Okay, good afternoon everyone. Thanks for your thanks for your patience. We had very little downtime between the last presentation and for the AAD program and this one But it's my pleasure to welcome you to the master of architecture curriculum presentation, I am Mario Gooden director of the master of architecture program and I want to welcome those of you who are here in person and I think we actually have quite a large number of Your cohort who are with us with us online Really, I'm delighted to to have you here today I think the room is still a bit buzzing from the dean's presentation at 130 and I also want to congratulate each of you On being accepted to the to the master of architecture program As the dean Explained and and spoke about Earlier Our planet is going through enormous environmental Social and technological changes these manifest, you know at a number of different scales In ways in which That affect the bodies thinking about space thinking about ecologies politics Aesthetics how these things are entangled and how they intersect These intersections are the terrain Of the various disciplines within the school and certainly The terrain of which we work in within the master of architecture program And so that's why what we do here is so important. Our planet is going through enormous Environmental social technological changes these manifest themselves, you know in various scales In terms of the ways in which they affect the body space ecologies politics and What we investigate here within the MR program is how these are entangled and how they intersect These intersections are the terrain for the for the various programs at the school And this is why you know what we do here is so important and Why we want to be engaged in a conversation with you About this as the dean mentioned In his presentation GSEP has always been at the forefront of leading change in our disciplines starting Over 30 years ago when when I was a student here with the paperless studios the first paperless studios which not only Transform the academy but actually radicalized Architectural practice at the time now it's now it's very common These That change and the change that's needed now is critical and must be both Radically experimental And politically engaged This is what our school Excels at this is what the school stands for and this is what we work so hard to To intensify You know, so here we are You're sort of getting a taste of this today on your on your visit through Through the through our facilities, of course, they're Avery Hall and The architecture program the master of architecture program sits on top of on top of the Avery Avery library, which is the world's foremost collection of Architectural art and architectural Journals books periodicals Etc. But not only And so here you see our studios and hopefully you're having some opportunities to visit this Again Avery library Hope that you will become intimately familiar with I always tell my students You should know almost what every volume is in In the library so know that a 1153 Dot m 37 as a particular architect So I want you to become familiar, you know with the volumes In the library and so when we say, you know Perhaps look at this architect or this building Wikipedia is not a primary source Go downstairs to every library. Okay. That's my little rant about the importance, you know of being in this place and Having this relationship With Avery But not only with Avery and so here you see Avery Hall. We are underneath the ground here, you know our programs and The spaces that you'll be using sort of seat underneath the ground and into fair weather You know as well as to the You know to the maker space, you know, these are all of our sites of Intellectual and creative production The maker space, you know is the space in which, you know We say that architecture is the materialization of concept, you know, and this is where You know where we conduct experiments where we think about how do those concepts Concepts materialize And so, you know, what distinguishes The master of architecture program here at GSAP well one you will hear a number of us say a number of faculty Also other students that we do not presume to know what architecture is That architecture is not a given, you know, these are these are the questions And that architecture is not a preconceived condition So architecture is Is a question It's a question that not only occurs Within the design studio. It's a question that occurs, you know throughout the curriculum And we're going to talk a little bit about the the different sequences Sequences of the curriculum This afternoon But first I want to sort of come back to To something that the dean mentioned Earlier today Which is the notion that what we do here, you know is filled with certain kinds of uncertainties and what We've been thinking about is how can we conduct let's say a radical pedagogy Of uncertainty within the master of architecture program In the source of self-regards selected essays speeches and meditations by by tony morrison Morrison writes my effort to manipulate american english was not to take standard english and use the vernacular To decorate or paint over it but to carve away at its accretions of deceit blindness Ignorance paralysis and sheer malevolence. So that certain kinds of perceptions were not only available But were inevitable. So likewise our program seeks to carve away And question the disciplinary boundaries of architecture So that certain kinds of perceptions and representations that have always existed Are are given presence and this notion of A radical pedagogy of uncertainty Actually goes back a bit to a columbia Economist Name albert o. Hirschman who wrote about the concept of possibleism and uncertainty. So Hirschman wrote Unless novelty creativity and uniqueness take place Large-scale social change cannot occur In the first place if all elements of social dynamics were already known reactionary forces could easily easily foresee and preempt them So the master of architecture program we have our design studios A tech sequence representation, which is part of the visual studies Visual studies here at g-sept history theory Professional practice and electives. And so I'm just going to go through these a little bit to kind of show you how they break down. So in uh, in each of our Our semesters, um, we will have and for example in first year in second year eight studios The very first studio that you'll take in this fall Will be a studio that you'll be assigned to but then from then on out You actually get to select the faculty that you would like to work with In the second semester through the through the sixth semester Then you see the tech sequence and its sections In the third and fourth and fifth semester history theory qh1 and qh2 in the first and second semester and Then you see our other Professional practice and electives and uh and visual studies there in red So in our in our first year, um, which is part of our our core Going back to this issue of questions We're thinking about uh questions and knowledge production In the second year engage practice. So then how do we Implement and begin to kind of put all of these things together In scenarios such as the housing studio, which happens in the Um in the third semester or in the fourth semester where uh, we're currently we're Exploring contested territories And then in the fifth and sixth semester The master of architecture students you in your third year are actually combined with the master of science and advanced architectural design the aed program and as you see There there are 18 to 19 studios, you know forming this vast ecosystem of of possibilities for you to to engage with With students who not only started with you in in first year, but now students who are bringing, you know, varied experiences from all around the world and as I said You know beginning in the the second semester You get to select the the critic that you would like to work with in other semesters in other courses you're selecting the The sections that you would that you would like to be in according to to the time and also according to And according to the professors So let's just take a very quick look at the At the tech sequence and you will be hearing from from faculty Shortly, but the tech sequence is coordinated by professor lolo benalan And and in the tech sequence You know the the tech sequence has been framed around issues of equity and health Climate and energy that you'll be introduced to in the in the first semester in terms of thinking about the environment At a kind of conceptual level structures thinking about High tech as well as low tech and by low tech We mean Earth materials plant-based materials And also design build opportunities for design build at a number of different scales And here you see this is from our tech shop from 2022 Professor benalan is also the director of the natural materials lab And I think some of you probably you visited the maker studio This morning and also the natural materials lab This is work from the last year from From tech two that deals with the structures structures beginning out of at if you will a A conceptual level, but then by the time in tech five We're actually thinking about architectural details and you're inventing details and working on Working on details And this is a team of students Not only working on the details, but thinking about how those those details get represented in the film that they made And this is from the inside out Design build seminar that's led by professor lori hawkinson and professor galia salomonoff. This is from last year You saw the The aviary spot, which was the red version of that in 2021 and this was called the aviary web Or g sap web from 2022 And then representation and we've broaden our kind of thinking about Visual studies To think not only in terms of of data And technology But also how we conceptualize drawing and that drawing is much more than image making but drawing is a way of thinking Drawing is a a production of a certain kind of certain kind of knowledge But then also when we think about computation and we think about you know in this case In this case, bim, how do we want to rethink something like like bim? How do we want to break it? Actually, those are the kinds of experiments that we want to do do here not just take You know what we already know what's already going and going on in practice But actually push the boundaries of what's going on in practice and this is from From professor mark suramaki's seminar of section So, you know a section or a building section again is a way of thinking about space It is perhaps a way to even begin a project such that the section is not simply something that gets cut From an architectural model, but is actually a way of generating ideas fantastic visual Visual visual artists and film artists Josh vaguely who joined us this semester and is teaching This class point unknown cartographic narratives You know America is maps maps are ghosts White and layered with people in places. I see through and josh is very much interested not only in And in the use of of data but data Relationship to representation and then this fall Choreographer and performance artist Jonathan Gonzales is teaching a new course called