 Okay. All right. Hello and welcome to the books to kids learning initiative webinar a first book OMG books award project, and you'll learn more about that in a second. I am Kristen Porter. I'm the library development director here at the Nebraska Library Commission with me is Sally Snyder, our coordinator of children and young adult library services. And I didn't even cheat and remotely with us is Bonnie best. Good morning, Bonnie afternoon. Good afternoon. It's been a week. And she is with first book the organization that's going to talk to us about this. So, so some of you have hopefully heard the reason you're here. The Nebraska Library Commission was awarded a grant from the first book organization to offer free book credits to schools, libraries, other eligible organizations across the state of Nebraska to get free books and ebooks. And we are going to learn today more about that and how it all works and what this is all about. So we're just going to actually hand right over to Bonnie to tell us everything we need to know. Fantastic. Thank you so much, and thank you all actually for joining today. I really appreciate it. I've got several slides to go through just so that you all have a chance to learn a little bit more about first book about our organization about how to participate and then also about this OMG books award. Just quickly. I just want to make sure you all can see my screen. I believe that everything is clear there. So I'm going to go ahead. Take your slides full screen. No problem. Wonderful. Okay. Let me go ahead. Well, it doesn't want to click down for me. Let's see. Sometimes you have to click off of your good webinar interface onto the slides again to. Yeah, to get it to happen. There you go. You were right. Thank you. So just really quickly again. My name is Bonnie bestie. I'm a nonprofit partner development manager here with first book. I've been here a little over a year have a background in education early childhood education specifically. And I'm really excited to now be a part of the first book team. And I'm going to go through an awful lot of what first book does as an organization the history and talk to you all a little bit about how you will get to be involved. Hopefully not only through this opportunity, but on an ongoing basis through membership and potentially even partnership activities. So I've got the slide at the very end that provides my contact information as well as the contact information for our member services team, which I'm going to talk a little bit about through these slides. So you will have that in case you need to reach out to anybody directly following this presentation. And I think Chris already said it at the beginning but if you've got questions as you're going along you can certainly write them down and then we can go through them at the end or ask questions at the end. So here's our agenda. I want to talk to you a little bit first just kind of give you a first book overview who the organization is talk about our member network and talk about some of our nonprofit partners. And then I really want to launch into talking to you most specifically about how we're going to engage with you all through this OMG books award. And there are a lot of different aspects about how we're going to engage through this and it will talk through that way, how to access our marketplace and what you're looking for on the marketplace how to register with first book. Talking about some of the reporting aspects that will be hopefully leaning from you throughout the process so we can really measure the impact of this award and talk through some aspects also about ongoing partnership. If there might be opportunities for that as we as we go through this process. So just so you all have the background first book was co founded about 25 years ago by our current CEO Kyle Zimmer. It was started as a way to really address the reality that many kids are growing up without access to books, whether it's in their homes or their communities and we know that access to these to this quality education isn't is not equal. So with these huge disparities between resources that are available to the kids growing up in poverty and then they're more affluent peers. Kyle really identified a need in that area. And while we're focused on literacy since its inception first because also been committed to educational equity. So we're really looking to provide equal access to a quality education by making books and other resources available to the classrooms and programs that are out there who are serving kids in need all the way up from birth to age 18 and to try to remove those barriers that we see to really receiving a quality education. So this is kind of the first book member network in a nutshell, and really as you can see here our power as a social enterprise is in our ability to aggregate the collective strength of what was formerly a fragmented group. The first book network consists of educators providers and programs were exclusively working in under resourced communities serving kids in need. And if you sign up for the first book, signing up is free. And one, once an educator has self validated and signed up to be a member and verified that they're eligible to become a member of the network, then they're instantly connected to our ongoing supply of free and low cost resources. So resourcing our titles and our resources this network that I'm talking about here, what we rely on it heavily in the feedback loop that we generate with these members. So what one of the things that we're doing is reaching out to you through emails through all kinds of research opportunities to ask and to seek feedback from our member network about what the issues are that are really top of mind and that they're facing what kinds of needs they're seeing in their community, so that we can actually take that real time conversation to curate resources and identify and create