Alright, so the draw for Brisbane has just come out It's the first time in four years that we've got this event as a standalone event And we're gonna start with the WTA draw because Namer Sark is coming back for the first time in a while Also, Savalanca we're back and I'm playing this event as a big big draw. It's a 500 event as well Let's go see who's not playing in this event though this year So there's a couple of big names that are pulled out of this one starting with Begu. She's pulled out Madison Keys has pulled out Mukava has pulled out and we know that she's also pulled out of the Australian Open So massive name there missing from the draw and Potter Oscar has also pulled out of this one So the only the four players so far who are missing the first event of the year But let's go to the draw because this is a very stacked event with some very big names. Alright, here we go This is the draw you can see there We've got 16 seeds in this one and every seed gets a buy in the first round So we won't see any big names playing each other in the first rounds only unseeded players Savalanca number one seed She gets a buy in the first round to take on either Bronzetti or Kruger in the second round Then you've got a qualifier taken on Collins winner of that would take on the number 15 seed zoo in the second round So straight away you can see that a potential third round between Savalanca and Collins which would be a fireworks match Then you got Lynette she gets a buy in the first round the number nine seed She'll take on either Buxa or Minin in the second round Then you got Bogdan taken on Kostruc winner of that would take on the number five seed Dasher Kazakina So that's the top quarter of the draw Savalanca. I mean dangerous players like Collins of course could be very very dangerous But you know Lynette I think she might have played her at the Australian Open last year so she can beat her Kazakina, I mean maybe on a fast court tough for her to beat Savalanca But they were Savalanca the Australian Open champion not too mad about that section of the draw Not too many dangerous players then the next section of the draw you got number three seed Osta-Penko gets a buy in the first round she'll take on either winner of Stearns or Georgie in the second round So maybe Georgie Osta-Penko second round always fireworks then you've got Nemo Saka coming back for the first time in a long time She takes on Corpatch in the first round winner of that will take on Pliskeva the 16 seed in the second round Then you got Kalanina the 12 seed taking on either a qualifier or borough in the second round Then you got Kalan Sky taking on Perra winner of that will take on the number eight seed as a ranker in the second round This section of the draw feels like the most dangerous because you got a couple of big names Of course Pliskeva's won this tournament before you got Osta-Penko as a ranker and then the unseeded players you got Georgie and Of course Osta-Penko being the big one that everyone's focusing on this week So I feel like that section is the most dangerous section of the entire draw At least the dangerous quarter of the draw and of course Nemo Saka's in that section as well So that's gonna be really fun next quarter of the draw you've got the number seven seed Alex and Draba gets a buy in the first round she'll take on the winner of a qualifier or Tomova in the second round Then you got Noskova taking on a qualifier winner That would take on the number 10 seed Castella in the second round then you got the number 14 seed Ken and she'll take on either Roddy Nova or Treveson in the second round then you got Schneider taking on and Draba winner of that will take on the number four seed Samson over in the second round very interesting section here I mean the seeds Ken and I did have a good end of the year by winning in an excellent distribution against Savalenka Castella also played pretty well in that same event Samson over she's been on and off all year in 2023 so that could be really interesting and then I guess you know on Draba being the big one that everyone's gonna focus on when it comes to unseeded players and and young players so this could be an open section of the draw and Maybe we do get a random player come out of this section bottom quarter of the draw now You've got you've got Kudomat over the six seed taking on Either Schmidlova or dollaheid in the second round then you got Savill taking on a qualifier winner That would take on either I would take on the number 11 seed Potipova Then you got the 13 seed Merton's she'll take on either senior Coba or Stevens in the second round Then you got Birrell taken on a qualifier winner of that will take on the number two seed Rabakina in the second round and if you're a Rabakina fan, you got to like that draw That is a very nice draw not too many dangerous players even the seeds aren't super dangerous Kudomat over hat can have her times, but Very it's it's she's very hit and miss and also she can play the big guns and lose badly as we've seen her play She'll be on take a bunch and lose badly. So I would say Rabakina section might be the best for the top four seed She's probably got the nicest draw and should make it to the semis of course some of the matchups We could get with Sabal anchor possibly playing Osaka Sabal anchor Osta Pankov the top half in the semis could be a thing or even Samson over versus Rabakina in the bottom half The draw of course Samson over has been a little bit of a pain for Rabakina in 2023 So that could be dangerous, but I don't know. What do you guys think? Do you think that Rabakina's got the best draw? Sabal anchor has also got a pretty nice draw I do think that where Osaka's place is very very dangerous for everybody including the seeds, but it's gonna be interesting It's interesting when the top 8 top 16 seeds have a buy in the first round because a lot of players get a second round Entry without having to do anything But there are dangerous unseeded players that could really make things interesting But there it is Brisbane is national the first one of the year and Osaka is back. It's always Sabal anchor or Rabakina


The Nigerian Immigration Service has concluded plans to tighten the security of all marine borders across the country. The Act in Control of General of the Service, Caroline Adigboju, made us known to newsmen in Uyo after her two-day familiarization visit to the NIS Aquabomb Command. Adigboju said the Aquabomb Command had the longest coastal borders that must not be left porous to avoid nefarious activities within the maritime environment. The control on the Nigerian Immigration Service of Aquabomb, Francisco Dacard, fend the Act in Control of General for the visit. We have the personnel. We are well trained in marine border management, but we need good walking materials. If you can see the environment here, the Nigerian Immigration Service once tried to make it to do to construct this jetty that you can see here. But from the look of things, it is capital intensive and we need intervention of the government and other stakeholders to enable us to work effectively. It shows that she's truly a modern, a woman of compassion. In fact, she's just an Amazon. I feel so encouraged. I'm so proud that she came to see and that is, you know, a means of motivation that was for me to do.