embodied research So we're actually thinking about architectural representation in terms of in terms of performance And hopefully this is going to make the school of the arts a little bit jealous because we're able to bring Jonathan into g-set and Not up at manhattanville No, also in terms of representation is the graphics project. So as you Work through your three years here There'll be various points throughout the curriculum where you are, you know producing books There is the the maker graph studio that's taught by autotola and Giuseppe Anogno, but also in terms of graduation. You'll be producing a portfolio book That is really about Let's say your argument or your position relative to to architecture and to architectural knowledge production And then in history theory Just briefly and you'll hear from professor ryan hole martin who Is the coordinator of the history theory sequence These are perhaps a couple of images that you saw earlier from from the dean wanting to bring back up a race in modern architecture because You know that project, you know started at g-sep in 2016, I believe and then was published into the significant Very very significant book in 2021 edited by professor mabel o wilson charles davis and iran ching And then recently we had the death lift merton's lecture And this was the ryan hole the what number of it It's been a while with deanna martinez just this past February and professor laura kergans Conflict urbanism And of course professional practice professional practice that you saw primarily happens in the last years in terms of the In the third year in terms of the required course, but actually professional practice occurs throughout the sequence starting with Starting with the first semester in terms of thinking about representation, but also being engaged With city agencies like Like nitsha during the housing semester And we often have People from the professional world whether or not they are architects or artists or what have you come in to Give weekly lectures in all of our studio courses And these are just a couple of examples from the last few years from our professional practice course and events Including the women in architecture. This was from 2020 And then as the dean mentioned Briefly earlier today career services is also Important and then just to give you a little bit of a more taste of the design studios and of the work from The second second semester the first semester studio last last fall professor kristen komplash And again to say that you know that making In terms of thinking about detail in terms of materiality You know begins in the very very first studio Um, doesn't just sort of wait until later, but making as a way of thinking Begins earlier on earlier professor lindsey wittstrom's Core two studio our reviews And then the core three which is the housing semester And this is an opportunity Uh that you will work in teams teams of two in the in the housing studio And this is professor gallo salomonov studio Professor gary baits And these are the housing state has been working On site In new york city Sometimes in manhattan Most recently in the in the south bronx this This studio was working Across the the harland river On the bronx side of the of the harland river and reviews And then the advanced studios An example from david benjamin's Studio materials and climate bernard schumi's studio on studio From last fall a studio that i taught On coloniality and modernity And let me just ask a b is it possible to get rid of this bottom? Thingy here No, it's not possible. Okay, so we're getting some information that's cut off But architecture at gsap is not only about human bodies. It's also about inter About other relationships about interspecies relationships And this is a student who was, you know, looking at water but also water mammals and and pollution This is a professor maliyun wang's studio called plein air Yeah, so to give you all a bit of a taste if you will of You know the studio What happens in the studios but also the the culture of studios and the conversations between Students and faculty and then just recently our kenny kenny week. So during your your last semester All of the advanced studios have an opportunity to travel internationally We had 19 studios this this This spring two weeks ago just two weeks ago traveling Around the world and again as the dean said not in terms of promoting globalism, but actually learning Not extracting but learning with and learning from various locales various cultures about climate about environmental issues about construction about building technology and then, uh, you know Just prior to graduation you will produce a portfolio that will be reviewed by by all of the faculty as a As a requirement for for graduation Just an example of the portfolio one of the prizes Actually one of the main prizes for the mr program is called the nekem prize. This is the uh, this is that student's portfolio of amazing work from in 2022 And then the end of the year show. So now that we're We're Post-covid quote unquote the end of the year show that was your studio The end of the year show will be returning Where we get to Sort of share with each other You know the work that's been produced for for that year Throughout the building So here we are Back at Avery's it's not quite that time of day yet. I think it's still pretty bright outside Um, but now, uh, we do have some time left Um, I want to invite the the faculty who are here who you will be getting to know To come up and we're happy to answer Answer your questions. Uh, professor ryanhold martin Laurie hawkinson uh, zi gemelody Professor lola benalan michael bell To those studios Well, that's who we have a lottery And at the first semester, there's no lottery That's right. There's no lottery because you know, we're just trying to put people together in different ways and you know Kind of mix it up. But then once that's finished then starting from your second Semester in first year you have a lottery and so the in every semester you will have a lottery And the faculty will present the project But in second semester, they might all be doing the same site Right, but they each are different people. So they're going to have a different take on that site And they might have different issues they want to emphasize So they'll be presenting to you All the people in first year and then you will rank Your choices and that goes on for each of the semesters and it gets more complicated In the third year because there are 19 studios as mario said so 19 studios and you have to rank You know your choices and I think I may not be speaking out of turn, but I think dan I mean people usually get Pretty much they're up to their fourth choice or something in the 19 studios. So It's not bad. Yeah. Yeah, it's hard to I would have a hard time And I think your question was also about What freedom the faculty have in terms of what what they teach Was that your question? absolute freedom In in our first first semester The studios are coordinated in terms of a let's say overall syllabus But then each faculty or each critic has their own overlay to that syllabus And that actually goes for all three of the core semesters So that's studio one studio two and studio three the housing studio Although the housing studio has tended for the last several years for Each of the studios to work on the same site But then each faculty might bring a particular emphasis to To that studio topic Yes before yes before the lottery then in the advanced studios studio four five and and six And zia maybe you would like to say something about the studio for now studio for The current Focuses on But each critic is actually working in a different Correct. So region if you will Yeah, I coordinate advance for studio which is second year second semester and I think like mario said each instructors we are eight Uh takes their own site and topics of investigation But there are opportunities where we all come together regularly across the studio period and interchange Critics have student kind of talking to each other and learning from each other. So there are these opportunities of intersections Let's say between these different routes that each instructor So this year like every year advance four is Kind of regional and scope but also it's territorial in scale So we're looking at larger territories when we're addressing the architectural scale so it's also multi-scaled in that sense And like mario said we're looking at contested site this year, which is a little bit more specific than previous years Different architectural programs that I've been exposed to tend to skew towards Studio itself superseding the rest of your forces kind of they they act separate. It's like secondary to the studio And some tend to be everything is very equal in how the workload I guess or the focus that we should be giving them is distributed. What do you what do y'all think? colombia Music to my ears, but um, so I'm ryan hold martin. I I direct or sorry coordinate the um histories histories sequence history and theory sequence. So okay What do you think net zero by 2035? Do you think we can do it? Yeah, he says yes Yeah, so that's a question Right, that's a question that we share. I mean whether we like it or not We share this question and there are many many dimensions to this question Then my colleagues can all speak to and I'm sure you can too And there are other ways to formulate that question You know, that's a relatively pragmatic formulation. Can we do it right? And it might that's something that might point towards studio But even built into that question like who that we may be and who you know Who gets to be on the lifeboat for example and who doesn't and so on and so forth with respect to the we And and then the doing Which is itself Along the whole process that we're discussing when we're discussing matters related to planetary warming Is a centuries long process And so it it does help to learn something about the origins and and particularly in the built environment Not just the technological but the social the economic And the and the political aspects of these You know kind of processes and they're in their deeper history So these are kinds we actually kind of things we try to one way or the other Address kind of across the board in in the curriculum to get to your question So the history curriculum by no means would would we ever our our side of the team ever concede That we're sort of like the service wing You know and and then the studio is the center of the action and I think vice versa You know many of us have been working together for quite a while and And I can just think of all kinds of dialogues and debates and and and exchanges Informal settings like this but also in informal settings That that that in which that you know the kind of who Is who sort of what what is the center and so on is is sort of not the issue because we have these shared Shared concerns so so that's really how I would invite you myself I think others might have other Respectives on on the same issues. Oh, yeah, I love your answer Reinholt and maybe also in respect to building tech And also in respect to what you said mario about breaking BIM or breaking the software in tech And might would argue some here that tech three four and