was unable to pay, he had other needs, so I reached out to a reporter I know \u2014 and this wasn\u2019t a part of the [JRA] engagement \u2014 but I felt like his story needed to be heard further and wider. I ended up connecting him with an Inquirer reporter who did a story on him. I know from past experience, the more that someone gets their story out, the more chance that it will help them,\u201d Arck-Baynes said.<\/p>\n
For Arck-Baynes, helping the Jewish community is as important as anything. She and her family celebrate holidays and are culturally Jewish. Arck-Baynes said her memories of her grandparents, who were religious, mean a lot to her, and she is proud to continue the legacy with her own family. Last winter, she had an enriching Jewish experience at her daughter\u2019s school.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year, I went to her school and we got her whole grade together, and we talked to them about the story of Chanukah. We taught them how to play dreidel \u2026 we\u2019ve never been very religiously Jewish, it has been cultural, but I would never not celebrate Chanukah. It means a lot to me,\u201d she said. \u201cIt reminds me of family, it reminds me of community, and so I brought that to her school last year, and she was really proud to help teach it with me, which I love to see.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Arck-Baynes remembers what her Jewish identity meant to her growing up, being the only Jewish student in her private school is a major part of it. She said it is important to her that her own daughter feels proud of her heritage and culture.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t want her to go through that experience where she felt alone in it, where she felt envious of other people, where she felt left out,\u201d Arck-Baynes said.<\/p>\n
Arck-Baynes loves doing a job that makes a positive impact, she said. While there is so much negativity in the world, she chooses to be a force for good.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s so many bad things happening in the world, and it\u2019s so easy to go down that rabbit hole, whereas taking that energy and putting it toward positivity and saying, \u2018I know that there are problems, but let me be the solution,\u2019 is what I preach to my daughter,\u201d Arck-Baynes said. \u201cI try and practice that to be a good example to her.\u201d<\/p>\n
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