 We have about one minute behind here and we want to go ahead and get started here. So if everybody that's still standing and chatting, if you can find a seat, there are plenty of seats it looks like out there, we'll go ahead and get this started. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Ed Hartman. I'm DAB's Inspector General and I'll be tag-teaming this seminar with Brian Cork, our Chief Development Officer who after I get done presenting, we'll talk a little bit about fundraising. But we want to start off today and kind of get back to the basics a little bit about DAB and who we are, what we do, what our responsibilities are at the chapter level, the department level, so I decided to talk a little bit about the Constitution and bylaws. Of course, we all know that each entity of DAB, whether it be a chapter, department, or the National Organization has bylaws that govern and dictate everything that we do at every level. So we're going to spend a little time talking about our Constitution and bylaws at the different level and some of the things that apply within the National bylaws that are very specific to departments and some things that are very specific to chapters. So as we all know, there's not one person in any DAB entity whether it be the chapter, the department, or the National Organization that unilaterally makes the decisions of the organization, right? So at the department level, we know that the supreme authority of any DAB department is the convention and the delegates assembled and gathered at the department convention. So resolutions made, ideas made, issues that are voted upon and approved by the body of the department convention is the supreme authority of the department convention. The DEC obviously addresses issues that occur in between department conventions. So the caveat to that is that even though the DEC makes decisions in between department conventions, DEC cannot undo something that was voted upon by the delegates assembled and gathered at the department convention with a few exceptions as it relates to officers and appointments, so on and so forth. But absolutely the most supreme authority of the department is the delegates assembled and gathered at that convention. Each and every year it's required by the National bylaws Article 8 Section 8.3 and just for your reference, in the National bylaws everything is segmented into very specific articles, so if you're looking for something that's specific to departments you're going to find that in Article 8, everything from conducting convention, adopting bylaws, electing officers, so on and so forth is going to be an article 8. Everything that relates to chapters you're going to find in Article 9. But since we're talking about departments here, Article 8 Section 8.3 of the bylaws require that each and every year a department must annually elect a commander, a senior vice commander, one or more junior vice commanders, and shall either elect or appoint an adjutant, state inspector, and treasurer. So what does that mean? There has to be an annual election of officers. That doesn't mean that the commander cannot succeed himself or herself. It just means that you have to afford the opportunity of the body to elect somebody. Now, the National bylaws do not dictate or govern the department's bylaws in terms of whether or not a commander can succeed him or herself. That's the discretion of the body. That's the discretion of the Constitution bylaws of the department. Many departments allow for department commanders to succeed themselves for two years, three years, you know, into the future. Others require that commanders only serve one single period. When we talk about appointing or electing an adjutant, treasurer, and a state inspector, that's again the pleasure of the department by way of its bylaws. So, but keep in mind, any appointment that is made by the commander for those positions must be ratified by the department executive committee or the body in order for it to be in full force and effect. Also, it's very, very common in many departments that the department adjutant and treasurer are one and the same person. There's no prohibition to that. The only prohibition in the national bylaws as it relates to department officers is that the department commander may not serve as the adjutant. The senior vice commander may not serve as the adjutant. So, if your department has within its bylaws the fact that the commander appoints an adjutant, appoints a treasurer, he or she may not appoint him or herself as the adjutant or the treasurer. Immediately following the election of officers in the department convention, officer reports have to be submitted within 10 days. The reason that we do that is because of course, as you all know, there's a great deal of information coming out from the national organization as it relates to legislative items, issues that affect in some cases state specifically. It may be related to disaster relief efforts, maybe related to a very important issue taking place in that state. We need to know who we're communicating with, who to send correspondence to, who's the person in charge of the department that we need to be communicating with. Unless we have that officer report, we have absolutely no idea who that is. Now, occasionally within the department changes are made within the line or within the leadership throughout the course of the year for any number of reasons, whether that disability, resignation, removal. If that occurs, that requires the creation of a new officer report so that again, we can continue that line of communication and make sure that we are communicating effectively and appropriately with the correct individual. Annual financial reports must be submitted and we all know that our annual financial reporting period is always July 1 to June 30 each and every year. That is our membership year, that's our accounting year, so Article A Section 8.4 requires that annual financial reports of the department must be submitted to the national