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So don't include sales taxes paid on items used in your trade or business. So if you received a refund or state or local general sales tax in 2022, see refund of general sales taxes earlier. So if you paid for the sales tax on your business, you bought something for the business, then you would expect that you might get a deduction but you would be deducting the whole thing including the sales tax generally you would think or putting it on the books as a depreciable asset and then deducting the depreciation as applicable under the depreciation schedules all in one lump sum because it would include the sales tax that you'd get to deduct the business expense. But if you don't get the business expense then you can only possibly get a benefit for the portion of the purchase that was for sales tax. We talked about the whole refund situation earlier so I won't dive into that again. Line 5B, state and local real estate taxes. So enter online 5B, the state and local taxes you paid on real estate you own that wasn't used for business. So this is the other big one. Someone owns a home, that's the big one. You've got the mortgage interest on it and then you've got the sales tax related to it as well. So remember that the state sales tax, I mean the state taxes could be, how do they, what's their normal taxes? Either they have an income tax or sales tax or both, right? And then you have the question of the deductibility of the state taxes there. And then no matter where you live they almost certainly have a property tax. So a property tax on the home. So now we've got the home and the property tax no matter where you live that you would think there'd be state and local property taxes. The property tax. Then the question is, is the property tax up just a personal home in which case we're looking to take that property tax as a state and local tax deduction on the schedule A. If it was for business use you might be able to take it on the schedule C. If you use part of your home for business home use of an office or something like that then maybe you have to have a ratio of your taxes we might talk about when we get to the schedule C but you can't double dip. You can't deduct both on the schedule C and on A or on home office deduction or whatever. So, but only if the taxes are assessed uniformly at a like rate on all real property throughout the community and the proceeds are used for general community or government purposes. So you got publication 530 explains the deduction homeowners can take. So don't include the following amounts on line 5B. Foreign taxes you paid on real estate. So no foreign taxes. We're not subsidized in foreign taxes here. So it's itemized charges for services to specific property or persons. For example, a $20 monthly charge for house for trash collection, $5 charge for every 1,000 gallons of water consumed or a flat charge for mowing a lawn that had grown higher than permitted under a local ordinance. So those are more like fees. It sounds to me kind of like taxes or you're paying for something goods and services and taxes. Charges for the improvements that tend to increase the value of your property. For example, assessment to build a new sidewalk. So if you're paying for an assessment to build a sidewalk then you're probably paying for an improvement in the home not being taxed for sales tax. So the cost of property improvement is added to the basis of the property. Meaning you're increasing the value of the home so that when you sell the home you'll have less of a gain at the point in time you sell it and that's when you might have a tax benefit from it although the home would be most likely exempt anyways for a large portion of the game. So it might not be all that beneficial to you but there it is. However, a charge is deductible if it is used only to maintain an existing public facility in service. For example, a charge to repair an existing sidewalk and any interest included in that charge. So if your mortgage payments include your real estate taxes you can include only the amount the mortgage company actually paid to the taxing authority. So when you deal with your property taxes you might pay the property taxes directly. So meaning you have a home loan, you're paying off the mortgage with the loan and then you pay the state and locality for your property taxes directly. Sometimes they package those together so that basically your mortgage payments are gonna be paying for both your mortgage and then the mortgage company will actually be paying off the property taxes. So that can be kind of convenient sometimes because then it's one less payment to not miss. Maybe you won't miss. But then the mortgage company should give you the documentation of 1098 which should give you the information in terms of how much you paid in mortgage interest and the real estate taxes. Just remember not to miss that because anytime someone owns a home you would expect that they would have property taxes. So if you don't see it on the 1098 or whatever then you've gotta collect other documentation for it because they have to have property taxes for crying out. So if you sold your home in 2022 any real estate tax charged to the buyer should be shown on your settlement statement and in box six of any form 1099S you received. So this amount is considered a refund of real estate taxes. See refunds and rebates later. Any real estate taxes you paid at closing should be shown on your settlement statement. So that's another kind of issue in terms of when you first purchase a home or when a home is first purchased you've got this issue in terms of the who's gonna handle in the agreement the property taxes, right? So then, and so it could be a little bit messy and you might have to look through the closing statement to determine the proper allocation of payments related to property taxes and who possibly couldn't have a benefit for a deduction related to it based on the agreement for the closing statement. Caution, you must look at your real estate tax bill to decide if any deductible items charges such as those listed earlier are included in the bill. So if your tax and authority or lender doesn't furnish you a copy of your real estate tax bill, ask for it. So prepayments of next year's property taxes only taxes paid in 2022 and assessed prior to 2023 can be deducted for 2022. So notice we're kind of have a cashed based system here for the most part and cashed based systems are actually more manipulable than accrual based systems but they're easier to track. So if you have the cash flow, you might say, hey, look, I earned more money this year than I'm gonna earn next year for whatever reason. If that were the case, why don't I just prepay a bunch of these expenses? Why don't I just pay for my property taxes for the next 10 years this year because I happened to earn a lot of money this year or something and the government doesn't want you to let you do that. So they're gonna limit the amount of prepayment of the property taxes. So if you get a bright idea of I'm gonna prepay stuff then you gotta make sure and say am I able to prepay this or is the tax code gonna explicitly say which they often do? No, we're not gonna let you prepay a massive amount of your expenses