a smooth transition and we will be there to support. I know the SMS is a very important thing and and well let's keep working to make that transition and to make it super sustainable, not super sustainable. Our next participant is Onkymin. So Martin if I can ask you to make Onkymin co-host. Yes. And Onkymin I have to remind you that please try to make your presentation in that you have a slot of 10 minutes in and I'm afraid we will not have time for everyone that we have committed to. So please try to give us your key messages and key successful examples in these 10 minutes. Thank you. The floor is yours. Yes. Thank you mother and and organizer and all of the THI's the facilitator to invite me to to be present my project in Myanmar. In the academy. So can you see my screen? Yes. We are seeing your your presented view in case you don't want to. All right. So let me to take my screen. All right. How about now? Yes. Now it's perfect. Please go ahead. Okay. So yeah. So good day all. So I'm Onkymin and I'm an EHR project coordinator in in the in the group of our principal recipient team in the city of Myanmar. And here I would like to present about our tracker deployment for Malaria animation in Myanmar. So and and we call this app the Malaria case-based reporting and surveillance the MCPIS app. And our app is host by the BAO system and developed by the no texture. And this is my presentation online. So which well yeah and which will be as listed which I will be covered in this presentation. So in the background and objectives as Myanmar is a malaria endemic region. And as we have also transition from malaria control program to the malaria elimination. And we have been focused the background is we have to be there is the increasing needs of case-based and quality data in in the elimination setting. So that we have been developed this app in order to solve these challenges. And another thing is as our end user for this app is dedicated to the village health volunteer which also called community health workers. In Myanmar we name it the MCMV integrated community malaria volunteers. So it's also it will be also soft as the job aid for these volunteers to improve their service quality. And and yeah last but not least as it is it will be you know improve their the data utilization by the by the respective program manager and the national team. So I would like to outline a bit of our development process because we have a quite complex of development in a process in here because like our project started in 2016 and at that time like with the application concept defined together with the national program and the partners our first prototype have been developed in 2016 which we name back then the MCPR without the surveillance part. So and and and in 2017 we have been like user we have been content contented that user acceptance testing and as well as the pilot testing and rule out. So and of course at that time we have been already also doing all after after logistic like most of the mobile devices at this year. So and yeah and this year we have been continuing rule out to the national program and our implementing partners for land here. And yeah interestingly when we have been like nationally doing updates there is another similar app but rather like at the time we our MCPRS is based on the event program but not the Trager WEM and interestingly there is a new app which is called MCPRS the case big surveillance app developed by WHO in 2018 to use this in the malaria elimination but they lacked the reporting part so that and finally in 2018 we have been discussed to integrate these two parts into WAN as a final integrated national tool for the malaria elimination. So and and yeah and and at the start of the 2019 we have been initiating the process of data integration and and hopefully and with a bit of love of course the university also the team mother you all have been released the Android capture app so it is very handy for us to you know like integrate all of these our event program and the Trager to into WAN just these into into the Android capture. So like since the start of the 2019 we have been developed the MCPRS which is based on the Trager program using the Android capture app and yeah and and this year we have been deploying MCPRS and the transition from MCPR to MCPRS already near near near the end so in here a more complex thing is that we also have an organizational structure organization unit structure changes in these two parts like in previously in the MCPR our organization unit structure is based on the village track and village but in the MCPRS is we have been changes to the in order to align with the health administrative layer and it is renamed with the rural health center and the sub-center and then our annuals will be the volunteer in India. So it is a bit challenging for us and yeah it is complex to do but nevertheless we have been into all of these process and yeah of course for the guidelines and document documentation we have been developed in our Lugat languages and as well as other a bit of the necessary man user manual. So regarding our MCPRS feature we have been to each our at our user we have been like created called a volunteer app in the GHS2 like in order to ease the creating of the new user at the local Lugat level and also you know to be more customizable with the Lugat context and this yeah and another thing is same at the like before the transition of the MCPRS we have been see that most of our user in the GHS2 just use the you know event rapport mostly so that we have been have an idea to develop the standardized dashboard for all of our partners and yeah it is a quite bit challenging for us right now and because of in this feature development process we have been also include the malaria positive case notification which is trigger finding our setting rule like if there is any or any positive case detected the from the from the mobile devices it will be automatically trigger the notification alert to the respected township hooker so to this implementation at a glance so right now we have been have a hand more townships and our user is 3,500 more than 3,500 and yeah to this separated cases we have been like having the more than 300,000 cases reported and have a more than 2000 positive cases reported for the challenges an issue like for most the majority contribute to the human capacity like the lack of digital literacy in a volunteer it is very quite challenging and complex for us because of they even have you know they didn't have a basic phone fans they didn't even know the kind of thing so that we have been we have to make sure to know that and another challenging is like as we are hosting our mcbi as in the google place too we have to create all of the google account for them so which mean like it's more than 3,000 google account our partners have to be created and there is a developer burden of reporting in volunteer because of right now we are we don't abandon the paper base yet so that there is two reporting channel so which increase their burden and another thing is the our challenge is the low frequency of the modernity and supervision to detect these our back and issue and respectively the technical issue with devices and internet coverage and in here I would like to mention a bit about the technical because of like as you all know we have been all seeing face these technical challenges and and another thing is that we we are unable to update the version you know like timely or continuously because of like in here we have been like for our mcbi is event capture at the use and we agree that to the entry capture at version 1.3.1 and right now we have agreed updated to the 2.3 so like on kumin i need to remind you that you should be finishing in the next minutes thank you yes yes it is uh i'm i'm concluded isn't it finished thank you madame for no but please finish yours at least your sentence yeah yeah yeah sorry so uh for for the lesson land we have to consist the the effectiveness rather than the skill in our implementation so like sometimes we have to like to make a pause and to reassess and evaluate our implementation and and another thing is although yeah there will be a multiple factor to contribute into affect the data the data quality and completeness but it is mainly due to the lack of human capacity and willingness to act on it and yeah and for our lesson land or we have to always please always consist consider to pre-create and move on devices in a frequent patches rather than massive one because of will be left behind with this uh thank you all thank you very much very much can you see my screen yes that's perfect so good morning good afternoon everyone uh uh i am dr abrahman shahab from afghanistan i'm working as a senior technical advisor with health net international tpo and i would like to present my plans for the electronic humanization registry tracker program in afghanistan this is a planned project as a distinction to the previous two colleagues who presented their existing projects i will just briefly say a few words about health net international tpo it's a netherland based international NGO and it's working in many countries in afghanistan it works since 1994 and it works in public health care mental health and psychosocial support public health research public health capacity building sectors and there is a link to the website if you're interested to know more about the organization i have taken few screenshots from the who or website about the utilization of dhis2 in afghanistan i will briefly go through the few um pages the this one is about the utilization of dhis2 for for health information system in afghanistan it's in a pilot phase in it's only implemented at the provincial level meaning that dhis2 is used by provincial um hmi officers to enter data and then currently we have dhis2 for covid 19 and it was listed that it's also used for other tracker uses i don't know what could be those uses i will find out later uh and uh for the android app i think there is no official uh utilization for android app in afghanistan as it's listed on the who website and the reason why i would like to use dhis2 for child immunization is based on the low coverage and the drop out and the problems with paper based system and also the loss of children to the completion and missing of immunization cards by mothers so the paper based system everyone knows have has many challenges and with the availability of dhis2 we can address many of these challenges i have put some figures here about the coverage of a few um vaccine vaccines in afghanistan although it does not seem bad um these figures are the who estimates the national figures are much higher than this the figures the ministry of public health is putting but these are the figures that could be trusted to a major degree and uh the model i am planning to use is based on the who electronic immunization registry which is a tracker tracker data model where data will be collected by individuals meaning children and the basis would be the afghanistan standard immunization schedule and i would like to pilot this in one health facility in one district where my organization is currently implementing primary and secondary health services through one program here in afghanistan which we call sehat mandi it's a basic package of health services and essential package of hospital services based program so i would be implementing this tracker program in one district which is relatively secure and the population could easily be tracked and the program will be linked to hms indicator and the program will generate reports at aggregate level this is a general schematic presentation of the program i am planning to implement from the left side corner you can see that uh the tablet or mobile in the health facility given to the vaccinator will be used to register children with all the required demographics and everything and the stages they will be completing through follow-up schedules and then the mothers will be visiting the health facility for the scheduled visits and they will be receiving sms alerts through their phone or their through their family members phones and in case the child is missing or goes defalter so the sms will go to the cjw and also to the family and probably to the designated village elder and the data from the individual cases will be collected and compiled and reported on monthly basis through the standard channel we have to the central office of our organization and then to the ministry of public health i have taken this schema from martha's presentation i hope i have not reached the property rights so we will go through all these stages and thanks for this nice training i got alerted to take many things into account now like how i was thinking about the dhs2 deployment probably it has changed dramatically so we'll be doing many things in each of these steps and i will be requesting support from different people in this forum and i would request the facilitators to share the email addresses of the participants