organization prior to September 30 of each year. Every department must file a report with the national organization. What do we do with these annual financial reports when we get them? We look to make sure that funds are being appropriately spent on service programs. We look to make sure that the accounts balance, make sure that there's full accountability. We look at them most importantly for many departments when we are considering a grant from the Columbia Trust to support either your department service program, your hospital service coordinator program, the DAD Transportation Network if you're ordering bands and requesting some assistance from the Columbia Trust. The Columbia Trust cannot evaluate and consider a grant request from a department until we have that annual financial report and we all know that bands come available and are usually announced in the fall, so I would say better than half the time we get requests in for the Columbia Trust from departments to help fund bands for the Transportation Network or to fund a service program or a hospital service coordinator program and we absolutely cannot do anything until we get that financial report so that requires us to reach back out to departments, encourage them to get those reports in because until we get that report we cannot consider a grant and the Columbia Trust as we all know is a means-based entity so if there's a true need for funding by a department to support our programs of service the Columbia Trust is going to support it the only way that we know that is by way of reviewing and evaluating the annual financial report. Some of the other things we look at on the annual financial report is to ensure that, I mentioned that funds are being spent appropriately. We cannot raise money in the name of DAD and then turn around and make a donation to another organization. Now the caveat to that is is if there's another veterans service organization that is hosting a very specific event that is benefiting disabled veterans and their families we can make a donation to that organization because we can justify to our donors that the funds that were received by DAD from the general public were being used to support a very specific program to support disabled veterans and their families. What we can do is just make blanket non-binding donations to organizations just because we like the organization and we all have to remember that the funds that are donated to DAD at all levels national organization departments and chapters are from the general public we don't get any government funding at the national line some departments get funding from the state but we have an obligation to spend that money in importance with our charter purpose. We're going to find ourselves in trouble if we're making donations to programs or organizations that are not beneficial to disabled veterans and their programs so we cannot and should not be making donations to programs such as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts the police department, the local fire department churches, things of that nature and we do run into those from time to time on annual finance reports and we're very quick to respond to those to reply to those because the entity that is making those donations using funds that were provided by the general public to support DAD's mission is going to quickly dry out if they learn that that entity of DAD made a donation to the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts a church, local fire department the police department association whatever the case might be we have to spend money on our federally chartered purpose providing service to veterans and their families any department that has income that exceeds $300,000 during the course of the accounting year excluding anything that comes from the national organization so funding that comes to the department from the national organization includes membership dues distribution the department fundraising program and then any grant that it may receive from the Columbia trust so this is an example if a department received $200,000 in donations from entities throughout the state and then received another $120,000 for membership distribution department fundraising programs the Columbia trust that certainly exceeds $300,000 so we don't care about the money that comes from the national because we can account for that we know what came to the department if all those other donations that come in during the course of the year exceed $300,000 that's the benchmark that would require the department to get a CPA review prior to this middle of the annual financial report of the department years ago the bylaws were amended that used to read a CPA audit and CPA audits are very very very expensive sometimes depending upon the size of the department the amount of money that we're talking about can be $15,000, $20,000, $30,000 and certainly the last thing that we want to have happen is required departments to spend a large sum of money just to have an accounting so a CPA review much less expensive but it covers the same aspects of a CPA audit it will identify any inconsistencies within the accounting of the department before the year which might prompt a further audit so that does not happen very often but we have found that a CPA review is a considerably less expensive but then also covers a majority of what is included in an audit and would satisfy our questions and our needs to determine where money is going, how it's being spent and most importantly to ensure that a CPA audit is protected so a lot of departments have districts much like the national organization we have districts right so we've got 21 districts in D&E National each one of those districts are represented by a national executive commitment that we adopt here at National Convention the same thing applies and is allowed within departments but the one thing that is very, very, very specific in Article 8, Section 8.7 of the By-Loss is that much like the national organization in our