 So welcome to faith-based tech connections I want to thank everybody for being here today and I know some people may have to leave So this is being recorded and it'll be emailed to everyone who's registered within 48 hours. Do me a favor Please remain on mute if you would like to make a response to a questionnaire or make a comment You used to be action button down at the side and some people like I don't have time to find I'm just ready to tell you so you can wave at me if you would like You know wave your hand if you'd like to ask a question or make a comment But if you can try to keep yourselves on mute, so I have some special guests here today I hope they pop up because everybody's busy, but gail carpenter She's the chief business development officer The last week you all asked about some products that we don't have in our catalog and gail is the person to tell Because she it gets them here. So we definitely want to hear from her Steven Jackson our senior content Content producer should be here if you can't meet be here today, you'll be here next week the next month, excuse me Alicia Saddam, she's gonna be here Alicia I spelled your last name wrong, but she's our accountant part of our account management group that basically is a name for customer service Alicia is the person you want to get to know but I'm gonna do something. I got a couple announcements I want to ask you to do me a favor If you're having an event that's coming up a conference or anything invite us to speak invite tech soup Sherry, excuse me Shannon cherry is over our communications and events you can copy down her Email, I'll put it in the chat room if you cannot remember Shannon because I know you're seeing me a lot Then you can email me any events that you're having Even this if it's a sponsorship, so just email us and let us know I would love for you To become a feature speaker. I know I mentioned that but I don't like to be the one speaking all the time And I would love if you have something to share something that you're doing that's working or even Maybe challenges that you're having and other people need to hear about it because it's gonna help them That's what we're here for to help each other Email me at a simons at tech soup or I would love for you to become a feature speaker Especially next month because next month. We're gonna be talking about Strategies that you are using for 2022. I want you to share the knowledge And I want you to do me a favor I want you to help me choose the name or us choose a name for this group I got a survey a little later So I would love for you to help me choose the name of this group. We go back and forth with tech soup faith faith-based tech connections or Faith-based chat, so I'm gonna put a poll up here and you can help Choose the name and then that'll be it and then I won't have to go back and forth because I changed it Faith-based leaders one time and then it was faith-based tech connection. I want to know what you think We didn't want to call it pastors chat because everybody's not a pastor and and everybody has different titles, so Whatever name that you guys choose. That's what we're gonna stick to the last time. I had a small group that chose and I'm gonna see where we're at. We're almost done 63% is saying faith-based tech connections. Love it And I'll show you in just a moment. We're gonna end the poll in just a moment But I want to talk about things that you brought up. I'm gonna open my laptop or survey Last month when you fill out the survey. I was so so First of all thankful that you took the time to fill out the survey I'm gonna end this poll and then I'll share the results. So it's going to be faith-based tech connections Thank you very much. That is that is it. Okay faith-based tech connections so Last month when I asked you to fill out the survey There were a lot of great questions that people asked and again, I wanted us to continue the conversation Did you guys enjoy the conversation last month? Put a one in the chat room because there was so much Information that was giving out and even myself. I was just blown away By the feedback that you all gave to each other and by the camaraderie Thank you, Asia for being here is your first time. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Awesome. A lot of first-timer Cynthia First time. Thank you so much. So you were invited. That means the word is getting out. Oh Chuck Welcome. This is great. Mike first time Good. I love it. I love it. I love it. That means you're sharing Francis first time I phoned first time. I got an iPhone 2 my first time have an iPhone But thank you all so much. So I want to get to one of the common things that somebody asked and I believe I have it here When in that There was I put it in my poll question because I wanted you guys to to see Okay Share the results. All right. This is one of the common questions How are other leaders using software to serve their communities now? There's no way for you to answer So here on this poll, but I wanted you to see it in on the screen How are you as a leader using software to serve your communities? So what I would like for you to do is use the raise your hand button Unmute yourself and comment or you can as I said wave because some people, you know are not on Don't can't find the unmute button not the unmute