 My name is Tiffany Tucker Pryor and I'm the deputy chief service officer at NYC service for community engagement So I'm super excited to be here and to meet each of you in person. I know we've had a lot of zoom conversations. Yes This is our first like nonprofit community engagement event at this scale In-person since the pandemic. That's right. That's right. Clap it up. I'm excited. We're excited I hope you all are excited and And we really wanted to make sure that you all know that we love you We appreciate the work that you do the mayor appreciates the work that you do and we wanted to continue our partnership in a stronger way, so here we are today and And it's a pleasure to have each of you here. Thank you all for joining us on such short notice. You all are amazing But really and truly again, we're excited because this marks our kickoff is for spread love NYC campaign It's a nine-month cross-sector campaign to connect New Yorkers to all of direct servicing basically we're connecting New Yorkers to you so get ready all right and It's so wonderful because we have the opportunity to be here in This wonderful space the museum of the city of New York Okay, it's a beautiful beautiful building wonderful art. I hope you all have an opportunity to see it They're celebrating 100 years So this is their centennial anniversary and they've allowed us to utilize their space to actually do this event So we are super excited. I want to give them a round of applause. Thank you them so much for hosting us That's right Spreading love is the Brooklyn way I agree As well as it's the New York City way, it's not just a Brooklyn way. I'm a Brooklyn night y'all. I'm a Brooklyn night So I did agree But before we go into you know representing all of the different boroughs as my fact we can do that Where where are some of you from where some of you from do we have some Queens Queens? All right Queens in the house. We have Manhattan Manhattan Staten Island All right, that's what I represent. I love Staten Island That's right talking about we're spreading the love all across all the bars the Bronx. Where's the boogie down? Yeah And give a little give it up for good old Brooklyn is Brooklyn in the house So this is wonderful. So we have we have a wide diverse audience, right? And so we're super excited again to have you all here But but I would like to first introduce Sarah Henry she is the chief curator and interim Director of the Museum of the City of New York Sarah. All right, Sarah's not here yet So before Sarah comes Maybe we can Let me first check to see Betsy McLean Yes, okay So as you all know, we have to sometimes shift. Yes pivot in this industry. Yes Which is where we are now I Do believe that some folks there's conversation happening outside. So I think that's where people are Yeah, you know so Exactly exactly Well, but I'm hoping that you all love the swag. Did you guys see the bags? All right and the logo Y'all like that spread love NYC So we're definitely, you know, super excited about that and all you know that we we've put together a wonderful program for you all I'm not sure if you know, but there'll be a panel discussion after and so there'll be three different sectors That will be speaking, you know, that you'll have the opportunity to hear non-profitors Express what they're doing in these different areas about equity on Corporate partnerships and we'll also be able to hear about different resources as well that will be available to you So this is a way for us to give some love to you as much as love as you've given back to us So I just want you all to know that so it's you know, it's it's a give and take This is a relationship. We're building here continuing to build right because some of you we've all worked together in some capacity How many of you know somebody else in this room other than me because yeah Yeah And if you don't know someone as my fact introduce yourself to the people sitting next to you come on people around you Say hello me somebody new me somebody new say hi I'm so happy you all met someone if you hear me clap once If you hear me clap twice If you hear me clap three times Lastly if you hear me clap four times Now y'all know I work with nonprofits, you know, I mean I Love you guys and I love the work that we do so hence why we're here today So first I'm going to actually introduce to you all Laura Ragh. She is our chief executive service officer He is going to actually come before you shortly to Introduce where we are today again to kick off this partnership for the spread love NYC campaign ladies and gentlemen Laura Ragh Thank you so much Tiffany And I'm so thrilled to be here with all of you today to kick off our spread love New York City campaign We're here today united by love for our communities and our investment in them And I think we can safely assume that everyone in this room Sees volunteering as a cornerstone to how our communities come together as I look out as Well over a hundred organizations represented here today It's powerful to realize we get to spread the love for New York City with residents and get them involved in our neighborhoods And our communities through volunteering We're a proud partner of the we heart New York City campaign I'm guessing you've probably heard a little bit on that lately over the last week And regard but regardless of how you feel about the logo the heart of the campaign