five are pretty Kind of intensive and parallel to studio because we really try to especially in tech five to kind of hack the software not only learn software Tools but also learn what are their limitations and how we can Challenge what the software knows or what is the methodology involved in Uh software is like lca software for instance life cycle assessment And in building tech many of the elective courses are project based So it's in a sense you're Diving deep into a project that involves both research and then design and execution or What we said design build so there is a there's a really commitment or There's a load and energy to that path as well in building tech elective courses too I just should I realize I should add or add a cup just to since people are also giving The kind of nuts and bolts that for the history sequence mario mentioned qa h right which is like our secret code for questions in architectural history Which is the first two semesters. So while people are you all you know would be doing balala Just described and what mario and zia then lori just described about the the the first year In there are two semesters in the fall and spring Of basically our introduction to architectural history in the form of questions And so that's the reason i'm Beginning with the question i did is that one way to because these we don't go, you know into ancient history Per se you have opportunities for that later. This is really a history of the modern Period beginning around 1800 which most accounts of the anthropocene Right the the era of anthropogenic human induced climate change begin with So this is one way to think about this history Sequence it's a history of the Anthropocene So and and so when you go into tech and studio and so on you're working on the consequences of that So maybe from our answers you can learn that there is kind of a nice triangle around studio with the well, maybe it's Like a another polygon I don't know of history theory representation and visual Building tech and professional studies that evolve around and with studio and parlil to studio and has different weights to it so it really depends on you and your The the the thesis that you're building throughout your Degree and Where you put you want to put your emphasis? And But there are opportunities around studio. That's yeah, we should we should move on to another question, but I'm gonna first I have no idea exactly why you asked that question, but it's a very good one and There are moments in studio where people seem to disappear for six or seven days Productivity plunges and you find out that something was doing all the sequencer history theory sequence. So it definitely goes both ways Listen, I would this I came to the school 22 years ago And all of us came here me out with very few of us actually went to school here at mario did um I did very well out here But uh There's a scenario It's a school that has a heavy dose in its history for the last 40 years of history theory And a heavy dose of design and a heavy dose of tech And that agree to which all of those inter relate as much as there is a The the curriculum ebbs and tides in terms of how it's constructed It's often highly constructed from I went to school at berkeley and taught there for years I always had a feeling from a distance knowing everybody here that it was a school that Often had a serious serve in tennis Uh, yeah, yeah, it had a good serve And if you arrived you weren't given a lot of this is a different moment If you arrived you weren't given a lot of you weren't given a lot of time before somebody served And uh, you know as opposed to my I remember people saying to me in school. What do you think architecture is? Uh, I feel like that doesn't happen here But the school published two books that we all know. Well, uh architectural theory since 1968 an architectural theory before 1968 And aside from the content in those books just the fact that they were published You know with a very serious commitment from the school to what that means It was also always I think compensatory to this huge demand that Anybody in the building is creating those relationships. So as much as the school definitely You know works to create them. I feel as if they're often being recreated So climate etc. So that you know the school changes and schools are really only made of whom whom whom is in them at the moment But that that that is you know along with the gsd perhaps that's and princeton That I think this has been a kind of defining characteristic of the school this kind of equal commitment to all of those questions Um, so anyway the question is very good one. Thank you Yeah, well Berkeley Berkeley hired a historian of history and theory As opposed to a historian theorist Maybe more questions Yes, yes that I'll take that so Um, I did a studio last fall on the bqe Anybody know what the bqe is? bqe Brooklyn queens expressways It's a triple decker sandwich Where we gave where we looked we looked at brooklyn heights where there's a triple decker Of the bqe and it's in big trouble because it's falling down total Collapse almost situation they had to take trucks off of it. They had to narrow the lanes And there's a actually a proposal that it might just be we might reroute everybody off of it So what do we do with this big piece of infrastructure, right? So we looked at it as an architectural project this whole kind of long facade of the triple sandwich that has The most incredible view of Manhattan And it's one of the only places where actually there is a view corridor from a public space Which is something to learn about and the reason i'm addressing this This issue to your question is that we met with the communities and we showed our projects halfway in Uh, you know, what all of us were doing because they're very concerned community. I mean the brooklyn heights community Especially but we also met with a number of other adjacent communities and we talked with them And I actually got a uh, this is really fun I got an email from two of my students last week who are now out working in offices And they went to a workshop a bqe workshop And on this and they're like continuing to be involved in it because it's still a very hot issue So, I mean it's something that you know depending and many of the studios are taking real sites because this city is rich with issues And issues that are alive and issues that we're all working on here Here and with the professionals that are also not sitting here or people who are you know in urban design You know with the school and then outside of the school So we have this incredible wealth of people we can draw from to have those conversations. I had a landscape architect on What is today On thursday in our studio to give a crit about waterfront issues because we're looking at rising Water on the east river. So, I mean we have to bring in experts to talk about these things and we have to Sometimes not just have to we go back in the communities and we talk to those people Jinglu's studio from the fall, which is called the street studio that Is in collaboration with the urban design forum and You know does sort of active sort of community engagement in terms of community engaged design Michael, I don't know if you briefly want to talk about your Yes, your cross Bronx expressway We ran a joint studio with public health Yeah, I know it's two highway studios You're probably discussing something more at the building scale. I'm not sure but we did a joint studio with the School of public health peter moining professor public health Where we literally fused the public health course on the public health impacts of the cross Bronx expressway peter's research and architecture and So that they do happen, but I would argue they happen probably more episodically Within the third year studios, although four semester and the Hudson valley No, I think it's a good question. The Hudson valley studio has been which is this advanced four studio mario mentioned Had been really concerned working with communities in upstate new york and mostly either native american tribes Or minority communities and my studio i've been working For three years with an islamic african-american islamic community in upstate new york and now it's extended to statin island We have these people come to to talk to us. It's not only Extractive we don't just go there and take picture but actually we try to interact and have a meaningful conversation for them as well and The fact that we go back over and over to the same place we build kind of a long-term Relationships with that community. So it's also much more meaningful and cumulative In that sense, yeah I think we can take a some more questions since we were Waylaid by by tech technical difficulties Yes A number of the faculty and the dean mentioned this as well during His presentation um also directing initiatives or labs within within the school, so the natural materials lab and You also have galia's housing galia salomon office running the the housing lab that i was going to say the natural materials lab You have summer activities right summer and throughout the year and we When we have positions available they'll be posted on our website, but also sent to you through Office Academic and student affairs. Yes. So so there are possibilities for research assistantships For example with the natural materials lab with the with the housing lab Center for special research, so there if you go to research on the website and the labs and research and centers you can see each Lab or center and their Respected faculty and usually on our website you'll see Open positions. I think also in the studios Especially I can speak for third year that you know a creative will give a topic But it's in my case it's open when I gave the bqe people I wanted people to bring the programs they were interested in developing so it becomes a way to Continue an interest of your own Into you know a third year project Um within a particular site, so you're sharing certain issues together But you're also developing your own trajectory and that's I think throughout columbia We encourage that because you're you're really I'm gonna use the curating word your own You know your own Education in a way because as you learn more you learn more about what you Want to actually focus on right and so I think we have a really broad wealth of seminars and tech courses and electives and even half electives in the graphics Representation sequence, so you know you can kind of pick things up that then can kind of add to What your interests are that you've been kind of accumulating through first second, you know in the different years, so That's super important, right? Together with the questions that we're all asking together, right? Is there another question? Yes, yes, you're correct. There is not a thesis for say but we Ask and encourage that you let's say take a position or that you develop an argument in your in your work and That doesn't necessarily happen at the very beginning that you know what the argument is but let's say over your time here Perhaps you will begin to kind of See that there are certain tendencies There are certain ideas that you're interested in in pursuing and so by the third year you're able to kind of more fully You know engage