resources that are going to best meet those needs. And as you can see, you know, we were really trying to, it's important for us to have a very diverse network so while we are you know primarily educators and our network that's over 450,000 as you can see here. We're going at a rate of almost 1000 new members a week, which is fantastic. Again, these are individuals that are exclusively serving children in need so it's a, and a very respondent group of individuals so it's helpful for us to kind of, you know, build that up to know that we are serving other children as well and not just educators so obviously we want to hit the libraries because those are individuals that are working closely with the schools and the children and families early childhood programs head start programs, you know, out of school time after school networks all of those are eligible to be members of first book and to receive access to those resources that we're talking about. This is just a real quick snapshot of some of our nonprofit partners. But as you can see, we help our partners by, you know, by both keeping the costs as low as possible and managing the logistics for some of their large scale resource distributions. But we also work closely with some organizations just as integrated thought partners collaborating and sharing leadership on special projects and initiatives and helping to support the resources that we create through our free resources section on the marketplace which I'll point out a little bit later on the slide. So what we're really here to talk about and what we want to make sure we're focused on and we ensure all the information about is this OMG books award, which is really exciting as Kristen mentioned the Nebraska Library Commission was one of our awardees in Nebraska we able to get $28,000 to be able to distribute to your various partners in the state. So basically, just so you have a little bit of background about the OMG books award, it's really was a rare opportunity for first book to be able to have to distribute this funding. It was funding that came to us to be able to distribute in 33 states and the way that we went about doing it was a competitive RFP process that we put out to through our network and then through additional outreach channels to ask folks to tell us the story about what was going on in their community and how having access to book credits and and books and ebooks would really help infuse sort of new life into their programs and be able to help lift up these stories about children that don't have access to the resources that we want them to have. So, we had about $4.7 million this we're actually in cycle three we ran it in three different cycles to break up the states into different groups so that we were really able to manage that process and make sure that we were capturing the impact. And we, and we estimate that we're going to get out about 100 about excuse me about 1.5 million books into these different 33 states. So, so it's a really, really big initiative for us and a unique way for us to be able to interface with our members and our nonprofit partners is normally we're not the ones that are generating the funding so this has been a really exciting opportunity for us, not only to be able to work with nonprofit partners in a different way but also for us to be able to really think about how we're going to scale and understand the need that's out there and how we can continue to grow our partnership so that we can meet that need. So this is a slide I think you guys all got to see this on the first page but the Nebraska Library Commission has created this wonderful little logo as well as a website page which I believe is where folks go then to identify if they are interested in participating in this award. So, one of the reasons that you know we were excited about this application was because we saw how, how broadly it was going to be distributing the funds throughout your state, and how connected it was going to make the various organizations. So, thinking about the Head Start organizations and the Title I schools and youth rehabilitation centers was really exciting to us to be able to connect with them on a different way and to help them understand the importance of being a part of the First Book Network. Yep, that's correct. We have a website that I'm sure you'll see later if you guys haven't already seen the link. And that logo is thanks to, just want to say thanks to Tessa Terry who's our communications coordinator here at the Library Commission she came up with that for us. Yeah, that's fantastic. So, these are the, these are the three primary goals of the OMG books initiative so I just kind of want to go through these and talk to you all a little bit about what we were, what we were looking for why we were excited about choosing the Library Commission for this award and and then you know talk to you about how you can be involved in it through the process. So the first one is you see obviously is to register and activate thousands of educators and providers who are working in these under resourced communities. So what we were really hoping to do through this initiative is to expand our reach to more educators who are working in the lives of children by registering and activating them in our network. So what this does is ensure as I was talking about earlier, ensure that more educators and providers are connected with access to our resources but also that they can add their voice to the movement. So, and that will go well beyond this initiative. The second goal that we had obviously was to get 1.5 million relevant high quality brand new books and ebooks into the hands of kids in need. So we know, you know, from all of the research that books and ebooks are really valuable essential resources for creating equitable education experiences for all children. So what we're anticipating is the distributing these books to programs serving children