button the reaction button. So I would like for you to share What are you doing? Great? This is great. I'm I'm glad a lot of first-timers here. I hear somebody I'm muting their cells Who would like to share? What are you doing? Okay, great Edwina? Please unmute yourself. Thank you. Oh I just Start start up start over again. I'll meet yourself again Yeah, I just came off of a call that's looking at how we're updating and improving Both our public website and we are a member organization So our internal website plus we have a conference center and how we have another website But how they're all connecting and the whole new look and trying to make it more Well less dense than our own website. I'll be polite and say Use that word but that that's what we're doing really working really hard on that right now And as I said, I just came off a call with the website developers and other people from our organization And that was very interesting. In fact one person who's supposed to be here now And it's coming as late because she had some questions. She's the techie person Okay, thank you for sharing that your website because your website is what they're gonna go to it's like your new business car Is the face of your organization now? We are already seeing results from our new extra website of people wanting to use our space for meetings and Retreats and you know that kind of stuff very good So that's a stream of income that's coming in and they're using their websites to do that I'm gonna meet you for a quick second. I see Steven here. Welcome Steven. Would you introduce yourself to everybody? Sure, sorry, I'm late folks. My name is Steven Jackson. I'm the senior content producer at TechSoup so I work in the marketing department and Sort of have my hands in a lot of different things and the editor and chief of our blog lead our content and video teams I Send out the buy the cut newsletter, which some of you may receive. That's my Thing and I also help with content on many different websites across the TechSoup brand And work with kind of most of the people here at TechSoup who help make all of our programs reality Awesome. Nice to meet you all. Thanks for taking this time to talk about your Tech needs and how we can how we can help you better I'm also looking forward to hearing more from you folks about what you need because as I'm creating content It's really important for me to be Reactive and empathetic to everything that's going on out in the real world community. So thanks Mm-hmm. Yeah, thank you Steven. Oh, I see lots of hands raised is Gail here Gail Carpentier. Oh Gail, would you unmute yourself and introduce yourself and then I'll get to everybody Hi guys, my name is Gail Carpentier I've had the pleasure of being part of TechSoup as their chief business development officer since 2001 And so pretty much any of the companies that have been added to the site to help you all Are companies I've had the pleasure of working directly with And there's a huge team that backs that up to make sure those relationships remain robust and exciting And I'm just pleased to be that that you invited me here today So I can hear directly from these good folks to see how else we can help them So if you guys have any things that you want me to Consider drop them into chat or else you can also go to the TechSoup main site In the forums there's a group called the technology wish list that I moderate. So if there's ever a hey Maybe they could get this or maybe they don't know that we really need this Please share those with me because that is really the fastest way I can help all of you So delighted to meet you all today Thanks, Aretha Excellent. Thank you so much. Okay. So I'm going to go in this order I see hands raised sister Joanne then Eric and then somebody that has a name owner And we'll go with it. Okay, sister Joanne, please don't meet yourself Hi everybody. Good to see you again um What I do after each of these conferences is I go back to our website I'm affiliated with a girls academy six through twelve who purposes to Make women good leaders and I go to see do we have What you said we should Then I get lost and I think that's what I find in a lot of websites that No matter how simple I state things. I can't find it on the website And it's frustrating and then you you know, so I think what I'm looking for is how to make Our school website a little bit more user friendly because I can't find it. I know it today for The information, but I can't find it Yeah, you know, we have um, we have some great console I We have we text you does all this different stuff So it's kind of hard for people ironically to navigate through our site sometimes to find like all the things that we can offer But we have a website consultation service. Um And for all of you folks who do have some website questions. Um, I look uh, Alicia Drop that in the chat We it really it's it's very user friendly to get to and to understand and the people on this work are really great. Um, But so that's one way to help but I you know About The idea of building websites or anything I'm also happy to kind of field those questions here today I'm also going to drop a couple other Blogs and things like that that we've created in the chat that kind of takes you through different website. Um, sort of planning and development