But I think, you know, the reason that Tim and I wrote this book, Romans 13, The True Meaning of Submission, is because the biggest reason that we are in the mess we're in today is because the pastors, Christians, and churches of America have simply refused to be the salt of the earth and to stand up as a resistance to this kind of tyrannical of ideas, philosophies and now activities that are taking place. They've been brainwashed in the pulpits and in the seminaries of America. This erroneous, fallacious interpretation of Romans 13 that the government, because it's ordained of God, means that it has the right to do whatever it wants to do and no one as a Christian should resist. This is the most foolhardy interpretation of a biblical passage that I could ever think of. The problem is, it is pervasive throughout our seminaries, our Bible colleges, our pulpits, every denomination is teaching this. I would venture to say that over 90% of the American churches, pastors, seminaries and colleges are putting forth this interpretation of Romans 13. And for those that don't know, all the World Council of Churches and before that National Council set up what 100 years ago by the Rockefellers publicly, all they had to do was go in and give grants and lobby and take control of what, the 20 or so big denominations, they order them what to preach to the point of, I could play a newscast saying, it is of the Lord to go to FEMA camps, it is of the Lord to take shots, it is of the Lord to do what you're told and go to the camp. I mean, that's a quote, I'm sure you've seen that newscast where they actually admit this and we got the documents, Pastor Butch Pa did years ago and then I got more documents here on Genesis and then people didn't believe the documents and then later they came out and said, yeah, we've recruited over 100,000 preachers to spy on you and to tell you to go to a FEMA camp. I mean, that's right out of red dawn. Yeah, well, not only that, but we know that FEMA has these, as you already mentioned these conspiracy response teams that's going around training pastors that in the event of a national emergency quote, quote declared by the president, the pastors are going to be utilized by the government, namely FEMA to encourage their congregants to turn over their firearms to the federal government. And I've had pastors, I've talked to pastors that have attended these seminars. I've seen some of the some of the manuals that they have distributed. I've heard the first hand testimony from some of these pastors. No, we got them. We got the manuals, they even go on the news, but here's the deal. People couldn't believe it when it wasn't public. When we first got the documents, then they even admitted it and folks said, well, I guess her my guns in is of the Lord. But think about that all over the country for at least eight years, secretly training preachers to tell their flock hand your guns and go to the camp that proves they're preparing this pastor.  How they use Romans 13 and how they twist it. Pastor Chuck Baldwin. Well, what they do is they teach that Romans 13 would have every Christian to submit to civil government, regardless of the kind of edict that government may put forth. In other words, if government is is is wicked and evil, requiring men to submit to evil and wickedness as a Christian, that we are to submit to that evil government because Romans 13 teaches us to do so. It is a totally passive application and erroneous application of this, you know, wonderful passage of scripture that it actually does just the opposite. That's why Tim and I wrote the book. It's called Romans 13, the true meaning of submission. And we go into it verse by verse. We go into it in depth. We look back into the history of Christian forebears. We talked about Christian philosophers and theologians of years gone by. We compare what they had to say to what preachers are saying today. We go back into the Old Testament. We look at the scripture from from both the Old and New Testament standpoint. And we see the consistent teaching of scripture is just the opposite of what this current interpretation that is being used is. And as a result of this book, Romans 13 is in my estimation a blockbuster because there's nothing else like it in print that I know of today, at least not recently. And we are trying to get the word out the Christians, the churches, the pastors and showing giving them the scriptural historical foundation of the true meaning of Romans chapter 13. For folks that don't know, it was one of Hitler's favorite verses to take out of context. And for those that don't know what it says, why don't you state Romans 13 for listeners? Yeah, Romans chapter 13 basically says that the higher powers that we are to submit to the higher powers in verse one, but the higher powers mentioned in verse one are constituted to be the highest power. And the fact of matter is the higher power, which is the civil power is not the authority of God is not the highest power. All power is subjected. Alex, all power is jurisdictional. Every single person in any position of authority or power has a jurisdiction related to that authority. He has no right to violate or transgress the parameters and the jurisdiction.  Defend yourself. It's all common sense, jurisdictional. And the system understands this. And also they say, well, do whatever government says it's your king. Well, in America, we the people, right, we created the government.  