Yes Everybody everybody's got their opinions that we happen to love it But and the heart of the campaign truly and the message is real that if anything that we've learned in the last three years And anything that it's taught us it's about moving from I to we And we're coming together today with we heart New York City Our call and we're all coming together as colleagues and friends across the city to show our commitment to the city that we love so much With spread love NYC we aim to use volunteering to create a culture where New York City residents both up lift each other's neighbors And take responsibility for the success of our city and what better gift of love is that? You'll hear more today about how we can come together to provide pathways for New York City residents to easily access meaningful high quality service opportunities and We'll work together over the next nine months to offer a broad entry point for New Yorkers of all ages all backgrounds and all abilities To engage with your organization a few months together. We can all build their commitment as volunteers and for Let me start again together. We can build their commitment as volunteers to our great city and as champions for your organizations So the love is real from where I'm standing and as I look out at all of you My love is here for the work that you do each and every day We have our collective love for the communities across all five boroughs and the great love for my team and the administration to support you Thank you so much for committing to spread love with us across New York City And now I am so proud and pleased to introduce our next speaker whose love for New York City runs deep mayor Eric Adams Thank you, you know, you do not stand for me. I stand for you, you know It has served you and just thanks so much for all of you Who's coming out and being part of this experience of spreading love? But you are the choir and many of you wrote the song about spreading love with your nonprofits and organizations you do it every day and It is something that's part of the DNA of New York City. I always tell the story of growing up in South Jamaica, Queens We used to attend this small church. We used to call it the Cheers Church Everyone knew your name and everyone was glad you came We go during the night And worship then come back in the evening but during the time in the middle We used to have our dinner and mom was raised in six children She didn't often have that meal for us and we would just put together scraps and just You know try to make do and then one evening after the service a car Caravan of women came to our house and they started unloading boxes of groceries and they brought it inside and placed it on the countertop And late that night. I went downstairs and looked inside the boxes and they were all open half a box of spaghetti half a jar of mayonnaise Half a box of pancake mix. They could not afford to buy us groceries They gave us half of what they had Now sat there that day, you know with tears running down my face and just reflecting on that level of kindness and started to think about Those gaps in our lives We used to have something back there called a sussus Where the neighbors would collect the money to help mommy pay the mortgage each the time you'll see six pairs of Slacks and shirts on the back porch Thanksgiving You see canned goods and a turkey on the back porch Christmas They would wrap up gifts and act like Santa Claus dropped them off for us in the morning Throughout my entire life people have been spreading love People have been there and that's who we are we are a City where we love each other every Wednesday at 9 p.m. No matter how busy I am I'm on 34th Street between 7th and 8th Avenue giving our foods to New Yorkers who have fallen on hard times And I must tell you I get I Get more out of that experience than they do when they walk on that line from a shelter or from their home and They look there and they see the mayor Dishon out food to them You know what that does to their experience when you stop someone who's street with your Volunteerism and just help them it just reignites their spirit and it just just infuse hope Into people and it means so much to me that you come out and want to be part of this campaign That powerful four letter word love means so much and is defined in so many different ways That it is exciting that we had a pandemic that spread a virus now We have a pandemic of love and we don't need a vaccine to prevent us from spreading in as much as possible Every handshake every conversation There is no mask that can get in the way of the virus of love of being part of what we do and how we Operate in this city and it's so important here Because if you spread love in New York it cascades throughout the entire country and people realize a challenge complex Difficult city with 8.5 million people with 30 million opinions if you can do it here in New York It could happen in anywhere on the globe and it's an exciting moment because people are hurting You can see it in their faces that old Negro ballot that used to say If you take a close look at my face you see my smile is at a place in the tracks of my tears You see it every day. You're in the train people may be having a smile But when you look closely they're worried they're concerned they're unsure about the tomorrow and we're going to infuse a different spirit