Items, so I I'll share those resources too, but I'm happy to answer any questions on the fly you may have to the best of my ability Awesome, thank you, Steven. Um, Eric Yes, I I belong to a church in downtown Baltimore And we have a number of groups that like to do surveys of the congregation to see This since the pulse sort of figure out, you know, what they think of things So we've been using survey monkey Free of charge, but it's but it's it has limitations So, um, and we're not with the tight budget. We're not Ready to buy on an annual You know on subscription So I'm looking for some suggestions for surveys Wow, any suggestions that you all are using I think surveys are great. It's great to figure out what your members need Anybody using surveys They want to share with them. Okay. So you can let us know in a moment. Um, someone has the name owner You can unmute yourself Hi, um I'm mary from um, monomony michigan um I'm a bookkeeper for the school here Is she on tech soup? I got it It's okay scott. You keep coming on mute and I unmuted you that's this navigating Muting people. Okay, go ahead. Okay Um, yeah, I'm from st. Paul st. John paul's second catholic academy I'm also the bookkeeper for One of our churches, um But I also Do a little dibble and dabbles as in You know Trying to keep everything In tech related around, you know You know new software new this and what's you know, how to work it and stuff like that so right now I forgot what the question originally you had but I can imagine So people were asking what are they using to help with their community? What kind of technology are you using to help with the community? Oh, yeah, um with our community We just started up a new program For our tuition assistance program or you know tuition to Keep our tuition Together but also to get all our Things and we're using facts right now um Other things that we do is like i'm working with microsoft and google and I know those two don't play well together with each other and so But sometimes you just need to use microsoft and sometimes you just need to use google So, you know, we kind of do a lot of both Okay, all right. Well, thank you for sharing. Um person with the iphone Yes, my name is marcia matoso Are you with me? Can you hear me? Yes, we can Okay, my name is marcia matoso and I run a food bank in selam oregon And we're serving about four to five thousand people per month But I would I would like to to increase our Visibility what right now we I use facebook. I use our website Our website is okay. In fact, we just had a donor who went to our website And they didn't know about us and we're interested and because of that we're going to receive a truck Full truck semi truck with donations. So I think it is okay, but I like to improve that and also donor management if you have any Tips about it. Okay. Excellent. I like that and and there's lots of Chats going on here. Alicia's putting links in here gail putting links in here and anyone that want to Give information how you're reaching out to your donors. Let us know at least uh, oh you can unmute yourself Hi, uh, I'm Alicia. I work for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in San Mateau County We're located in the San Francisco Bay Area I took on the tech role about a couple years ago right at the start of the pandemic and it was great to have TechSoup as a resource because I had a aging on-premise server. I had a very expensive email server So we were able to consult with TechSoup and get the hardware This is also at the time when wind 7 was transitioned to wind 10 and they were cutting off support So we were able to use the bulk discount rates to get wind 10 Computers with some great solid state drives for all of our team We were able to purchase laptops so that we could work remotely down the pandemic We were able to transition our on-premise server using the Microsoft connection and the azure credits to move to Microsoft 365 So we were able to do this all in a year. Basically creating a virtual Infrastructure so that our team could work remotely and do campaigns right now We're mostly interested in we're with sales first for our donor management. We're kind of curious if you have any connections or advice there Also, our website is doing pretty good But what we're experiencing now is with the increase in traffic. We have lots of spam security risks We're with Bluehost, but we're kind of interested in once you start getting that traffic How do we keep our website from getting hacked? So Just kind of want it to make it accessible but also secure. That's how we're doing right now. Thanks Very good lots of good questions in there and I know gale has Put some links in there for donor management But security that's another big topic. I would like to know what kind of security We do have a vast and other security here at tech soup But I would like to know what everybody else is using after we hear from james. Hi james. You can unmute yourself Hey everybody So Oh james, we lost you Okay, we're gonna go to jaret while james. He may be having some technical difficulties. We're gonna go to jaret. You can unmute yourself Yes, thanks. Um, i'm it director for back-to-back ministries near Cincinnati, Ohio We do global orphan care community development. We're going to phone roll families Some in