So we've got to submit to Al Gore and Jordan book you've got out even if someone isn't a Christian out there. And they wonder why the churches in America just support any type of illegal war, any type of torture, any type of corruption, any type of forced inoculations, it's because they become like state run churches like in China or Soviet Russia. And so it's important to educate pastors about what's going on. Now continuing with with with Romans 13 and what it really states and what it's been turned into. Right. Thank you very much, Alex. And Romans chapter 13. We talked at the end of the before the break. In verse one, where it says that every soul be subject to the higher powers. There's no power but of God, the powers that be ordained of God, and so forth. And what they do is they take they translate those verses into meaning that we are to submit to government no matter how evil, no matter how wicked, no matter how unconstitutional, etc, etc. And what we've done, my son is a constitutional attorney, as you know, and he and I collaborated on this book, we call it Romans 13, the true meaning of submission. And we go into the depth of the word of God in both testaments, we look at the scriptures, the myriad scriptures that deal with this, there's hundreds and hundreds of scriptures that deal with this subject, not just Romans chapter 13. The passage does not stand alone. We know that scripture is to be interpreted in the light of other scripture. And so we've got we've delved into the various scriptures we've delved into history.   And he says no, so get into the lion's den or I'm going to crucify upside down or I'm going to sell you into slavery. The whole Bible is about resisting tyranny. Absolutely. And I make that statement in the course of my address that I preached a four part series based on the book. And I made that that very observation that if you look at biblical history, you go back to the Old Testament, even into the new, perhaps a majority can't say that equivocally, but perhaps a majority of the stories of the Bible deal with someone resisting civil authority. I think almost, I'd say 80%.  I mean, can you think of anybody? I mean, Moses didn't do what Pharaoh said.  It's a joke. The entire Bible is about about resisting tyranny. Exactly right. And again, that's why I say that this book is so needful. And as you noted, every tyrant in history has used Romans 13, especially if there's a Christian people involved, to try and subjugate the folks into into their into their wishes. Hitler did it. We know that this is a favorite passage of Scripture from those who would like to, you know, tyrannize us and to enslave us. This book, Romans 13, Alex, I just don't know of anything right now that's out there. That's why we put this together. And in my frustration as a pastor for over 35 years, in dealing with with churches and preachers and Christian people and hearing this over and over and over again, that in the 501 C 3 incorporation status, those two things have subjugated the church to to Caesar more than any two things I can think of. And that's why this book is so necessary. Well, let's go over a few of the accounts in the Bible of people being evil and resisting murderers and tyrants, according to the modern preachers.  I can't remember who will rise up for me against the wicked one on and on and on about if you see evil being done, and you don't try to resist it, then the blood's on your hands.  If you've got them there in front of your pastor on the other side, then we'll jam in some calls as well and continue with calls throughout the end of the broadcast. And the pastor leaves us a T minus 25 minutes back to the pastor, pastor, please shotgun through Romans 13. What it really says versus the other passages and stories in the Bible. Well, yeah, right, Alex. Thanks a lot. And yeah, you mentioned right before the break. Let's talk about some of the examples in the Bible of those who resisted unlawful authority. And let's think about Daniel, one of the great stories of the Scripture. Every Sunday school boy and girl hears about Daniel and the lion's den. Well, you know, how did he get to the lion's den? He got there because his civil authority government put him there. Well, why did they put him there? Because he resisted what they told him to do. He said, no, in that particular case, they said, you can't pray for X amount of days publicly.  I'm, you know, open my windows. I'm going to pray like I do every day. They threw him in the lion's den. Of course, God protected him and saved him from the lion's den. But that's not the point. The point really wasn't that God saved him from the lion's. The point was he was willing to go into the lion's den in defiance of his civil authority. Same book you got Shadrach Meshach and Abednego, who were commanded to bow down and worship the image of the state. They said, we can't do that. We'll have no other gods before us, the very first commandment. We're not going to bow to the state. The state is not our God.  And again, we talk about in Sunday school that God delivered them from the burning fiery furnace. But again, that's not the point. The point is, they went into the burning fiery furnace. Why did they go in? Because they defied government. They were not willing to submit their conscience to the authority of the state. And this was the old terror of government. We're going to throw you in with starving lions. If you don't do what we say, we're going to throw you into a smelting pit. If you don't do what we say, I mean, the same garbage today. Go ahead. Yeah, even the book of judges, I mean, people read the book of judges, whether it's Gideon or or Samthon or or Jeff to whoever it is, read the entire book of judges, what we find, we find the people of God being tyrannized, being subject subjugated by some oppressive regime, and God raising up a deliverer called a judge. Sometimes they were just a common person that had no, you know, particular position or authority. But God put it on their heart to deliver their people from that tyranny that they were under. And so they rose up, God helped them, God gave them strength, and they delivered the people from this oppressive regime, whatever it might happen to be. That's the entire book of judges. You get to the do test a bit. You come to Simon Peter, when the the civil government over him said, we command you not to speak and preach anymore in his name. And he said, you sorry, we must obey God rather than man. And they took the the cat and I tails on the back for that went to prison for that. But they said no, they defied civil authority, the entire same thing with Paul, fast forward to be a past 70 years later, 100 years later, being burned at the stake in the arena, being thrown to lions because they wouldn't know it's the entire Bible. And that shows you just how deceived or openly wicked most of these little devils are up there on the pulpit.  