NEC the NEC as an individual as a district, its own unique district has no power, no authority so there should be no district commanders I know that there are still many departments and we're working with some departments as we identify them that do have quote unquote district commanders to change the title of that individual to a district executive commitment what we've found in the past is that when we have district commanders and someone's handed the title or elected as a district commander now all of a sudden they have a belief and an understanding that while I'm a district commander I command all these chapters in my district and as pointed out in 8.7 districts have no authority they have no power, no authority the only reason for a district to exist is to provide information and serve as a conduit of the chapters that district represents with the department and then back and forth so there cannot be since they're not chartered entities districts are not chartered entities of the 80s so therefore no employer identification number exists for districts there can be no fundraising being conducted by a department district there can be no financial accounts maintained in the name of the district as it relates to fundraising activities in terms of the paternal side of DAV within the departments everything that a department does related to fundraising must receive the prior approval of the national executive committee with the exception of the pre-approved it may not fundraisers departments are authorized already in our bylaws to conduct there's no prior approval needed by the NEC plus also the annual Golden Corral Military Appreciation Monday fundraisers that are coordinated by the national organization and are intended as a department fundraiser those are the only two things that do not require annual approval from the national executive committee but anything and everything else that a department requests or desires to do in terms of fundraising must get the prior approval of the national executive committee these are just commonalities and issues that we deal with on a daily basis from departments so when we talk about fundraising we're always asked about questions about how to get approval for certain fundraisers but just keep in mind if you're a department leader anything and everything minus Golden Corral forget me or not must be submitted to the national executive committee for prior approval we'll have some questions at the end thank you disciplinary action that's something else that we deal with pretty regularly and we all know that as department leaders there are only two people in any state that can initiate article 16 disciplinary action and that's the department commander and or the national commander now we've got to apply article 16 and apply the laws and further by way of NEC regulation number 6 not every infraction of a member requires disciplinary action because remember at the end of the day the national commander if a suspension is issued for the purpose of conducting an article 16 against a member that suspension has to be upheld by the national commander so the very last thing that anyone wants especially as a department leader or even us at the national organization is to have a department commander improperly suspend somebody send the letter out and then when that copy the letter gets to the national commander and the national commander overturns it you know that just adds fuel to the fire now the individual is is kind of thumbing their nose in the department saying see I told you so you don't know what you're doing so what I would encourage is that if you're a department commander or if you're a department action and you have an issue that you believe might require disciplinary action against an individual's membership pick up the phone and give me a call before any letters are issued before any statements are made we could ground her as to whether or not the national commander would support and uphold an article 16 letter going out against the members expending their membership conducting an investigation which Michael would lead to an article 16 there are other things that we can do besides article 16 we can provide letter of recommend we can you know work with them on occasion taking the opportunity to call the individual myself and kind of reason with them and explain to them why what they did was wrong and what they can do to fix it article 16 should really really be the last resort however that being said there are some things that absolutely positively require article 16 disciplinary action immediately whether that's dealing with assaults theft and a whole host of other things but do yourselves a favor if you're an apartment leader an apartment commander before you suspend anybody and then send that copy of the letter into the national commander pick the phone and give me a call first because like I said I'll be able to tell you whether or not the national commander is likely to uphold it or overturn it because we want to work with the departments and we want to be the department leaders are conduits with its members and its chapters we want to support the decisions of the department and it's it's really embarrassing sometimes when we, when the national commander overturns a suspension and then really like I said earlier that's fuel to fire and empowers that individual that had just been suspended and is now overturned by the national commander in corporations and affiliations are controlled by article 17 the final laws we'll be talking about when we talk about incorporations and affiliations if the department wants to go out and partner with another organization for some specific purpose to promote a particular program that's going to assist disabled veterans and their families and communities those have to meet with the approval of the national agent and usually they're submitted by way of a business plan if you will or DAB department A wishes to partner with the civic society of Elkhart to promote a stand down those