and Emotion into New York is that's what this campaign is about it's part of our breaking bread building bonds a Thousand dinners across this city 10 people at minimum at each dinner all come up coming from a different background Different different ethnic group using the lubricating value of a mill to engage in something Revolutionary just talking to each other Just looking out and say why do you wear the turban? Why do you wear the yarmulke? Why do you wear? The Kofi why do you wear the hijab? What is your culture about? Why do I learn from you? This amazing place with the diversity that we have it is just an opportunity every day to grow another inch and Being better people. It's amazing ecosystem. We have here. We are the pollinators We must pollinate the garden called New York and spread love the way New York City knows how to do it Let's make this happen and let's love some folks. Thank you very much So You heard it here you heard it live and direct The mayor wants us to continue doing what we do best spread love so simple, right? We can do this Yeah, all right because we're gonna be sending people your way. So, you know So Again, we want to thank you all for the work that you do and we really do appreciate you The next person you're gonna hear from is our chief engagement officer Betsy McLean and Please give her a round of applause to be with you. My name is Betsy McLean. I'm the chief engagement officer for the city So funnily enough on my way over here. I was reading the world happiness report for 2023 And you'll be interested to know very timely You'll be interested to know that three indicators for happiness are helping a stranger donating and volunteering Which means that you all have your finger on the pulse of the happiness of the entire globe And you're making it happen. So super appreciate you all being here And I'm just really thrilled to be here myself I come from before I came to City Hall in January of last year. I worked for me 20 years in nonprofits working with communities for justice for change for community development and so have I think a kind of a very deep understanding of the unique and critically important role that community-based organizations play in our neighborhoods and throughout our city and I've had a chance to work with many of you, so I'm like But anyway, I feel like without that kind of critical social infrastructure like that that is like the lifeblood of the city And I know we hear it as like nonprofit professionals all the time I think we probably should hear it more and more and more and more because Lord knows we're not in it for the money So so really just so so appreciative of all the work that you're doing every day in communities and particularly Excited about this opportunity to really make playing the connection that I know you all feel because I feel it I feel it now in my role in the city But certainly felt it when I was working in East New York or in the Rockways or in Mott Haven That that real deep love for neighborhoods for neighbors for our fellow New Yorkers and really making kind of Manifest one of my favorite all-time quotes by philosopher Khalil Gibran that work is love made visible so With that said I'm excited for us all to get to work to spread some love To be clear about what we're doing which is like loving each other And and doing that in the name of equity and justice So I want to before I go I want to say a couple of thank yous Thank you to the mayor of course. Thank you to the amazing New York City service team who pulled all of this together In a very short amount of time to the remarkable Laura Rogg and Tiffany Tucker Pryor Also really want to thank our neon photographers who are here So Damien Anthony and Ty well we're here they're part of the Department of Probation's really sorry. Oh Sorry It's nice to meet you So they're part of the Department of Probation's really remarkable and inspiring neon arts program If you don't know about it fine Google it And get connected because they're doing just remarkable work and really appreciate all of you That's it for me we have like a big packed agenda for the rest afternoon really want to mostly hear from you all So turn it over to back to Tiffany who has I think one more But thank you so much for coming out today and and just great to be here with you And so yes as Betsy said we have one more speaker And then there'll be a presentation from NYC service But before we do that we would like to hear from Sarah Henry the chief curator and interim director for the Museum of the City of New York Let's welcome her Hey, how is everyone? So pleased to welcome you here to the Museum of the City of New York We are turning 100 this year. So this museum was founded in 1923 Happy happy birthday to us when happy birthday to all of you because we are your museum We're the Museum of you. We're very glad to have you all here and all New Yorkers and every visitor to understand this great city Have anyone been here before show of hands. Oh excellent anyone here for the first time that should be the rest of you welcome, so welcome back and Welcome for the first time. We hope you come back. This museum Exists to interpret and celebrate and document the stories of New York City We have been New York City storytellers for a hundred years We connect the past present and future of the five boroughs and we investigate the distinctive nature