 Yeah, great Well, let me first do the thank you For everybody that showed up and showed up so utterly and completely and mainly And then to the howl-around team you guys are incredible and you make it look easy Yeah There's It's just an immense amount of work and even making sure the party goes well and that you know the menu was right And the room was right and all of those things. So thank you Sorry I Want to read a an email that the melon staff got from our president yesterday Dear colleagues, I want to make you aware of a pending announcement The tragic events over the past month or more from Orlando to Baton Rouge to Minneapolis to Dallas Continue to hold the attention of scores of Americans as well as the philanthropic community Last week dozens of foundation presidents and CEOs had a call to discuss what we can do collectively That goes beyond our individual grant making We decided to produce ads that remind the nation of the powerful work undertaken by grantees To design a brighter future in a season of gloom and despair for some we sought to shine a realistic light on hopeful actions No one on the call considered such a gesture of panacea But all recognize the important role philanthropy can play and has played in establishing a tone and a framework for creative solutions This ad is going to appear tomorrow in the Baltimore Sun Detroit news Detroit Free Press new Michigan media Houston Chronicle Los Angeles Times Sacramento be Miami Herald New York Times in Washington Post as of yesterday and since most of us access our newspapers on our electronic devices I Know that that might not Be something that many people see But the ad says from our history hope Every American generation must face defining moments. We are facing one now The recent killing of killings of people and police officers and communities across the country have stirred feelings of discord and despair And left Americans wondering how we will find a way forward Yet America has faced many such moments before and found a path toward our ideals of dignity equality and justice From this history we draw hope Today our nation needs more bridges of dialogue and fewer barriers of division America's foundations are proud to help courageous leaders build these bridges neighbor to neighbor community to community Though we find ourselves at the crossroads of crisis We are also in a moment of opportunity in spite of anguish and uncertainty ideas inspiration and action to bound as Presidents of America's philanthropic foundations the remarkable organizations. We support give us all countless reasons for hope And then it goes on to say what gives you hope Share the action taking place in your community at hashtag reasons for hope and visit our websites to learn about the Organizations working for chains across all the country support them volunteer or get involved and I would say there are about 50 40 to 50 foundations that have signed this and It makes me one Once again proud to be working at the Mellon Foundation But also these two days to receive this in the midst of this two-day convening when we are all doing that work Showing leadership creating community and inspiring hope It leaves me speechless and I will hand over the baton Great so um that so any final Comments from you all before we wrap up down my extra microphone hold on sorry The final final thoughts. Yeah, Michelle. I hope I don't I don't really mean to sound self-angra and Grandizing at all, but just because a lot of people have asked and how round does not seem to have copies of my book available If you would like a copy just go to ten thousand things website Click on it I will sign it to you mail it to you if you're interested in in learning more about the work we do and hopefully you will Get some more books on hand since you are making a little money off of it like 25 cents a copy Sorry about that. I We were unprepared. We had we had a lot of copies and we get we got we gave them we sold them all All right other other thoughts as we wrap up anybody else Yes, Melinda. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, the baby the baby. Yes the baby. I think we can make yeah Yes, that'll be the first email to the listserv. I love that. Yes. I know Yeah, Herbert Well, I just want to say this has been a complete and total pleasure to spend these two days with you I have been Incredibly privileged to have had an entire career that started with playwrights as the core of my work and continues to be to fill my life I You know as many of us can attest to its stories that allow me to go on in the world and the work that you all do Makes it possible for us to imagine Reasons for hope among other things. So it's always an honor to be in a room of people I Respect and admire so much and all of you represent that. So thank you for your incredible generosity your attention span your passion and intensity for this work and We have a lot we have a lot to do. We have many charges. We will be in touch with you Moving forward and I know Susan did this, but I just have to shout out. I really the amount of work that Jamie Ramona Ado Umi and Vijay and Alex and Travis and The our haul-around staff did I just from for me personally wanted to say thank you so much You know, it's always such a privilege to I really work with the best people in all of the American theater So I'm very lucky in that way All right, and then as a final word I'm gonna give the microphone to Katie and baby I was totally not gonna do this and now I'm gonna do it anyway so I Wasn't gonna say anything because there's not anything definitive to say, but I It's been alluded to and a lot of you have asked me Directly and so I feel that I should say something. I am going on maternity leave for six months but I'm also starting a PhD program and At the same time because that seems like a good idea when you're having a baby Those of you that don't know me very well know that this is something that is very typical of me actually so It doesn't mean anything definitive like I said, I have not left the Mellon foundation But but what it certainly probably does mean is that my role will be very different at the end of the six months And so it is very likely that I will not be working with all of you as directly as I have been If at all and so I want to make sure that you all know what Extraordinary hands I think that you are in and that Hannah I mean Susan has already been so deeply involved in all of this with me for all this time And Hannah will be taking it on now in the way that I have been For the last however many years five or six years And I wanted to take a moment to tell you what a privilege It's been to to shepherd this through with Susan and and Carl and David and the HowlRound team and the many Advisors that have helped us for so long. I am I can't even understand how lucky I got But it really means a lot to me to be able to know all of you and watch this flourish and watch you do such amazing things and To have contributed in some very small way I'm really grateful. So We'll let you know when the baby's born and we'll send pictures and thank you all so much All right. Thank you That's it