Cincinnati, but the rest is a lot internationally working with domestic partners overseas Haiti Mexico and then other locations A lot of what i've been doing is Around areas of security infrastructure. We're google shops. I use google workspace Doing a lot of integration though using our erp CRM system and integrating that with google so Making use of the google context directory to be populated by our crm which makes it a whole lot more helpful Makes it a little more hr friendly. You can see reporting And structure there Really have dove into learning management systems as well We use that internally and then also externally and so have had a online storefront called trauma free world And using that as a storefront for other partners that are in that space to come in and make use of the training that we're doing or regarding security Email spamming. I just think every organization needs to have a d-mark policy And that is just sending up some dns records on your domain It is a little bit of a process. It's not a one-time fix But getting a partner in there and someone that has to know how just to do A few records at your domain level just helps Bring your email system under control so much more and disallows people from spoofing your domain identity Jared, I would love if you would be a feature speaker for next month No, seriously, I mean I I I would take at least three of you or two or three of you because you just said a lot and A lot of what you said everybody couldn't absorb so they need to you break it down a little bit more Some people got it and you know, but some people like need to maybe see it visual So I would love if you would be a feature speaker. Would you um, would you email me? Would you email me? I have a follow-up with you on that. Okay, awesome. Have to consider them. Thanks On the security piece. I I drop the link To all of our security tag Content on the tech suite blog. There's a lot of great stuff in there. I also highlighted One particular blog that features a tool that we offer. It's actually a training program called know before and some folks in the it community will already be Familiar with this but the the one piece I'm going to say is there are tons of you know, like tools and Endpoint protection and all of that kind of all of the security sort of infrastructure these sort of like hard tools but The majority of you know, it threats start with phishing or spear phishing campaigns where essentially somebody Who is gaining? Privilege access they shouldn't right and so you could have all of the security infrastructure in the world, but if but but a human error Can can break through all of it, right? So uh, they're in hackers typically use this thing called social engineering Where they where they know that they need to They they can actually play upon certain Biases that you already have Uh, so certain such as like you're going to respond to an email That's from the head of your organization and things like that. And so they can kind of identify people manipulate those um manipulator socially engineer people to Provide privilege access. Um, so the know before program actually allows you to Send out a training program for your staff and then it also runs sort of secret Fake phishing campaigns to see if people are actually, you know, like following the best practices or not So there's a lot of technical stuff, but there's also the training portion That's super important for like a full security package today Wow, thank you, steven for that and I see kevin moho Shined in the chat room kevin. I need you on a webinar with me. Thank you so much Hi, mr. Williams. How are you? Thank you for joining us Hi, how's everybody? So i'm a first timer just learned of tech soup. Oh, probably about 36 hours ago So, uh, I was just recently appointed the chairperson for The laity organization of my church's denomination um task with the mission of Um enhancing our communications right now. We're we're at a stage where we don't even collect email addresses from folks so We're starting Really basic, uh, so i've got a couple of campaigns going on in order to capture that But I started looking Uh at a campaign for Um, you know, how do I bring everyone together? And I was looking at the google workspace for nonprofits and that's what sort of led me here And where when I when I saw the google non-space or the google workspace for nonprofits I thought I had tapped into something that I wanted to say eureka But then when it led me here, I don't even know what to use as an exclamation anymore This is awesome. I'm looking forward to Being here further down the road and jarrod. Yeah, I'd love to have you as a speaker next month So that I can hear more about that topic matter So we're just looking at a bunch of things. Uh, membership management system We're looking at email. We're looking at I'm my my I guess my uh My mission is to bring the uh the laity part of the diamond of the denomination into the 21st century And right now I think we're still In the pony express phase Wow, you're not alone. I'm sure there's some other people probably feel the same way on here I see a lot of heads nodding. So you're not alone. Thank you for sharing that And welcome come back again next month january 19th Hi, Cynthia. Welcome Hello, and thank you for having us and for having me. I'm