of the urban life in this What we believe to be the most? influential metropolis on the globe the future of New York is critical to the future of our country and to our into our world actually and We tell the stories of the people who make New York New York and that I have to say for my heart is all of you We have an exhibition upstairs called activist New York Which is all about the people who have had visions about making this a better city We have an exhibition called New York at its core Which is about what makes New York New York and I invite you to explore those exhibitions to think about your place in this Great city's story and to please come back again and again. Enjoy the afternoon. We're so delighted to be your hosts Take care and so what we all been waiting for right? How can we make sure that we are partnering with NYC service and the mayor in order to ensure that this? Kicks off in the right direction. You're gonna hear from two amazing people, right Danny and stuff from our office And they're going to present to you how you all can be involved to ensure that this spread your love campaign Becomes viral. That's what we want this to go viral, right? So that's it. So this is this is just the beginning, right? Thank you so much Steph Danny Tiffany just joined the team about six months ago, and I swear my life has changed isn't she incredible She's amazing. I'm just gonna pull this laptop up Take this mic. We're gonna break the break the fourth wall here a little bit Danny, would you mind? All right, so my name is Steph Halpin. You probably got an email from me, right while you're all here today Wonderful. Thank you for being with us. My name is Steph Halpin I'm the chief of staff here at NYC service just a little bit about me I tell people a couple of different things one. I'm from the Bronx. I heard the Bronx earlier in the room Yes, thank you a Couple of other things. I'm an AmeriCorps alum any em. Yes Okay, most recently I was on the Racial Justice Commission helping pass those three ballot proposals that pass city-wide Yeah, it's tell you about spread love So what is spread love? It's a nine month long campaign Cross sector that means government that means nonprofit public sector private sector working together to connect New Yorkers to short one hour and Other long-term volunteer opportunities that uplift communities and contribute to the success of our city And why are we doing this because we believe that if each of us just gives one hour a week the result would be transformative I love that so much good energy. All right, so what are our campaign goals? So we have this like, you know, we're on this mission. What are our campaign goals? We want to create a culture where in New York City residents uplift each other So we want to create that culture where we each feel responsible responsible for the success of our city for the success of each other We want to provide pathways for volunteers to easily access meaningful and high quality volunteer experiences and then we want to track those hours and that volunteer engagement data and reach at least 900,000 hours of service between now and December 2023 we think we can do it and I we're gonna need your help. So Where does NYC service come into play NYC service is about 13 years old if you haven't heard of this before I'm sure you have it's probably how you got acquainted with us in this room And we have this website that we just relaunched in the last three months So our website is going to serve as this digital one-stop shop for organizations engaging volunteers like you like you in the room And for volunteers looking to get involved and looking to serve We have this awesome landing page NYC dot gov slash spread love That'll feature a love meter, which will report how engaged New Yorkers are And it'll have information and data about how engaged New Yorkers are across the five boroughs in real time So that's going to just be a little fun public Transparent piece of information and then of course our partners the website is the hub But really our partners are the core and the heart of the entire campaign So we want to recognize our partners through spotlights through volunteer stories and other monthly high impact-based recruitment efforts All right, so our website I just wanted to give some context and background to the NYC service website right now There are over 150,000 volunteer spots that need to be filled on the NYC service website right now For context the NYC service website is only for volunteer opportunities within the five boroughs So that just gives you a little bit of insight We have over 325 registered organizations We have 2,000 weekly visitors to our site Um, other some other fun facts. We have 30 30 plus volunteers registering daily So 30 people come to our site daily and register to volunteer for opportunities Every hour there are at least 30 people on the website searching right um We also have at current 250 volunteer opportunities. So some of those have recurring recurring opportunities Which are here and then right now we've got about 45 campaign partners, which is growing right because we have all of you in the room Um, all right, so hopefully we'll get all of these registered organizations and more On to the campaign partnership all right So again, just a little bit more background on the website Like I mentioned we transitioned to a new