Well, a lot of them have been they have been deceived. They they they've been taught it in seminary or Bible college. It's the accepted doctrine to teach. They haven't thought it through. Yes, some of them. Some of them are demons. They are. But some of them are just deceived. They just don't know any better. That's what they were taught and they haven't studied it through for themselves. And that's why Tim and I wrote the book. Tim again is my constitutional attorney son and we collaborated on this. But by the way, can I get my website so people can get a hold of that? Oh, absolutely. In fact, I was about to get to that. Go ahead. It's it's you can't get it in bookstores. It's Chuck Baldwin live.com. That's Chuck Baldwin live. All one word. L I V.com and it's very easy. You can see the links and you can click on it. Order online, etc. But that's why we wrote this book is because of this indoctrination that's going on out there and that in conjunction with the 501c3 corporation status of churches has completely neutered the pulpits. That's why they won't take a stand and these people that are listening out there and all denominations of people are listening right now and you go to church on Sunday and you come back and you say to Alex on the phone or you say to your friends, you know, why doesn't my preacher take a stand? Why won't he talk about this? Why doesn't he get involved in this? This is why this is why the 501c3 tax exempt status, by the way, our Liberty Fellowship here in in Montana is not a 501c3 fellowship. By the way, didn't exist until the 50s. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion prohibiting the free exercise thereof or the freedom of the press on and on on First Amendment. They said, oh, you can still be a church that's tax exempt outside of law because we can't put a law on you. We have no jurisdiction back to what you were talking about earlier or you can be a charitable organization and the big denominations ordered all their churches to file under it and now the charitable organization has no free speech when it doesn't get any clearer than the First Amendment. Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or the press or the people to peaceably assemble. I mean, he just goes on and on. Read the First Amendment. It's all right there and now I've had friends come to me from their Baptist churches, their Catholic churches, their, you name it, Mormons have sent me the letters where just across the board, they are told do not even talk about politics or your views even at church or at any church function. I mean, they're even telling now their flocks don't have free speech. I mean, these are like Soviet cults. Yeah, the fear of losing their tax exempt status is what's causing that and the Romans chapter 13 and the erroneous interpretation of that passage is giving them the spiritual justification for it. That's that's the double tandem that is destroying America. If we could get the churches and the preachers to stand up for the biblical principles of liberty, the same kind of principles that Jonas Clark, he was the pastor of the church at Lexington on April nineteen seventeen seventy five when the British troops came marching through to do two things. They were going to arrest John Adams, excuse me, Sam Adams and John Hancock and they were going to to seize the cash for firearms that was stored at Concord and when they got to Lexington, it was pastor Jonas Clark and the congregants, the male congregants of his church that were the Minutemen that fired the shot heard around the world and the war for independence began in the United States and it was it and that was the kind of spirit that the Black Regiment preachers all uh personified back at that time. They all understood this. I mean, if we had this erroneous, fallacious interpretation of Romans thirteen in the colonies like we have today in America, we would still be a crown colony of Great Britain. Well, that's why the social engineers a hundred years ago first thing targeted the takeover of the churches and the teaching of Romans thirteen.  I mean, that is all by design ladies and gentlemen. It was the Christians that kicked King George back to England. We'll be right back with Chuck Baldwin. That's a good question for you, Chuck. I'm sure you've seen Harry Reid call the Tea Partiers terrorist. Uh the New York Times says that anybody who doesn't want to get rid of the fellow reserve is quote Hezbollah. They're rebranding and saying we're not worried about Al Qaeda now and I told folks this was coming. It's it's particularly white males and Christians. Uh and we've got all these White House memos about how great a terror attack would be to help them. We have Joe Biden saying the Tea Partier terrorist. Uh they're really trial ballooning coming after people that understand that they are the criminals. Yeah, well, I got a little taste of that in 2008, Alex, whenever the Mayak report came out in the state of Missouri and identified myself and Ron Paul and Bob Barr by name and of course you were you were on top of all that. We you talked you