who are willing to share their emails so that we can have a network for support although we have the community dhs2 community but this group can also have communication coordination in future so i will be needing support in each of these steps from different colleagues in the dhs2 community the challenge is we have in Afghanistan i will also highlight that in the survey we completed before i have responded to the questions about another dhs2 program we have in our organization that's an aggregate model-based hms program which is in the design phase so we have discovered many challenges in that program and those challenges we will face again in the epi tracker program the first one is internet coverage we have i can sale around 50 percent of health facilities in the country have access to internet and there is shortage of qualified staff for the designer and deployment in Afghanistan and the other major challenge is insecurity in many places even if there is internet coverage keeping a mobile device would trigger many sensitive sensitivities and reactions from the opposition group so that's another challenge in insecurity is also a challenge for movement of the people who will be deploying the system and finally the bureaucratic process in the rollout phase in Afghanistan in the stage where we would like to roll out the program at the national level through the MOPH that would need a lot of bureaucratic approvals and things so these are the major challenges we are foreseeing and hopefully we will be able to overcome all these challenges so thank you very much and if there are any questions I'll be more than happy to respond through Slack over here thank you very much I will finish so thank you Marta it was a last minute presentation as I told you yesterday I just bring some here and there and apologies for any consistency so I'm presenting from Ethiopia I am working for Amra fans Africa which is african-based international NGO headquartered in Nairobi Kenya so I'm currently working for a USAID funded project called USAID Transforming Health in Developing Regions which works in the four developing regions of Ethiopia the borders you see here we have one region the other one here and two on the western part of the country so the project is implemented by Amra as I said who leads a consortium of organizations project open trials and general electric health care are also members of this consortium we have 56 districts what are those means in Ethiopia it's to mean districts we work in 56 districts of these four regions so we started in 2017 we will end in 2022 so we're using DHS2 event program to monitor standard of care in this regions the project is mainly on maternal and child health so we want to monitor the standard of health the quality of care in maternal and child health service so we have a checklist that was being used before before building it into DHS2 actually we are lucky that we adopted both the checklist as well as DHS2 metadata from a sister or project working in the central part of the country similar projects similar funding from USAID but different to geographic locations so they were using that before we came into the picture so it was tested and deployed by that project so we adopted it as it as is so the steps that Marta was explaining yesterday we are not we are not in that process so we just deploy it into our context so we have checklists for different levels of the community the health system we have a community level checklist we have a health center checklist and the health posts which are the hierarchies of the health system in the country we also have a household survey checklist what that we do every year to see the coverage of some of the key and maternal and neonatal health indicators so we have also a hospital follow-up we also have as I was explaining previously in our training in our academy we also have a data is a training database that we monitor we we monitor the number of participants that we provide different trainings so we use the data the android capture app to to to collect data but we also use a bulk upload as I tried to explain yesterday or the day before to upload training data from an excel template that is downloaded from the this bulk upload app built by wto we started using this after the last day-chart conference which which I participated so we have we had a problem in using an entering training data in the in the web capture app so after after we get acquainted with this app it was a very interesting app and we're using it for bulk upload so these are the programs that I try to explain these are the this is one of the events that the health center checklist it has many sections it has different program components so we have questions under each program component and this one is a training database actually which has also sections so we use the the bulk upload the capture app as well as android app to to enter data into the data as to instance as there is that of this we can now see coverage of these these are the dashboards that I just cropped and bring it to from the system so you can see the trend of most of the key indicators from 2018 to 2019 and then 2020 this is from the household survey where we see the contraceptive coverage of in these districts that we support and we the pentavalent third dose which is the immunization coverage so these are the the the results of using DHISO as a standard of care monitoring and as as Emily actually I mean monitoring and evaluation tool so we report these indicators to the donor directly from the the system and these are other the dashboard items that I I brought and the biggest challenge you have is now I was reaching out to Jaime and now our colleagues from Rwanda is helping us to secure our server it was not a secured server so we're working with DDR and hopefully it will be secured and and because it was not a secured server it was frequently blocked by our local telecom provider hopefully after this will be and it was difficult sometimes to to also use to to also use because of the blockage sometimes data entry was delayed from the field from the users and infrastructure as my colleagues previous presenters point out is also a big challenge because as you might have noticed we're working on the peripheral areas of the country where coverage to the internet and electricity is very as a very is very challenging this is all Marta it was the last minute thing but it's helpful I think it was fantastic thank you and it was a very yeah very very good I'm very good to see that you are already using the the Android app so I think I would say if if in general for for all if you don't see yourself your project your sorry we are having a bit of an electrical storm here I don't know if you could hear that but if I disappear is because of that so what was I saying if you don't see your country or your project slash country in the maps for the HIS too we will talk later about the community I encourage you to to to send us a message in the community tag us and and make sure we and make sure we we publish your your your project there because we are aware we are aware that we are not aware of all the projects in the in the world using the HIS too so and and for Android is very clear because we see the statistics from google play of usage we don't have a clue on the activity or the number of users but we see there is action that is from the app and and it's way more than what we actually know so I invite you to share in the community we'll let you like let you know later how I'm taking the Slack channel to


Welcome to the European Central Bank podcast, bringing you insights into the world of economics and central banking. My name is Michael Steen, and in today's episode we will cover the impact of coronavirus on the economy. Now I say the economy, as that's our focus at the ECB, but it's worth taking a moment to reflect that this is a gruesome disease with a spiralling death toll. Each one of those numbers that updates daily represents a tragedy for the families and friends of those who died. To try to keep everyone safe, many of us have been urged to stay at home, that's had some fairly stark effects on the economy. People are buying less, companies are producing less, whole sectors have just come to a stop. People have lost jobs, or have greater uncertainty about their jobs. In this episode we are trying to understand the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the ECB's response to it. We're joined by ECB Executive Board Member and Chief Economist, Philip Lane. Philip, thanks a lot for being with us. Good morning. Now this is a bit of a peculiar setup of course. I'm at my desk at home just outside Frankfurt and you're in Dublin I believe. Where are you and how are you doing? So for the last few weeks I've been working from home. As you know the Executive Board has been working on a split team basis, so in these weeks I've worked from home. So far that has turned out okay. I think the ECB is built on a lot of teamwork and I suppose my observation is if that teamwork has already been in place, so now it's nearly a year since I joined the ECB. So if you know the people very well then the fact that the day-to-day meetings are over the internet over the phone line is okay because you already know if you like the people you're talking with, we can work quite effectively at least for a while from home. That's the philosophy behind how the board is working. Well to start off with let's maybe talk a bit about the economy as a whole and how the coronavirus pandemic has affected it. What are your observations? Here we are now, here we are at mid-May, it's probably at the very bottom of the economic impact of the virus. So of course China in the first few weeks of 2020 had a big hit. We've seen China now starting to recover a little bit. But for the European economy in some countries it's early March, for more countries it's mid-March when the severe restrictions came into play. And only now in the middle of May is there some relaxation. So in these weeks where a lot of if you like face-to-face economic activity has been restricted, this has been a really spectacular decline in economic activity, it's very hard to look backwards and find previous examples because sometimes people say oh this is like the Great Depression. It's not in the sense of the week by week decline in economic activity is more rapid this time but under the hand we do know as the restrictions are lifted not going back to the old normal but some level of recovery in economic activity can be expected. But if you like everyone who's looking at the European economy, the world economy is agreeing that right now at the second quarter of 2020 will be the bottom and then in the coming weeks and months we will have some recovery. But the big open question is how quickly will that recovery happen over what time period because I think we can all agree that what we expect now is social distancing and also the personal attitudes to economic activity are going to remain subdued until the vaccine is found. So it's not just a case of lifting the severe restrictions. It's also a case of working out how to adapt how we do business, how we consume, how we invest over the coming months. Okay and that's a bit this concept of the new normal right so when we go back but it's not like what it was before exactly at least for the time being. Right I think there's two sides on the supply side. It does make it more difficult to conduct normal economic life. So every day you can read about how offices have to be reconfigured, how shopping has to be reconfigured and then when you think about global supply chains even just the coordination issue which is around the world a given city might be ready but it's reliant on inputs from somewhere else in the world. And then on the demand side the question is when will people feel comfortable for example taking a vacation? When will people feel comfortable going to a restaurant? So there's many open questions there and then on investment it's not exactly the conditions under which firms will want to commit to large scale projects given all of the uncertainty. Okay we've clearly had a lot of bad news recently hospitals and healthcare workers have been struggling in some countries to deal with the crisis so called key workers in public transportation or the food industry have carried on working. Now you mentioned this very dramatic decline we've seen caused by essentially a sudden stop for big parts of the economy so which sectors in the Euro area have been or will be hit the most would you say? Well I think the key characteristic is really the face-to-face element because of course as we all have discovered you can do a certain amount of economic activity remotely through the internet whether that's as we just talked about organizations producing services in particular remotely but of course you can also do to a degree online shopping but that doesn't really work for tourism it's very big sector it doesn't work for transportation so