and youth. As a result of this, we're going to be asking for feedback from you about how these resources have made a difference for the children in the families that you serve. Our collective power here is in sharing these inspiring stories as a way for all of us to continue spreading best practices and innovative approaches and to continue generating support on an ongoing basis. And then the third one was to create is to create a multiplier effect by engaging stakeholders to join these efforts and amplify this impact. We know that obviously you engage with stakeholders a number of different kinds of stakeholders on a regular basis, boards of directors, community supporters, families, teacher names, etc. So one of the things that we wanted to do was make sure that we were thinking through ways about how to engage them as we think about how we're using these resources. So the first one as you saw obviously is register and activate so that there's just a few things here that just kind of give you some of the research and the you know the infographics that we use that are helpful to tell the story. So teachers and care providers we know obviously you all are on the front lines every day and the first book network is providing a resource not only for access to books and supplies. But also to provide valuable input to us, as well as get feedback about what types of supports and tools are needed to give children the opportunities to succeed. So our research and insights department is constantly collecting and analyzing feedback and data from our network to inform resource development tools that are aimed at offering these relevant reinforcements for educators so that they're armed with the latest techniques around things like supporting at risk children or supporting social and emotional health teaching and learning that is inclusive and culturally relevant. We hear through the surveys and you know from the feedback from our educators that these are the things that matter most to them. And so it's important to us to be able to curate books and create resources that are going to address those needs for educators. That's why we're so excited about this OMG books opportunity because it's opening up avenues to a lot of folks that may not have known all about first book or may have known just a little bit about first book but not known all of the things that we make available to folks. Alright, so talking about registration. Anyone who is an individual working with children and in need, and we define that need as serving 70% or greater population from poverty. If you're working in a title one or a title one eligible school you're automatically qualified to be a registered member of first book. There are a few auto qualifiers that when you go on to do the registration process, you'll find. If you are an FQHC a federally qualified health health care center. If you are title one title one eligible school if you are a library with an E rate of 90. And even if you don't know what your E rate is and I believe Chris you and I had talked about this that you have some of that data but likely what you can do is connect with our member services team. We'll be able to ask you additional questions to make sure that we can verify eligibility. One of the reasons that we do this just to say is because it's part of us being good stewards of our relationships that we've built with our publishing partners. So we get donated and greatly reduced cost inventory that we make available to this network with the guarantee that it's going exclusively to these children who would not otherwise have access. So that's the reason when we go through the registration process. We do ask for you to verify eligibility and the way that we you know the way that you can do it just so you know it's we encourage everybody within an organization to register so the more the better, because what will often happen is we will have funding opportunities, or interesting information that's being put out, whether it's surveys or results from surveys that gets shared with folks. So it's rather than having just one point person at an organization. We encourage everybody at that organization to be a member, especially if there are funding opportunities. That's even more funding that's able to go into your organization, and that is oftentimes supported by our corporate sponsors. So we have a good deal of corporate sponsors that work with First Book including Pizza Hut and Disney and KPMG that will on occasion sometimes regionally sometimes nationally sometimes depending upon a specific initiative. We want to push out funding into our network to say we'd like to give you $25 off your next order to on folks that support social emotional learning because that's an initiative that that they're that that they want to to back so so those kinds of things will often come your way which is why we encourage everybody to register so you can see the address is right here on this slide. You just need to go to firstbook.org backslash join. It's a relatively straightforward process shouldn't take you more than 10 minutes, especially if you're somebody that has an auto qualifier to be to verify eligibility. It'll ask a little bit of demographic information, ask you about the children that you serve. And then once you complete the process you are immediately a member and you will begin receiving emails and updates and information from the first book network. So the second goal obviously is books to kids. So in addition to boosting our membership which is really important. We're also focused on how member and partner organizations are going to get even more of these resources into their underserved communities. So, as we talked about already, the Nebraska libraries book to kids program is focused on sharing out gift credits to purchase relevant books to statewide head start centers title one schools libraries and you three habilitation centers. Jump