those in terms of your let's say research agenda or or design agenda That's a good question In the 19 studio, listen, I'm used to Columbia like all of us are But sometimes if you stand back from it and try to look at it from above even if you've been here for a while That question about research assistant. I was a research assistant when I was in graduate school That was an interesting term. I don't particularly hear it so often around here Although I know they exist as probably especially with lola But I do think that the independence that mario indicated that the faculty have In the studios that there is a high crossover between what faculty are doing In their research and in their practice into the studio. There's an academic question that always goes on is the degree to which that's Become something other than the faculty's practice. So But I say it because I don't my my kind of snapshot view of Columbia would be I don't think there's a Many people on the faculty and there's so many. This is just a tiny little group of them Are preaching an architecture that they've already worked out There's a kind of perpetual working it out and mario very elegantly did that that uncertainty phrase that you put over the third year And the quote from the law professor that made perfect sense to me today The reason I bring all that up is that there is a kind of bridging kidney trips, which we talk about a lot I mean my kidney trip, which we just completed with my studio Attied very didactically into people that I work with professionally and academically so the maybe one thing about gsep is That the studios for better or worse are frequently Trying to work out a bridge from what's academic to what's practice To what extent are we a professional school to which extent are we actually asking questions that are above that? And so that's something that it's maybe it's our size and our dexterity when it goes well It goes really well, but it's definitely a lot of options. Yeah But I will add that You know in the school and the in the program practices also a question That practice is not oh, this is what practice is You know that is what practice is but practice is a program and so You know the practicing uncertainty is is a question about what is practice. What does it mean to practice? How do we practice not necessarily professional practice, but how do we practice in terms of production of new knowledge And what is that and all of the ways in which we can produce new knowledge No, I'm just what I realized on the nuts and bolts I mean first of all you will be able to practice when you finish here So don't worry about it We have some very distinguished practitioners of all kinds Yeah, oh, yeah the ones you're talking. Yeah, right. So, you know that yeah Just if those kind of questions are running in the background. These are all basically Given and and it's sort of the platform which everything else is built and this is to the question of research Just in case people are wondering there are Ta ships of various I directs a number of those in the history Side where people who have interest in these areas and they're they're all they all are by application. It's competitive It's a big school. So, you know, there's what in the in in the You know fabrication lab does this ta ships these come with with funding So if you know, you're asking yourselves also those kinds of questions, which we all need to Uh, you know, there are no guarantees on any of these things, but these are also ways in which we do try and it's it's built in It's not it's it's a system. It's not just one off here in here that we try to to offer opportunities to students based on their interest and their capacities to to you know do to work with us in various ways And and then to uh, you know and and and to actually get paid for it Which probably matters just to most of us. So Yeah, maybe to combine both of your questions The research possibilities with perhaps more the academic research that also embeds so many questions to what is architectural science research, what is building science research does it belong to architecture to engineering in between? Where do we publish? Where do we? Should it be applied always but To answer your perhaps two of your questions. Um, the possibilities to being a gra here provides opportunities to perhaps compensate for the thesis track for instance one of my gra just was accepted to a phd and rpi so Bringing that thesis from the research assistantship at the lab can can kind of reinforce and and add to Do you if you are interested in this academic more architectural technology track? So gra equals A gra equals graduate research assistant. That's that's yeah Yeah, so, you know because we have to prepare right zena to build that thing It takes a little semester to kind of get ourselves ready and you know, and that's you know, so it's In development And another secret code kinny, right? So I realize what is kinny? So kinny is an endowment That was given to the school a long time ago that has enabled students all the studios like when you saw You know the thing with the traveling all over the world This is paid for so in case you're wondering those kinds of things too about you know, who pays the airfare The kinny endowment is is the basis Is a stipend? Yeah, so so we could present the fact that we present before and then you know where we want to go and our accommodations and That's part of the lottery in the event That's the basic question So for potential a little bit on it, but for those of us who would want to be licensed in the future Are there any other classes besides studio that really teach that technical side of architecture that specifically deal with the areas And our we have two professional practice Courses one required another which is the advanced professional practice seminar I talked professional practice last fall so We do get into the nuts and bolts of practice of traditional practices, but also The possibility of constructing new kinds of practices Collaboratives we talk about licensure. We talk about different jurisdictions In our we've revamped the professional practice course such that now Two key assignments of that course is one the students form their own practice So we asked the students to Form a practice with others in the course Which could be of any size The students actually write a business plan and they make a pitch to To a group of faculty and invited guests and then the second part of this semester The students then respond to An rfp a request for a proposal and so the students put together and this is what you do in In certain professional practice scenarios So the students put together a A proposal and they actually presented it to a group of faculty as well as Experts from outside of the school who are in the practice world So those are just two examples in the advanced professional practice Seminar that's taught by professor Robert Harman That's an opportunity to go more in depth and to have office visits to have Um He's had Actually one of my old classmates who Has a degree in law and is also an architect. She is the general counsel for rockwell And she's been coming and giving talks every I think for the last five or six years To the to the course But I think you're you know Taking that exam is You know What can I say? So I think we're not going to teach you how to study for the exam You'll pray do that on your own when you get out you'll jam for that But I think you know we many of us practice I was telling ryan hole when we were having our technical difficulties I said oh well friday I was in the world trace and I hadn't been in it Before back there and I had to present Up on the 54th floor to the gsa a general services administration for The design access program for a project we're doing at a port A lamp or a ventry on the canadian border and we went the day before To make sure everything worked Mario no i'm just kidding i'm just kidding No, so it's like you want to make sure everything works You know so that you could like then you get all the stuff in the wheelchair in the right place But so but I think you know it's There's that stuff too But I think it's also living in a world where we practice and there are many different ways to practice Is marisa and I think this idea of inventing a practice because The world of practice is changing Constantly it's not a trend you just get on right it's actually evolving and changing And we're all kind of keeping up with it But also you guys are the guys that are going to create the new practices So I think that these questions that maria's posing are really important for you Anyway, we're excited about what we do here. And so I don't know if there's any last questions Well, we do want to make sure that you all have time to visit the studios upstairs Also that you have time maybe just to kind of walk walk around a bit and then come back for Professor Juan Horos's lecture at 6 30 tonight And I do believe darwin that there's going to be some cookies and tea or something with students Yes, so I work 30 In buell hall I will be standing outside to walk through the buell hall and you'll get to meet with the current lrc student rep So we have two reps for every single year. So all six of them will be there and that will be kind of a closed door Yeah, you can say like are they really telling the truth? To hear more about the student experience of actually being at g-staff So, yeah, that'll be at 4 30 to 5 30 and then after 30 you won't have to get to walk around Go visit the studios and then like maria said at 6 30 the lecture with walton And by the way, I should have properly introduced darwin in who's the assistant director of the master of architecture program So you'll be getting to know darwin very well in terms of advising and in terms of other kinds of questions that you might Okay, so thank you so much guys. Thank you for your patience