because it's manipulative of the cutoff and whatnot. So state or local law determines whether and when a property tax is assessed which is generally when the taxpayer becomes liable for the property tax imposed. So refunds and rebates. If you received a refund or rebate in 2022 of real estate taxes you paid in 2022, reduce your deduction by the amount of the refund or rebate. If you received a refund or rebate in 2022 of real estate taxes you paid in an earlier year don't reduce your deduction by this amount. Instead you must include the refund or rebate in income on schedule one form 1040 line AC if you deducted the real estate taxes in the earlier year and the deduction reduced your tax. So this is the same kind of concept we saw before with like the state tax refund for example if you got a benefit last year for something that you deducted and then they refunded it this year then what are you gonna do? Are you gonna go back to last year and fix the fact that you deducted something that you didn't really pay for because they refunded it to you or it would be easier and oftentimes the way to go the way the code lets you go is to do it this year meaning if I got a benefit for it last year I'm gonna include it in income this year. So it has a tax burden to me this year because I included it in income because I got a tax benefit from it last year kind of improperly because I got a deduction which I didn't really shouldn't really have gotten because I didn't really pay that but that's the cash based kind of problem again with this cash based system because I paid it but then I got refunded.


Okay. Hello, everyone. I just want to make sure everyone can hear us. So we'll give it a second so everyone can join. Let me see. We have some participants coming in. And if a brave participant wants to just put in chat, you can just let us know that the audio is coming through. Perfect. Thank you so much. And we still have some people coming in. But we'll get started. We have a lot to get through today. So first of all, welcome everyone. Thank you for joining us. Welcome to the give education getting started women arms. So my name is Sarah. And I'll be leading you through today's presentation. Just a few housekeeping items to know before we get started. I do want to let you all know that this webinar is being recorded and it'll be posted in the toolkit on the give education site. You can find that under the resources tab. If you do have questions I come up during the webinar, you can use the little zoom question panel at the bottom, and you can send those over and we will get to as many as we can at the end of the webinar. So we'll get started. I have Carrie and Josh on the webinar from alumni nations and they've been working hard to make sure that give education day is a huge success for you all this year. So I just want to welcome them. Hello, Carrie and Josh. Yeah, I know Carrie, you both want to say some things while let you take the floor. Well, I will start high. This is Carrie Dayton with alumni nations and I just want to thank you all for attending the call today. Last year was our inaugural year and we had a wonderful, wonderful turnout. This program was designed for public education institutions from K through 12 to really give you a day to celebrate your hard work and your efforts and really focus on bringing in those donations for public education. We see so many different giving days, but this one is really just for public education and we're so excited to support it. It was really just designed out of the way to say, why isn't there a day to fund public education and can we connect with our alumni? Can we connect with our current parents? Can we connect with our communities to help really raise awareness for all the good that's happening even during a pandemic? And so we're excited that you're here and we hope that you share this information with other institutions that you might know that could benefit from this. Honestly, it's a great program. It's free for you to participate in. We've given you all the tool kits and I am here as a resource. If there's something that you need that you're not seeing, please email me at the give dash education at alumni nations.com. And I'll be more than happy to assist you in any way that we can just to give you guys a little bit of a recap of what we did last year. We raised over $173,000 from over 400 unique donors across the country. We also had a wonderful grant of $15,000 and we gave away prizes to individual organizations that participated. So we're really trying to generate more buzz and make this a really profitable and fun day for you. So so we look forward to your participation this year again spread the word and then always let me know if there's anything that you need, and I will take care of it. Thanks Sarah. Yep. Let's see Josh do you want to. Hi yeah so my name is Josh Busey and I'm the creative director and database administrator for the Omaha Central High School Foundation. I've been the foundation for a little over six years now, but I believe this is our foundation's eighth consecutive giving day participation of some kind. And we've had a lot of success with giving days in the past. Here in Omaha, there used to be a citywide day of giving called Omaha gives. We actually discontinued that. And so when we found out about give education day, we're really excited, because our donors have come to kind of anticipate and they're familiar with our giving day strategy and campaign so like every year. They're in the mindset of okay every March. There's that that giving day for the foundation that we need to be part of. So they're kind of conditioned in a way to want to participate and want to contribute. Similar to what Carrie mentioned, I'm here as a resource or if you have any questions about maybe how we structured some of our campaigns in the past. I will say that something that I know Sarah is going to touch on something that's been really successful for us in generating buzz and excitement about the event is that we try to have a matching gift from a large donor. And people really like the idea when we're able to say that their donation is making twice the impact and doubling thanks to a matching gift. So I think in any kind of matching gift of any size really should probably inspire your donors to want to participate in a giving day event like give education day. And just here's a resource, like I said, I think I've been a part of six of these days. And so, I'm excited for this year's event, and I'm excited to see what kind of growth and what kind of organization join. So if you have any questions. Feel free to let me know. Thanks Sarah. We're really excited to partner with you all again this year for the events and we're looking forward to providing all the technical support you need. As you all get ready for the big day. So if any participants or organizations have questions if any of us anyone's getting ready or any supporters or donors have questions. You can always reach out to our support team at support at maybe cause.com.  