in Krista if I'm missing anybody. Native American community. Well we have a couple of few libraries that are also on our Native American reservations to that are public libraries and head starts there. Yeah, wonderful and head starts there too. Good. Yeah. So, yeah, perfect. So this is just a snapshot quick look at the at the first book marketplace. And for those of you that you know want to kind of look at it on yours it's just fb marketplace.org. Until you are a registered member you won't really be able to unlock everything that you see on here because you need to be a member to be able to actually put things into your into your cart and to see the inventory in real time. But you can get a sense of the marketplace by just going to that that web address and taking a look at some of the things we we pride ourselves on having the largest selection of culturally relevant brand new high quality books at low cost that we're able to offer to folks most of them over 50% off and we also have as you'll see circled right here on this slide that little section on the blue tab which is called the bank. That's the section of our marketplace for donated inventory. It is entirely cart and quantity. Although they may be making some changes to that in a future date but right now we'll we'll go with it is entirely cart and quantity. And this is inventory that's donated to us from our publishing partners. So it is completely free to members the only cost is for shipping and handling. So that's oftentimes a good place for folks who might be looking for a large quantity of books for a distribution or looking for a large number of titles at at a very, very low price because they want every child in their book in their class to receive the same book or that kind of thing so the book bank is a good place for that but we have a lot of ways for you to search the marketplace which is nice you can search my genre you can search by age group and they make it really, really easy to be able to see what's available at any given moment in time. Because as I said if you're a registered member and you're logged on, then you can click on a title and it will tell you how many copies of that are available at that moment in time. This is just another, you know, kind of snapshot of some of the things that you'll see. And there's a couple of little tabs down here that are important that you'll note again once you become a member that you can get text updates about things that are that are new and might be relevant on the book bank. Those can come directly to your phone. And we also have a two dollars and under section. So there are a couple of different ways to to really really be able to get a high quantity of books that are high quality but at a low low price. This is our snapshot of our stories for all section. And this was created. I'm not going to, I'm not going to get the year right, but it was, it was a while back basically in reference to making sure that we really had culturally relevant titles, so that when teachers heard from their classes that they were that their students were not seeing characters in the books that reflected them or experiences or we're not being able to read about experiences that reflective of their life. We really wanted to try to broaden that out because we know oftentimes a lot of, you know, low cost resources don't necessarily come with that culturally relevant tag, because the two don't necessarily go hand in hand. So this is our stories for all section and and like I said, you know, we pride ourselves on having the largest of really, really relevant culturally relevant books for kids. So I encourage you to go on there and and take a look through those. And then the last school is engaging stakeholders. And we talked a little bit about this in the introduction. These are just a few examples that you see that are that are written down here. This might not necessarily be, you know, the perfect examples for your organization, but there are a lot of ways to think about how to engage parents, or to engage, you know, district wide reading initiatives, or public officials, community organizations into this work. So, you know, sharing out the news that we've got this award. It's because we're so dedicated to serving children in need. And that will help, you know, foundations and community organizations united ways and chambers of commerce and those kinds of things, you know, also jump on board. Sometimes they might even be able to lend multiplayer funding to get more resources. I think there are a lot of ways to think about how to engage stakeholders. We have shared a media toolkit, I know with you, Sally and Krista, to let you all know how to share it as an organization and they've they've put out a press release which is fantastic. All of those things are really great. And the other thing that we, we want to do is we want to be able to hear from you all as the individuals who are going to be receiving these credits and getting these books and infusing them into your communities. You know, we love to see pictures and hear stories and videos of how these books are being used and the impact that they're having in your community. All of those things, you know, we can push out on our social media. And they continue to help tell the story for individuals and potential funders that are out there who might want to support this work on an ongoing basis. We talked a little bit in the beginning about reporting. So there's not a formal report mechanism that we're going to be looking for at the end other than a post survey. So you all received a pre survey which asked several questions to sort of get a landscape analysis of, you know, what does it look like now? Who's going to be receiving these awards? Where's the greatest need? That kind of thing. And then what we're also going to do is send out a post survey, which will go to you as the organization. And there will also be a link