whether that's personal travel business travel it doesn't work for that it doesn't work for hotels so that whole sector of trade transport food services has been hit. Entertainment you know that's a big part of in a high income society an important part of economic activity is arts entertainment recreation sports and so on that's been hit a lot. For a while construction halted in a lot of places even though that's one of the first sectors to recover. Manufacturing as we mentioned that if you're in an industry where essentially either you're waiting for vital inputs to arrive you may not be able to produce but of course also when you're producing highly valuable goods where there's a limit to how much you can stock them up and for sale later on then the fact that it's just impossible for example nearly impossible to sell cars for example in this environment then then the car factories have to have to pause to a good degree so you know there's a lot going on. Okay so if we turn to the policy response I mean we've seen a lot of measures already taken governments introducing guarantees and that kind of thing. Fiscal responses we've had responses at the European level and also at the national level but if we look at the ECB what is what is our role in this crisis and exactly how does monetary policy or how can monetary policy help here? So it's a very special situation where monetary policy is vitally important in a fundamentally different way to normal. Most of the time and if you go back two or three months our kind of focus was how do we provide the monetary policy to help inflation recover towards our aim of close to 2%. So that's the normal focus of monetary policy it's about delivering price stability. Now with this shock when it came along there were two big issues. One when you have a dramatic downturn in the economy that threatens price stability because of course a very large reversal in the economy is also a situation where disinflation pressures are likely. So we have to respond to that. A second issue of course is in a situation where there's a lot of lost revenue. Many firms have lost revenue for a few weeks or months. There's a big demand for liquidity because of course a firm that was in good shape at the very least may need to borrow for a few weeks to maintain cash flow. So liquidity needs went up a lot and third this is a really large shock in financial markets. So if you like the normal activities of debt markets in particular are interrupted when you have to revise your beliefs about the world in such a big way. So the ECB if you like on those three fronts one is in terms of the funding conditions in the economy that the part of interest rates. Two is in terms of liquidity and three is in terms of market stabilization. So whether it's the ECB or the other major central banks we've been extremely busy to address those issues essentially through very large liquidity operations with our flagship targeted lending program through stepping up of our asset purchases especially through the new pandemic emergency purchase program the PEP and also which really serves two functions. One is to stabilize at the securities markets. So whether that's commercial paper, corporate debt, sovereign debt does a stabilization role but also in a world where the interest rate is already very low. It's our main way to keep the path of interest rates. Short-term rates, medium-term rates, long-term rates low enough to provide the conditions under which households and firms can obtain funding at a reasonable rate. So that's the playbook and let me emphasize this is all in the context of a remarkable role for fiscal policy. The lessons from a previous large shocks, the great depression and so on is that it's very important that the shock is not compounded by for example a loss of household income. So what we've seen is governments around the world stepping in with large transfer programs whether that's unemployment payments or payments to firms to help meet their payroll costs and so this has really has been very dramatic period for fiscal policy and for monetary policy. Okay and the two things are crucial to go together because the monetary policy is not going to... Yes sorry go ahead. Sorry yeah so the the idea that they go together it's very important to make this point especially when you know we often talk about central bank independence is this large shock is independently calling for a very responsive monetary policy and a very responsive fiscal policy. So it's essentially the situation does call for a lot of policy action on both fronts. Essentially that almost the definition of liquidity it bridges a gap but the ultimate hit on firms on households has to be met by fiscal policy. Central banks on their own can only do so much so there's an absolutely central role for fiscal policy. What's also true is the effectiveness of fiscal policy would be less if the liquidity provision and the interest rate policy of central banks did not respond to this shock. Okay and if we just go a little bit deeper into those two big responses by the ECB so we've got the pandemic emergency purchase program which is asset purchases or a form of QE that we've added and then on the other hand we've got the targeted lending operations the targeted longer-term refinancing operations or teltrose in the jargon. So if we just look at the first one the the pandemic emergency purchase program the PEP that that's of the three things that you mentioned that if I if I'm understanding you correctly that's to target two of those contingencies it's basic one big part is this idea of calming financial markets but the other big one is dealing with this disinflationary hit that's caused by the the sudden stop to economic activity. Is that a good summary or are you probably going to correct me? Exactly so it plays that a double role by the way did they go together the kind of a market stabilization problem would be more severe if interest rates were higher and but equally if the market stabilization was not handled then then the impact on risk premia on market frictions and so on would push interest rates up so they go together and this is why maybe it's not too easy for someone trying to understand PEP to have an exact if you like a numerical split between those two functions and because they're intertwined you know it's important conceptually to make that distinction even though of course the same asset purchases are playing by rules. Maybe it's worth having a quick word on inflation because you've said that this is a big disinflationary shock from the pandemic. I was watching the local German TV last night they had a very nice report about how vegetable prices and fruit prices had gone up in in the supermarket because for example lemons grown in Spain you now see the the people picking the lemons have to be socially distanced they have to come on a big bus which costs more for the the farmer to provide and then the transport of the lorry driving from Spain to Germany cost more because on the way back to Spain it doesn't have anything to put into it so their message was oh look prices are going up but actually I think what we're saying is we expect on balance prices to go down. Right so I mean it's absolutely correct and it's visible I think in a lot of countries for example that kind of perishable food item is going up in price right now. So there's a certainly a degree of circumstantial inflation that if you are in a sector which has a very high demand so supermarkets are quite busy and at the same time as you say there are kind of new cost components because of the social distancing and other dimensions there will be particular types of prices that go up but in the overall scheme of the whole European economy many firms are facing a situation of much lower demand they used to face. So as the economy recovers as these firms try to drill up business try to convince households which are maybe quite nervous about spending then there's a lot of them going to be a lot of downward price pressure so I think you know the it's hard and by the way going back even to the Great Depression we know when we've had these really large slumps before the dominant initial dynamic is going to be disciplinary. I agree there's an open question about the meeting term about maybe whether there's also some forces in the opposite direction but by the way some of the forces in the opposite direction will be the outcome of failure. So for example if there's a failure to maintain the productive capacity of the economy if too many firms go out of business and they don't come back if too many workers become unemployed and get trapped in a kind of long-term unemployment problem then the productive capacity of an economy will decline in the medium term and that on its own is a force that would not be good for the inflation outlook. So I think I wouldn't find any reassurance in scenarios where people will say well because of the you know decline in economic potential inflation is going to be more likely. So you know but I think that for now for the horizon of margin policy of making sure the next number of months are we do what we can I think the pressure is mostly disciplinary. Okay so looking at the the other thing that we're doing these targeted longer-term refinancing operations or teltrose that's about liquidity which Jordy spoke about but maybe we can go a bit further on that one. The idea there is basically to ensure that banks are still in a position that they can lend to firms and households. Right so in a big downturn the temptation for banks is to pull back. Oftentimes we are seeing that even though firms and households are looking to borrow to smooth out the impact of the downturn on their expenditure banks are looking at a downturn and saying well maybe it's too risky to make lending decisions. So what the targeted lending program does is it provides very generous funding to banks but conditional on maintaining lending. So it it basically offsets the kind of temptation to have a credit squeeze in a recession by providing the incentive to maintain lending and you know I think this is now the third generation of targeted lending programs at the ECB. We've learned a lot we understand that that these can work quite quite effectively and all the indications are is that this new targeted program will be quite effective in the coming weeks and months in ensuring that the downturn that we face is not made worse by by a credit squeeze. You've mentioned several times already the the the Great Depression and some of the historical comparisons that are being drawn. So maybe we'll let's finish with a perhaps unfairly impossible question but you can give us some indication of where your thinking is which is the long-term effects of this crisis on our economy and what what are your sort of initial thoughts on that where where does this lead to? Of course I mean you know I'm sure we're all reading the same stories. For individual sectors it's possible to to imagine that long-term effects and the future of the office and the future of travel and so on but from a lot of that it's going to be a reallocation if you like. Some sectors will see increased demand other sectors may see reduced demand. So for the ECB our major focus is on the overall macro effect and there I think it remains the case that unlike the Great Depression this should not last a very long time. This should be a significant recovery and if you like the major damage to the long-term it would be if you like if there were policy failures that made the the crisis worse than otherwise and led to longer-term inactivity where the level of demand in the economy doesn't recover sufficiently to to allow full employment to return. So I think fiscal policy makers and multi-policy makers have a heavy responsibility and outside of those policy areas of course the major factor is going to be the public health challenge of getting this virus under control. Okay Philip thank you very much and thank you so much for joining us on the line over from Dublin. I hope the internet played along okay with both of us there. Okay thank you Michael thank you. Thank you Philip. This brings us to the end of this episode we've seen that in the current extreme situation brought about by the coronavirus pandemic the ECB is determined to support people firms and banks through the current crisis. Stay tuned for our next episode which will discuss how the coronavirus crisis has impacted financial markets and what our role is there as a central bank. As usual we're linked to a few publications by the ECB in the show notes as well as other related information including our web pages that aim to explain the ECB's measures in plain language. We'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts for future episodes via social media. You can use direct messages and comments. You've been listening to the European Central Bank podcast with Michael Steen. If you like what you've heard please subscribe and leave us a review. Until next time thanks for listening.


