 So maybe I probably because we have a lot of time with him Maybe we just pass the microphone around just tell us your name your US program and where you had it Just those three things my name my US program where you have it so that you will have an idea of who he's talking to My name is Mustafa Wari and I was at Florida International University for the public management Business and entrepreneurship Amina Daruba Ahmed, I was at Howard University and I was in the public management Farooq Garba Morgan State University public management Grace Jaffet at Yale University Business and Entrepreneurship Amina Oshok Mekai, Northwestern University Business and Entrepreneurship Ijyama Idhikat Chima, Civic Leadership and I was at the University of Delaware Mufon Epo, Public Management Track at the University of Agapam Mariam Shio Mohamed, Public Management Morgan State University Ashur Anumak Bakar, Civic Leadership Tulane University New Orleans Nonsure Kaffo, Business and Entrepreneurship University of Texas I'm Dan Balaggarba, Florida International University Public Management Sam Ikwaribe, University of Notre Dame Business and Entrepreneurship Lauren Saferi, Northwestern University Business and Entrepreneurship Loi Zon, Leadership, Arizona State University Fatima Maideki, Rutgers University, Civic Leadership Track Andifra Kaira-Andre, Civic Leadership, University of Delaware Aizai O'Olawi, Civic Leadership, Wagner College Amaka Mokulu, Business and Entrepreneurship, Yale University Good to see you again, Tim Nice to see you Volusia Gondinah, Dartmouth College, Business and Entrepreneurship San Nibel, Howard University, Public Management Track Saida Shunaiki, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Business and Entrepreneurship Fatima Ibrahim, Business and Entrepreneurship, Lab, Atlanta University My name is Rita Mopode, I was at Tulane University, New Orleans, Civic Leadership Aizai Mokulu, Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Wisconsin-Stout Andifra Kaira-Andre, Civic Leadership, State University, Public Management Track Andifra Kaira-Andre, Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Texas Andifra Kaira-Andre, Business and Entrepreneurship Track, University of Notre-Dame Saida Shunaiki, University of Wisconsin-Stout Andifra Kaira-Andre, Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Texas and Austin Tendum Daouda, UC Berkeley, Civic Leadership Track Mohamed Zahra-Din Umar, Public Management Track Syracuse University, New York Ampire Recoring, Public Management, University of Arkansas Okay, thank you. So you have a feel of the expertise that we have in the room this afternoon And we worked with a group of volunteers in Abuja for three weeks, for three days at the Chelsea Hotel And Team 1-2 was able to go to the Baptist High School where he addressed over 450 high schools Where he inspired a lot of them about volunteering and doing service We also had the Government Girls Secondary School in Dutay, those of you in Abuja area Wonderful school, excellent kids, very enterprising kids I think some of you should also try to visit school and see how you see a lot of young girls that just need people like you That would need inspiration from you Very good school, I think he also addressed over 450 kids High school girls, just girls school, very nice So on that note, I'm not sure maybe you will probably just open the floor so that Mr. Ken can continue with his presentation And if you have questions, you can note and then we will be able to ask him questions We have almost more than one hour to go about this program So you will be very, very happy that we have you Team, glad to see you again, say hello to everybody that has helped us to put this program together And then we have our colleague, Dayou, who is at the back of doing everything about microphone, the connection Maybe after we'll be able to see So on that note, team, your opening presentation, thank you Well, first off, I just wanted to thank the people of Nigeria for welcoming me last week It was a spectacular visit and I hope to be able to get to know people a little bit more through this workshop And then maybe a return trip to Nigeria The hospitality and friendliness and the warmness of the folks that we met with last week was really inspiring to me And honestly, one of the best practices that we talked a lot about throughout our three days together is actually the power of relationships And so as you continue to have relationships with the folks in your cohort within your group of Yali alum It's really wonderful to be able to rely on each other, to turn back to each other, each other's expertise And to really, you know, to leverage that and to enhance that and to make that even a larger and stronger platform for moving forward I just wanted to thank the folks at the U.S. Embassy and the consulate in Nigeria Bob, thank you so much. It was wonderful getting to know you during the short time that I was in Nigeria And James, unbelievable, as you know that James is an incredible guy And actually, James was the foot model for this little worksheet here Did you know that? His feet are actually a little bit bigger than this But he was kind enough to let me, you know, use his feet as an example And we're going to be looking at this, we'll be looking at that worksheet a little bit later I also wanted to thank all the folks here in Washington I work at the George Washington University and we're neighbors with the State Department And so it's really an honor, I've been to this location multiple times And all the folks here, Brenda and Rhonda and the IT people and everyone who made this possible I just wanted to thank them all for making this happen So, yeah, I thought I would go into a little bit of my background and then the program that we did in Nigeria And James has access to all the power points and all the handouts that we used for the three days of intensive workshops And honestly, it was really an amazing three days And so the idea is to share information, to share wisdom across national boundaries, across organizations And to have us all work together to improve Nigeria, to push forward the common good I also wanted to give a shout out to the folks who went to Tulane University in the group All right, Tulane, you know, it was amazing Tulane, as you know, is in New Orleans And Tulane as an institution of higher education Used a very difficult situation, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina And they transformed their institution And so instead of basically having very bad things continue to happen because of the economic impact of Hurricane Katrina People leaving New Orleans because of the floodwaters, things like that They used that very difficult situation as an opportunity to move things forward in a better, brighter future for Tulane And so I hope and I would love to hear from the folks who went to Tulane throughout our time together What you saw about how they turned something negative into something positive And that's what we talked a lot about when we were together in Nigeria last week That there's always opportunity, even when you have a tragedy, even when you think your assets or your resources might be limited And we're going to be talking about fundraising as one part, an important part, but only one part of the assets that you all have in Nigeria First and foremost, you as people of Nigeria, dedicated to the common good, you're the richest and most amazing asset Along with, as James mentioned, along with the youth When we went to the two high schools, it was, I can't even describe