We've been around since 2006 and we were one of the first platforms to host giving days so we've been running giving events for quite a while. And we're really looking forward to having an awesome give education again this year. So let's look at the agenda. So here's look at today's agenda will be going over some of the basics for give education giving day. And then we're going to walk through getting started by registering and customizing your organization page on the platform. And then at the very end we'll do a Q&A session. So if you have a question while I'm presenting you can just type it into your Q&A section on your zoom dashboard and we will get to this. Okay, so the basics. So give education is hosted by alumni nations and takes place this year on March 23. It's a 24 hour giving day that runs from midnight to midnight central. Early giving is going to start on March 1 and registration is required for this giving day so any 501 C3 orgs or schools with an NCES code are welcome to participate and we'll get more to registration a little bit. Okay, so what is a giving day for those who have not participated in the giving day before a giving day is a 24 hour online fundraising marathon. The names to just bring people together to support a specific community or a cause or a space like in this case education. The giving day host organizing event and rally organizations to help raise funds for their causes and organizations participating in the giving day utilize the resources and tools that the host provide which you can find on give organization on the toolkit to help reach out to supporters to solicit donations to build hype for the day the event and secure fundraisers and grow your network. So how giving days work. Just in the last slide, a giving day since the unique campaign presented by a host organization. It provides participants the opportunity to capitalize on the urgency of a 24 hour kind of deadline to raise the most money for your causes.  Reach out to new community partners, you know, try to work on something new like maybe working on peer to peer fundraisers or something else to help spread the word about your organization and this mission. And to help raise funds for your cause, plus with the limited timeframe, it helps create a sense of urgency so your donors are going to tend to respond to that. And the addition of prizes and things like that helps give you fresh messaging opportunities for your donors. Everyone loves, you know, contributing and helping a cause. So that's always exciting. Let's see. So what do you need to do so to participate and give education, you're going to first want to register your organization if you haven't already done so. Once you register it, you can customize your entire profile on give education and start planning your campaign so you can invite people involved with your organization to participate as peer to peer fundraisers. And once early giving has started on March 1, you can start promoting your campaign. You can promote it before that as well if you want to build some hype. And of course you just definitely want to push the donation ask on the big actual giving day on March 23. Okay, so first things first, if you haven't done so yet you're going to definitely need to register your organization for give education day registration is free. So it's free to everyone. To register, you're just going to go to the give education, give dash education calm site, and you'll click register. So it's a big button that says register on the registration page you then can search for your organization and create an account if you've never used mighty cause before. If you've used it last year you can log in and you'll see all your data and information from last year. Once you take that step, the short registration forms appear you fill that out you click submit to complete and then within 24 hours you should receive an email with next steps to help your organization just some tips and planning for success.  You can send them all there and then of course if any of this is overwhelming you are always welcome to reach out to our support team support at mighty cause calm. If you need to write that down. Okay, so once you're totally registered you've created your site you've added whatever as an admin. You can start to navigate around you've. If you click the little user icon in the top right once you lock it log in, you'll be able to go to your account, your organization page is pretty much the hub of all the activity for give education for you. It takes some time to just get comfortable and move around the page. When you log in, you'll automatically land in your overview section, which is where you find your to do list which outlines just a bunch of kind of quick next steps to take to customize your organization account. You'll find metrics here as well which comes in handy once you start raising funds under the organization page section on your dashboard. You can customize your organization page. You can toggle on edit mode. It's pretty intuitively just there's a little button you can turn on edit mode you can edit your page metrics add a goal for this year's giving day, which is nice because you can enable progress bar on your page, which donors love to see within the fundraising section you're able to review any peer to peer fundraisers that have been created for your school or organization, and you'll also find matching links that you can get to in a little bit as well. So if you move along through your dashboard you'll find a report section where you're able to preview and export different donation reports. And then under checkout you can customize your donation form and a thank you page and receipts, which we will also talk about in a few slides.   So you're going to want to make sure it looks good and represents your organization or your school well. Just so you know this org page link is the link that you'll also share with your supporters to ask them to donate to your give education page on the day of. So to share your page you're just going to copy and paste the URL on that specific page into whatever email or social post or wherever you choose to advertise the campaign. So as you're going through your to do list you'll want to customize your page to match your brand, you can change your theme color, you can match it to your logo, you can upload media to your gallery to add some visual interest to your page. And your story and description is also really a good centerpiece. So whatever whatever your fundraising for that year this year, you might want to include that tell people where their funds are going to be. But in your story you can put your mission statement you got photos and videos. And just to note if you're going to do a video you'll need to upload the video to YouTube or Vimeo first. And this is really this but is really where you can go in more in depth about your work and make a really strong visual appeal to your donors. Tell them why organization needs their support and show the impact of the work that you're doing. And then let's see what else we have. Definitely just take some time customizing your page because the more work you put into it. You know put in an hour or more whatever you're able to do the more you put into it the better you'll probably do on the giving day. And you can have the best campaign strategy and the whole world but if your org and the page doesn't look like quite as part as keeping up. Sometimes it's harder to keep donors engaged so definitely