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Hi everyone. Thanks again for joining us today. We are here to talk about Giving Tuesday. It's exciting to be talking about Giving Tuesday. Also, maybe a little overwhelming to already be talking about a December fundraising campaign since we're just here in the middle of July. But time moves fast, especially in the nonprofit world where you've got a ton of different things going on, maybe a small staff. So it's a great time to really start thinking about your Giving Tuesday campaign today. Start planning for it, and that will allow you the opportunity to really get the most out of Giving Tuesday and hopefully not feel like, come Thanksgiving time, you're scrambling to put some emails together, get your page together, and get your campaign up and running. So really, we're here to give everyone, hopefully, the motivation and some steps you can take today to really get started with Giving Tuesday. So for anyone that just joined us, you can always ask a question at any time on the go-to webinar control panel on the side of your screen. And we will also be recording the presentation, so you can feel free to kick back and relax. No need to take notes. You'll be able to grab the recording and go through it later at your leisure and or share with any colleagues. So hopefully most of you that are on the call today are familiar with Mighty Cause, but just in case, we have some new faces here. Mighty Cause is an online fundraising platform for nonprofits. We've been around since 2006, so lots of years of serving our nonprofit partners. We have a full suite of nonprofit software tools from peer-to-peer fundraising to an embeddable donation page for your website, to big major giving days like this, CRM system, lots of really awesome tools for nonprofits, but we're here today to talk about Giving Tuesday. So many of you know every year the Giving Tuesday movement just gets bigger and bigger on a global scale. And last year, over 380 million was raised, over 3.6 million gifts total across the world. I think over 50 countries had Giving Tuesday campaigns going on all across the United States. All 50 states had giving going on for Giving Tuesday, so it is a campaign that is here to stay. So it's really up to you as a nonprofit to think about the best way that you can take advantage of this movement. Leverage the conversation that's happening around Giving Tuesday to benefit your own fundraising efforts. On the Mighty Cause platform, each year we host our own Giving Tuesday campaign to bring together the nonprofit partners that use our platform on a year-round basis and give them an opportunity to prepare a focused Giving Tuesday campaign. Each year this event is an exciting thing for our staff as well as our partner nonprofits. Last year, over 3.6 million dollars was raised on the platform. We had over 900 nonprofits participate, 25,000 donors and 250,000 in matching grants. That's a lot of giving that's happening on the Mighty Cause platform and we really want your nonprofit to be a part of it. So you may ask yourself the question, why should I join Mighty Cause for Giving Tuesday? There are other platforms that you might be able to use. You might just think maybe I should just use the donate button I already have on my website. So I wanted to take a quick moment to give you some of the ideas of the benefits that come with our Giving Tuesday campaign. First and foremost, we've got really great fundraising tools. So that's everything from the ability to build a dynamic fundraising page with video content to customizing the donor experience. When your donors are making their donation to peer-to-peer fundraising tools that make it really easy for supporters to get involved and raise funds on your behalf. Really great tools to showcase matching grants that you have available. All of those tools help to make fundraising easier and make it more engaging for your donors. On top of that, with the Mighty Cause pricing guarantee that we have in place, you will pay, your nonprofit will pay less than you do for the cost of the PayPal button. We have great options for donors to cover the fees associated with the platform, but the guarantee that we have in place ensures that even if they don't, you will never pay more than 2.2% and 29 cents in aggregate for a disbursement that you receive from Mighty Cause. So that means that you can do all of your Giving Tuesday fundraising, get all those great tools, and pay less than you would if you had a PayPal button on your website. On top of that, we are offering an extended free trial of all of our advanced features during the lead-up to this year's Giving Tuesday campaign for organizations that are participating. So these features are typically $99 a month and we are giving them to our participants for free. So that's a great opportunity to test out our supporter CRM tool, our advanced analytics, volunteer management, text to give. Lots of really awesome features that can help you make the most of your fundraising, typically $99 a month, and you'll get them for free by participating in our Giving Tuesday campaign. And on top of that, like what we're doing here today and what we'll have going on from now through December, we've got lots of resources, trainings, templates. We want to make it easier for your nonprofit to host a successful Giving Tuesday campaign. So we're going to be sharing all kinds of tips and tricks and resources from ebooks to downloadable guides to email templates to, you know, deeper dives on webinars like today. So lots of great resources that you all can take advantage of to make the most of your campaign and so that you don't have to start from scratch. So now we're going to get into really the meat of what we came to talk about today, which is how you can get started planning your Giving Tuesday fundraising campaign. So we've outlined here for you will go through our top 10 tips to get you started. The very first, and this is something that is always my number one first step, no matter what campaign, no matter what you're doing, set a goal first. That goal, while it may seem like you don't want to slow down and take the time to really think through the goals, it's really important to take the time to do so to get everybody on the same page, whether it's your executive director or your board of directors, the team of volunteers, it's going to be helping out. Make sure everybody's on the same page about what you're really trying to accomplish. Are you trying to raise a certain amount of money? Are you trying to get a certain number of unique donors to make a donation?  Or something that I suggest everybody consider for your Giving Tuesday goals?  Giving Tuesday kicks off the end of the year, giving campaign for many organizations. By December, if somebody hasn't made a donation to your organization this year, they've got a pretty short window to make that gift and to be retained for the year. And that's a huge indicator of their ongoing support and value to your organization. So there's lots of different things you can use to set goals. Really important to keep those smart.  Take a look at last year. Don't just say we want to raise $50,000 because we need to raise $50,000. That's great, but that might not be realistic. If you raised $10,000 last year, you're going to need a pretty strong heavy campaign to increase from $10,000 to $50,000. But look at what you did last year. Look at what you need to do for the rest of the year in terms of meeting your goals, your fundraising budget for the year. And then work backwards to kind of find a set of goals that your team can agree on. And then that can really be something that you all can refer back to as you move throughout the campaign. Make sure you're staying focused on what is going to help us reach this goal. As an organization that most likely has limited resources in terms of staff time and time to dedicate to a campaign like this. It's always helpful to be able to have kind of a checkpoint to say, is this idea that we had, it's going to take a lot of time and effort. Is that going to help us meet this goal? If so, it's worth the time. Let's do it. If not, it's not necessary. Let's stay the course. So again, fairly simple concept, but something that can be done very soon here and a really important first step for everyone. So the next is setting a focus for your campaign. And by that, I mean, what specifically are you going to raise money for? Do you have a new program that you're launching? Is there a specific need within your organization? Replace an air conditioner unit at your shelter or something very structured like that? Or is it maybe more general, like a capital campaign or just general fundraising support? If it is something more general and you don't have a very focused program that you're raising funds for, you'll want to create a focus in another way. So maybe you're not raising funds for one specific thing, but you can still highlight either an individual, a success story, a case study, an example of somebody that's been through your programming, something that's going to make it personal for people. Obviously, donors are going to be getting tons of emails. They'll be getting tons of asks for donations on Giving Tuesday. So you'll need something that's going to make your campaign stand out. And general expenses just doesn't always excite most donors. So if that's what you need to raise funds for, you'll want to make sure that you can really build a story around something else, an individual, a family, an animal, etc. So by narrowing that in today, now this week, this month, you'll have time to create all kinds of materials to support that key message, that key focus for your campaign. So whether you're gathering testimonials from people that have been served by your programming, their families and friends, or just drafting the marketing copy that really effectively tells the story that you're trying to tell, gives you plenty of time to prepare a video or gather photo assets, all of that is going to, having all of that together is going to make it easy for you to create a coherent and cohesive campaign from your emails to social media, to your page, to your follow-up, all of that.  