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Hi everyone, we're just gonna wait a few minutes before we get started to let everyone join. So hang tight. Hi everyone, we're still waiting for people to join. We've still got people joining rather. So we're just gonna wait a couple more minutes before we get started. If you can hear me, there is a chat module on your GoToWebinar panel. If you could let me know that you can hear me, maybe let me know your favorite restaurant in Cincinnati or the name of your pet, then that would be really helpful. Perfect, thank you all so much. We have a lot to go through today, so we're gonna go ahead and get started. I first wanna just say welcome. We're really excited to have you all joining the Cincinnati Gives Challenge here on Mighty Cause. So my name is Dawn, and I'm gonna be walking you through today's presentation. Ivy will be joining us, I believe, so whenever she- Can you all hear me? Oh, perfect, hi Ivy. I'm here, I didn't know if I got it to work right. It couldn't open on my computer, but I can hear all of you, so I can join in that way. Perfect, well, that's perfect. As long as we can hear you, it's great. So Ivy's here too. She has a couple slides that she's gonna be going through. Can you see the slides, Ivy? I can pull up from when you sent it to me before, so we'll be good. Okay, perfect. Okay, so Ivy, welcome. Ivy's the publisher over at Cincinnati Magazine. They're putting together this year's Guide to Giving and the Cincinnati Challenge. The Cincinnati Gives Challenge. So again, she'll be going over a couple slides a little later in the presentation. Right now, I just wanna go over a few housekeeping items. First, I wanna let you all know that the webinar will be recorded. It'll be posted in the toolkit on the Cincinnati Gives Challenge site under the Resources tab once we're done. And then some of you've already done it, but you can use the GoToWebinar questions module to send across any questions that you have during the presentation. And then we're gonna get to as many as we can after the webinar. So here's a look at today's agenda. We're gonna be going over some of the basics. We're gonna walk through getting started, basically registering and then navigating your nonprofit page on Mighty Cause. And then after that, we're gonna go over the prizes available. And then we're gonna move into a Q&A session if we have time. So again, if you have a question while I'm presenting, just be sure to type it into the questions box of the GoToWebinar panel and we'll make sure to cover it at the end. If we do run out of time today, then I'm gonna make sure to email everyone so that we get all of our questions answered. And then of course, if there's a running theme with questions that we don't get to today, then I'll be sure to add to the FAQ on the challenge page so that all of you have access to the answers. So let's get started with the Cincinnati Gives Challenge Basics. Ivy, take it away. Okay, well, I just wanted to again, thank everyone for joining the webinar and thanks Dawn and her team at Mighty Cause. We are super excited to be partnering with Mighty Cause as our platform provider this year for the Cincinnati Gives Challenge. Many of you know, we started the Cincinnati Gives Initiative in 2016 and we have been publishing the guide to giving since then and have worked to promote the challenge and execute the challenge since 2016. And in that time, we've worked with on average 100 nonprofits every single year and we have raised over $750,000 for local nonprofits. So we're thrilled to be back again this year for our fourth year. We're so happy to have P&G on board. Again, as our presenting sponsor and providing the $35,000 in prize money that hopefully all of you will be competing to win and able to win some of that prize money. So I hope this slide is up right now with our guide to giving cover with the elephant from last year. We really, great, thanks Dawn. We started Cincinnati Gives a couple years ago because at the magazine we wanted to create an opportunity to connect our readers with the nonprofit community and the nonprofit community with our readers in a meaningful way. We wanted to create a platform that brought all of you a ton of awareness and hopefully in turn new donors and dollars raised. So when we looked at launching the Gives challenge, we thought it would be best to complement it with a guide to giving to really help educate our readers who have a staggering capacity for giving to the tune of on average over $100 million a year to local nonprofits. We wanted to provide an opportunity for them year round to learn about local nonprofits, learn about maybe some that they're not familiar with, hear about your mission and ways to get involved. And that's why we thought it best to complement the challenge which is more of a call to action with an education piece that our readers can utilize year round as a resource. So the Cincinnati Give initiative is really twofold. It's the challenge which all of you will learn more about in today's webinar and it's also the guide to giving. So I just wanted to take a few moments to talk about the guide to giving because that is an additional opportunity for all of you and those of you that participate in both the guide to giving and the challenge really get the full benefit of the entire program. So Dawn, if you wanna go to the next slide, the advertising opportunity for all of you which is not required if you want to participate in the challenge, you can just do the challenge without advertising in the publication. But if you choose to advertise in the publication, this is your advertising opportunity. It's a full page profile opposite a full page ad. And I know it's probably hard to see the example. You can find more information and also see last year's digital edition on CincinnatiGids.org, it's live right now. But your full page profile which we helped put together for you includes your mission, key services, leadership directory and board, obviously any upcoming events and opportunities for folks to get involved as well as your contact information and a photo or two. And if you are participating in the challenge, we also include along the bottom your unique URL.  Also during the challenge, we include a ton of social media promotion since many magazine is really, we really scream up from the rooftops to let people know that the challenge is live and the opportunity to donate is happening right now. And so that does include a ton of social media across all of our social platforms and as added value for those that do participate in the publication, we also include at least one of our social posts dedicated to talking specifically about you and your mission and why donors should support you with a direct link again to your individual page on the challenge site. So the cost for this if you decide that you wanna take advantage of it is $3,700 and that includes again the full page profile and the full page ad and the guide to giving as well as the social post and the URL link. And then something new that we are adding this year is a bonus full page ad that you can run in 2020 in a Cincinnati Magazine issue of your choice. We wanted to create an opportunity for you to then follow up to our readers and be able to promote maybe your major event or fundraising effort or GALA, 5K Run that's happening in 2020. So you can pick which issue of Cincinnati Magazine that you wanna utilize that free full page ad. And the guide to giving publication comes out right before Thanksgiving. We poly bag it, we include it with our December best of the city issue of Cincinnati Magazine then we provide additional copies at no cost to all of those nonprofits that participate in the publication and then we also distribute it at light up the square at fountain square through PNG. So that is the advertising opportunity. If you are interested, you can email me directly or jump on the Cincinnati Gibbs website and you can find ways to connect with us there. We are reserving space now. We have a soft deadline of this Friday to reserve space so we can begin working on the profiles. But if you need a little bit more time we can definitely work with you. And we also get questions about when payment is due. We invoice when the issue comes out so that you'll likely receive the invoice in December. And we are flexible based on budgets if it makes more sense for you to be invoiced in January 2020 versus in 2019 we can do that. We are working with a particular nonprofit that we just solidified today actually. They want 50% invoice this year and 50% next year so we can definitely get creative if that helps. We would love to have as many nonprofits participate in the publication as they can to reach our readers and promote your nonprofit especially at year end but throughout the year with the publication. So that is all I have done and I'm definitely happy to answer any questions at the end of the presentation. Perfect, thanks Ivy. Okay, so a few of the challenge basics cause I'm, so for my part I'm gonna be talking about the online challenge and then all about the tools that you get with Mighty Cause. And just for a little background, Mighty Cause has been around since 2006 and we do a lot of these sort of online giving events. So there's lots of tools that come with your account that you'll get for the challenge. So we'll talk through the challenge basics like I said for the agenda and then we'll run through all of the tools you'll get so that you can kind of start thinking about your strategy, set up your page, et cetera to get prepared. So the 2019 Cincinnati Gives Challenge is a 10 day long event. It runs from December 2nd at 5 p.m. Eastern to December 12th at 5 p.m. Eastern. Like Ivy said, it's an online component to Cincinnati Magazine's Guide to Giving. Registration for the online challenge closes on November 25th. Of course, if you haven't registered yet, we highly encourage you to register as soon as possible so that you can start really preparing. One of the things I'm really excited about, about the online challenge is that there's $35,000 in prize money that's available to participating nonprofits and there's lots of opportunities to win and we're gonna go into prizes a little bit later on. So how exactly does the fundraising challenge work? A fundraising challenge is a unique campaign presented by a host, in this case Cincinnati Magazine, that allows organizations to compete with other nonprofits to win the prize money. Fundraising challenges are an exciting way for you to engage sponsors, community partners, peer-to-peer fundraisers and they're really good opportunity to just spread the word about your organization and your mission and really raise funds for your cause. The limited timeframe that fundraising challenges give, creates a sense of urgency that donors tend to respond to and then of course the prizes available give you fresh messaging opportunities as well. So what do you need to do to participate? So, first and foremost, you'll wanna register your organization if you haven't already done so. Once you've registered, you can customize your profile on Mighty Cause and really start planning for your campaign. And then just so you all are aware, we're having another training webinar on November 5th, that's all about strategy. So if you're not sure where to start or you want some good tips on using the new tools that you get with your Mighty Cause account, you'll definitely wanna make sure you attend the second webinar. You can find the signup link for that webinar in the toolkit on the Cincinnati Gives Challenge page.  