put in some time into that. So editing your theme so the first thing you want to do when you edit your profile is upload your organization's logo. You can use those little pencil icon to open up that section for editing. Your logo is going to want to have a one to one aspect ratio to fit the logos on many cause are pretty much the same ratio that many other social media sites use. So if you use that logo as part of your Facebook or Twitter profile you can probably use the same one on our site. And then just a note because your logo is on top of a banner image you're just going to want to make sure those two items don't clash. Okay so next thing you're going to do is upload a background image you can see the background image on this one is an example of two people sitting on a couch. The background image is going to look best if it's mostly text free. We always recommend a really strong image that's representative of your organization. The landscape images are going to work best. The background is a three to one aspect ratio. I thought some information that you find useful. But we also offer a generic gallery of images that you can choose from so if you're short on time if you don't feel like any of your images are very strong you can always select one from the database that we have. You can also change your theme color to match your organization's branding. The theme color allows you to pick a consistent color. It shows throughout the entire experience. And it's really easy to set you're just going to click the little palette icon in the background image and it'll open up that section for editing. You can pick a color or if you have a designer who works with you you can choose a hex code on so that it stays consistent with your brand. So the about section of your page is your huge opportunity to explain what your organization is all about. So for those who have participated previously this is a really good opportunity to review your page from last year to think about any different message you might want to share with donors this year. It's a chance to think about and really update your goals for this year's Give Education Day. And then once you've kind of figured that out you're going to want to start editing. Just start to edit that text editor is right in this section so all you have to do is just click that section and you can start writing. You can add media to your story to jazz it up you can utilize the online text editor to add links or upload images or links to videos from YouTube or Vimeo. These will get embedded in your story so people visit your profile they can check them out within that section. You can add bulleted or numbered lists there's all sorts of you know different editing capabilities within the spot. And it's really, like I said, it's really the best opportunity to create like a really strong appeal to your donors, tell them why you need their support and show the impact of the work that you're doing. Another really cool piece of your profile is the ability to add custom tabs so you can add more tabs, instead of just the about. If you have extra info you want to share that doesn't necessarily make sense to put in your story you can create a custom separate tab to add that information to your organization. And it keeps everything organized and it's really nice and easy to find. For videos for custom tabs you could do information about your upcoming event, frequently asked questions info about staff or acknowledging different donors. Any resources or outbound links you want to give with more information, but you can create up to three of these tabs. Okay, so the media gallery on your profile is where you're going to be able to add additional images you have on your organization page. Again, another really great visual way to show donors what your organization is doing where your funds are going. And just to note the media gallery does only display images it doesn't display videos you're going to want to use the about section if there's any videos you want to add. So you can add your Instagram for your organization, which will pull the pictures you already have on your Instagram. You can connect your Facebook or Instagram accounts, it provides additional content but it only lets people coming to your page know that you have those social accounts, so they can easily follow and thank you, which is nice. So you can customize your social share settings within the settings section of your organization dashboard. So basically what that means is you can standardize the social template whenever someone shares your campaign so you can choose what that looks like you can make it consistent. So when someone shares your link on Facebook or Twitter. This is the image and description that is going to auto appear that you can set. So you can set a standard logo or blurb or hashtags that you want to populate. And the supporter spreads the word about you. Check out flow. Okay, so you're going to want to definitely customize your organization's checkout flow. This is located in the donation forum in your checkout section of your dashboard. The checkout flow is what your donors are going to experience when they make a donation towards your organization. So the first part to customize is going to be your checkout steps. This is probably one of the most important features to focus on when you're setting up your organization's page. The donation form section gives you a lot of control over the donation process for your organization on mighty cause. You can set up custom suggested donation amounts and add descriptions to help tie those amounts to items or services your school organization provides. So for example, you could share that like $100 donation funds a one school trip on the $50 donation funds a class activity. So a lot of descriptions for what you're asking people to donate amount like the amounts is really going to strengthen your appeal people love to see where their money is going or have an idea of how much money. It takes to do something. So within the donation form you can also opt into collecting any additional info you might need. You can also automatically connect, collect email and address information for you. But if you want to collect phone numbers or ask a specific question, like, are you interested in volunteering, you can add another section to your donation form. But do note that you can only add one additional question. At the top of the donation form you can toggle your edit mode off to preview the whole checkout process without actually making a test donation. So you can see what your final process is going to look like and use that to edit further if needed. Okay, let's see. Check out the post check out. All right, so the thank you page section within the checkout is where you're going to go to set up your thank you page, which will use the exact same text editor as your about and story section. So you can add text, you can add links, a video, an image, you can add a custom call to action button that tells your donors where you'd like them to go next. A cool idea would be for instance like asking them to sign up for email list or directing them to your PTA or your volunteer site. You can also customize your organization's donation receipt within the donation receipt section. So