Cynthia. I'm with exalted arts and um, I this is my first time I'm happy to be here and with everything that I have heard thus far and it's just getting started I know this is the right place for me. Um, I lead a faith-based theater company by the way But to answer your question, um, we just signed up with network for good You were asking how are we communicating with our donors and in all of our, you know, constituency? And I absolutely love it They have a texting feature video features you can do personalized emails They have templates and for a small organization like ourselves. It is wonderful I I am not being paid to say any of this by network for good. But um, if I had known about it, uh Previously it would have been I I think we would have been that much further along But I'm happy that I found it at the time that we did And so far it's just working wonderfully and I just wanted to let you know, thank you Yeah, thank you for sharing that network for good. It's awesome. Thank you for sharing the enemy As you see there are lots of pieces as she mentioned Alisha, uh, Sadam, I didn't get a chance to introduce you, but I know you're in the chat room We can come in the chat room If you don't want to come on camera, it's okay No, okay, uh, so someone said it can this be a quarterly gathering. It's actually a monthly Gathering we did a little survey and people said they'd like to do it once a month. So, um Lots of great comments in the chat room Jared said patchwork management is a key area of training and empowerment for staff to handle Content in this space of work, which is so true So so true Eric Harry says even better. Okay. So one of the other questions that was asked From the meeting last not last month I would like to know if there are others who are not comfortable placing their members information in the Cloud Let's talk about the cloud because that's what we are right now We're in the cloud right now Any any comments? I don't know who put that comment because your surveys are anonymous But any comments on how you feel about moving to the cloud Phil Williams, I see you are muted. Did you want to say something? So Jared, um, I think no, was it James? Was it James that we couldn't hear before and I see you Cynthia and sister Joanne just a moment James, are you able to come back on? No, okay. Yeah, could you hear me? Okay. Yes, we can hear you good Oh, okay, great so I help with a currently with a foster care organization that provides That pretty much works with a bunch of different churches in the state of virginia to provide services to families in need specifically families that are picking in orphans and are doing foster care and We use sales force for our crm I've been building it out from the past year and it's going really well Takes a long time to do it right. So just a word for anybody who is thinking about using sales force It is really worth it But you probably have to spend a long time developing it to match what you the way that you want to make it And we're using a market for our text message system And we actually figured out a way to not have to use mail champ. We just use sales force for our emails by adding in an unsubscribe code into our emails And sending them directly so that we can use better mail merge Options and actually use the data from our CRM. So that's pretty cool The one thing that I'm trying to figure out how to do better is manage interns and People that may go through our program that also want to be a part of the learning process So like for instance, if we have a program where we're Where the people who are our clients are also trying to learn the technology that we're using Is there a good kind of a technology for that like a training type of technology or anything that helps manage Internships and externships Wow, if anybody's using that please put the links in the chat or feel free to unmute yourself to To share with James. Thank you so much James for that John would you like to comment and then I'll go to sister Joanne Um, I would I would say first I'm kind of in the journey that James is on I'm implementing sales force for our group as well And it is a lot of work and it takes you know It takes investment of time and energy that to kind of get it there But I'm excited for the journey and certainly I would love to see even if this group had like some a little special interest chapters That could focus in on things like Salesforce or Microsoft teams or tools that people use I think the second thing I wanted to address you ask if How I felt about putting data in the cloud And I think two things. I'm old school. I've been doing IT since we used to call it data processing So I've been doing it about 50 years And in the process of doing those 50 years Um, I always have this little sign that says People who fail to back up and live to talk about it And the cloud makes a big difference. I think people don't recognize how Valuable the cloud can be and in many ways the people who are securing your data on the cloud Are doing a much better job of securing your data than you will do On your desktop Or on your little laptop the the ones, you know, I get people come to me all the time. It's like Uh, my my laptop is not working. Mr. F. So what do I do now? It's kind of like start over I mean, you know, you didn't back it