And then you'll wanna invite people involved with your organization to participate either as supporters, match sponsors, peer-to-peer fundraisers, et cetera. And of course, you'll need to raise money. That way you can win some of the awesome prizes that Cincinnati Magazine is providing. So this is the homepage for the Cincinnati Gives Challenge this year. You'll see the URL here on the left. I would definitely bookmark it. So once the challenge starts, this is where you'll see the leaderboards for the prizes that will indicate what place you're in, as well as your bonus challenge standings. So again, you're gonna wanna bookmark this URL so that you have it when you need it. The Cincinnati Gives Challenge homepage on Mighty Cause also has all the tools that you'll need as well. You'll see the register button is right there at the top. If you haven't registered yet, this is where you can go to do that. The challenge homepage also has these tabs that you can see in the little visual. Those include the rules and prizes, all of the resources like the FAQ, and that's where you can find the toolkit. And then of course, more information about Cincinnati Magazine's guide to giving. So getting started. First things first, of course, I've mentioned this multiple times now, you're gonna wanna register. So if you have any questions at all pertaining to registration, you can email support at mightycause.com and we will be very happy to help you. So to register, you'll first need to log in or sign up and claim your organization on Mighty Cause, very simple process. It's quick, it's prompt by prompt, so you shouldn't have any problems. And then once you've claimed the organization, you'll unlock the rest of the registration questions and you can fill those out and submit the form. And then once you do register, you'll receive a confirmation message. Approval typically happens within 24 to 48 hours. And then once your organization on Mighty Cause is claimed, then you'll also be able to add administrators to your account. That way multiple people can access and help run your campaign right with their own login.  The list is located on the home screen on your nonprofit profile right under the metrics for the page. There's five basic items to complete. You'll wanna add a background image to your page. We do provide a gallery of stock or background images. It's helpful for you.  That's gonna represent you throughout the Cincinnati Gives Challenge. You're gonna wanna add a story that tells visitors to your profile about what your nonprofit organization does. You can build a thank you page to thank donors and then the last item is setting up electronic fund transfer. That way you get the money that you raise through direct deposit. And then if you click the links within the to-do list, you'll be taken right to the spots on your profile where you can complete those tasks. So it's really easy for you to be able to complete the list. This is not required, but it's a really good starting point if you're not sure where to begin. And then we have noticed that profiles that are filled out completely get more donations on Mighty Cause. So I recommend before getting into the weeds of planning the campaign, just take the time to complete the list, really get your page set up. And then again, if you need help or you're unsure of how to complete any of the items, then let us know. Our email is support at mightycause.com. We also have a support library at support.mightycause.com where we have walkthroughs and videos that can help you out. And then really quick to run through some of the items on your dashboard. Your dashboard, which we like to call your Mighty Cause manager is that admin bar that appears on the left side of the screen when you're logged in to your nonprofit's profile. You'll see that in the visual there if you hover over it, it'll open up. You'll automatically land on your welcome screen or your home screen, which is the first item, the little house. That's where you'll find your to-do list as well as metrics for your nonprofit. Under profile is where you can find your page editor, you can adjust your settings. That's where you can set your goal for the challenge and enable a progress bar on your page. From your profile, you can also go to your live view to see how your page will look to visitors.  And then below that on your dashboard is report section. And that's where you'll find everything related to reports and donation management. You'll be able to preview and export your donation report and you can view and manage your disbursements as well. So part of your to-do list is setting up EFT. And that's, you can do that through the report section. And just so you all know, signing up for EFT allows you to receive your funds faster. It's direct deposit. We do provide disbursement by check, but there's a $5 fee for check disbursement. So I highly recommend signing up for EFT. It's free and faster. So if you have any questions about fund disbursement, email our support team at support at mightyclass.com. And then the second to last item on your dashboard view is the fundraising section. This is where you can find donor experience, which we're gonna talk about later, as well as matching grants, which we're also gonna talk about later. And then in the settings, that's where you can manage your URL, customization and admin control. So really handy little dashboard list. And then we'll be going into detail for all of these throughout the presentation. So first things first is customizing your profile.  So you're definitely gonna wanna make sure it looks good and it represents your organization and your mission. And then just so you know, your profile link is the link that you'll share with your supporters to ask them to donate to your challenge page. So to share your page, all you have to do is copy and paste the URL into an email or social post or wherever you're advertising the campaign. So as you're going through your to-do list, you can customize your profile to match your brand. There's two ways to start customizing. You can click profile in your Mighty Cross Manager and choose that page editor from the sub menu. This is gonna open up everything that you're able to edit. If you're a list person, that's definitely the way that you can go. It provides a list of everything you can edit. Otherwise, if you click profile, then little pencil icons appear and you can do on page editing as you can see right there. It's super easy. If you click the pencil, then the section opens up for editing and you can click the save button after that automatically save. So next item is editing your theme. So the first thing you wanna do is obviously upload your organization's logo. You can use that pencil icon to open up that section for editing. Logos need to have a one-to-one aspect ratio in order to fit. And the logos on Mighty Cross are the same aspect ratio as many social media sites. So if you use your logo as part of your Facebook or Twitter profiles, then you can use the same logo here as well. You'll wanna make sure your logo doesn't clash with your background image, which you can see the background image here is a picture of two people sitting on a couch. Your background image is gonna look best if it's mostly text-free. And then obviously if it's a strong image that's representative of your nonprofit, landscape-oriented images for backgrounds work best, we do offer a generic gallery of images to choose from. If you don't have an image of your owner, you're having trouble finding an image to use. So changing the theme color, which you'll see in this little visual here. So when you click Edit Theme on your profile page, that's where you can edit the background image. You can change the theme color. This is gonna give you a consistent color that shows throughout the experience your organization provides supporters. So basically, you can use the color gradient there to pick a color. You can put in a hex code to pick the exact color for your branding. It's pretty flexible. You can also apply an overlay here to your background image if you want. The About section of your page is your chance to explain to people visiting your profile what your nonprofit's all about. The Text Editor is right in that section. So all you have to do is click into it and start writing. You can add media to your story to jazz things up. You can utilize the inline text editor to add links. You can upload images, link to videos from YouTube or Mimeo. It's really nice. They just get embedded straight in your story so people visiting your profile can look at them right in that section. You can also add bulleted or numbered lists too. This spot is really where you can go in depth about your work and make that strong appeal to donors, telling them why your organization needs their support and obviously show the impact of your work. And then one really cool piece about this section is that you have the ability to add custom tabs. If you have any extra info that you wanna share that doesn't necessarily make sense to put in your story, you can create a custom tab to add that information to your profile while keeping everything organized and really easy to find. So information, if you have any upcoming events, frequently ask questions. If you wanna include information about your staff, et cetera, et cetera, you can create up to three custom tabs that you can label however you'd like and then you can fill them with whatever content makes your profile page better. So really, really versatile, easy to set up. So we highly recommend using the section to make the most impact. The media gallery, there's a media gallery also included on your organization's profile. If you have additional images that you want to showcase, then this is a great place to do it. You can also connect your organization's Instagram account which imports the pictures you already have there. You can also connect Facebook too. So connecting these accounts not only provides additional content but then it also lets people coming to your page know that you have those social accounts and then they can easily follow or like you. And then you can also optimize your social share settings within your settings section so that if anyone utilizes the share feature then you have information for them already there so that they don't have to enter in their own stuff. So really, really versatile. You can add whatever pictures you want. And there's lots of options to choose from with importing to it makes it really easy. So then the last sub menu item within your profile section is the page settings. This is where you can go to update the metrics that show on your page publicly. So things like showcasing dollars raised, a progress bar if you've inputted a goal and then it also shows a donor count. And then you can also update the calculation period. So if you have fundraised on Mighty Cause before then updating the calculation period allows you to sort of like reset your page so donations only show from a certain date. The page settings section is also where you'll be able to find a code if you wanna use a widget for your organization's website that links to the challenge and you'll be able to find the code here as well. So you'll definitely wanna spend some time customizing your profile using everything that we just talked about. Basically what we've seen the more work you put into it, the better it looks and then it's more likely to do better during the challenge because you're showing people that you care, this is a priority and they should make it a priority as well. You can have the best campaign strategy in the world but when your profile looks like it hasn't been shown any love then donors aren't gonna think that it's a priority either. So reports. You can access reports on donations and disbursements in the report section of your Mighty Cause Manager. Clicking on that section is gonna give you a submenu where you can choose from all donations, a report on recurring donations. If your organization has them, it also gives you a donor retention report which will be handy if you fundraise on Mighty Cause in the future. You can find disbursements and offline donations reports here as well. So your donation report is available to you in real time and it includes information like the donor name, their email, if you've