the experience there These young people were so smart, I mean they know what's going on And so we didn't, you know, I facilitated a conversation, but I didn't have to teach them about their community They know about their community and they're dedicated to making their community a wonderful place So again, I think your Nigeria has many, many resources, as we say, your assets rich in resources And now it's your job to continue working with all of your colleagues, with the youth, with the universities With the U.S. Embassy, with your government, with NGOs, with the for-profit sector To make civic engagement and service more of a culture, more of a movement in Nigeria, which you can do it So at the beginning, I'm sorry that I had to do a little bit of the talking at the beginning here But I hope this can be a very interactive program So again, I work at the George Washington University, just a few blocks from the State Department where I'm located now And I work in our multicultural center And as we'll be discussing a little bit today, diversity and inclusion is a best practice pillar of civic engagement Because we need to invite in diverse opinions, people from diverse backgrounds And I really appreciated, and I'm sorry if I'm going to mispronounce your name, Chandung Is Chandung there? Who's Chandung? Hi, nice to see you I see that you work with Muslims and Christians and trying to bring together people across faith traditions That's right Can you describe a little bit about that? I'm a little bit curious and then we'll jump into some of the other material How do you bring people together like that? Basically what we do is we bring Christian youths and Muslim youths from polarized communities in just Because of the crisis, we have communities that are polarized along religious lines So we bring youths from these communities and implement projects in these communities where we get the youths to work on the projects together Providing a platform where both Muslim and Christian youths can work together Excellent, well you know that best practice is something that you can build upon and really leverage for your community building around civic engagement And we saw that when James and I went to the all girls school, it was a huge auditorium and it was two girls per desk And they were all lined up in this big, big auditorium and there were a lot of girls wearing the hijab A lot of Muslim girls sitting next to Christian girls and it was an amazing experience And you know God bless us older folks with the life experiences that we can share and mentor younger people But it seems like the younger folks have less trouble or less challenge with getting over some of these differences that we have by family birth By location and all these other different things that make us who we are And you know working with the youth is really a huge opportunity that you can continue to do and build upon in Nigeria So I wanted to ask you about the interfaith outreach because in my university at George Washington University We had the honor of hosting, it was about three weeks ago President Obama for the fourth year has done what he calls the President's Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge And you can Google it, just do President Obama's Interfaith Service Challenge And we hosted at GW at my university the kickoff of the fourth year of that program So President Obama in a very far-reaching visionary idea said we need to bring together Muslim people and Jewish people and Christian people And people who say that they don't believe in God at all We need to bring together Buddhist people and Hindu people And we need to all work together around a common value of service Because as you know our faith often is the inspiration for us to serve And that's what came out a lot last week when we were chatting with folks in our three days of intensive workshops And I bet that's probably the inspiration for many of you for being in the room as well So we hosted this program and it was really a wonderful testament to the commitment of one sector of our society The government and the commitment of our government leaders to promoting civic engagement and the culture of service And we talked a lot about how we need to look to our government But we also need to look to ourselves and our communities to make a difference around service And that's what we're going to be talking about today So again I wanted to go over briefly some of the information that was the outline of our program last week And again James has access to all of this and he can share it with you And I'm sorry that this won't be as interactive as that program But I just wanted to go over it with you So we started our first day talking about how do you go from having service moments Distinct moments or programs of service And make it all together, put it all together to be a service movement in Nigeria And we used this one sheet called the Infinity Service Model And we asked about people's service role models Who do you look to as a service role model in your community Service experiences, what experiences have you had that inspire you to serve And then service values What values propel you, urge you on to serve your community And usually religious values, family values, ethnic and cultural values Are kind of the engine and the fuel that gets you to serve And recognizing that with all the diverse folks in Nigeria is a very very important first step And I'd recommend that it's a very simple exercise where you talk about in the past, in your past What role models, experiences and values do you bring to the table And then you talk about the future, where do you want to go with all of that Where do you want to bring Nigeria, how do you want to make Nigeria a stronger, more united country around service And this is kind of a handy little exercise to do that Again the first program that we had last week was saying how do we connect individual experiences of service and make it a movement And we talked about three areas, we talked about impacting social norms, how people think about service in Nigeria Do they think it's crazy, do they think it's a good idea, like what do they think about it And we talked about social media and traditional media as very important to impact the way people think in Nigeria about service So newspapers and television and radio as traditional media And then we talked about social media, Facebook and Twitter and Instagram And who do you think in Nigeria is the best with social media Who do you think The youth The young people, you know they might not have these expensive smart phones that we all seem to have nowadays But often if you give them access, they're the ones that are always like, you know, they're so quick And every time I have a problem with my phone, I ask one of my students Or I ask one of my, I have 26 nieces and nephews And I say, you know, Ruth, can you fix this for me because I have no idea how it works And so us older folks, we might have experience and wisdom to share But our youth, when it comes to social media, they're the experts And so to leverage their expertise and to empower them around service That's an opportunity that you have in Nigeria that's amazing So impacting social norms, how we think about service in Nigeria is one area Another area we talked about is impacting policies and procedures in our organizations Because through relationships, where we work and where we volunteer We can set the policies in place We can say, you know, Sue, you know James, you know whoever my colleague is sitting next to me