up. You never you never backed up the data So you just got a kind of so I I think you have to be willing to Um learn how to use it properly and the comments that came up earlier about security and know before I think are really important because The weakest link in your company is where the problem is going to come from more than somebody outside They're going to click on something And they're going to be the ones who actually give away your data. It's going to be your own people So it's not I don't blame the cloud. I blame people Uh, and then I just want to say Without any question, this is One of the best things I've ever been a part of And I'm not getting paid either Cynthia to say that But just being a part of this group. I've worked with churches for 30 years I mean literally, you know, and I've helped many churches get their little, uh, you know member information systems in place And I got to say having a forum like this where we can come together and talk Is great And then lastly, I don't think I'm I'm happy to be a speaker if I can be if I can help But I also would love to hear some people Who are trying, you know, the term that I hear a little bit that I've got a master's workflow Just how do we make the technology Do more work so that we do less work? And I think we need Guidance in that area to even I don't think if you don't know what the possibilities are then you can't Build toward it. So if we can In-house if you guys have some people in tech suit Or if within this group, there are some people Who would be willing to talk about Workflow projects where they've taken some of the work they they haven't automated it and made it Easier and make things happen I really think that would be really valuable for this group and thank you very much for this Thank you for everything you just said Really means a lot to me that you think that this is great to be a part of excuse me. I'm getting emotional. Sorry about that I um I was an it in the navy and people don't realize stuff has been in the clouds For years. I spent 20 years in the navy as an it so the cloud is not new Is just new to us and so it's something that we definitely have to um Be prepared for and someone mentioned that I mentioned that the next event is going to be on january 19th and it's not on the calendar Correct. It's not on the calendar. Um, there's a process that that it goes to it should be on the calendar within the next few days Because I just came up with a date earlier today. So it has to go through different departments. All right, James You can unmute yourself Cool. I just wanted to respond and say, uh, thanks for that information and also, um Yeah, I like I like the idea because sales force is such a big thing when nonprofits like if if you guys had something about that or a group where we could all kind of get together and trade shared our trade secrets and ways that we Do our build out stuff. That'd be pretty cool. Um, but also as far as, um With the putting stuff in the cloud I think anybody who's like leery about it And that the one thing that's super important is you should be using them like stripe or like some type of donor management essentially cvv codes in you never have to type that in right The person who's giving you the money is typing it in and then it go and then it never goes into your database ever So they don't have to worry about that security, you know So if you are typing that stuff in somewhere, then you have to probably figure something out because that's that's uh Just the idea behind Why you use stripe and all those other things because then you they're liable not you Very good. Very good. Thank you so much. Um, wow. So lots of comments in the chat room going on as you see People are connecting. I love it. Uh We're connecting. I love it. Thank you moe said. Oh, yeah, I read that. I love it cloud backups. Um, lots of I met grace hopper when I started program training. Okay, great lots of comments You guys definitely connect with each other. You want to form small groups? Um outside of techsoup do that if you want us to try to navigate it That send me an email a simons at techsoup I want to leave with this one last question Which I think is important. Every question is important, but um, someone left a comment in the Survey that says they want to know about experiences that churches are having with various live streaming, um services What kind of hardware you're using for setup or software or whatever they want to know Give us give them some examples of how you broadcast your church services It says across a broad altar area. I don't know what that means. You probably know what that means Any comments on that pastors? leaders in the faith-based community What do you use? Hi, this is this is Keith. Um, and I can answer some of that I mean, I am going to get our tech guy to be a part of these as well hopefully in the future He because he's uh, uh, we were very fortunate to have someone who's very tech savvy So when the pandemic hit we were able to do live stream My wife and I became pastors here kind of in the middle of that so we do We we do it through youtube. Um, we live stream through youtube and We send out a link That only goes our church didn't want A lot of things publicized like a public link to just sort of And I know various churches do it