the customization you set up here is above the tax deductible donation receipt that gets sent out automatically after a donor completes their donation on the site. So it's very customizable. Donations and disbursements, you can access your reports on donations and disbursements in your report section on your dashboard. So if you click on that section, it'll give you a sub menu where you can choose from your all donations report, a report on recurring donations, your organization has or you can also do a donation retention report which comes in handy if you participate last year. You can see who has or has not, which donors have been retained or not. You can also find a disbursement report here. So your donation report is available to you in real time, which is very nice and includes information like the donor name, the email, the donation amount, and also, and you'll also know like what page they donated to. On your donation report, you can also click the download the report. A download report will include much more info like designations, dedications that has the full info in this report, the gross net amount of their donation, any additional info you set up to collect, as well such as like a phone number. So the disbursement section of your report allows you to see your batch disbursement history so you can click on a disbursement listing to open up more info about that disbursement, like which donations were included in that report, as well as a summary of the total amount, the total associated fees, that amount included in that disbursement. So all donations on the site are processed through the mighty cause foundation which is a donor advice fund. So your organization can sign up for the electronic fund transfer which is recommended since it allows your fund to be disbursed twice a month. We can also send disbursements to the attack if that's something that you're more interested in and those get sent out once a month. And there is a $5 and fee associated with Chuck disbursement so we do highly recommend that you sign up for EFT. It's free plus you get your money faster. So matching grants so just like Josh was saying at the beginning matching grants and matching gifts help inspire donors to participate so they're really important.  And the fundraising section on your dashboard is where you'll find the matching grants tool so as I'm sure many of you know having a matching grant or a corporate sponsor can go a long way and driving your donations. So yeah matching grant is something organization secures and sets up on your own. This tool allows you to display a matching grant you've worked on to secure on your organization profile page. So in our next webinar we'll be going into more detail about why and how to secure a match. But for now, we'll just kind of expand a little bit the matching grant tool is super versatile you have a lot of options for how to structure your match. While a lot of matches are one to one matches where if someone gives that amount the exact amount is matched with our tool on many cause that you can also do a two to one match, a three to one match, or you can match a person or match a percentage of each donation. So our matching grant tool doesn't math for you so all you have to do is choose how you want to structure your match. You can also apply a match when a certain number of donations have been received. So for instance, if there is a power hour available for the most individual donations you can say that if you get 100 donations within the hour, you'll get an additional $1,000 for your organization or however your matching grant is set up to help you actually drive donation volume and traffic. It really gives like a quick call to action that lets donors know like this is what we have available. The matching grant tool also allows you to post multiple grants at one time and in sequence. So if you have a bunch of grants for the day, you can set them up to queue one after another which is really cool. It sounds like a lot but the tool itself is really pretty user friendly. And if you have a lot and it gives you a lot of flexibility and how you structure your match so take some time to look through check out the matching grant tool. See the possibilities start brainstorming. And of course, if you get overwhelmed by any of the possibilities, just setting it up as a one to one match as a simplest. It's the easiest thing to do. And of course, if you have questions you can reach out to support. And we'll go over more of this and up on the next webinar. Okay, the last section on your dashboard is the settings. So if you click settings, it's going to open up a sub menu where you can update your organization settings so this is where you can customize your organization's URL. You can change your EFT, you can update your legal information if needed, and customize your social sharing. So everyone who goes to your campaign is going to get a template to start with the info and the images that you provide. The section setting is also where you can add or remove admins from your account. So every account comes with a few donation widgets that allow you to collect donations for give education right through your organization or your school's regular website. So you or your tech person can embed the widget through a secure iframe on your website and it will collect donations that you get counted towards your campaign for give education. The widgets will reflect the custom donation levels and descriptions you've set up as well. So you know exactly what your donors are experiencing whether they donate through your give education site or through a widget on your regular website. The widget does not include any custom checkout questions and doesn't include any dedications or designations just so you know. These widgets are totally optional but we do want to offer it as another way for you to collect funds for give education day. You can collect funds the way that you want whether it's through the widget or through your organization profile page. See. Okay, so moving on from the dashboard. I want to make sure I mentioned the really great tools you can use as you get ready for give education. And of course the toolkit. The toolkit is on the homepage for giveeducation.com. It has a bunch of tips and tricks and FAQs and walkthroughs and has templates you can use for email and social media to help you get inspired, help you figure out how to promote your campaign. And there's more in depth and starter info depending on what you're looking for if it's your first year or you've done this before. This is also where you're going to be able to find today's training recording as well. So once this is over, I'll upload it to the tool kit. So definitely take some time to check out browser the toolkit. And you can always refer back to it as you're planning your campaign. And then as we start to wrap up I want to make sure you all have the contact information for support. In case you need it for reference. Of course you have Carrie and Josh as great resource, great resources, but before and after the giving day if there's anything that comes up related to your campaign, anything setting up to EFT figuring out how to strategies. You can reach out to the mighty cause support team Monday to Friday nine to five