Let's make a policy that one day a year all of us in our organization is going to serve And that's not going to be service that you have to take time off of work But we'll make a policy that it's part of work You don't have to take annual leave, but you can use it You can serve your community as part of our commitment as an organization or a company in our community And actually one of the young people in our group last week, Edith, amazing young man He's already started to come up with this idea of a national day of service for Nigeria What a great idea, and he looked to, you know, in the United States we do some things really good But some things we're learning from you But in the United States we have the Martin Luther King Day of Service And so we talked about that, we said, why not have a Nigeria Day of Service Why not find a person in Nigeria who's been a role model and inspiration around being of service to their fellow Nigerians And why not try to find and figure out how to come together on one day a year and say this is our day of service And inspire the youth to serve, inspire folks and companies and organizations to serve Then we talked about laws and funding, the idea that your government and other folks that have access to money Need to step forward and need to lead around putting laws in place that support civic engagement And they need to put, as we say in the United States, you need to put your money where your mouth is If you say we should serve you need to give money and support it through financial resources And we'll be talking about that a little bit more Then we talked about types of service, and if you could all get this sheet out This wonderful, the two feet of service And James, thank you again for being our foot model for this And this is not, as we say, it's not rocket science, this isn't advanced physics or anything But it's a best practice and it's a simple idea about the two feet of service And on the one hand you have charity And charity is more direct service It's more service that is immediate And usually it's short term You're giving food to people who are hungry You're building homes for people who are homeless You're giving money through philanthropy to organizations that do good work It's very immediate It's more like the mother Teresa type of service Then you have justice, the other very important second foot of service It's more long term It's more about looking for long term solutions to things that were brought up by Honestly the youth that we chatted with last week They were so brave and they're not stupid They know what's going on They said when we talked about what's some of the sources of the problems in Nigeria One very brave young girl said government corruption is a problem Greed is a problem We have all this money from oil but only a few people seem to be benefiting from it And so she spoke the truth as she understood it Very brave Some curious do people work on more charity in charity service in Nigeria With your organizing or more justice or both What do you think? Could someone get the microphone from James and describe what you think If it's more charity more justice or both My name is Mfon Hi I think it used to be a lot of charity before maybe like five years ago But then it has changed in terms of the fact that The people who did charity realized that it's a short term solution if the institutions are not changed as well So now it has moved So right now I would say it's about 30, 40, 60 With 60 still being charity And 40 now being social change What do you work on? I work on justice I work on justice How did you come to that foot of service? Why the justice side? Why did that appeal to you? What skill sets make you a person to work for justice a little bit more And again we need both We need the charity and we need the justice So why are you working on the justice side of things? Well I work on justice because again I thought charity was a short term solution We used to do charity a lot We used to give scholarships and things like that But then we realized it was short term People with institutions would not allow us to continue There would be no sustainability It was frustrating the charity part Not tackling this institutional part So we started tackling that And what we started doing was Not just tackling it To try to get young people interested in their own government That was our arm of the justice side Because like you said Young people are not the younger generation We found them to be more tolerable And easier to change in terms of mindset, belief system And finding a solution Looking for a solution to be able to move Nigeria forward And the skill set I had as well I'm a lawyer first of all And then a professional negotiator on the other side And I worked solely in capacity development Excellent You know it's interesting What do you think and what does the group think Do you think that youth generally are best or better engaged By the charity work of energetic service Cleaning up the environment Or serving meals for the homeless Or doing things that are very tangible Or do you think youth are a little bit more around the justice Do you think there's a generational difference Anyone can answer There's some people in the back over there Okay, I come from the southern part of Nigeria And I think there's a lot of attitude now There's a lot of behavioral practices that are In green in the minds of young people Which leads them towards the charity aspect And it is taking a lot of time and energy To be able to disabuse them from the fact that Somebody owes you something Because yes, for example, you come to a community Where maybe there's oil and something like that And as far as the young person is concerned If she has come to my community And they come to take my orders Give me back something I'm very interested in working to get qualifications We would be qualified enough for the company So for me, I think it's justice is the way forward Because it's sustainable It's also bringing change Where we make the young people change makers But I think that both of them What I think is that both of them They go hand in hand Because if the person does not see that This is happening in my community And experience the benefits The person continues to war With who is going to bring How the change is going to come about So these are my thoughts My thoughts concerning charity and justice Is that they go hand in hand Where you must give back to the society That they come from while you bring about change That's my thought Excellent You know, it's funny It's kind of like they go foot in foot Actually To be grounded In our communities You need both the charity Because we talked about Someone brought up the Little phrase You could give someone a fish Or you can teach them how to fish That kind of idea But if you give them a fish And when they're hungry, that's important So Mother Teresa did very, very important work And what I see Here in the United States Is very similar to what you describe Find that charity Is there like doorway Into service and civic engagement It's the starting point And justice is more Not the end point But it's more I think it needs a more mature Kind of approach And to find a young person That can understand all of the Difficult complex things going on In our society That really relate to justice That's often unusual Because they need more time In life To see that things Get kind of complicated And so charity usually is the door Through which youth walk Into civic engagement And then justice Is a little bit farther down the road