kind of affiliations and incorporations would need to get the prior approval of the national organization why do we do that because we're an organization nearly 100 years old and we've gotten this far because of our good name and the integrity that we uphold within our organization because as I mentioned earlier we get no funding from the government every single pending is from the general public and it's based upon our reputation of providing service and our reputation and our integrity so the very last thing that we want to have happen is for a department to enter into an affiliation or an corporation with another entity that is maybe not so well received within the community we do a great deal of vetting to look at the history of who they are what they do we look at any past media exposure because again the last thing we want to do is partner with somebody who's less than credible or has a very checkered past so we take those very seriously and then of course once that's done if everything checks out then the National Agents will send a letter saying absolutely you guys permitted to affiliate and incorporate with this organization to conduct this one particular event one of the common questions that I'm asked all the time is how are departments able to enforce the lie laws and oversee the activities of its chapters many times I get phone calls from department leaders that say hey I wanted to go to chapter 8 meeting last night to you know observe or provide some input or speak and they kick me out well obviously the department is the parent of the chapter all chapters within the department are report to the department and so NEC regulation 8 allows for departments to oversee and enforce the constitution bylaws of the all the chapters within the state so chapters have no role no decision no authority to not permit a department officer to come in and speak to the body it's unfortunate that I even have to mention this but there are some chapters out there that wish to do their own thing without any oversight and they've gone so far as to not go to department conventions for years they're out there doing their own thing satisfying the four meetings a year to justify their charter but have no involvement with the department and are all but separated departments so chapters certainly are required to allow departments to come in see their books speak of EP take any correction act corrective action and enforce the bylaws of the national organization that also allows departments the opportunity to review their finances their annual finance reports ask questions to conduct an audit of their finances if the department believes that there's an issue that needs to be addressed moving on here we spent a little bit of time here talking about the farmers now we're going to move on to chapters what are some of the requirements what are some of the key points that are noted in the constitution bylaw specific to chapters chapters must adopt first and foremost its own constitution and bylaws outline an article 9 section 9.1 what does that mean that means that the chapter should proactively look at its current document and that document should fit the needs of the chapter we have many chapters across country whose constitution and bylaw date all the way back to the very beginning of this chapter which might be 50 60 years ago and you know what that's not necessarily a bad thing so long as it fits what is currently needed and being conducted at the chapter level of this time however it certainly winds to as your chapter grows extends new programs conducts additional business to take a look at those constitution bylaws regularly to see if the current document meets the needs of the chapter today we actually have and of course there's a lot of required language that is needed in each chapter's constitution bylaw there's required language that is necessary for the department's bylaws we have sample chapter constitution bylaws we have sample department constitution bylaws that are available on DAB.org under the membership tab you can use those they're rightful word documents all of the required language that is required by national bylaws is already included in those samples but you can amend it to include certain specific committees that you might have at the chapter level you can mold it into your own document as long as you don't take out any of that required language that already exists within the sample much like a department each and every year a chapter absolutely must conduct elections that doesn't mean that a commander or any other line officer can't succeed themselves again these are all things that need to be outlined and specific in the constitution bylaws of the chapter it must specifically state that a chapter commander can succeed themselves year after year after year or two years or three years or whatever the case might be it must also identify whether the adjunct and treasurer are elected or appointed and it must also require that at least one junior vice commander be elected for the chapter we have many chapters that are very large, very active some have four junior vice commanders we have at the national organization there are others that just have one it's just based upon the size of the chapter, the involvement of the membership so that might be something that would really prompt the need to review your constitution bylaws so if your current constitution bylaws require that you have four junior vice commanders and you find yourself each and every year struggling to find that third and fourth junior vice position to a body that filled that position it might be a good time to amend your constitution bylaws to only require one junior vice commander because that's all that is required by the way of the national bylaws so when you get back feel free to take a look at that sample that's online compare it with your current bylaws see how far off base they may be it might be a good time just for historical purposes to update those bylaws to ensure that you're