Another really critical way to make your campaign stand out among the crowd in Giving Tuesday is by securing a matching grant. In preparing for this webinar, I looked back at the organizations that raised the most during our Giving Tuesday event last year on Mighty Cause. And without a doubt, almost all of the top 20 organizations had secured a matching grant for their campaign. And that's not a coincidence. A matching grant is just such an important way to increase the success of your campaign. Again, donors are going to be getting tons of emails. So if they have $100 to give away on Giving Tuesday, and they know on your organization if they make a donation that $100 becomes $200, or another one that they've gotten an email from, there's no match, they're a lot more likely to make a donation to you because donors want to see their donation go further. They want to see the largest impact they can. So because it's only July, you've got plenty of time to build this into your strategy. So start thinking first about who might be a good matching donor for you. This could be a major donor that always makes a gift or typically makes a gift towards the end of the year. Reach out to that major donor and ask them if they would be willing to make that gift as a matching gift. And then you'll be able to make their traditional large gift go even further because you'll be able to leverage it for more support from your donors. Any corporate sponsors, local corporate partners that you have a relationship with, you're trying to build a relationship with. This is a great opportunity for them because it's not just a donation to your organization. Because it's a match, it gives you plenty of opportunity to promote the donor that gave you that match. So it's a really good way for you to show some love and share who that corporate partner is that made that donation to support you. And another option that every nonprofit should have available to them is board members. So every nonprofit has a board of directors that's supporting them. If you are having trouble finding matching grants from other sources, go to your board of directors.  Or, and we'll talk a little bit more about this later, maybe one of your board members has a large donation left to meet their given debt goals for the year. They might be able to use that, you know, make that donation in the form of a match that you can use for Giving Tuesday. So be creative and flexible in thinking how you can find somebody that gives you the opportunity to leverage this kind of additional support from your donors coming to your donation page on Giving Tuesday. So of course, whoever you do identify as your key prospects, take time to talk to them and learn about what it is they're looking for. A major donor may have a very different set of goals in making a donation to you as a corporate partner will. They're interested in different things. They're motivated by different things. So by starting this process early, you have the time to have a conversation with them before you ask. And then when you do ask, you can make sure that that ask is really informed by what is going to appeal to them. So a major donor may have no interest in their name being shared, whereas a corporate partner is almost always going to want their company name, logo, website, etc. shared as a part of their donation. So again, taking the time to start now will allow you to let those conversations develop. And you'll have time to secure that match ahead of the Giving Tuesday. There's lots of different things that you can do for a match to your campaign. You can have a one for, you know, dollar for dollar match. That's probably the most common. But you can also do a two to one match or a three to one match. You can just match the first, you know, 50 donations that are made to your organization. Or you can match the first $25 of everyone's gift to your organization during Giving Tuesday. There's lots of different things that you can do to make it fun for you, fun for your donors, and to help perhaps meet the needs of your matching donor and what they're interested in doing. So don't be intimidated by thinking that you need to secure $10,000 for your match to be meaningful. I've seen many matching grants at $500, $1,000. Or you take a couple of smaller matches and you can buy it all into one opportunity. So lots of things you can do there and I cannot stress enough that this is a really, really important thing to consider for your campaign. And once you do secure a match on Mighty Cause, you can add that match to your donation page. And what that does is get your donors even more excited about donating against that match. So your donor doesn't have to pay their match through the platform, but you get the benefit of promoting that match to your donors. Right before they're about to click that donate button, they see there's a match, they see their donation goes further, might encourage them to increase their gift size or share the campaign with somebody else that they think might be interested because of the value of that extra sense of urgency that your matching grant will give them. So of course, central to any fundraising campaign is the communications plan that you have to get the word out. So think about all the different tools that you have at your disposal, all the different ways that your nonprofit talks to your donors. Where do your donors go to hear from you? Do they pay attention to emails? Do they read emails? Do you send a lot of emails? Do they really pay more attention to you on social media? Is that Instagram primarily or are you really have a stronger audience on Facebook? Do you use your website? Do a lot of people visit your website on a regular basis? Is direct mail maybe something you might want to consider? So think about all the different channels that might be available to you. You don't have to do every single channel. It's important to go to where your donors will be. So if the majority of your donors are older and they respond better typically to direct mail than they do to email, then that's something you'll want to keep in mind as you prepare for your Giving Tuesday campaign. Maybe you send a postcard alongside any of the other digital strategies that you do or a more standard mailer. And all of that can really direct people to giving in multiple ways. They can write a check to your organization, of course. But in all of these different sources, you can also share a link to your Mighty Cause donation page, and they can very quickly make their support. When it comes to your communication strategy, email, social media, direct mail, whatever method you might be using, try to keep yourself focused on a simple consistent message. I can't tell you how many emails I see from nonprofits or mailers that I see from nonprofits that are really long and they share tons of information, lots of great detail. All of that is great. But the average donor to your organization doesn't need all of that information.  They just need a short but sweet message that gets them excited to make their donation. So think about that as you're drafting your copy. How can you make your message as simple as possible and then keep that consistent across all of your channels so that somebody doesn't see you asking for a donation to fund a new building on social media, but then your email campaign is promoting your after-school program or whatever it might be. Keep it consistent that way donors see you in multiple places. You'll get that constant reinforcement of what you're really raising funds for with this campaign. Of course, planning and scheduling ahead allows you to make sure that you have a comprehensive campaign. You send as many emails as you want. But it also will give you more opportunity in days before and on GivingTuesday to be more able to adjust and adapt your strategy if you'd like. If you already have a few emails canned and set and ready to go and all you have to do is press go, it will give you some time and space on GivingTuesday to say, hey, we're doing not quite as well as we thought. Let's add an extra email to this set of donors and make sure that they're aware. Giving you some space to add on rather than feel like the whole day of GivingTuesday you're kind of scrambling to just get the next thing out. The last thing to keep in mind as you're in this early stage of planning what your communications plan will look like, think about segmentation.  Looking at who hasn't yet made a donation to your organization this year, who gave specifically on GivingTuesday last year, that group of course deserves a special set of communications. We talked a little bit about donor retention earlier on in this webinar and I'm sure it won't surprise any of you to know that donor retention really across the nonprofit sector is shockingly and really disappointingly low. But that means there's lots of room for improvement. So if you have a concerted effort built into your campaign to retain last year's GivingTuesday donors, you're much more likely to improve that and retaining a donor costs much less is much easier than acquiring a new donor. So it absolutely is worth the time and energy to put a focus into your campaign on that group of donors in particular. But aside from that, you'll have perhaps recurring donors, volunteers to your programming, your board members, people that may have been served by your programming in the past, alumni. These are all different kinds of groups and you don't have to have separate email campaign and strategy for all of them.   