Yeah, did you want to say something? Yes, I just wanted to point out The fact that I didn't know about the concept Of charity or justice before now But what I also want to say That plays a huge role in determining What's Roots young people coming through Is the type of organization That is doing the program Or the project Or what the organization Or the initiative is all about For example If a huge organization in Nigeria Like the Africa Fade Foundation Comes up with a project That is more focused on justice And a lot of pedigrees They are volunteered for Fade Foundation Even if it's on a justice project Or a charity project And if for example A small organization Like just any organization Comes up with a charity or justice project They are likely not to get As many followers as Fade Foundation Or US Consulate Not because it's charity Or justice They don't even know What justice project It's something to leverage on Rather than just coming In through volunteering work Through a small organization So I think the type of organization That is organizing this program That a huge organization Also determines what roots The young people in the society Comes in through Excellent Any other comments about The justice and the charity One of the other things I didn't share this handout With you but James has it One way in the United States That we help young people Go from charity to justice Is through what we call service learning And service learning Is a teaching And learning methodology That we use in our schools We start when the kids Are very very little And we use it all the way To the university And so service learning Is a teaching and learning methodology That infuses Service Into the course curriculum To reach learning outcomes For the university And the educational institution And so one thing Again so getting the students To go from charity To the justice area And the students usually Are so idealistic They have very big hope For Nigeria to be a better place And they're very idealistic Because of faith and family And culture And they want to make a difference But sometimes getting from Doing small individual Service projects To go into the source Of some of the big challenges In Nigeria is not easy But what we do In the United States And this is a handout That James has Is we do service learning And this wonderful work This handout Has the seven best practices Of service learning And we do it from Kindergarten When they're very very little And so we do service projects In the school Not as what we say And add on To their education But we say it's part of Their education It's building and educating A new group Of civic leaders From day one When they go into the schools And of course We have to look to educational Professionals To make it developmentally Appropriate by age And that's why Little children Because they don't understand As much about greed And about how corporations Work And about the challenges The good things And the not so good things About their governments They don't understand that yet So through service learning We often use charity service But we tie it Into the curriculum And make it meaningful For you So in the university here As you probably have In your universities We would have For example Computer science courses That people would take And so let's say That one of the learning outcomes Is how to build A very effective website So of course The teacher could Just say, okay students Here's your computer Let's sit here And here's how you do it You do this, you do that You do this, you do that What service learning does Is says We're going to teach you How to make a website But what we're going to Ask you to do Is to go into the community And we're going to ask you To choose a community partner That will help you find And you're going to get To know what that Community partner does Because only when you Know your organization Can you build A really good website And then You're going to bring To that community All the learning That we're doing here In front of the computers And you're going to ask them What kind of website Works best for you So for example I met folks Mohammed from Open Mic Unbelievable organization Are you familiar With Open Mic? Yeah So you know The idea of promoting Free speech And giving a venue And a forum For many people Especially the young people To say how they feel On the inside And what they're thinking When they see Good things happening in Nigeria And very difficult things Happening in Nigeria And so they have a forum For free speech That supports democracy That's an incredible organization So maybe Open Mic Might need a new website So students from The computer class Meet with Mohammed Meet with the folks Who perform At the Open Mic And say What website Is best for you And here's the expertise That I bring As a student of computer Science And let's work together And build you a website And then What happens is When the student Goes back to the classroom Their grade That they receive In the United States We do A, B, C, D Or A, B, C, D and F And so their grade Is based on Not the service That they do But the learning That they do About building websites And about their community partner And so really It's a win-win situation So again For us Service learning And James has this Worksheet And there's many, many resources Online Service learning Is like a pathway To help the students Go from charity To justice And to use the educational Infrastructure That you have in Nigeria Already So you don't start From scratch And it's really A wonderful, wonderful opportunity And many people In the group That I worked with last week Said We want to make Service learning A reality In Nigeria Because we have Strong education And we want to infuse Engagement And service Into that infrastructure So that we can make A culture of service In Nigeria Not just separate Service projects That are not connected Any ideas Or questions about Service learning Does that seem like A reasonable thing That maybe you can work on In Nigeria? What do you think? Does someone Want to make a comment About it? Um I took the mic To say something else I just realized You just Started talking about it Because we are talking about Shifting from charity To justice And sincerely That's what I just Want to talk about It is about culture In Nigeria Or in Africa At large We have a general culture A culture of Be your brother's keeper A culture of You and your neighbors Are brothers You and your siblings Is a very large culture But that culture Is built based on What you What you call it As charity Now Growing from that Charity to justice It is changing from Just helping To building Changing from Just extending hand To helping grow together That's where The gap has been Fortunately Unfortunately The society is Changing fast We are moving From Human nexus To cash nexus There is no more There is less Bond of human beings Now It's more of cash Now How do you translate That Cash nexus That is the bond Where you need money To survive You have to work hard And use that To extend To the same Charity And build people To be in your line That's where the problem is Now How do we achieve that Even us In my school One of the That's one of the suggestions We suggested One of the ways to fix Some of the problems Is what you're Just explaining That is to come back Into the school curriculum To come That's just like Catch them young Let's build the culture The culture of building justice The culture of letting People know in them That they need to Build others They need to come up And stand And grow together