in current compliance with the national bylaws as to the current language and then also it might help you better conduct the business of your chapter by way of some of the committees that you may have formed over the last 50 years since your chapter has been in existence because of course a lot of times we find ourselves in a position chapter level trying to figure out what are we supposed to be doing as a committee what are we supposed to be doing as an organization and of course we look at our governing document which is the bylaws and it's really incomplete it's absent because it's an old document so it never worth taking a look at those and amend them and update them as necessary much like departments chapter officer reports are submitted in 10 days to the department and the national organization and again the reason that we need those officer reports is so that when we have a need to communicate an issue or communicate with the chapter to provide information we need to know who we're sending it to so that at the next chapter meeting that correspondence can be read by the chapter adjunct to the body so that they can stay informed as to what's going on in DAV whether it's specific to DAV whether it's specific to certain legislation that is being considered or proposed by the federal government it's all about communication right every kind of we typically have an issue between a chapter and department and it's always a lack of communication one thing that you'll never you'll never be able to say about a lack of communication with the national organization because we send out communication on a daily basis to chapters departments is that you're not getting information the only time that you can say that you're not getting communication or information from the national organization is when that officer report is not been submitted or if the officer has changed during the course of that year or there's been a change to an officer a course that requires a new officer report so if you're not getting correspondence from the national organization probably because there's something missing on your officer report it's not been updated it's not been provided and of course those officer reports need to be submitted within 10 days after the installation and of course we know when each chapter has its annual election of officers so it gets to be 30 days out and we have not received that officer report yet we're surely going to send the chapter letter saying hey your elections will last month we've never received your officer report please provide within the next 30 days or the national commander may have to spend the charter in your chapter until we get that officer report with new members initial membership within DAD is governed by section 11.2 and I point this out just because it seems to be not very well understood within chapters I look at a lot of constitutional bylaws prior to the national judge advocate finalizing them, reviewing them, improving them and many times I find within a chapter's constitution and bylaws a membership committee and the sole purpose of that membership committee is to vet or require certain documentation in order to accept an initial member a new member into the chapter there shouldn't be any membership committee no documentation that's required by a chapter to consider someone for membership if a new member comes in must be a member of the chapter the chapter should immediately forward that to national headquarters our membership specialist at national headquarters vet those review them, evaluate them ensure that they are eligible for membership in DAD and then they're placed into the chapter transfers on the other hand are a different story the chapter certainly has the right to determine on its own by way of a vote of the body who you're going to allow to transfer into a chapter that provision exists is because we all know that we have some members in chapters that aren't the most pleasant to deal with that are always rough are always you know kind of bucking the system if you will the last thing we want to do as a chapter isn't here, somebody else is dirty laundry so when it comes to transfers the chapter certainly has the authority to consider, discuss and vote on whether or not they're going to allow an individual member to transfer into the chapter that last bullet point there use of membership information of course as leaders of DAD whether you're the chapter commander the chapter adjunct the service officer anybody who has access to the membership list of the chapter we absolutely, positively must safeguard that 19.2 specifically states that that membership list is to be protected and shall only be used for the business purposes of the chapter we should not be renting that list to businesses we should not be providing that list to other organizations so that they can solicit our members or membership in another organization or solicit them for a business we have to safeguard that list at the end of the day these are our members we do not want our members to be taken advantage of in any way shape or form we don't want them to feel pressured into joining another organization we don't want them to feel pressured into finding a particular product that has been that is local there so that membership list absolutely, positively must be safeguarded and used solely for the purpose of providing information as it relates to the DAB chapter any and all fundraising activities of chapters with a few exceptions they're all governed by article 15 section 15.3 of the fly laws must get the prior approval of the department executive committee with the exception, much like the department of Golden Crow activities that the chapter might be involved with and forgive me not drives anything else that is done that involves the general public must meet with the prior approval of the department executive committee and in a few rare cases may even require the approval of the national executive committee just depending on what kind of fundraiser