platform It has a lot of really great robust functions and features Some of you in the room probably have your own volunteer management software You probably have something offline where you are tracking your volunteer data If you don't the website's a great resource for you. It has multi type volunteer sign-ups so you can have people just directly sign up to your opportunities you can have people Express interest however you want to work it. There's email functionality. You can verify volunteer hours There's a check-in kiosk. So on the day of your event, you can say, okay, great Danny You're here. Let me check you in and it'll verify that Danny's there It'll send it to Danny's account and then he can take his hours and go on his way Um, there's also opportunity management. So you can change opportunities. You can email folks And then you can have multiple staff access the account, which is a a big difference from our last website Um, why is it cool for volunteers? Well as a person who volunteers myself I think it's really cool because you can manage your own volunteer opportunities So I can volunteer with as many organizations as I want and if I want to change my schedule All I have to do is click and uh, it'll update the organization that I'm not going to attend that day Or it'll say actually I want to attend a different day Um, you also get your civic transcript So each volunteer can have a full transcript of all of their hours that they volunteered all their activities Um, you can also register teams of people So if you and your friends you and your family want to sign up for a project All you have to do is list them and sign everyone up at once It's really awesome. It's really great for organizations too who want to expand their reach And then the last thing you can do is request our certifications If you have folks that need their hours verified for example, young people who often need to Get volunteer hours for school purposes you can have them just request online So these are just some cool functions and features of the website All right These are two new features that we're rolling out this april very very very excited about them. You'll hear more about them in the coming weeks We're gonna have um An in kind donation request opportunity. That means your organization can post for For in kind donation needs and a volunteer can connect to you and express interest to supplying those Donated items via the website So just like they would sign up to volunteer they would sign up to supply those items to you It's a really cool new feature. We're really excited to roll it out Um, and then the other new feature Is two fold It's our business to cbo community-based organization portal Um, this is for businesses to manage their employee volunteers So if they know that their volunteers or their employees are volunteering with you they can see and track that information And on the flip side, they can also source volunteer opportunities that are good for corporate groups We'll talk about this in the panels later But sometimes corporate groups require different levels of support. Sometimes they have different um dates times specifications that can all happen In the portal connection with cbo's and corporate groups really cool functionality The other cool part of it is not only can corporate groups Request needs and put needs out there to Community groups community groups can offer opportunities good for corporate groups So it's this nice connection where you have the opportunity to just Go direct to each other and continue those conversations So these are rolling out in april Really excited And now i'm going to pass it over to dany alvarado Danny is our digital engagement coordinator. He's part of our fellowship program. He also just got into f it I'm really excited for him Yay, dany Awesome dany helped launch the website, so i'm just going to turn it over to dany Thank you so much staff. Hi everyone. Happy to have you here. Again. I'm dany alvarado I am the digital engagement coordinator at nyc service Service your fellow. So how do you join the website? How do you join the campaign? It's the best website in the world. I help launch it with stuff nyc.gov slash service also nyc.gov slash spread love to join the campaign So when you register, you're going to be prompted to join the campaign Obviously, you're going to select yes and you're going to click submit and boom you join the campaign If you're in the partner portal and you already have an organization account, that's fine When you go to your partner portal, it's going to ask you again It's going to prompt you do you want to join spread love nyc? Obviously the answer is yes, so you're going to click Click here to join and you're going to click submit This is what the new partner portal is going to look like once you become a campaign partner So as you can see you can see or you will be able to see the number of volunteers who are active With your organization on the campaign The number of volunteer hours and there'll be an option here To report your hours in the event that you use software offline if you don't want to use our website But you should because it's the best website in the world But in the event you don't want to you can upload your own hours there So yeah, just go to nyc.gov slash spread love and join the campaign also for free to tag us follow us nyc service and use the