 a very small space of land. You can feed a lot of people in an eight by 10, off of an eight by 10 garden, which is really not a huge garden. So there's just like so many directions that we can go in with the various, with like, you know, smaller resources. Yeah, and we've seen at the city, the community gardens that we run in the, across Winooski are one of our more successful programs that actually, you know, building relationships and folks are really engaged in that. We also know that there is, there is a need, a lack right now of youth programming that is, I don't want to say effective, but like what youth want. And I wonder, have you been engaged with the kids that you're already working with to like, has that informed what your vision is for this youth center in the future? I mean, yeah, for sure. So part of it would be like, you know, traditional like workout equipment, but then we have like a quiet space for like meditation. And we'll have places for them to do, like if they need to do homework and stuff, that as well. But for as far as like the, there's a huge demand for what we're doing. We just don't have the space. So I just, I don't know how to say that. I have a lot of kids that- The biggest hump, yeah. The biggest hump that we need to get over currently is the initial investment, you know? So in order to apply for a lot of these grants that are available, there are a lot of, there are a lot of infrastructure grants out there, but unfortunately, well, not unfortunately, but fortunately, unfortunately, they're often grant matching grants, which means that we need to find X amount of money and then pick that money and show the government, the state that we have done all this work that it needed in the community, wanted in the community, and then they'll give us the funds that we need to actually build the space. So right now we need corporate sponsorship, we need support from, you know, the city. We need, we need financial support from donors, you know, overall so that we can get there. So whether you get $5 or $500 every amount count, help us build the Winooski Youth Center. How can folks learn more about the foundation and make donations if they wish? Is there like a website or some information you can share? It's vtfightforkids.org. Vtfightforkids.org? Yeah, and they can find out information about the organization, make donations and everything from there. Do you have any, oh, go ahead, Gita. Sorry, also we're currently working on a smaller funding drive, not only to present to the community and to future donors what we're capable of doing, but we're working also with the state of Vermont on a better places, place-making grant, which will allow us to offer some programming through the summer, and that is, that website is patronicity.com slash FKF. Pete, that please? Patronicity? Patronicity.com backslash FKF. Okay, thank you. And what that is, is a program that we'll be doing during the summer. It's called Sweat, Flix and Chill. And so there's an open-air workout open to the community, anybody, any ability of ages, it's like a 45-minute workout. And then we have food that's gonna be there, and then we have an open-air movie that's gonna play. So kind of like what Benny Jerry's does on Church Street, we'll do the same thing here in Wenduski. That's awesome, that sounds like a really good way. Here's an event folks can attend and learn more, intergenerational, bring folks together. Bring folks together, that wouldn't normally be together. And you don't have to do every part. Maybe you wanna just come for the food, maybe you wanna come for the Flix, maybe you wanna do all of the above, but it's there for you. Yeah, and I wanna go back to something Geeta said about funding. This is often how government grants work that the city goes after as well, like you have to prove some plans and some backing. And so the city council has supported your foundation and written some letters of support. I appreciate that. Because we do believe that what you are working towards is really gonna be helpful for the community. And finding that match money is always a challenge as well. I know you all are doing a lot of hard work going out there seeking grant funding. But like you said, the corporate sponsors are large and small donors, frankly make a big difference. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and just to say through the funding that we've been doing with the better places, we have had some bigger and smaller donors and we've had a lot of people giving little small sums and everything helps. Like it's all amazing. And we just like, we appreciate people getting to find us. You're this close to actually receiving the grant. So if anybody's out there and they wanna see it happen, we're just a few hundred dollars away from actually achieving our goal. So. Oh, that's amazing. I also wanna say something about, you know, the city of UNISC used to have a youth center. This is before I was serving in this role. So I'm not super familiar with the details of that, but I know it hasn't been there for a while and there's, it's been a gap in the community, right? For sure. And the Winooski Press Building, I'm sure many community members are familiar. It's sort of like a little bit of Winooski history. It is really close to the school and to areas where we know a lot of young, there are like more families with youth with kids. And so that location is actually really ideal. And so being able to bring a resource like this, where kids already are, where they're already passing through, is gonna be impactful. And I have heard many times when I have met with, you know, high school students at the district, you talked about like quiet space for meditation or doing homework. I know that's a challenge a lot of kids face. We have a lot of larger families in Winooski in smaller housing and they really don't have space to go that's quiet or for privacy to get that sort of thing done. Right. So there's, I feel like there's a couple of levers you're hitting on or needs that we have in Winooski. Are there any beyond like funding? Are there any supports that you all are looking for in current programming? Or are you really focused on this new effort in this big project for the Youth Center? I mean, right now we're trying to stay super focused on, because it's a huge endeavor and that's pretty much our main focus. We have down the line, we'll take like, you know, I mean, if someone wants to give their information, like we've created a list, we have some people that wanna volunteer to be teachers and help with the program, the actual program that we'll be doing at the center. But if we don't have a center, then we don't need to teach it. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, so we're trying to stay focused on like achieving that. And then, you know, like with the sweat, flicks and chill, there are other things that we're doing within the community. But our main focus right now is to accomplish the Winooski Youth Center. And for the sweat, the sweat, flicks and chill, can you share the dates and location of that for folks? The location will be 39 Union Street. And so we have to secure the grant first, which is how many more days are left with the grants in six days? We have, I believe, eight days left. So we have about a week left to raise maybe $1,000. And then once we secure that grant, that again is also a matching grant. So we get that and then we, from that grant, we purchase all of the things to create the space, to make it a community space. And then we provide, and we have vendors that will be providing, it'll be six weeks, and vendors that will be providing food. So it's gonna be a really cool event. So come out for the food, come out for the fun, but just come out, you know? Yeah, when that's solidified, I'm happy to help promote that out and make sure that that info gets out to our community members. But we're looking at toward the beginning, like the end of July. First week of August, last week of July is when the first week should start. That's exciting. We're gonna get there. For sure. I believe. I think so. And other details you wanna share, aspects of your project you wanna talk about today? I mean, I just think that it's a matter of gaining the traction that we need. With the grants, some of the grants, they wanna see, we just got the 501C3 in January. So a lot of the grants, they wanna see work that you did to get the money, but you can't show the work without the money. So it's like this back and forth. If there are people out there, like donors, whether it's large companies or people, like the Palmer, what was the center down? O'Brien Center or like the YMCA is named now the Palmerloo YMCA. So if there's somebody out there who we could name the Winooski Youth Center after their family, we have no problem with that. But anybody that wants to help us make this happen, we want the help, we encourage the help, partnerships. Yeah, there's a big need in the community and if we don't support our youth, support kids now. It's about our future, right? Yeah, for sure, for sure. This is a service that we're trying to provide. And yeah, we can, I'm just saying deal with them, but I mean that in a positive way. We can engage with them now or we can engage with them later. And the later engagement is normally a negative one. So we want to, prevention is better than the cure. So we want to give them the tools that they need to make good decisions so that they're not only can they finish school, but get it once past school, make the right decisions in life to become, to be good citizens, to continue to be good citizens and good human beings. All right, can you share your website one more time? Vtfightforkids.org, vtfightforkids.org. I'll be sure to share that out as well. I really, I'm impressed by your energy and your commitment to this effort. And I really thank you both for taking the time to come speak with us today, looking forward to sharing this story out with more members of our community, see what we can do. I appreciate you having us. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right, thank you for joining me for another episode of In the World of Winooski.