it is if there's some kind of a contract that's involved those things would require the review and consideration of the national executive committee but keep in mind as a chapter we're all reportable to somebody so chapters always must get the prior approval of the department for fundraisers departments always need to get the approval of the national executive committee for fundraisers so let's just keep that in mind the only caveat to that is if you're at a chapter meeting conducting a raffle or something with the members that are present at the meeting those kind of things do not require the approval of the department so long as the anticipated amount does not exceed $5,000 there seems to be a little bit of confusion about what the ability of the chapter is to do a fundraiser as it relates to that $5,000 reference mentioned in the bylaws that is specific to a raffle and I can't imagine that there's going to be any raffle in any chapter where you're going to bring in more than $5,000 but if you do have a raffle it's going to bring in more than $5,000 from the members present voting at a chapter meeting that certainly would need to get the approval of the department executive committee but keep in mind anything that involves the general public anything outside the D&E membership at a chapter meeting requires the approval of the department executive committee regardless of the amount that's anticipated to bring in even if you're only expecting to bring in $100 as a total proceeds from the fundraiser if it involves the general public the prior approval of the department executive committee is required annual finance reports are also on the same reporting year as departments we all operate them at the chapter department level on the membership year of July 1 to June 30 so September 30 is the deadline for annual finance reports to be into departments if the chapter must file an annual finance report to the department if the chapter has income which exceeds $10,000 during the course of the year then a copy of that financial report must come to the national headquarters and similar to departments any chapter that receives over $300,000 of income minus anything that might come from the national organization must also file a CPA review that covers everything that I wanted to address and my next slide here goes into the Q&A but Mr. Kowar here is going to come up and address some other issues as a related fundraiser or fundraising and whenever he's finished any and all questions can be addressed from the microphone up here and before you address your questions just please make sure that you identify whether the question is for Brian or myself and we'll get to those as soon as he's finished alright? Thank you and good afternoon everyone alright so fundraising today these are some of the topics that I'm going to cover today fundraising nationally has some very large programs that we execute on a national level you've probably seen our television commercials direct mailings we have some digital campaigns we execute on a national level we're not really going to talk about those things today I'm really going to focus more on the fundraising related activities that can benefit you and impact you on a department and chapter level if you want to hear more about those things I'm happy to talk about those things by all means please come up and see me afterwards and I'll be happy to talk to you about the movement on a national level but I figured I'd have to worry about the public to pull up on those things but before I get into these topics I do want to make a public service announcement about something else we're choosing necessarily fundraising related that benefits you and that's our member advantages benefits program we have done a lot of due diligence put a lot of effort into revamping the partner corporate partner benefits that you all can take advantage of in terms of getting discounts as it relates to your membership of the products and services so we have pretty much started from scratch going on new partners so we're excited to have new partners like 1,800 flowers where you can get discounts off of all their products and T-Mobile and Identity Guard USAA and Handcraft and soon to be Avis and Budget so I just encourage you all to go out look out on the membership portal at the new member advantages partnership take advantage of those discounts as they're there for you as part of your benefits also we still have a table out by registration they're going to brochure they're going to brochure on all of our partners so just a little public service announcement on that please look into that and take it into those things as much as possible alright so let's talk about our medical donation program so we started our medical donation program nationally about three years ago we raised $446,000 in the first year in 2016 last year we raised over $800,000 as you can see here from about 3,000 cars that were donated in 43 states now as many of you may know we actually donate a large percentage of the proceeds that come from these cars back to the departments and so 25% of the proceeds so this year we're on track to actually raise $250,000 which means that $250,000 will be going back to the departments for this particular program you can see here where all the cars are being donated from some state departments are getting as much as over $40,000 in funds back from this program 10 of the states are getting over $10,000 through the states are getting over $25,000 so donations in from all the states you can see the ones that are driving the top 4 Minnesota, California, Virginia Maryland we encourage you all to take advantage of promoting the program those states that are at the top promote the program heavily we provide an easy mechanism to promote the program you can go to the membership portal there's tools, there's flyers, there's posters we have messaging so if you want to send things out, emails out we have messaging, we have messaging to put on social media you can have