Eastern or you can always email support at mighty cause.com. Okay, so then, a couple more things. Our next webinar is going to be on Wednesday, February 9, 1pm central 2pm Eastern. You can register for that through the toolkit that we've been talking about. There's a little button for registration and we're going to discuss strategy regarding tools within your give education account, as well as email, social media tips and tricks to help you get the benefits out of your day with alumni nations, and you can sign up for the toolkit. And then of course if you haven't already done so make sure you register to participate in give education day. It's a good opportunity for marketing a big opportunity for engagement. And we've really tried to structure it in a way to make it as easy as possible for you to get up and running. So let's see if anyone has any questions. You can type them into the Q&A button. We do have a question. I'm watching the chat, the PowerPoint, there was a support that mighty cause.com, which certainly was where you could go as a library for answers correct and then there's the support at mighty cause.com email address. Yes, find the answer is that correct. And if I can take a minute and I see we have a question to Josh, could you talk to us because I'm watching the seminar and I feel like the how how much time Josh do you think it took to get your page all set up and sometimes it can seem overwhelming and my experience it isn't but I know if you haven't done it before it might seem intimidating how long did it take to get your page set up to a place where you are comfortable with it. Yeah. You know that's a good question, I guess, I would say that the the template that is provided really makes it super easy to get something up relatively quickly. And actually one of the points that I was going to make is that for us and an ideal scenario, you've got your page set up, you've got your pictures posted to kind of show off some of the accomplishments that you've achieved throughout the year. Ideally, you have your campaign in place, and when the giving day comes around, you've already done all of the hard work like you're just kind of sitting back and watching the donations come in. So there is a little bit of prep work ahead of time because you need to put stuff on your profile connect your social media platforms if you can kind of spread the word, if you want to about the event. But yeah, like, I will say we run a different platform for Omaha Gibbs, and it was not nearly as easy or intuitive to use as the mighty cause one is. It's very simple to put information about your organization pictures from maybe accomplishments or other things that you want to share your page is a great way to show off and answer the question why somebody should be donating to you. So it's a good way to share those things that you want your donors to know about. I don't have an exact idea of how much time we spent but I can tell you it wasn't a lot of time compared to our previous platform was super easy to make changes and put stuff up there. Thank you trash. If you go to the give education dot com and you go to the frequently asked questions down at the bottom. It does give you a breakdown of the fees. There is an option. So what we're looking at is to sign up for the program. There's no cost. Any credit card transaction fees are at 2.2% and a 30 30 cent merchant processing fee and a 3% platform P alumni nations is do does gets 1% of that, which is just basically to mitigate the cost of of of what we have put into this program. So we do have the option Sarah correct me if I'm wrong that people can. There are when we when you go to check out people can your donors can pay for this so that the organization doesn't have to is that correct. Yes, they can opt in to cover the fees. And that's actually a good point in our experience. Almost all the people who donated to us last year opted to pay for their pay for the fees that were associated. I mean almost everybody did which was shocking for us like we weren't sure what to expect. So I think there's a lot of potential for that to happen for all organizations. Yeah, that's true. Donors definitely they definitely usually want to cover it. Let's see any other questions are you seeing Carrie. Yes, there was another one about having and I can't find it anymore. Is there a platform or a site that's already done a sample platform we can see so what would look like are you able to share your screen and take it over to give education so that we can take a look at Josh's website or can Josh. Share his screen so we can show yeah Josh wants to share his skin he should be able to. Let's put Josh on the spot. Yeah. Let me stop share. And then Josh.  I have to say as a donor and not necessarily the person who develops the site when I went to donate to my cause last year on give education it was really neat when I pulled up the page and it looks so professional I felt like this was a very quality event that the school had put in a lot of time and effort into building their page when in reality, you know, I think it's fairly easy. And it just it felt like this could be this would be an event that happens every year and this would be an easy way for me to engage with my organization annually. So here, everybody able to see my screen. Here's what we did last year for our profile. So we just have our logo at the top I kind of created a little header picture we actually had a picture of the school before so there's a lot of fun things you can do for like a picture at the very top. But we like to include a testimonial section on our website to let people let our donors read impact stories and quotes from students about, you know, what kind of things their money are going towards. And so that's something we always include every year. But we also have a little YouTube video as well. uploaded some pictures. I don't think. Yeah, we did not connect our Instagram account to our profile because we felt like the pictures were a lot were the same but what was in the media gallery so we decided to kind of just do a media gallery and not have the Instagram as well. But yeah so it's it provides a decent amount of information. Some light reading, but for the most part, as it should be the focus is on how much money's been raised. How do I donate stuff like that it's really easy to navigate and get around. And Sarah and Josh this is Terry with a question that didn't get asked but nonetheless the fundraise button is there an option so if I'm a donor and I want to share that I donated you know that I donated I want other people to donate on behalf of this organization is that what that fundraise button is there is that a possibility for me to easily as a donor share that information to encourage others. You can share the organization but the fundraising button is going to get people creating fundraising pages. Okay, got it. Thank you. Okay, well thank you that was a really great representation of a good page. Okay, so if anyone else has any other questions I don't think I see anymore. We're welcome to reach out to supports. And then I'm going to upload this recorded webinar to your toolkit so you can refer to it at another time if you need to. So thank you everyone for attending. Thank you have a great day.