different ways But they just didn't want a lot of the private information to go out like a prayer concerns and things like that. So We have a youtube link That we send out to people who want to be on that link And we send that out right before We're going to go live And so then we live stream that way there's usually just a few people in the Sanctuary, but we did Our numbers went down a little bit. So we are Now doing both doing a hybrid And we will continue to live stream even with people Coming because we have noticed that even though our link was not public People would share the link with family and friends And our church, which is a small church actually has grown During the pandemic because people shared the link and And what it does is it allows people to I guess Sort of see what's going on get a feel of what's going on And somehow strangely Even though it's nice when we can all be together somehow People still are able to connect to each other via technology, which I just find remarkable And in spiritual terms, it's just another moving of of god's spirit so I love that. I agree Anybody else want to share what they're doing how they're doing? Mike says I don't have a camera or a mic on this computer, but user training is my biggest headache The shortage of staff or our church is causing us to hire and take volunteers that have less and less computer skills than in the past Especially since covid hit What end user services does tech soup offer? So I least I think alicia will put an email in the chat room for the services that tech soup offers anybody else want to share How they're um what they're using to stream. I love that you you share the private youtube link and then they're sharing with everybody else Um, this is um, I'm sorry Any true heart and um, we also Started with live streaming and we were using a combination of zoom for our Sunday school classes That started with what the gentleman just said, you know, it went out to our members But then they began sharing it with others. So now we have people joining our Sunday school classes That are from all over the place and far beyond, you know Our reach was before and then as far as our worship services when we came back into the sanctuary We continue to do a hybrid of that, but we used um facebook live because we found that a lot of our folks were more familiar with that and I already had that set up or in either a tablet or their phone or Or a laptop particularly some of our older members who were less, you know tech savvy So that seems to work and you know, we're just going to continue to stick with that Okay, awesome. Thanks for sharing that. Thank you I see a comment in the section um from mo he said he just retired from the navy Thank you for your service and he's taking on an existing nonprofit But really a major restart in a short period of time What products would you recommend out of the gate to jumpstart fundraising? He doesn't have a staff just a couple volunteers. So Something for novice. So I I think mo it depends on what type of nonprofit you have That would decide on what type of fundraising that you would use. Um Can you can you share you want to come off mute and share with us? Mo you still there? Yeah, I'm sorry. I need to unmute myself. Don't I? Okay I'm sorry. Could could you repeat that? So you you said you want to know what kind of fundraising can you do to jumpstart What what what type of nonprofit is and that might help give us an idea to Suggest what type of fundraising you might do. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, thank you I guess I could put my camera on too there. I apologize Um, so Aretha first of all It's great to have a fellow navy veteran online. No wonder why you're so successful I'm sure there's a lot of reasons but So I just retired from 28 years working with the navy and the marine Corps as a chaplain about a third of that was with marines the rest with on the blue side I just took over a A camp that is an outreach to veterans backpacking fishing hunting and it's uh It's kind of been like more of a covert ministry, but it's becoming a faith-based nonprofit as of Uh, about two weeks from now and so It's small. It focuses on veterans Retreats backpacking hunting and we're we're adding a marriage retreat component right now It's focused on one site in eastern oregon But the vision is to start doing things in various sites and really Be more of a director and not a program manager of a single site Does that give you enough information? It does and somebody else can chime in but as you were talking I was thinking first um think about Write down all the things that you need. Um, I'm sure you probably already have those things And then how much it's gonna cost and so say if you happen to retreat and you need food First thing I would do is find out who who is the nearest um grocery store And find out how you can get a sponsorship from them It could be in the form of money or it could be in the form of gift card So it's gonna be based on the needs that you have and I could probably go down the list Depending on what needs you have But if it's a strictly money, then I probably would start within um 50 mile radius of where you are Corporations doctors lawyers friends families all people you know and have relationships with until you build it up Where