broke the story on that one and uh that thing became a major debacle uh an embarrassment for the law enforcement officials in the state of Missouri that later rescinded the report and dismissed the man that initiated it but the damage was done and ever since then that has been continuing and eight did the Department of Homeland Security through their fusion centers continues to put out this kind of disinformation. I was about to say Mayak was just a regurgitated ADL federal report. That's exactly right. SPLC and they continue uh these reports continue. I promise you everywhere you go to speak everywhere I go to speak uh and there is a report that appears in the computers of the local and county law enforcement officers alerting them to the fact that we are there identifying us as extremists etc and I'm I'm not just saying that by hearsay I actually saw a police computer report one time when I invited Dr. Greg Dixon to come and speak to my church a great man of God the former pastor Indianapolis Baptist temple in Indianapolis Indiana that was seized by the IRS the only church in America to do so and uh whenever he came to speak uh Deputy Sheriff let me see the uh computer in his car alerting him to Dr. Dixon's presence in my church now that came from DHS through the fusion center into the local and county law oh yeah that's who they're watching when they get the Christmas Day underwear bomber the government admits they got him on the plane all staged and we're all the lucky hanging out secretly at the Pentagon Fox News but I got sent a secret report from the army that at my events for in the Fed and Ron Paul's they have army there and it says don't let them know your army they'll try to kill you I mean they're telling the military we that if you come to it in the fed rally that we find out their military we're going to kill them pastor like we're like we're vampires or something yeah there's a link right there on the front page you see it advertised just click that get an online credit cards etc and able to pick this up and it's you know just under 200 pages uh it's chuck full of scripture references from both Testaments we have theologians historians and Christians from history and their comments on what they said about this subject and I challenge anyone to read this book and then not be convinced that we have a sacred obligation to resist uh evil authority and by the way Franklin I'm sorry go ahead and say Brisbane Franklin said rebellion to tyrants is obedience to god and he was exactly right that is a scriptural truism that it is an obligation of Christian people to resist evil government but but pastor as you know this is a chicken or egg situation if you've really got god in your heart you're not going to be able to control yourself you're going to be drawn towards confronting bullies and scum uh and I think that's the issue so I think the book should be gotten out the pastors because maybe they're ignorant and it will certainly wake some up but also it's a test if your pastor reads it and then argues with you about it because I've read the bible I've studied history this is common sense it's no brainer but if they read this very well written well researched historical document and they still don't listen then you need to find a better church and and I think your book should be really a litmus test uh four churches what do you say to that pastor ball wow I think I think thank you Alex I think that's true and I couldn't tell how many people have read the book and have called us back or written this and said you know what it is what this confirmed everything that I knew in my heart was true but I didn't know where to find it in the bible I didn't know where to see it in print but now I see it and you know and and they have done that very thing on now I'm looking for a church that will preach the truth relative to this vitally important subject and I know people all over America that are doing that so I think that is exactly if we don't start voting with our feet we Christians if we don't start voting with our feet and getting out of these churches that are bringing us into bondage spiritually politically ethically and every other way and start finding true men of God out there even if the church is a small little church with only 30 or 40 people in it so what be in a church where the truth is being preached and God will bless your family and more and more than that God will bless our nation I could not agree more now we got to do it we've turned away from the basic principles and now look what we're getting a constitution Bella writes goes out the door corruption and absolute poverty comes in I mean it's real simple we got to get the tyranny out of here but we got a replacement I want to thank you for coming on and I look forward to speaking to you again in the near future thank you Alex and thanks for letting me be on the show and keep up the great work are you kidding thanks for writing that book I mean yeah well we we we want to get it out and we want people to to get the message and that we really believe that the Christian and the churches is where the the real power is in this country it's always been that way we the people are the are the government and we are the power in this country and if you can get the pastors and the Christians to understand their obligation and their duties under God and I think of that scripture verse where Jesus said if the salt has lost its savor it sends forth good for nothing but to be trodden under the foot of men and cast out and that's exactly what's happened the church has lost its saltiness and it's being cast out and trodden under the foot of tyranny and Romans 13 and the misinterpretation of it is one of the biggest reasons why this book is a major major breakthrough I think in helping people to have the information scripturally historically at their fingertips to know how to how to deal with that and again if they'll go to chuckbald1live.com all one word chuckbald1live.com they can order that book okay we look forward to speaking to you again in the near future take care all right there he goes yeah it is important to get those type of materials out to people and then that's why this radio show exists is a platform for information to get it out to people