Well, here we are now, on the brink of the apocalypse.  Lights come on at final cost, we'll pay me all your compliments before I pay the tab. I get with refunds from my scholarship. We ask no questions before signing master promissories. We ask no questions when he sent the troops to battle for greed and you know I love Obama, but he let them bomb Zucati and you know that burning books is the prelude to burn bodies so kind of them all.    And my name to the page is of a long, long hit list. What's up y'all, how you feeling? You have no idea how beautiful this is. No, you probably do, this is amazing. I just want to take a moment to honor and lift up that's some very important people. I mean, all of you are really, really important, but lost voices in the audience, could y'all stand up? Those of you that don't know, the Lost Voices are a group of protesters from Ferguson that have been on the front lines of this resistance movement from day one. They camped out in the protest area for 47 days. They vowed not to move until Darren Wilson was indicted. They were forcibly removed by Ferguson police, but they have not stopped their work. And they are here today. And I want to make sure that we honor them because as important as it is that we get our feelings out about this movement through our art, we have to understand that people have been putting real things at risk and real things at stake, their bodies and their lives every day. And so we have to really lift up and pay homage to the sacrifices that they have made so that we can do these things from the comfort of these theater seats. And so I'm gonna do one more short piece, but I need some audience participation because I think it's time that we feel good. I think it's time that we do some feel good because so much of what we have experienced right now is tragic and we need to allow space for us to feel that tragedy. But I think it's important that the name of this event is we must breathe. As the chance on the protest lines have been I can't breathe in solidarity with Eric Garner in his last words as he died, we also now have to know that it's time to take a collective breath and understand how to heal and celebrate together and that we are what we need to heal ourselves. So I need y'all to do a little call and respond to me. Is that cool? Yeah. Cool. So when I say, if you're alive then sing. I wanna hear y'all say, we got everything. Let's try that out. If you're alive then sing.  Cool. That's cool. That's really cool. All right. So I need y'all to give me a little beat too. So, can y'all? I know it's gonna be like a lot of moving parts but I know I got a lot of people in the audience with rhythm who gonna help me out. So, run from a gun, can't hide from a lie but we can still have good times. Ain't got no dress code, got no dress. No, we ain't gonna stand in. And then you guys can follow me with the beat. He's here on this stage, so I'm really happy to bring it full circle. I usually do it with my brother who is on stage doing another play of mine. So this is a little excerpt from our show, Lack on Lack. Can run from a gun, can't hide from a lie but we can still have good times. Run from a gun, can't hide from a lie but we can still have air. Put your wings in the air. Got a whole lot of sky, got a deed for it. It is repaired, hope the team is prepared for the season. Declared one, keys and scuff up your sneaks.   Come let us feed you or wrap in this manna. Puffing with Hebrews like Brent Lee his family expanding the clan to the grandmama. We bulls out the pin. They mention like aftershocks. We stole a mask in my hand from Papa.  Run from a gun, can't hide from a lie but we can still have. Run from a gun, can't hide from a lie but we can still have.