things that you can order if you want to have chalk key items but again this is just another easy way to bring in some revenue for your organization here's some sample digital ads here that you can post on your website so please, we thank you for encouraging the program it's doing phenomenally well and I encourage you to continue to promote it as well so Jespe Kids, does everyone know about the campus program? now so Jespe Kids is the program that we implemented a few years ago that allows chapters departments to raise funds to support Camp Corral Camp Corral is a program that we did in partnership with Golan Corral to send kids of military members and veterans to camp for free and they put a priority in sending kids to camp while falling and injured and ill veterans we're really excited to be a partner with Camp Corral pretty much since the onset of the program starting Jespe Kids was created as a mechanism to allow you to fundraise for Camp Corral any time that you go out and raise funds as a representative of DAB as Ed mentioned those funds must be accounted for by DAB so you can't simply go out and raise funds and then turn those monies over to another entity another organization without them being accounted for first by the organization and so by raising funds and then allocating to Jespe Kids we then allocate the money to Camp Corral so the money comes into DAB as part of Jespe Kids Scholarship Program and then we allocate it back out to Camp Corral not only does this allow you to adhere to our bylaws but it also ethically is something that we have to do if we're out there collecting money from the public under the guise of DAB their expectation is those funds are going to DAB so they must go to DAB first in four months this past year I decided to say that what you may have heard yesterday that the DAB chapters and departments this year raised over $300,000 to send kids to Camp so that is outstanding combined with national and the auxiliary we actually raised over $600,000 to send kids to Camp almost a third of the kids going to Camp this summer because of the efforts of DAB many of you may know that the first $300,000 that are raised by departments and chapters are matched by DAB headquarters this year was the first year we exceeded the $300,000 match so it's important that you get the money in because it's done on a first come first serve basis but once we reach $300,000 we don't continue to match donations from chapters and departments so I encourage you to get those in as soon as possible so that you can get double the credit and if you're doing fundraising on behalf of Golden Crow those stores find that to be very important to them to sort of double those funds so they can get double the credit speaking of the Golden Crow partnership and the fundraising that you do with those stores a lot of times we hear well how do those stores get credit to give the money to Golden Crow and the answer is absolutely not please do not ever give the money to Golden Crow as I stated it must come to us first but on the flip side we want to ensure that Golden Crow does get credit for the funds that you raise in their stores so anytime you send in the funds this is the form that you can utilize that you should utilize to send the funds back into the DAB headquarters on there you'll see there's a spot that says if you're raising funds in partnership with the Golden Crow store please put the name of the store store number how much you raised in partnership with the store and then we then send that information back to Golden Crow to make sure that the stores get credit and if those funds are matched we also report back on the total amount including the match that's reported back to Golden Crow so this is the fund the form that you should use if you don't have access to that you can reach out to Holland at our headquarters office or email address is sholland at DAB.org you can also reach out to me and I'll make sure that you can get this form as well also we do have one of the things we heard a couple of years ago was we're out there raising money for just the kids we don't have anything that actually speaks to it and talks about the program so we now do have materials we have actually a bucket an inventory we also have a brochure so you can access that off of the membership portal or you can access the toolkit which tells you how to download and gain access to this information as you're going on the funding on behalf of just the kids and I think you saw this slide yesterday there's a lot of parts a lot of chapters raising money for Camp Crow which is great and it's very much appreciated and then you heard yesterday from Camp Crow and how much they appreciated I can tell you the kids certainly did sure it's not in any particular order maybe out of the bedroom so it's not ordered by who raised the most ready? alright nope got slow cam producers we'll be doing training on cell phone photos after this the other thing I wanted to highlight that many of you may not know because CrowGur actually has a very easy fundraising campaign that you guys can take advantage of CrowGur actually will donate a percentage of sales when you go grocery shopping if you ever want to go to your area back to your chapter department it's very easy to do to take advantage of all you literally have to do is go to this website and then register your chapter where to park you click on the state chapter department they send you an ID it's as simple as that once you have that information you can then go in and actually tell your members that you've registered your organization and they can go in and actually assign their CrowGur plus card to your chapter and organization again this is how you can do that and then every time they use their card it goes back to your chapter or department all CrowGurs do this yes so I know you're a lot of times what's some easy ways to raise money this can get no easier than this as a way to just people shop they do their normal grocery shopping you receive the