It working? Yes. Thanks for having me here. My name is Manuel from Grayscale Publishing. I will actually talk tomorrow morning. This will be my regular talk at 10am or 10am. But I was very, very impatient, so I subscribed for this lighting talk. It will be dedicated to the Scribes community. So I hope they are arriving. Any Scribes programmers here? Yes? Only one? Well, so a little bit of boring introduction, and so they will see just the actually important part. This will be a short presentation of my most important feature request. As a designer, as a graphic designer working with Libre software, what would be the most kick-ass killer feature that would improve my workflow tremendously? Now, I'm making three assumptions on which I base this request. They are first assumption. Many graphic designers, especially working with Libre software on various platforms, know a bit about the basics of the CSS style sheet language. In the future, more and more of them will know about it, the younger generation of designers. And third assumption, most of the textiles we used to apply, like bold underline, padding here and there on top and bottom of the paragraph and so on, have an equivalent in CSS or will have in the future and will be maybe surpassed by it. So based on that logical conclusion, what we want to see in a graphical user interface is a code view where you can see the raw code of your style. We're almost there in Scribers, actually, so this is an example of this layout software and here you have the window where a style is defined. You have a number of properties and here I have a style which is named underlined and actually the only thing that I defined manually is the underlining. If you have a look at the source code of the Scribers file, which is an XML format, a bit like the stuff that Julien talked about this morning with Inkscape, you can see the code, the source code, XML, it's readable. And if you know where to look, you can find actually the style that we defined. It looks like that. It has a few parameters. One of them is underline, okay? It doesn't define a size. It doesn't define a typeface. That's what I can see here. But strangely in the user interface, there is a font and there is a size. Actually, this is not defined in this style. It's inherited from the default style. So actually this user interface is making things more complicated than either. The needed and what happens even worse if I define a font now, let's say I change the font family to the beautiful Chivo, which is the font of this presentation, then I see, okay, it's now defined in my code, but I cannot remove it anymore. I cannot undefine it or I would go through some very complicated process. I don't know if it's possible. There is no workflow for that. So what would be beautiful, really beautiful would be a code view, a very simple window where you see exactly the same thing as in the source code, the parameters that are in the style. So one, I would know what is there and two, I can remove what I don't want without a complicated interface, very simple and very familiar to people who know a bit web design and what would be really nice would be if the syntax would get as close as possible to CSS, like it would understand some CSS stuff. And I think it makes sense for the future as well. As we have heard yesterday during one talk, print design and electronic book design will merge at some point, very certainly the workflows will be very close. This software scribe is actually already does in the development versions, HTML, export, import, ePubExport is on the works. So there is already transformation. So it makes sense to do it, I think. Thank you. As we have four talks, I take two questions. Anyone? Question, should this be done? So in the first minute of the talk, all the scribus guys here arrived, so it's not that bad situation and they all agree, I think, with you. So do you need to show the first slide again? I think a code view would be the wrong answer to the real problem. So I think it should be like dialogue should be improved so it better tells you what is defined, what is not defined and also tells you if there is undefined property there. So there is some mismatch also between the underlying styling engine and the UE for editing styles. So that should be improved. And my personal idea for the future would be to probably go to CSS, XML plus CSS internally anyway. But I have been very inactive for the last half years, so it's nothing happening unfortunately. So can you answer the question? Would better interface to the style definition be the answer to your question? I don't believe so. I think you can make it more complicated but you cannot really make it much more simple. On the other hand, you cannot make it more simple than that. So I think this would be genuinely useful and also it would be a feature that doesn't exist in proprietary software I know of which have the same problems actually. Thanks. Thank you Manu. Hello. Buenos dias. Si tiene alguna pregunta en español, es ok. Pero hablo en inglés. So I'm from OSP. The band over there sort of centered around Brussels, group of designers doing design, graphic design, media design with free software only. Also redistributing our own work under free licenses. And today I'd like to talk a bit about the problems we have sharing our work among each other and to the wider audience