My name is Jason Gestes. So I'm currently walking with book my show and I have like me and my couple of my friends We just like we actually living together and we used to sit and hack something or find something like some random thing So this is actually a research from like my friends like Yeah, I'm just straight away. I don't have time Okay, so first of all I'm just Dedicating this flash talk to my family because every time when I play games, they ask the same question Why you're still playing games? Like especially when I play this game where a man legend like next year Hey, man, you're going next year. You need to get married. Why are you playing this all this cartoon games? Yeah, it's like well, it's it's game But yeah, I know that people they don't understand like but I have an answer for this question Like why I still play games, but I think like before I just Like I'm just play a little small clip of this game and and the level that I really like and just small You see the game right it's very cartoon it's very colorful and it's very vibrant and it's so cool like but That that game that clip that I shown it have the answer for my question like I think you guys guessed Like and it's nothing. It's just simply game experience So like game experience like you see the game right the dynamics of the game like the player the move and Every in that level like everything like the animation that boss enemies the player everything come to a like one center point Like it more concentrated on the music and even the player also you will get addicted to the music and you just sit And like continuously playing oh man, I need to finish the level in one one stretch So like that that's called like game experience. Why because that simple cartoon game They drag me to like sit and like play for hours and hours to complete levels It the game have something and that's the experience. So today. I'm just talking about the game experience So before that life just give you what is game experience like game experience? It's like a combination of like a lot of things like story art music like mechanics and lot of factors It's it's n number because when I start digging more it's like a very big topic I'm really gets like there's a lot of things to learn from that. So I thought about to share some factors that really drive the game experience currently in the industry when you look at the games out there So the first factor is the user interface So in user interface now you see all the interface are like very aesthetics very just you see this This is the game screen of a game called division by Splendor sell it by UBS. So I think it's not to release I'm not sure So you see that like this is actually a map like a player when you see it Like I want to see where is my next checkpoint when you click on the map It's actually show in the 3d area. It's like very beautifully It's it it's on it's like it Actually utilize the complete spatial 3d area and they put a very amazing map like it's like a war factor It was like oh man. This is nice cool. I never seen this before So like people are making very aesthetics and like very good and the main thing is this is usable Like it's not just a piece of lines and circles. It's like very useful when you really see that I actually watch the gameplay and I got like I mean, this is a one good thing So next thing I've seen in UI is minimal like right now all the games are like getting very popular Like franchise is like assassin's crate gtf5 and all right But if you still like you play all the series of game, but you you should watch the UI And so I actually took like gta like three versions gta san andrias gta 5 and gta Sorry uta 4 and gta 5 So if you took in this san andrias right you have seen on the top That's actually an icon like also watch the current weapon you have selected then the time health bar and your money But okay, that's cool right when you're playing at that day But on the next release when they they completely remove that block They remove that information from there and give them more space to enjoy that complete view of the like environment that they're created So but Actually weapon and bullet that's actually important when you are getting into a fight So they thought it very well So in gta 4 like when you actually get into some fight on top They will show the what the current weapon you have selected how many ammo round and how many police are there But similarly in gta 5 they exactly took the gta 4 and they made a little bit change the only change I've seen When you're in the fighting sequence, they don't show the gun They only write the numbers like how much round is left because like it doesn't matter like when you're in fight You never care of what gun it is. You just see the enemy.  Oh my nice cool. You never go And the next thing is feedback like feedback is yeah this screen Like give or like feedback for example a lot of first-person shooters lovers are here So like when you see like a wolfenstein When there will be a health bar and whenever you shoot the headbar will decrease and that's how you know Okay, I'm going to die But exactly same philosophy when you're in attack you never think of anything only the enemy same thing But in that situation how how how we will get notified that okay?  So you will get notice. Oh, sorry Sorry, I'm very sorry So like I got I need to take a cover otherwise I will die similarly In racing game like need for speed when you're putting a nitro boost and you're accelerating They add a motion blur effect to that. So you will feel like oh man. My car is going very fast Actually, it's simulation, but you get the feel that okay. I'm accelerating. I'm getting into the First second third or what so this is like what like a couple of things that I notice in ui But there are a lot more, but I just hand pick a couple of like you see understandable thing And the next big factor is an art So when you see like art, right? I know this art has been changed drastically Like if you think from story if you think from the environment Character and all the designs like they have changed very drastically like uh for for example Like if you take uh the game like far cry for like I've seen the developer diary where the developers They travel to nepal and they stay for months and they study it what the culture what the music how the environment look Then they exactly recreated in the game So it's like a very good experience not just like playing game. It's giving me the culture of nepal I don't know what how the nepal looks and all but I can see the game if they create a very fictional place in the day And it's a very good game Yeah Yeah One just finished. So next is music. I'm going very fast. So music like games I really got a very big collection of music like music discovery games is one good thing Like this is just a couple of art Albums I have like there are a lot more I can put it but I don't have time yesterday when they're preparing this So I just put only this there are a lot of songs I get So the conclusion like what did you learn in like this five minutes? Like what I just talked a lot of random things here But the main thing the game teaches you user experience because like you you are actually user you are interacting with the game It's actually a system like the feedback what how the this is actually exactly you want in like normal apps that you do Like it should be very user friendly in games like nobody need to teach or will you always go there and take and you start playing without Anybody forcing or just like that's the thing. So from games. I really understand like okay They're taking too much thing about user experience and all so you can really understand small small things from that And yeah, the another one is like one good excuse to play like I'm learning user experience at all Like that's one good excuse to play seriously. You could just tell me like