hashtag spread love nyc. Thank you Yes, thank you very much Danny and for anybody who has any specific questions Don't be shy. You can come find me. I will be here throughout the rest of the event And then with that I'm going to turn it back to Tiffany because we have incredible panelists in the room here for you today All right, here we go. Thank you. Let's give them a round of applause Okay, all right. So how many of you have cell phones? Excellent. I knew I could count on you guys. I knew Please take out your cell phones. Take out your cell phone. So this is going to be an interactive day The day becomes interactive. Now we need you to participate All right, it starts here and we're going to do a little bit of a Test run because when you go into your panel discussions, it will also be interactive We want you all to give your feedback to the best of your ability The one thing that nyc service loves we love to hear from you So we want to get your feedback. We want to hear how you're thinking about this How you want to see this move forward so that we can do it right? We're doing this together, right? This is not this campaign is not just about us. It's about all of you all of new york city And so hence why we're going to first do something with um, you taking out your cell phones We're going to get um an activity going. This is with an um an instrument a tool called the menti meter So the first question so you have to go on to menti Dot com And use this code The code is 89 3409 86 for those of you who cannot see it from here Again, you're taking out your cell phones You're opening up whatever browser you generally use Www dot Oh good. That's right. Put it in and you answer on the question. What does service means to you? Use it isn't it's going to be a big debate, but you know We're putting it all in our love heart here. So we're going to treat each other nicely So just answer the question and all all will populate as we're seeing it Please try it for those of you who think it may be a little too hard. Trust me. It's not that challenging You just go to w w w menti Dot com use the code 89 3409 86 For our light folks Would we be able to shut the lights a little up top here so that we can see this a little darker? Maybe dimming the lights on stage Thank you As it populates, this is just one way that we're going to be engaging with each other tonight. All right today. I apologize So this is this is just one way that we're going to be engaging with one another as well as you'll be able to ask questions You'll hear from a wide variety of panelists. The panelists are amazing These are folks who've been doing this work for quite some time and again, we'll be giving you all some tips and tools and resources Throughout the course of the day. So uh, the entire event is what you make of it and again It's all interactive, right? And so even all of these things that you're saying here. This is going to populate and it's going to Be able to give us some guidance and some tools as to where we go from here Two more questions question number two coming up So so you see question number one We're moving on question number two How does your organization collect data on a On a volunteers impact select all that apply Here we go. It's populating And this is a tool you can use with your organization as well It's just fun to see Yes question away. Who's that? I know unless you want me to Because I can do it All right, no We already have all your email addresses. I don't know if and and I called a couple of y'all. I don't know if y'all got my messages All right Excellent. We're moving on question number three How much of your organization's work is executed with the support of volunteers select one Just one answer This is it All right, the numbers are coming in. We know we have over a hundred people here But this is excellent. We will just want you all to be able to see how You can use You know data how you can collect information and this is just one tool that you'll learn about today We're going to continue to give you other resources other tools that you can use in your own on your own time with your organizations Because we want to begin to be able to capture how many people we're impacting in new york city on a day-to-day basis We know you all are doing the work, but we want to be able to capture those numbers So we can report back to the mayor that we did our jobs. You know what I mean? We're doing it We're spreading this thing like a virus. He said all right. All right So I want to say thank you so much this day is going to continue with a wonderful round of panelists We're going to exit. They'll be volunteers on the outside. Raise your hand jordan They'll have on orange shirts. All right, and they'll lead you in the right directions. Trust them. Trust them. All right So again, thank you all so much. Please give yourself a warm round of applause. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Take your bags on the chair. They belong to you Take your folders take all that stuff with you. So there are three different rooms There's this room we'll have a panel discussion here and there are two other rooms right outside the door So again, please uh And take your folders your folders will tell you where you're going whether your folder is green pink or blue, correct Green is here. So all green stay here Pink blue you'll exit and go out to one of the