included designations or dedication options for them to choose from that's included in the donation report, the gross and net amount of their donation as well as any fees associated with their donation. You'll also know what page they donated to as well as lots of other information. And then just so you know, if you do need, like if you look at your donation report and there's information missing that your organization needs that might not be generally what other organizations need, there is a spot within the donor experience section which again, I'll go into later on. You can set additional information to collect during the checkout process so that it shows in your donation report so that you have all the information that you need when downloading that report. For example, if you needed to collect phone numbers or addresses from donors, then you can do that within the donor experience section so that it shows on your donation report. And then the other important section is disbursements. The disbursement section allows you to see your batch disbursement history. You can click on a disbursement listing to open up more information about that disbursement like which donations were included in that report as well as a summary of the total amount, total associated fees, et cetera. All donations on the site are processed by the Mighty Cause Foundation which is a donor advised fund. Your organization can sign up for electronic fund transfer. And then as I mentioned before, that's the recommended amount processed just because it's free and you get your money faster than if we send out a check donation. Okay, so, and then of course, if you have any questions about donations or disbursements, please feel free to email our support team at supportatmightycause.com. The analytics submenu in your report section shows you a lot of really great stats on donations that are made to your organization through Mighty Cause. I would recommend checking out the section a few times during the challenge so that you have a well-rounded view of where your donations are coming from. This information found here can be really helpful. So like if you know that most people are giving in the $25 to $50 range after looking at your analytics in your account, then you can think about adjusting your suggested donation amounts to try and get people to maybe donate a little more than they might initially. And just so you know, the analytics section is also where you can connect your Google analytics account if you have one, that way you can get even more metrics. So everything I've shown you so far comes standard with our free plan on Mighty Cause. The Google analytics account connection is part of our advanced plan. However, since you all are part of the Cincinnati Gives Challenge, Mighty Cause is giving everyone access to our advanced plan through the length of the challenge so that you get access to all of the features on Mighty Cause for free. So you can utilize everything for free and then the advanced plan is month to month anyway. So once the challenge is over, if you're not interested in using it anymore, then it just turns off. So, okay, so donor experience. The donor experience is probably one of the more important features that you'll wanna focus on when setting up your organization's profile page. The donor experience section, it gives you a lot of control over the donation process. It allows you to opt into collecting the information you want from donors, just like we mentioned previously. You can set up custom suggested donation amounts. You can add descriptions to those donation amounts to help tie the amounts to items or services that your nonprofit provides. The donor experience section also allows you to preview the whole checkout process without actually making a test donation. That way you can see what your final process looks like and then use that to edit yourself if needed. So the donor experience is also where you're gonna go to set up your thank you page and customize your donation receipt. Both of which use the same text editor as that about section on your profile. So you can add texts, you can add links, you can add a video or image. You can also add a custom call to action button that tells donors where you'd like them to go next. So a really cool idea would be like asking them to sign up for your email list right within that thank you page. There's just a lot you can do in that donor experience tool to just optimize your campaign and customize the whole checkout process for donors. So I highly recommend looking through that section, editing and customizing anything that you can. That way your donors get the most customized experience possible. So the fundraising section on your Mighty Cause Manager is where you're gonna find the matching grants tool. So I'm sure many of you know, having a matching grant from a donor can go a long way in driving donations. So I just wanna make sure that you're aware of the tool that Mighty Cause has specifically created for matching grants. The matching grants tool is just a really versatile tool that you have a lot of options for how you structure your match. Most matches are the typical one-to-one where if someone gives you a certain amount then that exact amount is matched. But with this tool, it's really easy to do two-to-one matches, three-to-one. You can match percentages of each donation. The matching tool does all the math for you so that all you have to do is choose how you wanna structure your match and then the tool will basically take it from there. You can also apply a match with a certain number of donations. So for instance, if there was a bonus challenge available for let's say the most individual donations to an organization during a week or a day, then you could say that if you get 100 donations within the hour, then you'll get an additional $1,000 for your nonprofit as somebody who's matched. So if somebody says, I wanna give you $1,000 to help you try and win this bonus challenge, then you can set up your match based on how that bonus challenge is set. So make sure that you're getting enough individual donations or make sure you're raising enough or whatever the bonus challenge is set up. You can utilize this tool to try and engage your donors to win some of the prizes available. And then the matching grants tool allows you to post multiple grants at the same time and it also lets you post them in sequence.  So this tool is small, but very robust. It might sound like a lot, but it's super user friendly. You have a lot of options. And then I would definitely suggest just checking it out, seeing what you can do with it. That way you can start brainstorming. And then of course, if you get overwhelmed or you're just not sure where to start, setting it up as a one-to-one match is definitely the simplest and easiest thing to do. So a couple additional features I wanna tell you about. These two things are also part of our advanced plan, but as a reminder, organizations participating in the Cincinnati Gifts Challenge this year are gonna get these features for free through the length of the campaign. So the text to give section that we have available for you, it allows you to set up and manage any text to give keywords that you'd like to utilize for your campaign.  So for example, let's say you set up a keyword choose, you can then tell supporters, text choose to this number to donate. And then the text to give, it provides donors the ability to donate directly from a smart device if they don't have the link handy. So basically what happens is once they text that keyword to the number you give them, it'll give them, it'll automatically send them a donate link and then they can click on that donate link from their smartphone and go right through the donate process for your organization. The text to give section also gives you stats on how your keywords are doing so that you can dig in a bit just to see what works for your organization. Oh, just kidding, donation form. So I don't want to forget the donation form. The donation form section is where you're gonna be able to find the embeddable donation form. The embeddable donation form allows you to essentially put the donation form for your organization on your organization's personal website. And that way it's more of a seamless donation experience for your donors. They're not gonna have to go anywhere else to donate. They can donate right from your flow. So that option is there underneath the fundraising section and then you'll see the donation form within that submenu. And then lastly is the settings. If you click settings on your admin bar, it opens up another submenu where you can update your organization settings like your URL. This is, you can also manage your electronic fund transfer from here. And then this is a set place where you can update your legal information if it's not accurate. Mighty Cause does get all of their nonprofit information directly from the IRS, but if something's off, you can still update your legal information so everything is showing correctly. There's information and instructions right in that organization setting submenu option. The settings section is also where you can add or remove admins. And then my favorite part is the integrations. We, Mighty Cause has a lot of integrations that you connect with your account. You can integrate your mailchimp or constant contact account to your Mighty Cause account. You can integrate Salesforce. There's some really powerful integrations here. And I definitely encourage everyone to check them out to see what you can utilize just to help make your campaign execution easier. Integrations are also a part of advanced plan, but again, you get them for free. So please take advantage of them because they're there to help make your life easier. And then moving on from the admin bar, before we get to the prizes and rules and stuff, I wanna make sure I mentioned the really great tools that you can use as you get ready for the challenge. And that is your nonprofit toolkit. The toolkit has tips and tricks, it has FAQs, it has walkthroughs, it has templates you can use for email and social media to help you get inspired and really figure out how to promote your campaign. This is also where you're gonna be able to go to find today's training recording. You'll be able to get logos and graphics specifically for the Cincinnati Gifts Challenge too. You can download those and then start tying them into your messaging. That way you're on brand with the Cincinnati Gifts Challenge. So I highly recommend bookmarking the toolkit, check it out if you haven't already and then please refer to it as many times as needed throughout the planning and then throughout the challenge as well. Okay, so now we're gonna move into talking about all of the awesome prizes the Cincinnati Gifts Challenge has to offer. So these are probably my most favorite part. Prizes are always really fun. So the Cincinnati Gifts Challenge is offering grand prize grants to the top five organizations on the leaderboard. The leaderboards are gonna be on the live event site. So as soon as the challenge begins, participating organizations will start getting tracked by the dollars they have raised. Now, it's important to mention that only online donations made through the Mighty