 My name is Donald Bogan. I am the co-director of BISCO by your Interfaith shared community organizing. L.H. SAFE is an initiative in Louisiana and it man-leads target community members bringing them together to work on coastal land loss issues and flooding issues. My organization BISCO we are gathers of people so we've paid a role by going into the community and gathering people to attend these meetings. Let them know that they can't have a role in problem-solving on the issues of coastal land loss and flood protection. I think one of the major successes of the L.H. SAFE initiative is the fact that they was able to bring the community together to have the community vote on the plan and to actually have that plan funded. So the planning process for L.H. SAFE is different because it targets relationships so before they even offer anything they came into the community and to be a relationship with the leaders and through those relationships they leverage their relationship to go down on a more grassroots level to have the leaders start the conversation on the planning in their communities. So it was different because they target relationship rather than coming and say here do this. So I think L.H. SAFE model came be used not only statewide but federal wide because oftentimes politicians because they're say they're fighting for us they don't really have time to put into the work on the grassroots level and form those relationships but this creates an avenue where you can put everyone into the room you can educate your constituents and your constituents can also help leverage those ways you're fighting for. So federal policies have helped enhance my work as a community organizer as relating to funding like NAS. There was a program that I was part on that we was partially funded for to help create citizen science and what that is citizen scientists are individuals who go out and they work with the experts and learn how they can take water samples, air samples and just making people aware of their environment.