at large. I'll first show you sort of the before. So something really powerful that we learned from the free software movement is that basically the tools we use to work together are also the same tools we used to share our work with a larger community. So we work putting all our files in Git repositories that have public access and interface to browse them to look at what's in there. Just like for example you can browse through all the code on GitHub and see who is working on a project and what people are doing without being involved in any way in this project. And this is a really nice way of sharing because people are using these tools to work together in a group and at the same time already opening up the work for everybody would be interested in either working together on a project or reusing projects. So here we see the Git server of Constant, the arts organization in Brussels, similar to Media Lab Rado here, where we have OSP projects and also projects of other groups related to Constant. And here already immediately we see something very particular. This interface is quite texty, so to say. So if we go to one of our works for example, like I saw. So this is an example of a project we're working on which has all our projects have many different kinds of media. So for example we might download images for inspiration. For this I don't think we, but we might have like Scribes files, Inkscape files. We might have a Django project in there. We have typefaces. Let's see, maybe better to show a project with a bit more different kinds of work in there. Like also workshop, like the workshop we did for merits, what was this called? Okay, that's right. More for logic. We work with a native speaker of the American, two minutes. So that means have to be very, so you see for example an OTF file in here, but there's Python files and this is where these interfaces sort of are really happy because they're meant to actually just show this stuff. So it's really inaccessible to people who know nothing of our workflow because they're like what's a Slav file? Is that like a recipe for salad or what's going on? I'm really bad at jokes. So we try to visualize this and this is basically a same kind of view. You see a different project we work on. You see the commits, so when we added new things to our repositories. This is really nice because this is a funding application. So now we are browsing through the repository and now we see for example we have actually visualized the different parts of it. So we see this is a PDF and we already see a little preview for the PDF and we can also load it up bigger with the screen is a bit small. Now we see a bigger preview of the PDF. So basically this is one minute. So basically what we did is we made these kind of previews for images, for fonts and for PDFs and for SVGs. And we would like to go further still in making also the diffs so seeing the changes because that's really important. So what happens within each step? And our code, we separate it really cleanly into an API and into the OSP website. So the underlying project can be built on and we are really, really looking forward to hearing of people interested and in working with other people. We won't unfortunately be at the, what's the name of the project, Interactivos. But we are very interested of people during this time want to know more about this project or hack on it or maybe reuse it for their own goals. So please do reach out. Thank you. So one question. If I say two questions, is that easier? No questions. Okay. Well, they're all around so... No? Please. Really no questions? Come on guys. Are you considering adding some sort of way to comment on the changes and everything? I think there would be a really useful feature to do that because it makes it more of a collaboration tool also. Like you did a comment and say, hey, but why did you do that? And then it's not just a conversation we have when we are at the same desk in Brussels but you can work better. But we haven't really found what's the most straightforward way. You could have it in a database next to it or you could try and really do it with a Git native object like a Git commentary. But it's really something that we'd be really interested in having, yes. Okay. This is a talk about a new project of the Krita and Krita Foundation called NUSIS. And first of all, I'm going to present myself. I am Ramon Miranda. I am a professional illustrator. This is my nickname, the SOC. And I usually own IRC by the Ramon and Nick. So if you want to talk with me, then you can do it. My role in free license open source applications is to make resources and to make video training and tutorials because not every people don't know how to use the software. The community needs good documentation and tutorials to teach all those people to understand how to use the programs to create the art. I also use my own artwork to promote the open source use. And that's all. At the Krita Foundation, we will have another talk with both, to speak better and explain better what is the Krita Foundation. But basically, it's a foundation to develop free graphic software, especially Krita, and to provide services for users and developers of Krita and to provide artists and studios with everything they need to create digital art. This is the project. This is the cover and studio color study to present you the project, which is called Music. This is what I want to teach you to make evocative images. The techniques you use, you need to understand and to manage to make this kind of image. The DVD covers two different aspects, which is the theory and the seed in action. And then we study, just for example, the essentials and the interface and how to use the doggers in a proper way to get a good workflow. And understanding the capacity of Krita to manage brass