That is To start it From the root And make sure It is for a feature Or a very long-term plan I think That will work And that's a plan Even though How do we get it How do we get The ministries to do it How do we go in To change the curriculum Usually that's the challenge And I think that's what Most of us Are working towards here I love your Strategic thinking You're thinking In a very visionary Smart Strategic way I do want to Make a quick point Again, we need Two feet On the ground We need the charity So we're not trying To reject it We're saying That you know There's enough service For everybody And my personality My family background My inclination Might be a little bit More on the charity side And that's a good thing too Because hungry people Need food Today Not like 10 years From now When we fix The whole economy And everything else And people without The houses need Houses today So again It's almost like A flamingo They're really good At standing on one foot But when we do Service and civic engagement We really need both And that's why I love the idea Of diversity and inclusion Because you have So many of us We're all different And we all have Different ideas And different Inclinations We lean more This way Towards charity Or we lean More that way And we need both Of those people Working in community Together To advance Nigeria Around civic engagement So I love your Strategic thinking And we need both feet Did someone else Want to add something? Yes, right, Tim Hi Hi, I'm Karen I think The Before Nigeria The older people Or rather the leaders Currently Have taken charity Like you said Charity is a pathway For the youth To get to justice As an end goal But because of the hardship The way things have Turned for the worse Because then in Nigeria Was justice And it's no more The older people The current leaders I want to emphasize On that Have taken charity To the extent Where they Use it to suppress What the people Will eat By giving them shots And relief So now the youth Have become so restless I mean we are part of those Youths That is why we are here So we are now Living heavily To us justice And in that You know We are now losing The charity aspect Because we don't want to Find the symptoms But we want to Find the cause Yes, so Service learning is good I say that Because I was A public management I was in the public Management track And all of that The problem Which I'm happy You've talked about now Is that In Nigeria For a long time We have Focused on the people Instead of setting up The system So we are now Ready to set up The system And service learning Is going to work Because it actually Is a network Of both the charity Aspect And the justice It really can work Thank you That's excellent And you know Honestly If you look at this It's almost like The charity is like A runner Who does a quick Kind of run And the justice Is more The marathon It takes longer Sometimes people Say charity Is just putting a bandaid And justice Is finding the cure For the disease And I can see You know You make a brave statement When you say that Many times Governments Want to do charity Because Hey That's a really good Photo opportunity Or It makes people Feel good For a day Or for an hour But to fight corruption And believe me It's not just in Nigeria I mean you know All over the world To fight greed That's built into our institutions That's really tough I'd actually say It's kind of dangerous To fight that fight Of justice And that's why Honestly You all need each other As I need you And I need my folks over here You know I haven't unpacked yet From my 27 hours of transit From Nigeria To back to Washington, D.C. But it was worth every hour Of those 27 hours To get home And to be with you So in my luggage In my house I have these bigger versions Of this little thing here I don't know if you can see it Very well It's a rubber band ball And it's all different color Rubber bands It's not just the beige Boring ones Kind of like my skin color For those red ones And yellow ones And green ones And I used a rubber band ball Very much throughout our time In Nigeria last week To say that each of us On the one hand Represents each of these balls And that all of our diversity Is all wrapped up together You know So I have a I have Roman Catholic background That's part of my rubber band ball I have I'm one of nine children That's another part of my rubber band ball I have You know I'm white I'm male I have all these different parts Of who I am That makes me who I am And each of us have this And our community Is also like this rubber band ball That we have different people Working together And when you take off one rubber band Let's see if I can get one on the outside If you take off one rubber band You know You can do certain things with it But it's much stronger When it's together And that's That's the power of diversity And inclusion When it comes to civic engagement We need people who are inclined to charity We need people who are inclined toward justice And when I'm exhausted And believe me You know I was just talking to a friend of mine this morning Sometimes I want to turn the news off The TV I don't want to listen on the radio to the news anymore Because I get really sad I get depressed And that's why we need All of us together in a strong community Like this rubber band ball To rely on each other Because we can't do it by ourselves And that's why diversity and inclusion Was a big theme Of the workshops last week And that's a hard theme It's probably One of the hardest parts about civic engagement That even if we're different Because usually Sometimes I'm afraid If someone's different from me Honestly, I was a little bit Nervous coming to Nigeria I'm like, you know I'm this white guy with blue eyes And I don't know what's going to happen I was a little nervous to tell you the truth And maybe you were a little nervous To be part of Yali And come to the United States too How would the people of the U.S. Welcome you What would they think about you Coming from Nigeria And so I think we have to be brave Like the young people And overcome our fear And put the rubber bands together And be one big community Because that's the only way we're going to get this stuff done Really Was there another comment? Yeah I'm Hashir Hi Hello I felt compelled really To make this comment Being that I wasn't to blame And really I knew there were a lot of Discussions then why we were to blame On charity and whatever But this Concept of charity and justice Really was not clearly Depicted as you just did But what caught my attention Was the issue of the service learning And I felt Something that we really didn't Understand that that was What Tulane is up to But the longer you are discussing For the record Tulane is One university that The factor in Community service And whatever degree Or graduate program Going to undertake And really That made us With all the challenges But that made us Outstanding program Through the center of public service And that Equally boils down to The impact Tulane University had On the New Orleans community After the Universitating I could remember Along the course of our discussion With some members of The mayor's office They were telling us that New York couldn't have ever Returned to what it is Without the presence of Tulane University And that not only Tulane University But with all the students And everybody So I think really The paradigm shift Of service learning Is something that We should all try to look into And then as part of our curriculum change And whatever That will foster a lot of justice And