Cause platform are gonna count for leaderboard totals. So this is a really big reason why you wanna push your donors to give online. You can definitely record a check that's given to you but it's just not gonna be reflected in your leaderboard totals. Basically, the reason for this is because we don't and we really can't verify offline donations so only online donations count. And then the leaderboard is going to reflect your cumulative total from the time the challenge begins at 5 p.m. on December 2nd. So it's gonna be a running total of everything you've raised online. And then you're engaging in that friendly competition for those top prizes. So this year for the Cincinnati Gifts Challenge we've got first place winning $10,000, second place winning six, third place winning $4,000, fourth place winning $2,000 and fifth place winning $1,000. Bonus challenges. So there's a lot of additional prizes available in the form of bonus challenges. As you can see here, there's essentially one running just about every day of the challenge. It's gonna be quick and it's gonna be exciting. The Meet Your Match Challenge, that one does run through the whole campaign for Cincinnati Gifts. We have a bonus challenge specifically for Giving Tuesday. Really, there's just lots of opportunities here to win. And just so you know, all of these prizes and then all of the details associated with them, the method of entries, the dates that they run, all of those are already under the rules and prizes tab on the challenge page. So you can reference them at any time. And if you wanna bookmark that page too, you'll be able, when you're creating your strategy you can go and check out those bonus challenges to see which ones you wanna participate in. And then just so everyone is aware, each organization is eligible to win two bonuses and one grand prize. So once you win two bonuses, you're no longer gonna be eligible to win another bonus challenge. So because of this, I highly encourage you to go to that prizes tab to see which bonuses you really wanna go after. That way you can start preparing and just keep in mind that once you win two bonuses, then that's it. Although you obviously can still win a grand prize. So yeah, so just so you know. And then bonus prizes also are gonna have live leaderboards. That way, these live leaderboards are really exciting because you'll be able to see where you stand at any time. And the key to winning those is just getting your donors invested and helping you climb the leaderboard. Like I said, these bonuses are gonna be going really fast in terms of just, we're gonna have one pretty much every day. So people are, you're gonna want to engage your donors to help you move up the leaderboard, stay in your spot, let them know where you are and just keep an active eye on those. Emphasize to them how much is at stake. They wanna know what's going on and as long as you keep them informed, then that'll help them stay engaged. And again, all of the information for bonus challenges are on the rules and prizes tab. So make sure you go there to check out and see when all of them are running, how long, et cetera. Okay, and then you're gonna wanna be sure to review all the rules on the challenge site. That is on the same tab as the prizes. It's at the bottom. But here's a few of the ones I really wanted to call out. You have to be a 503 organization serving the Greater Cincinnati Area to participate. Again, participating organizations, you can win one grand prize and two bonus challenges. Organizations can't donate to themselves and you have to have at least 10 unique donors to be eligible for a grand prize. Basically 10 different people at least have to donate to you in order to be eligible for a grand prize. And then of course, offline donations, cash or check, don't count towards prizes. So as we wrap this up, I wanna make sure our support team's contact information is here for you to reference. They are a great resource before and during the challenge for anything campaign related. So if you need help setting up your EFT, if you need help figuring out how to strategize around a bonus or even if your donor just needs a receipt reset, you can reach out to them at any time. And then really quickly, before we get into the Q&A, I just wanna plug the next webinar for the Cincinnati Gifts Challenge. It's November 5th at 3 p.m. Eastern. The second webinar is gonna be all about strategy. So now we know what the prizes are. We know where to find them. So the next webinar is gonna talk all about strategy and what you can do to use the tools in your Mighty Cause account and tools that you're already using to really strategize around winning those prizes. You can sign up for the webinar now. Just go to the toolkit on CincinnatiGifts.org and the button to register for the next webinar is already there and live. So let's see, before we jump into questions, Ivy, do you have anything additional? No, I think you covered it. I'm just, I'm here if anyone has any questions and I know there probably are quite a few. And I know Don, you're available. So that was really great. Thank you so much, Don, for kicking us all through it. Yeah, no problem. There's actually, I don't, let me look really quick. It doesn't look like there's any questions, which I feel very accomplished, that I presented everything in such a complete way that no one has any questions, which is wonderful. And I don't think has ever happened to me. So thank you everyone for making me feel really good. So, if anyone has any questions for me at Cincinnati Magazine, you can reach out to me directly. And my phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. You can also email me. My email address is on the website. You can also reach me at iBayer, which is I-B-A-Y-E-R at CincinnatiMagazine.com. So happy to answer any questions. Our team is also happy to work with any of you one-on-one, super passionate about the challenge and the publication. So if you wanna dive in deeper and work with someone on our team, we're happy to help. Awesome. If anyone does think of any questions, once we close the webinar, again, the Mighty Cause Support email is supportatmightycause.com. You're welcome to send in whatever questions that you have as they come up and we will be here to help you. But other than that, we're very, very excited that you're participating. Mighty Cause is super excited to partner with Cincinnati Magazine in order to help host this year's challenge and we just wanna wish everyone good luck.


Welcome back to the School of Castells. You may have seen me and I informally in Make Moves videos. We're here with the whole of the UK based coaches here at the School of Castells for a bit of a pre-Christmas challenge and get together. Each of the coaches has brought a challenge to the party. We're going to go one by one testing each other. No one knows what's to come. Chances are I've all played to our own individual strengths because you all want to win. But we'll just use the challenges, show you what's going on and you can try them as well at home if you want to. Let's have a little bit of playtime. I had a little bit of a heads up about what one of the challenges is and if my hamstrings are to survive the next hour we'll be a little bit stricter. See they're all trying to compete now. It's the Cheerio challenge. I'm going to get these guys doing some yoga. Are you ready? Yeah. So this is your Christmas yoga. This is going to liven you up when you've had too much turkey. Nice wide legs. We're going to come first of all into a forward fold give those hamstrings a bit of a stretch. So you can bring your hands down onto the floor. That's it. And then we're going to do those cossack squats. You're messing around with earlier. So let's go right side. This is all right. So left toes up to the sky. You can sink down into that right here.  Do it without the hands if you want. That's an option. You can just grab a cossack squat style. Head down onto the floor.  Then we come up into our hands down nice. Head down with nice legs. There. Completed yoga. Then we're going to roll down into a frog. Bring the knees onto the backs of the arms. Roll yourself back up into a frog. And then tuck your feet down. So turn your knees to the right. Plant the hands. All looking good. Bring your right knee. Is this everyone's challenge? Yeah, everyone's doing this. Right knee onto the right elbow. Elbow's back. Try and take your weight. And when you're there, we're going to try and lengthen the left leg. Take the right leg behind us. It's a tight short. I'm from the school of calisthenics. And today I'm going to take you through the No Hands Lucky Charge Challenge. So we have to pick up the cereal box. But the cereals are available. With our mouth. You're not allowed to use your hands. So each time the box goes around the group, we're just going to take a bit more of the cardboard off. And then it gets a bit smaller each time. And it tests your ability. It's a world record. You're going to get it just like that off the floor. Look at that! Look at that! Yes! Go on! Head very low. It doesn't require leg flexibility. Come to daddy! It's so close. You know what tight people say? I used to do a lot of tight ones. But now he wins his own challenge. Hi, my name's Owen from the school of calisthenics. And I've got a move that will impress all your friends and co-workers. So it's the festive season. You want to party. You want to show your friends your best moves. This one is called thread in the needle. Obviously, I mean my foot is in front. So I'm trying to create as much distance or space. And then where's my leg? It's going back in there. Yes! Right, right, right, right. I've done something before, Tim. That was important. No one wants to go out on a Christmas party being the one that can't do the party trick. Jekko from the school of calisthenics. My challenge for the guys is an over's under's the bar. But the biggest challenge for me today is going to be not to farts during some of these challenges. Under's over's. Requires you to go over. No, over's under's. We're going to go over first, then under. So, over's as in... Over the bar. And then you come back down. And then you go... Who came down first? Tim Bo. It may have been limited amounts of full extensions. Oh! When it was, it's smooth in the racing line. You could take an elegant turn around a corner race track. You don't need to take the path of each resistance which is what I did then. And won. I'm Tim. Everyone knows that true test of athleticism is how far you can walk on your hands. That's what we're going to do. I've seen it on the CrossFit Games. Handstand walk for distance. Who can go the furthest? I've saved my integrity as the head of handstands. I was on the line then. I was on the line there. So, if you're interested in exploring a little bit more playtime and challenging yourself with some nude ways to move, you can find all of that in our dedicated Workout challenges and playtime classroom inside the virtual classroom which has got all those cool cool stuff in as well. So, go check it out, you might learn something and have a good time while you're doing it. Go check that out at the supportcast.com and then there's nothing else for us not to say but from until next time Class of the News!