And by acknowledging that and still involving them, you're much more likely to see a higher return on those emails. So we mentioned your board a few times so far. Again, this is a resource that every nonprofit should have access to. Your board is there to support your organization. And one of the key roles of almost every board member is to be an advocate for your cause and to help you raise funds. So Giving Tuesday is a really great opportunity for you to let them do both of those. So board members, like many other volunteers, they've got a lot going on. They've got a full-time job. They have other commitments. You need to make it really easy for them to be involved, really easy for them to show their support. So give them structured specific roles. We've already talked about the idea of giving a match donation. Talk to them about setting a goal for the number of their personal contacts that they will ask to make a donation for Giving Tuesday. Maybe they want to help host an event to correspond with the campaign that you're running. Or maybe they're just going to get involved in supporting your executive director or development director in talking with some of your major donor prospects, corporate partners, etc. But just like we talked about with your regular set of donors, by come December, they only have a month left, maybe not even a full month left, to meet their goals for the year. Now, unlike an average donor, hopefully or maybe your board members have had to set specific goals for how they want to support your event during the year. Whether it's an amount that they need to give to your organization, an amount they need to help bring in, or other types of goals, that gives you a structured commitment that you can look at and say, hey, let's work together to find out how you can meet your commitments and help us reach our Giving Tuesday goals at the same time. So major donors are another great audience to consider with your Giving Tuesday campaign. So just like you would on another campaign, Giving Tuesday is a great opportunity to try and convert some of those donors so that those prospects that you've been talking to for a while, it's a really focused effort that they can commit to. It's a great time of the year where major donors might be thinking about committing to any of the gifts that they've been thinking about before the year ends. So take a look at your list of major donors that give on an annual basis. And for those that haven't made their donation before Giving Tuesday, make some special plans for how you are going to connect with them. Obviously, major donors are going to ideally need and want a more personal touch, a more targeted ask than perhaps somebody who made a smaller donation last year. So take time to make the plans for how you're going to approach and ask those major donors, whether you're asking them for a matching grant like we've talked about before, or even just asking them to increase their gift amount from what they gave last year. It's important with all of your donors, but major donors in particular, plan a meaningful thank you. Giving Tuesday is December 3rd, and right after Giving Tuesday, things may just get a little crazier through the end of the year. You've got lots of things going on, you've got lots of campaigns going on. You don't want to let too much time pass before you have a really meaningful thank you interaction, most especially with your major donors, though really with all of your Giving Tuesday donors. So if you take the time now to think about what you want that thank you experience to look like, then you'll be able to more effectively just implement that along with all the other things that you've got going on in that December time frame. So peer-to-peer fundraising is something that we talk about a lot here at Mighty Cause, and there is a reason that we do it. It is one of the most surefire ways that you can increase giving to your nonprofit for this campaign. In the last year or two, Facebook has really stepped up their efforts of asking your donors and supporters to fundraise for your organization. So if Facebook is asking your donors, you should be asking them to. They're much more likely to respond positively to you than they are to Facebook. And don't be scared to ask because as we've seen from the trends in Facebook fundraising, donors, supporters are willing to do it. It's a new way for them to get involved, especially maybe some of your younger donors that may not have as much personal wealth to give away, but they care about organizations they want to be involved. It's a new way to let your supporters engage with you. And it's a great time of year to take advantage of it. It's the time of year when people are thinking about giving, they're thinking about being generous, they're thinking about all the wonderful things they have in their life as they spend time with family and friends around the holiday season. So it gives them an outlet to channel any kind of feelings of generosity that they might be having to your organization. And on Mighty Cos we have lots of tools that make it really easy to try peer-to-peer fundraising. You can create a team campaign, which kind of brings all of your fundraisers together. You can create a template page for them that makes it super easy for them to have their page built and ready to share. You can both, you can either create a friendly sense of competition if that's something that feels meaningful to your organization or the supporters that are involved, or you can use it kind of the other way. And instead of competing and pitting your supporters against each other to raise the most funds, you can use it as a way to bring them together, where as an individual who's never fundraised before might be a little intimidated, they might not be so sure. If they're doing it with a group of other people, it might feel like less overwhelming for them. So think about ways that you can take advantage of tools like our team fundraising and event fundraising tools to make it super easy for your fundraisers. And along with that, providing tools and resources to help them with the outreach.  Even though it may be only one of your day jobs, at least it's something that you do in a professional capacity. They may never have done it before. They may have never asked their friends and family for money in this way before. So providing some tools for them, even something as simple as a sample email that they can copy and paste and send to their contacts can go a really long way in one, making it feel less overwhelming for them. But two, giving them the opportunity to spread the word to more contacts because they don't have to take the time to think through, how should I write an email where I ask about this? Or how should I explain the work that this organization does? They can really keep it focused on pressing send, copy and paste, press send, copy and paste, press publish on your Facebook page, etc. So I really can't encourage you enough. If you haven't taken advantage of peer-to-peer fundraising before, you've maybe tried it in limited ways. Giving Tuesday is a great time to really jump further into that strategy. Of course, as I've already mentioned, giving Tuesday is the official, official kickoff to end of year giving. The most important time of the year for many nonprofits in their fundraising plans. So take the time to think now of how you are going to integrate your Giving Tuesday campaign with your End of Year campaign so that it doesn't feel like on December 4, all of a sudden you're clamoring to get some things together and your End of Year campaign doesn't really feel connected with your Giving Tuesday campaign. And you can do it in a number of ways. You can either share the same focus and just have a fun, new, fresh way to talk about that focus, or you can have a new effort altogether. But by planning it now, you can make sure that those efforts supplement each other. They maybe work together to hit the key message that your nonprofit is looking to hit in general about the work that you do or your role in the community, etc. But again, taking the time now will help to make sure that those two campaigns make sense together and they build off of each other. And perhaps most importantly, that you have special plans in place for those people that do make a donation on Giving Tuesday. How are you going to talk to them for the rest of the year? Ideally, you won't just drop them in your email list and have them get the exact same communications that everyone else does during your Giving, your End of Year campaign. But you'll want to take the time to recognize their Giving Tuesday support. Maybe make them aware of what you're doing for End of Year Giving. Maybe ask them to help spread the word about your End of Year campaign, or maybe you do ask them to come back and give again. But if you're going to ask them to come back and make a donation, you're going to want to recognize that you know they've already made a donation earlier that month. So take the time now to think about what your plan is there and how you can really both appropriately thank those Giving Tuesday donors and work them into your End of Year communications. We have mentioned the concept of the thank you a few times throughout. And again, it's important to just take the time to plan ahead how you want to say thank you so that you don't forget to make it a priority. Of course, donors will get when they donate on the Mighty Cause platform and hopefully maybe in any of the other tools that you might be using, an automated tax receipt or email receipt does typically go out. So you're not looking at the thank you so much as check the box that they've received their tax receipt. But really more, how can I make this a meaningful donor interaction? It is that first step in stewardship after they've made a donation, whether they're a first time donor or whether they've been giving to you for many years. That thank you is really important. This is a really great place to think about incorporating a video. And we'll see in just a moment and campaign from last year that created a really great thank you video for their donors. It was an 11 second video didn't take a lot of time for them to put together. It wasn't this whole big production, but it was just enough to share something meaningful in a new format, their donors. Think about who might need personal follow up. What's that threshold of giving level that requires or, you know, is something that makes you, your executive director, your board members, etc. Do some personal follow up. Make sure to share the impact. This is something that many organizations either forget to do or don't don't maybe realize the importance of this. When donors make a donation to you, they want to know how you're going to use that money, of course, and you may tell them right away. But that doesn't mean that it's not even more important to tell them two or three months down the road when you've actually put that money to use. You've spent it. You've gotten the program running. You hosted the training you said you were going to. You bought the thing you said you were going to. You distributed supplies in the way you said you were going to. It's a great additional touch point with those donors, and it's a way to reinforce to them that you use the money like you said you were going to, and it made the impact that you said it would, and that will make them more likely to come back and give again. So the final step here is pretty easy one. Just getting started today. You made a great first step by coming to this webinar, signing up for it. Keep going by starting to get your plans in place. Some of you may have seen it by now, but I did upload a planning checklist to the go to webinar control panel that you'll have on the side of your screen. So you should be able to download that. I will also send that in follow up from