 As a child, I grew up in part on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in Northwestern North Dakota. And I learned at a very early age that education would play a very important part in my life in achieving the goals that I had set for myself. To that end, I became a teacher, taught in Minnesota for a little time, and then moved back to North Dakota and continued my career as an educator and joined my union, which is the most important thing that I've done. That led me to my work on the NEA Foundation, where I'm proud to serve as the chairman of the NEA Foundation. The NEA Foundation does such remarkable work. We have a global fellowships program, for example, where we send 52 educators from around the country to different places in the world. So we were in South Africa last year. We've been to Peru before going to Costa Rica this year because our world is getting smaller and smaller, and we're part of that and we need to make sure that we're connecting on a global level. We are also heavily involved in developing community schools in the deep south, an area long ignored by philanthropic organizations. I'm very proud that we are there helping to build those schools and changing lives of students and communities. But we can't do any of this work if we don't have the proper resources. That's why I'm asking everybody today to join me in contributing to the NEA Foundation. The money is well spent. We are a highly rated philanthropic organization and I, of course, would encourage people to give.