receipt proceeds I just wanted to make sure you go over where this is something CrowGur does on the national level sure and if you can either after we're done with the presentation you can either get my card or Ed's card and we will email you the presentation so don't worry about taking pictures we'll come up afterwards and we'll make sure that we get you the presentation the other thing that we're proud of the launching again is our EV5K national series which has kicked off and we're excited once again we're hosting our 5K series this year meaning you may know that this series is designed to raise awareness of the challenges that Illinois veterans face and to say thank you to those who have served it is an awesome experience for those of you who have gone to the EV5K it's like no other, it's a special experience we have HonorBib we're going to honor their loved ones friends, family, motorcycle ride kickoff awesome after party so we're very excited we actually had about 9,000 participants yes we're going to if you can hold your questions to the very end if you don't mind and then come up to the microphone as well at the end please alright so so we're excited to kick off this year's campaign registration is open you can go to dv5k.org to register the seats from these events do go back to the departments themselves so we encourage your participation you don't have to live in those things together this is this is the schedule for our 5K events the first week in the Saturday, November the 3rd we have Houston highlighted last year we were in San Antonio this year we're moving to Texas 5K to Houston we had an opportunity to partner with a huge event in Houston actually it's in Kima which is outside of Houston but to partner with a big event there that cost them to service that basically irons veterans as well but they have 12,000 participants and they're going to cross promote our event so we're going to be in Houston this year for the first time we're excited about being Tulsa that weekend the following weekend will be in Newport News and then we'll include the 5K this year on November the 10th but Atlanta, Boston and Cincinnati so we look forward to hopefully seeing all of you the 5K events this year I can tell you if you want to not freeze you might have fun going to Boston no it's a cold cold my blood is thin so that's all I can say but Boston has a great event it's in a fort, it's fun, it's phenomenal it's a truly awesome experience so I was kidding and once again we're doing our member challenge this year for our members, you guys have seen during the business session this morning we honored our two awardees the top individual team top individual member fundraiser we also honored the top team member fundraiser this morning we're doing that again this year the winners receive free airfare hotel for themselves and a guest to convention so more incentive to go out and raise money for the 5Ks when you don't have to live in that state you can go pick a state that you want to raise money for and you can hopefully be one of these winners last but not least I wanted to highlight another program we've been doing for several years now it's called Forge Drive for your community program this program is another very simple way to raise money all you literally have to do is go to a Ford dealership tell them you want to participate in their Ford Drive for community program they pick a day where they will do the event and on that day any test drive you would receive $20 for each test drive up to $6,000 we would really like to see more people take advantage of this, you'll see in a second the ones who are taking advantage of it how much money they raise it's not hard to do once you go in and you get them to say yes I will do that there's information if you go to the membership portal on how to register for the event but once you registered you have to do the event that day it's as simple as telling all your friends all your chapter department members whatever they come out and test drive that's all I have to do to get $20 it's very simple so take advantage of this as well we have information out on the portal about the Drive for your community program about how you can promote it we have flyers and email messages that are already drafted that you can send out to your membership on how to do this you will see the nine chapters that have done that raised $20,000 those nine chapters you can see something that raised quite a bit of money again it's not easy to do easy money I encourage everyone we'd like to see way more chapters taking advantage of that department taking advantage of this program so please do and again all of them if you go on the portal you can see all of the resources out there for Drive for your community and for the donation fee for the donation program for the member challenge so you need information on how to go out engaging and participating in these programs please go out to the membership portal and then last night at least I have a favor to ask of you as well you may have heard yesterday ANW you guys can everybody get a room here for us No! what happened well we'll be doing it again next year so get a flow here come back next year but ANW is raising money for B&B in their stores up through National Root Peer Flow Day August 6th just many we've reached out to chapters departments to say hey would you help us by going out and saying thank you on National Root Peer Flow Day to them as well as its patrons for donating to us and many of you raised your hands and got back to us I'll do that and we thank you we have over 300 I think people say we'll do that thank you for that if you'd like to still do that we'd much appreciate it I know ANW would appreciate it it helps us raise more money so come see me if you're interested in doing that and we certainly would appreciate your support that concludes my presentation I guess we can now take questions if you have questions please just come up to the microphone up here introduce yourself we have 30 minutes