then Visibly the charity that Will continue to grow Excellent. I think you are Because you saw at Tulane What they do. And so I'm sure You're all sharing together And that's why the power of your relationships Is so important. Was there another comment or Do you want to move on a little bit? Yes. I'd like to just briefly On charity Versus justice Hi Tim. Hi. From the discussions we had at the workshop Which I was privileged to attend You know The topic was thrown up And in a way it was kind of Being discussed like Which is more important? Charity Or justice. Right. And we had a lot of people leaning towards charity We had some other folks leaning towards justice But then we had this very Interesting clip that we saw Which kind of helped to Show that charity and justice Actually work hand in hand So I'm just going to try to describe that Now a group of people went to Inside to have a picnic And when they got to the pool You remember Tim The babies in the river The babies in the river To have a picnic And they were having a good time eating their meals And then somebody looked over and said That there was a baby floating down the river And they looked up again There was another baby floating down the river Now there was a lot of panic One person thought, oh I can swim I'm going to jump in and try to grab these babies Oh no, no, no, I'm going to run and call for help And while everybody was running How to scout, one person Took off and was running away And everybody turned around and looked at him Like where are you running to We're all confused here trying to fix a problem And you're running away and guess what the person said The person said you know what I'm going to run to show And find out who is throwing the babies Now the thing is All of that was important You have some people who are very energetic They want to jump right in We need people like that You have other people who have all the connections You know what I'm just going to call The head of Red Cross And they're going to come down here and rescue these babies Then you have other people who are going to be like Okay you know what We're going to ensure that we put laws in place So that things like this do not happen Now those who would ensure That laws are put in place fall under justice We need that We also need those who would jump right in And grab the babies So charity and justice It kind of walks hand in hand If I were there I would give you Can I do a high five to you right now Yeah Yeah That was I feel so Proud as a facilitator Because you described exactly What we did word for word Better than I could have So you remembered it and I feel very proud So thank you for sharing that That was perfect and James has The PowerPoint It's a very simple PowerPoint But it's very clear It's a very interesting metaphor For challenges that we face And the populations that are most In harm's way One quick comment When we went to the girls school It was incredible Unbelievable smart high school girls Amazing We invite them all up We watch the babies in the river PowerPoint and we talked about Who's throwing the babies in the river And that's when the one girl said Corrupt government is putting people Really That's what she said And then one other girl came up Very smart We talked about who are the people Floating down the river Who's in harm's way And we talked about Very difficult things of The girls being taken In Nigeria We talked about poor people We talked about certain ethnic groups That are considered not as valuable As other ethnic groups And then this girl said But wait a minute Are the babies in the river Completely helpless Because don't they have power to Can't they do something I was blown away Because that was like That was the advanced That was the advanced version Of the presentation To say that people in harm's way Because of the systems that we have That are unjust They're not powerless It's not often their fault And they They have a responsibility And they have the ability To make a difference in their lives In the lives of other babies Floating down the river And again it goes back to this Building coalition That poor people And women And minority groups And everybody needs to come together In coalition And so I can see another power point Where the babies are helping each other out As they're floating down the river too That was very smart Of that young girl last week Other comments? The last comment and then you can continue With the other My name is Rita Mopode I was also at the university High team I just want to See clarification Between the concept of Service learning and volunteerism Yes After our program at Tulane A lot of us left With a decision to start Of a volunteerism movement Yes Because it's something that's lacking And whilst we were there One of the advantages Was that not only were we Being taught the Theory, we also got to Intern throughout our six weeks Into the university And also We also did community Service and whilst we were doing it We would see other young people From high school Just coming in And I remember going to food harvest And you just had young people In high school just coming in Signing in and doing the work And having so much fun doing that Yeah And so my question is What's the difference Between service learning and volunteerism That's a great question And again during The presentation and maybe The two folks that were in Last week can describe it better than I can But I shared a model And actually I think I sent it to James There's a model that describes exactly What you're talking about So volunteerism Could be separate kinds Of service that you do At your mosque, at your church With your family or whatever Service learning Is the idea that You have a balance Between serving the community And the benefits Support the community And learning About whatever you're learning In your classroom And the benefits support the student Or the learner So service learning is supposed to be A complete balance But the really great thing about service learning Is that it leverages the existing Infrastructure of schools And education Because we don't want to start from scratch You want to be smart and strategic And say what institutions Already exist That we can adjust And change for the better And infuse Elements of service So that a culture of service Emerges at the end So service learning uses and leverages The infrastructure of schools Benefits the community Just as much as the students Supports the service Just as much as the learning That's a short answer To a very, very smart question And I gave James some more information There's a lot on the web About service learning And I think it's a huge opportunity For Nigeria James how much more time do we have 20 more minutes Okay so, sorry 20 Okay great So the next thing That I wanted to bring up And again I didn't give this to you To look at directly But we did what we called Community Asset Mapping It's like making a map Of your community Around the resources That already exist In Nigeria And we did a whole workshop On asset mapping Really, really amazing And what it says is That money Is one asset And we're going to talk about fundraising in just a moment It's one asset But there's other assets in your community That are at least as important As money And our job is to identify All those assets So there's the assets of associations You might have an association To help disabled folks And to work with disabled folks You might have an association To work with senior citizens You might have an association To work with artists And people who do