you're 9 9 it can show that you having some success and then you can start going out to those major grants Anybody else want to chime in? No, okay Um, this has been amazing. Um, I'm gonna first of all Remind you again That if you haven't in an event and you would like a tech soup to come and speak at any of your events email shannon curry or Myself and I can get it to shannon. Um shannon's email is s cherry. I said shannon curry Think about steve curry Shannon cherry s cherry at tech soup dot or we would love to come to any events even if you happen a hybrid We talk on facebook or zoom whatever events that you're having We would love to share about more of how tech soup and technology can help your non-profits or other Sister organizations that you have. Um, I want to thank steven jackson for being here I want to thank alisha stadham for being here. I want to thank gale carpenter for being here I want to thank all of you for being here. This has been amazing and it just takes my breath away First of all to see your faces I know we're not face-to-face all the time but seeing your faces. I can feel your energy through your smiles And you know, just just seeing your face It lights up my day But I want to leave the last five or ten minutes for you to open up if you have any comments Any other suggestion when you close the window a Survey's gonna pop up. So please fill out the survey. Let us know more of what you want to talk about The list was a lot longer So there was a lot more that we could say but we value your time We want to keep it to 45 minutes to an hour But i'm just going to open it up to see if anybody have any Comments or anything you would like to say before we say goodbye I and I am going to jump in just a moment. Uh, if there are any comments specifically your question for me I'm happy to stay on otherwise. Thank you for all the great work you do Um, and uh, we'll see you next time Thank you, steven Thank you Anybody else have any comments Yes, gail Hey guys, thank you so much I have been furiously jotting down the requests that you've made in chat and what I've been listening to so Um, you know just to share with you. I am a member of my own parish council So I share a tremendous amount of synergy with all of you guys and I know that we moved from Yeah, and when nobody could meet here in the bay area And we also used facebook and continue to use that for the 9 30 service to be able to Reach more people and what we find is that people that had been part of the community had left are now re-engaging And so you know with the one bit of advice I'd give you is pull up your records from wherever anybody has ever been and remind them that they can find you online Because people you know need the sense of connection as aretha was saying to be able to You know, even if you're not going to be in the same building You can at least be part of that same spirit of community so just I'm looking forward to the next meeting and if Anybody needs to reach me directly. Um having been here this long It's just gail g a y l e at techsuit.org and I'm going to jump off to aretha But I know you're going to send us the notes in the chat, right? Yes. Yes. All right guys Good meeting you all take care. Thank you so much gail Again, this is being recorded. It'll be sent to everybody via email If you were sent the link and you did not register Then you can look at tech soup's youtube channel in a couple of days. It'll be there Again, my email is a simons at techsuit.org I'm going to also let you have a floor if anybody have any comments Or any questions and by the way gail if you need something added to the tech soup Product catalog gail is a person to make it happen Anybody have any comments? I did have one question if I may Because I have to make a presentation to our executive board and one thing that I searched on the website Was to find something that says Who are we? So that I can share with them. This is tech soup and this is what they're all about But I I did not find that so maybe you can help me point me in the right direction for that Okay, alicia will put a link in there about tech soup and how to join Very good very good observation And hey, we all need Somebody to remind us. Hey, I can't find this button. I can't see this and this is what we're here for Thank you so much. Um, mr. Williams Anyone else comments No, okay. Well, thank you all for your time today. This has energized me. I came in Feeling some kind of way, but we can't let that stop the show And you know you guys brought that level energy up and the love I could feel it through the screen So thank you so much. Have an amazing day We're gonna be sending you an email about the next event. I'm looking for my feature speaker So I would love for you to email me and let me know that you Would like to be a speaker a feature speaker. Don't don't think that you have to be an expert a feature speaker is really sharing Um, could be their problems could be their successes. We people need to hear from you Everybody that spoke today. You don't know how much you help somebody else So thank you again. Have a great day everybody. Make sure you take care of yourselves. Bye. Bye Thank you Thanks, mr. Rita is great. Appreciate you. Thank you. Appreciate you guys and thank you for all the comments in the comment section Bye