for you to send out to anybody that receives gift credits as a part of this award so that they can then share with us the data about their specific community. How many books they got? How many children it was able to impact and really help us tell that story. So that's one of the ways that we're going to do that. But as I mentioned, you know, in the last slide, we love to hear additional stories and additional ways to be able to promote this and promote the amazing work that you guys are doing. So I think that's that on that one. I talked a little bit in the beginning. I think as you'll recall about ongoing partnership. So as I mentioned, you know, my role as a manager with our nonprofit partners. So the work that I do is not necessarily directly with individual educators, but I connect with the nonprofit organizations that then support those educators and help involve them and get them all the knowledge and the information about being involved with first book. So I think that it's great for us to think about all the connections that we're going to be making now within your state so we can think about how to continue ongoing partnership. And as I mentioned before, there are going to be so many great stories for us to tell now. I think that there will be ways for us to connect with whether it's community foundations or other partners that may have program funding. And that kind of thing to talk through ways that they might want to be involved with first book. In addition to all of the amazing books that you will see on the first book marketplace. What we didn't talk about is that we also have a lot of non book resources as a part of our first book marketplace. Just to say allowed right now as a part of this grant because of the way this funding came to us, which was part of a class action settlement that had nothing to do with first book. But there are parameters around how the money can be spent. So this funding is strictly for books and ebooks only. But beyond this opportunity and you know throughout ongoing partnership or your involvement with first book beyond there are lots of resources that are available through the first network from clothing and coats for kids because you know we want to be able to address the issues of chronic absenteeism and one of the things that we know from the research is that there are lots of reasons that kids don't come to school. And some of them are because they just don't have the other things that they need like coats at their standing at the bus stop and that sort of thing. So we make all of those things basic needs items, educational resources, teacher resources, outdoor play activities. So STEM activities. There are lots of things that you'll that you'll find as you explore the first book marketplace. The other thing that we do is that we have what we call an accelerator program and the reason we call it that is because we understand that the best in class research is not always reaching the people that it needs to reach in the timeliest way that it can. So oftentimes we have amazing research that's supporting things around children suffering from trauma or children social emotional needs, but it's not reaching the educators who are the boots on the ground working with these individuals. So this pro this accelerator program that we have developed basically takes that best in class research and puts it into a digestible format works with these leaders and and experts to create resources so that we can push it out to our entire work. These are usually funded opportunities from other organizations and and and and push that information out so that teachers have it in a in a timely fashion. One great example if you're on the first book marketplace and you're doing a little bit of exploring around under our free resources section, you'll see lots of parent tip sheets that go along with books, which are, which are wonderful and created with some of our expert partners. You'll also see toolkits and one of our most popular is the trauma toolkit. And this was created in collaboration with Castle, which is the center for collaborative for academic. I'm not going to get it right. Social emotional learning. I know is what the SEL is but at any rate they they helped us to build this resource that then teachers are able to use on a regular basis with students in their classroom to help them understand the situations that they're facing. If they might be suffering from chronic stress or trauma and have tools and tips for for how to work with them on that. So there are lots of things that that we can think through from an ongoing partnership perspective, whether it's creating resources or putting people in touch with other organizations or using our research insights team to help do, you know, landscape analyses to find out what's what's needed where so that we can get new resources. There are lots of ways that we that we think about doing that with our nonprofit partners. Just a few important dates to remember so the grant period was a six month period. And so the spend down needs to be completed. I mean really it needs to be completed by the end of March but we put March 15 because our ideal goal is that these books will all be distributed so not just purchased by the end of March but also in the hands of kids by the end of by the end of March. So, and the way the gift credits work is that you're obviously going to reach out to through the website to the Nebraska Library Commission to find out their process for amounts and how they're distributing that to various organizations. And the way it will come to you is in the form of a gift certificate. And that gift certificate is a unique number that you can just copy and paste plugin on the website when you go to check out. And it will take off the amount immediately from your order right then and there. So that's the way the gift credits work, keeping in mind, as I said before, of course it's only