Different kinds of performances That's a huge asset you already have In Nigeria And how can you use it To support service Institutions is another area Of assets in Nigeria You have schools You have the government You have houses of worship That's a huge asset In Nigeria Churches and mosques and temples It's an infrastructure That already exists You have individuals You have youth You have teachers You have professionals You have business people All of you are You have to leverage and coordinate And put it all together in a movement Not just service moments But a movement of service Throughout the whole country And the one that I want to bring up last Which is really interesting Is public space And one of the things That came up in our talk last week Which was amazing And I saw it firsthand When I had some limited time On the roads in Nigeria Is road safety And it seems like You're still learning in Abuzia How to make roads safe for everybody And so one person came up With this great idea Last week saying You know all those overpasses Over the highway So many people Are using those to get From this side of the highway And it seems like Are using those to get from this side of the highway To that side of the highway Instead of running across Which we saw so many times I was like oh my goodness I hope they're safe But lots of people running across I mean really running across the road Is very difficult and very dangerous But you have those overpasses Over the highway That is a huge Public space resource Or asset In Abuzia You run across that every day What if you were doing a program About Nutrition And you had a little flyer Or you wanted to talk to people Instead of creating A new space To gather people to talk about nutrition Why not stand By those overpasses And every person who walks over the bridge They get your flyer Why not use The public spaces that you have In a smart and strategic way To do the service That you're all dedicated to doing Now that Is smart That's smart thinking That's using a resource that we forget about All the time Parks Parking lots What about if you have a huge parking lot You can have a fair You can set up tables Things That describe your vision of service In Nigeria It's space People are there already Why not use In an organized strategic way The assets Including public space in Nigeria To advance Your culture and movement of service To connect the dots So that everyone's working Not the same But as we say On the same page On the same plan But creatively doing it And doing it strategically That's your job That is your job Any thoughts about this About asset mapping, understanding And recognizing and celebrating the assets And the resources that Nigeria already has Any thoughts? Alright let's move on So fundraising was another Reason why I was asked to Speak with you today So you all should have this one sheet And It's called 10 principles of fundraising I didn't make this up Honestly I went to the internet And I searched through many Many different kinds of Fundraising best practices And this one seemed like a really good one And so What I wanted to do was Maybe if James could get the microphone To 10 different people I thought we would just have one person read Just the top The top item in bold And then maybe we can discuss it Very briefly Before we wrap up our time together So who can read number one? Thank you Never ask a stranger for money Alright It's a very simple thing That if you want money If you have a relationship With someone that you know Probably That's going to be more likely That they're going to give you money They're like I know you You do good work Versus Asking a stranger that you don't know Someone brought up though The idea that You know sometimes asking a stranger Like asking the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Sometimes that works And that's important But the majority Of the time When you ask someone that you know For support I'm like hey James How you doing over there Can you help me out I need someone to model their feet For this beautiful picture Could you stand there Can I outline your feet And James would like hey Timothy I know you You can use my feet Actually my feet are quite nice And I'm kind of proud of that And then I give James credit For the feet modeling Because I know James And he knows me So that's a very important fundamental Basic idea fundraising Alright number two Cultivate before asking What does that mean Can you describe that It simply means I think it follows through from the first one Yes You don't know anybody, you don't know a person Who doesn't know you don't know what you're involved in And you ask But you're able to support the person Before you drop the big one Right You get them to know what you're doing You say here are all the success stories Of what we're doing In our organization And here's our vision to do more And you give them information You have coffee with them Or tea and you talk about what you want to do We say in English You prime the pump You get the pump going Before the water comes out of the well And that's what that is number two Hello number three Think of the needs of the donor Alright Why would I give you anything Any money or resources If you're not going to meet Something that I want So often You know there's a lot about Relationships again For me You know my mom God bless her She had Alzheimer's And so I have a need in my heart Because of the love of my mom To support organizations That fight Alzheimer's disease So you need to know Who the donor is The need of the donor While you're meeting the need Of your organization We have an awful expression In the United States which I hate It's called I'm going to kill Two birds with one stone I have a new Nonviolent version of that I say I'm going to feed Two birds out of one hand So I'm going to Through our fundraising Feed the need of the donor And feed the need of my organization At the same time Because I'm smart and I'm strategic Alright number four Ask for support For what you need So what is that, what's that about Can you describe that What is that about You know exactly what You're looking for This is what I want Just go straight to the point For what you want Exactly Like if you're the red cross And you're all focused Around blood donations And things like that Or disaster relief And all of a sudden you start doing something completely different And you ask for money for Something that's important But it's not related to the mission of your organization People won't trust you They'll say this is kind of crazy What's up with that Five Personalize your solicitation Have you ever done that Have you made your ask For a donation, have you made it personal Like how would you do that So how would you make your request For support How would you make it personal Would you send A form letter that said Dear sir Or would you say Would you send a letter that said Dear James I know you through the US Embassy And all your great work And I know you support this Would you help my organization In this way, this way, this way So it makes it more personal So that's really important A phone call Is even more personal than a letter Visiting someone At their office Is even more personal than a phone call So making it personal Is all about relationships And that's your job To make your fundraising request Personal Alright, number six Where's money from the top Okay, from the inside out Okay, what does that mean I think it simply means that Yeah, just like they said Charity begins at home That's it You can show that Yes, you can generate