A job of my own

This summer I've got an internship working with an environmental organization called the Sierra Club. (I am still amused at how many people have never heard of it. It has only been around for over 100 yrs) I went into this internship with the idea that I would see if I would want to start a career working for a non-profit environmental org. It turns out (as I hoped and expected) that I have taken from it so far a little bit more. I have learned that I loose a lot of motivation in my work when I feel like the project is not my own, but rather the "baby" of someone else. On July 7th I had an assignment to get 20 to 25 people to show up at a restaurant/bar to learn more about a forest preserve in the area (Spring Creek). That went well. We had about 27 people show, and I was so into the night that I almost lost my voice.
My next assignment was to then try and get the people who showed up at the restaurant to show up and volunteer at the next event: an annual BBQ held by the local Sierra Club branch, as well as get new people to simply show. This is when I learned more about myself. I realized, because I wasn't the main organizer of the BBQ I lost all motivation to work. In both assignments I have had to make about 300 phone calls and the weird part is that when I did it for MY event it seemed fun, but now that I'm doing it for someone else's, I'm bored senseless. Is that normal?

Moral of the story??: I need to be my own boss, or at least be able to make my own decisions when I'm working. I have been thinking about starting my own non-profit for the environment. An organization that would network between grassroots orgs and the larger ones in an effort to be more productive. Maybe call it the Green Earth Network or GEN for short? We shall see how that works out.