this webinar, but hopefully that's another tool that you can use to jump into the planning process. In case that is not enough. I wanted to just go over a couple of key campaigns that we saw be successful last year and the mighty cause platform to help give you some inspiration. Think about what you might do for your campaign to make it fun, interesting, engaging this year. So the first is Bronx lacrosse. They just like the name suggests organization supporting lacrosse the growth of lacrosse working with youth in the Bronx area. And so they came up with their Bronx lacrosse 25 challenge for last year's Giving Tuesday campaign. And their goal was to get 250 donors to give $25, which was the cost of a new stick and ask three friends to do the same. And when I say that this was their goal, I don't just mean that they sat down in a meeting and talked about how this would be the way to make their campaign successful. They communicated this goal in exactly this way across every single social media post. This was their key message. For $25, they made sure to make people understand that that $25 is what the cost of a new lacrosse stick is to give that context for people. And in every post they asked that donor, you know, give 25 and ask three friends to do the same. That was their approach to kind of peer to peer engagement is get every single person that supports us to help us spread the word. On top of that, they had a dollar for dollar matching grant and a strong campaign video that really helped to kind of round out their key message. They raised over $35,000 by donors online. So that on top of the 35,000 plus in matching funds that they secured made for an incredibly successful campaign, nearly 450 donors total gave to them. So again, it wasn't just that this was their goal. They really made that the central message that they hit time and again. Another one here is Casita Copan. So I already mentioned this one briefly and their fun 11 second thank you video. That's your inspiration not to be overwhelmed by video but to just think about how video is feasible for you. Maybe very short, maybe using a free tool like Animoto or something like that. You don't have to pay for it. You don't have to have video editing skills, and you can put something together. That's just kind of fun and different format than image and text image and text. So this organization their goal was to raise $15,000 to open a new foster home. They had three and they were trying to open a fourth location. So what they did throughout the 24 hours of Giving Tuesday was they shared how to videos from their kids all day long. That gave them lots of content to share lots to talk about during the day. And it was a great way to connect their supporters to the children that they're actually supporting and to kind of give them a glimpse into the life that these children lead the things that they do. Learning Spanish, making tortillas, keeping the chickens, they're kind of fun things to share interesting for the donors to see but also a nice window into how their support makes a difference for these kids helping to get to know these kids that their support is going towards. And in every single post when they shared a video, they also included the link to donate and a clear ask to make a donation. We talked about matching grants, of course. This is a group that made use of multiple small matching grants throughout the day on Giving Tuesday and they had a bonus $500 match that they had available the day after Giving Tuesday. So they're messaging there was, hey, in case you forgot, it's not too late. You can still make your donation. And by the way, we've got a $500 match available today. So that's kind of a fun way to think about it. Yes, Giving Tuesday is 24 hours, but the goal is just to get people giving to get people excited about giving for many organizations that giving will hopefully continue from Giving Tuesday all the way through the end of year. So having a match available the day after Giving Tuesday, for example, is a nice way to keep that excitement going, keep the momentum going. And our last inspiration here is the environmental educators of North Carolina. They focused their campaign on a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign. And this campaign kicked off on Giving Tuesday and lasted all the way through the end of the year. So they gave their peer-to-peer fundraisers a full month to do their fundraising. They had 16 fundraisers sign on to their campaign, the majority of which were board members, and every single one of them raised money. Some raised more than others, but not one of them had $0 raised. They created a fundraiser template for these 16 participants. They added images and messaging into that fundraiser template that made it really easy for these fundraisers to share why they were doing this campaign, why they were raising funds. And that made it so that it was really easy for these fundraisers if they wanted to personalize it. All they really had to do was upload a photo of themselves or maybe add in a little extra text on their page to explain their personal experience with this organization or their personal connection to this cause. They did something really fun in which all of the board members agreed that the board members that met their fundraising goal as a part of this campaign would come together and do a flash mob, and they would have somebody film it so that they could send a video to their donors for proof. That was a really fun way for these board members to get their donors to get excited about giving and hold them accountable. Of course, you're getting your family and friends to donate, so which one of, you know, who of them does not want to see a video of you making a fool of yourself doing a flash mob. So I thought that was kind of a fun, fun idea and something I have not seen before on a peer to peer campaign, creative incentive there. And all together, they raised over $36,000 from 187 donors. It was a great success for them. So now, right before we sign off just a few things to keep in mind, of course, the dates that you'll want to save. Today, when you get off today's webinar, you can go ahead and register for Giving Tuesday on Mighty Cause. There's a short registration form. Give us a little bit of information about your organization. And that's a great first step that you can take. On the Mighty Cause platform, we open up early giving for your Giving Tuesday campaign, Tuesday, November 19th. So that's exactly two weeks before Giving Tuesday. Great time to build some early momentum so that by Tuesday, December 3rd, when things kick off, your campaign is really off to the races. We have a few other training webinars scheduled in the next few months. The next one is August 20th, Giving Tuesday tips for small nonprofits, as well as a few others you'll see here. We will also likely have at least one more being added. So stay tuned to the Giving Tuesday Mighty Cause website for more information there. As well as all the resources that we have access, that we have provided access to in our nonprofit toolkit. And with that, we are just about close to the end of time here. I'll see if we've got any quick questions that I can answer for the group. And again, if I don't have a chance to answer your question now, I'll make sure that we do follow up and get you the information that you need. All right. Great question here about peer-to-peer fundraising. I think this question might have come in before we got to that section of the webinar. But yes, absolutely peer-to-peer fundraising is available. It's a great way to add to your Giving Tuesday campaign. Very easy for your supporters right from your page on Mighty Cause. They can click the fundraise button. It'll walk them through a few step process to create their account and set up their page and they're good to go. All the funds will come directly to your organization so they're not involved in handling any of the funds. But they get their own customized page that they can share with their family and friends. Another question here on the guarantee that I mentioned right at the beginning of the webinar, the pricing guarantee that makes sure that you know you'll never pay more than you would on PayPal. So we'll happily make sure that this information is available on the Giving Tuesday website on Mighty Cause so that you can refer to it. And we'll share information by email as well to all the organizations that sign up for Giving Tuesday on Mighty Cause. But you can always learn about Mighty Cause pricing on our website where we explain what the processing fees are and how we're able to provide that guarantee for you. So I encourage you to check out our website for that. One more question on peer-to-peer fundraising. On these pages, who sets up the content and images? Is it the individual or the organization? And that's up to you. For each organization it can be a little different depending on who the individual is and how you're interested in supporting them. If you'd like, you can build a page for them and send them the link and they can just use that link and spread the word. In many cases, the individual will create the page themselves. That means that they can upload their own personal image, etc. So it really just depends on the needs of the individual and your interest in supporting them as an organization. That's one of the reasons that that team product can be a really helpful tool if you do anticipate having multiple peer-to-peer fundraisers. By creating a team, you as an organization can create a page template for them and then they have to do very little. In fact, they don't have to do anything to personalize or customize their page if they don't want to. So for those that just want to kind of get their page published and spread the word, they can do that in a few clicks. And then those that do want to customize it a little bit will have the opportunity to do so. And then the last question here is about getting a copy of the presentation. We'll make sure that everybody who signed up gets a copy of the presentation mailed to them, a recording as well as the handout, the planning checklist that we had available during today's webinar. So all of that will be sent out after today's training. So with that, I will go ahead and let everyone get back to their day. Thanks for taking the time to be here with us today to get started thinking about and talking about Giving Tuesday. Good luck with your campaign and we are excited to be here to help you as we move towards December. Thanks so much. Bye-bye.