something From your side, then you ask for somebody To compliment what you've done That's exactly it Charity starts at home And justice starts at home And fundraising starts at home too Excellent, number seven Raise money from the top down No That's it Yeah That's a really interesting one So it's saying try to get The big gifts first And it sets an example For other people to give big Like if I say, sure I'll give you five dollars And then someone will say, okay I'll give you five dollars Or five Nira But what if someone said I'll give a thousand Nira Or whatever, I'll give a million Nira Then all of a sudden The standard is higher And you get more money From the start Which is really a very good thing How about number eight Make the case rather than the Organization What does that mean to you? What do you think that's about? If you can show the benefits If you can show people around Or who you're targeting What's in it for them There are chances they will go for it That's exactly it And say that my cause It might not be Exactly your cause But it's related to what you do So my cause Working with youth Isn't exactly the same cause As working with women But all these youth have Mothers and aunties and sisters And it's related We're working in coalition We're building a movement So we're not all separate We're all together In this wonderful Idea of civic engagement Number nine Develop a strategy you can Accomplish So that relates to Exactly what we're going to talk about For our last thing in just a moment With our smart goals And I was a very hard teacher Last week Because the last day And the people in the program Made smart goals And I was like wait a minute That could be smarter Let's make this goal even better So we'll talk about that in just a moment How about number ten Alright Everyone needs to be thanked Everyone needs a thank you For the hard work and dedication that they do And many times we forget to thank people James if I ever forgot to thank you Here it is in front of everybody James has been amazing Bob has been incredible Bill from the US Embassy Was amazing Everyone, Ben who did all the IT Incredible I don't know about you But when people thank me I'll do anything for you Really I will Alright Any other ideas Any other wisdom Any other wisdom that you have That you want to add really quickly Before we do our last thing About fundraising Are these some good ideas for you Hi Tim I just want to comment on The first point Never ask a stranger for money You can spend a stranger And then share your vision with him And then ask him for money That's smart Yes Suddenly they're not a stranger anymore Right Now they're a friend Now they're a friend Exactly Alright our time is running out But I wanted to look at this really quickly This is the last item The smart goals It's a simple idea But it's not so easy To do it So smart goals are Specific You're doing something very specific to fundraise Or to work for charity Or for working for justice You're specific about what your goal is It's measurable Usually There's numbers involved We're going to train 15 youth leaders To talk about Boys and girls empowerment In Nigeria Usually there's numbers So you can count them 15 youth leaders We're going to build 20 homeless shelters We're going to feed 500 poor people Things like that Usually it's countable Attainable We have to have a big vision Of Nigeria As best as it can be But our smart goals have to be attainable So that we can reach it step by step Relevant Our smart goal has to be relevant To our organization If it's not related to our mission And our vision of our organization People are like What are you doing? This doesn't make sense You're all about Working with this population But now your goal is about that population I know we're all connected But your smart goal needs to be Relevant to the work that you do And then time bound Usually a smart goal Starts by saying By June 2015 I will do this this this this This and this So time bound Gives a very Specific time frame To achieve your goal Of service and or justice And writing smart goals is not easy So the folks In the workshops last week I was tough I was a tough, tough facilitator I'm like, nope, how is this measurable? Nope, that's not specific enough Nope, where's the time? Because only when we do these Smart goals Will we be more likely to be Successful in reaching Our goals If they're too general I want everyone In Nigeria to be happy Well, that's a nice Me too I'd love that What does that look like? How do you measure it? What does that mean? So being smart Because we are smart And you're a smart group And so being smart with your goals Is very, very important Regarding fundraising Regarding organizing Regarding anything that you do To make Nigeria better For engagement and service I think we're up James, are we up with time? Or do we have a last time For maybe a last question or two? Yeah, we have five minutes For closing and comments Are you done? I'm done, I'm exhausted I've been talking way too much So how about How about folks in the group? Yeah, they have comments Okay, thank you very much I wanted to say something My comments will be on Your last but one Presentation, which is some fundraising Sometimes It may be necessary that You do not We are necessary that You may not need to act for money But can also ask for what we need Yes If you're trying to build A house, for instance For the homeless And you know something like Dangute You may not necessarily ask him for money You can ask him for 10 bucks of cement Yes To give you 10 bucks of cement Which costs more than $10,000 But it cannot give you $10,000 So sometimes it's good to ask for materials Instead of asking for money That is excellent And it goes back to the asset mapping Knowing the resources of your community And asking people according to What they have for what they can give Very smart point Excellent Maybe this is the last comment Another one is The number 3 Think of the needs of the donor I think sometimes Your goal or your objective May not be in line With what your target donor Is interested in So I think it's a critical point To market them Why they should buy into your dreams So though you have to Not just see them as a giver of something But make them be part of What you are doing So they have a statement That way it's easier That's right Excellent point So I think that's the last comment We can take and maybe Team if you want to close with the famous Board from the Rabbi Sure Interesting in my email And James can share my email with you I'd be very happy to keep in touch Especially with WhatsApp Do you guys use WhatsApp? I love it I love WhatsApp It's free I love anything free It's true It's true But in my email I have a quotation from a very famous Rabbi who lived I'm Roman Catholic He lived before Jesus of Nazareth And he has A very smart Wise Saying His name is Rabbi Hillel And many people might look at my email And say I didn't know Timothy was Jewish And I say you know We're part of a lot of A bigger community And when I see wisdom out there I embrace it no matter And I love it that it's from a Jewish Rabbi Jesus actually was a Jewish Rabbi before Or people called him that Before Christianity But anyway, so the Rabbi said Hillel said If I am not for myself Who will be For me If I'm only for myself Who am I If not now When So he's saying we have to Support ourselves We have to share our love With other people And we have to act now Thank you so much For inviting me to your presentation We'll see you again Thank you very much Thank you so much Take care