only eligible for books and books. So April 10 is when that we will be sending out that link for the post award survey to both the organization and then you can send it out to any of your stakeholders. And then we would look for hopefully two weeks later to have those surveys completed and back to us. And then of course on an ongoing basis, as I mentioned, we love to hear the stories about how children are getting getting books and we definitely love to see pictures and videos as well. So Bonnie, if you have a question about the deadline to the dates there. So the gift credits then like after like as of March 15 or after the end of the day, is that when like the gift certificates expire and they won't be able to do them after that date. It's a good question. Yeah, and we that's the day that we put for for expiration. So I'm going to be in contact with you up until that point in time. I will be able to share reports of sort of how spend down is going and where they haven't been able to be spend down so you can do a little bit of outreach from your end to say, Hey, remember, you've got this gift and that kind of thing. So we want to make sure that you're going to be able to expand every single dollar and that it's going to go into more speed for this initiative. But they won't there's not going to be a hard stop. In other words, you know, at March 15 they won't it's not going to completely turn off from them, but you and I will be in contact and there will be a point in time when there will be a hard stop. So just to say that, you know, we'll keep that in conversation. Yeah, so we'll put that as like this for now try and get get everything done by then everybody at least ordering things so that then by the end of March, everything's gotten been shipped to all the locations. And distributed so that it's in the hands of kids. Yep. Right. Yeah. Good question. So yeah, so just to put this up here this is my information I also put the help at first book.org that's going to be your best resource if you're having questions or need any help troubleshooting as you're going through the registration process. Our member services team is remarkable. It is live individuals these are not this is not a sort of your standard help desk and you don't know where somebody is they're right here in our building. They're all our staff at not helping folks navigate the registration process as well as any problems that you might be having with ordering and etc. So that's your first stop for all of those. So yeah, that's that's it for my part. I know we went through pretty quickly and at a pretty high level. Happy to answer any questions. No problem. All right. Yeah. So if anyone does have any questions type into the question section of your go to webinar interface. I'm monitoring that here or raise your hand and I can unmute your microphone you can ask your question that way to be of anything that we were wondering about her. I know we've had we've had some contacts from some libraries already reached out about I've already signed up for doing this which is great. Yeah. I did have one question about special collections or I don't know what to call it you had said before briefly that a a library could have books on I'm going to say on display. That's not quite what I mean but like a special set of books that could be helpful to children perhaps like Children in Trauma or something that would be in their collection but would be available for children of the community to use. And for teachers and other people to parents and other people to come by and find for them. Is that something that would work with this program. Am I saying that right. Yeah, if I think I'm understanding your question correctly I'll try to answer and then if not let me know but it sounds to me like what you're talking about are some of the genre type. We have the first book marketplace set up so if folks are looking to create some kind of a set around social emotional learning or books that deal with you know with trauma and it it's actually on our marketplace so you can actually search that way. Our story the the slide that I did I'll try to find it. Right here. This is what we call our stories for all section you'll find that as one of the genres on the marketplace that you can search by this is where you're going to find a lot of those titles that that may deal with some of those issues so you can you can build your own collection from shopping on the marketplace because the way you're dividing up your award. You're doing it through gift credits that means that those credits are really are only available through the marketplace so we do do something called a special order. And just to kind of give you a quick high level about what that is special orders can run through our curation team if you're interested in your titles that you already have identified or titles that you just want research that might have to do with this for a certain specific or age group etc. We can give out those parameters to our folks and then they can do a search and create a large special order which might not be inventory that's on our marketplace but that we would order direct from the publisher. But those kinds of special orders usually are I mean they are definitely much larger they're larger than sort of the individual credits that that will be giving out so they have to be a minimum of 100 books per title and a minimum of 500 books total so those are really sort of larger organizations do those organization wide to distribute out a set of books in that way. So I think what you're talking about probably the best way for an organization to build a kit or a set around a specific topic would be searched by genre on the marketplace and build it up in order that way. And so then a public library who are members could have could use their gift credits to get those particular titles that they would find their into their collection so that the library collect the public library collection so that they would be available for children and families of the community. Is that what I'm understanding. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. I feel better now but I understand. Yes. Okay. We have some questions. Oh joy. Okay. One question is a question. Let's see what we have. I can't see them. So I'll let you read. Yeah I'm reading through this one here to see as I get most my kids. Okay. The question we have here is how do we show that we are partnering with the title one school. We are not this is a public library we are not eligible based on the library's e-rate account. Our e-rate percentage but the public school that the kids come into the library for is the title one and there's also two head start programs in the public school. So really everyone coming into the library that are from the school those kids via the school connection are eligible. So how do they indicate that when they're doing their sign up. Yeah. It's a really good question and again not having the full registration page in front of me it's hard for me to remember sort of you know what you what you need to click but there is a way to indicate if you have if you have a program within your organization that is exclusively serving children either from title one or head start or you know children in need that meet that criteria. There's a way to identify if you have a program. I can't again I can't remember off the top of my head exactly how you do that but if it doesn't seem logical to you as you go through the process. Reach out to that help at first book dot org link that I gave you or when you get onto the website you can also just call the 800 number there either way and they'll be able to point you to the right thing. So if you explain to them that you are working with those with those children they'll know how to tell you to be able to get that on your registration form. Yeah, there's I went through it myself once we got into this I didn't have my own account in first book Sally did so I set up myself one and yeah I remember there was there's just like a menu listing here's all the different ways you could potentially be connected to something take which one is most appropriate for your library. So what you do get into that registration. The joining first book you'll see all the different all the options and it should be easy for you to find the one that applies to you as the library work that has a school with them and that start programs that make the children coming into your library that you be eligible. Yeah, eligible. Yeah, perfect. Yeah. So I'm glad you said that about more than one person from an organization should join because now. Yes, in two and she had that. Yeah, we have we have regional funding if we have somebody that says hey I'm really you know I want to get behind Nebraska or a city in Nebraska or whatever it might be. And they want to say you know we have X number of dollars of funding in the form of $25 credits first come first serve that could go to multiple individuals within your organization. So the way to really sort of maximize that is to have as many folks as possible be able to get access to it. Right, anybody have any other questions go ahead and type in your questions and let us know anything you need to know. Thanks. I want to show the website that we have set up for it. Do you want me to do that Bonnie I can pull back control to my screen or. That would be great. Yep. No problem we'll do that here. I did want to say Bonnie as, as well as the help. And 800 number of people have questions specifically about things that you talked about during this webinar. Is it OK if they email you with the email address you put up on the screen there and ask you. It is like I said there if there are questions specifically about registration their best bet is going to be to go through that help one because that's their area of expertise but any other questions that pop up that might have to be outside of that room please feel free to use my email. Thank you. All right. All right so this is a library commission website which hopefully people are familiar with and down here on the side we have a link to everything that's grant related that we do here and we have put the books the kids learning initiative here as an option. You can also type in our cracked computer team. And you'll see as soon as you just type in books it comes up as an option and then it will bring you to our information better but then here is the main page for the grant and this is the information set on all of everything that we are sharing about the We announced it and when we put out about this webinar and everything. This link here which right now is for signing up for today's show will switch over hopefully by the end of the day today as long as it all processes quickly enough to being a the recording of the webinar that we're doing right now. So if you need to rewatch re listen to something or if you know you want to have listened to the information that will be the link there. So we just have our basic info here about the grant or what we got some tips about how much it is. As Bonnie said, these are really good deals. These are like good books at a huge discount 50 to 90% off. So you're only paying about 350 on average per book or ebook. And free shipping if you get $25 or more. Yep. So keep buying and put things in your cart. And here's the basic steps for participating actually it's a two forms to fill out really one register in the first book marketplace. We were just talking about if you're already registered in there you don't have to be new a new person to participate in our grant you can already have potentially be buying from there and using it you're still eligible. If you already have an account in first book marketplace just skip to step two. So you sign up with first book and then you have to fill out this contact form which is a Google form that we set up here at the commission just for you to tell me and Sally I am interested in getting these one of these gift certificates. All we need is your name, email address and institution and then we send off a spreadsheet to Bonnie on a regular basis letting her know and then they issue you the gift certificate. Once you have that you go back into your account and start buying things. Yay. So that's really it and we just keep going until we've used up all the money. We reached 15. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we have $20,000 so if anyone's got any we're starting out we're not sure how many people are going to start signing up for this. Since we haven't had this webinar yet it had started a little slow which is what we expected. So after this is done I'm sure we'll have a huge hopefully much more response. Yeah. So we'll start giving out some of the credits to start with and if it gets close to that like March 15th date yes we will be contacting anyone who hasn't used up their money and if there's still money left that we have not distributed out. You're going to see lots of reminders about this over between now and that March 15th date almost weekly or more to let people know, sign up, do this. This is a very short timeframe that's got for this so you need to get in there. And if there's still so many left over we will go back to the people who have already signed up and start adding some more money to the point is that all of that $28,000 out there to people. But we really hope a lot of people find out for first book because that's what first book wants and also it's a good access point for many libraries and head starts and schools to have another access point for affordable books. So please sign up. And this grant is as we said just for the books and ebooks but all the other things that are in here afterwards are so great for supplies and materials and things that you can use in your school and your library. I mean things like scissors and clothing and I mean there's games, there's some of the things that you've seen on here Sally she's got more experience with it. So, you know, get in the door by getting these three books and then start exploring everything else. Yeah, and keeping in mind that you know we use the same principles with with everything that we put onto this marketplace so not only books but you know the resources that we put up there. We've built these relationships with vendors as well the same way we built them with our publishers. We let them know what our membership is telling us what the teachers are telling us that they need. And the price point and we work hard to negotiate that so that we're able to then offer that back to you all at that at that price point. So, again, you are hopefully going to be finding things that are relevant that are current on all of those things and then again the basic needs is a section to explore to and it's oftentimes overlooked as an area where folks need to have those resources on hand. You know, we're really focused on literacy and we oftentimes forget that in order to be able to for a child to focus on those things they need they need to be sure that they're basically so so it's all tied in together. Yeah. So yeah, the registration is here I'm not sure I don't think. Yep. Yeah, you just go right here click here to join and it'll start taking through those steps, just like she was talking about how you, there's more information on their page about eligibility. But really I would recommend just go in there start signing up and answering the questions and choosing from there. Thank you. Yeah, very forgiving. So step one do that step to do our Google form and then it says that maybe at least 48 hours it depends on how quickly you know I get a spreadsheet, you know, things together to Bonnie and then you know she gets it out to you to their people so it's usually a pretty quick turnaround. It is yeah. Most of our questions answered. Anybody have any other last minute questions when the recording is available and ready for this. I'll email all of you guys have all of you who are here today. Signed in and anyone who registered we'd have a few people who signed up and didn't make it this afternoon that's okay. We'll yell an email letting you know we posted up there will blast it out on all of our social media and our and our and our blog and the usual mailing list and everything so you know it's out there. Great. Thank you again for joining I'm really really glad to see that we had so many folks on and like I said happy to answer any questions don't hesitate to shoot me an email if anything comes up. And I look forward to hearing the stories back. Yeah we're very excited about this grant I mean when Sally first brought it to me last year when we applied. We're like well this sounds like such a big deal can we can we do this and you know what we do we have all the connections we have all the ways of sharing this. And we will just push push and that's what we do good here I think of commission with a good thing to promote. So we're thrilled to receive it and it's a resource as I know Sally's compelling story. Yeah for years so we're really happy about it and you know very grateful to get this read aloud Nebraska their list about this webinar so I was very happy about that great. Yes. So they're one of our other ways of connecting beyond our email list. So it helps to have it go out in different ways like you said. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right. Yeah, any other last minute questions you would just say thank you very much so yeah. All right so thank you Bonnie thank you everyone for joining us and sign up get on the get sign up for the marketplace send your info to our Google form and we'll start getting those great gift certificates out you to start buying your books and ebooks. Take care everybody good luck. Thank you. Thank you. Bye bye. Bye. Bye.