and jeans separately in a modular style. And also the common things like liar, mask. And the seed in action is the practical side of the DVD, which is based on basic exercises to understand better what we are learning. Just like sketching techniques and why we sketch it this way and what is inside our minds when we are sketching, like brainstorming. And use the values and mood to create a good atmosphere. And the typical face elements like eyes, noses, lips, this kind of stuff. And of course props like jewelry and metals, this kind of things. Much more, just the icons for presets to use inside Krita. The final image is in the native format for Krita and a set of presets that I used on the DVD. And of course your name on the credits to be a bit famous. This is the Krita interface. You can see it can be a bit complex if you get out all the doggers. But we can simplify just to understand how the interface works, difference the parts and explain in depth what does each part. The goal for this DVD is to teach you characters, design and atmosphere. Just from scratch to the final piece, seeing all the process to create finest artwork. And also the brainstorming process, which I think is important because usually we see a lot of finished images but we don't see the process. And this is one of the main parts. And this is two optional covers for the DVD, two images, which are not finished in the image. You can see the finished images. I have to do it. And this is the interface that I plan for the DVD. I think the simpler, the better. And it's clean just to teach you the principles by videos and popovers text that I think is going to be really easy to understand. This is not a project that you have to wait a long time. We have only two months to be released in the academy. So I have to be in the hurry. And you can pre-order now. How much is this DVD? Well, this DVD has a special price. We already have 50 pre-orders in a week, which is really cool. It's less than a pair of pants, 30 euros. And it's cheaper than a puppy. So thank you. Questions, yes. Dog, anyone? So, order the DVD, no? Order the DVD. Thank you. We are other pieces of OSP. Here are Pierre, Stephanie and Ludy.  This is a collaboration with a theatre based in Brussels. Here you can see the facade of the building. So we work with this theatre with the two directors of this theatre from three years now. And we work in there. We work with them in the theatre itself. So we made a logo. So this is a kind of mise-en-la-bime of old pieces of the previous logo they had. We customized some fonts for this. The logo is included into the boot of the B. In the UME font we customized. We made some posters. We played with graphics. Graph. We also draw flyers. So posters again. And a program. This one was made in Scribus. We forgot to put the first one which was made in context. This is a stamp to patch some SVG standards incompatibility from a multi-line inkscape text. It's not embedded in Scribus when we import an SVG. So the stamp is there to repair this. This is a website with image magic scripting. Every year we cook some new script after the images. A new version of the website. This is a kind of fencing or semi-program made in the LibreOffice character. Which was quite an adventurous experience. This is a summer tunnel to dive into a new season of last year. We work also every year with a letter painter. He beautifully interprets the UME font by hand on the wall of the Berlin.  And now what to use? Yes, because you see maybe these four ones on the left are the ones we use for finalize to lay out at the end. Most of the PDF we output are finalized in Scribus. And it's an opportunity to thank everyone involved in these tools to have done it because we use it a lot. But for the new, for the third year, we want to do something around parallel universe. Kind of manga style booklet. Something quite heavy, maybe more than 100 pages. And this kind of drawing of it. We want something quite fluid or something liquid in the way the mix of pictures and typography can literally flow through the pages. So we also begin to lay out it with Scribus in this case. But we end up with some fluidity problem, liquidity problem. And because as, yes. Yeah, we can do Claudia and Manuel because this lightning talk is really, we had the idea to do it because of their talk. Yes, it's clearly a kind of answer or a testimony to Claudia and a different approach from Manuel. We live in the same apartment. So yesterday evening we were discussing, ah, okay, you do, you will do something about it. And because we have learned or we are learning HTML plus CSS, we say, okay, let's do it that way. Of course, it's the mess at some point. But if we list all the issues, it seems to be possible. Just at the beginning of the process. But yes, there is text flow now in multiple ways, but the CSS region is a good candidate. The PDF output is seen quite clean with WebKit. We have to try with Blink. You have to enable... Ludivine will show you. The press images are okay if you cheat a bit. Pagination could be added through the final output on PDF, but maybe other ways also. Through directly in CSS. Image flow, you can... It's what we call to say that it's cut out and CMIK images will find ways. We will show you just an experiment.  And we have a lot of fun doing this. But we can already say that if you are experimenting with this, and we are really curious about some help because we already imagine we will have some problems. But what is interesting to show is the WebKit flex. Did you show how to enable this? It could be nice. This feature is not available on every browser, so we can use it on Chromium. And for this, you have to enable this feature so we can show you how to do this. It's quite... You have to look for WebKit because it's quite a long page of the explainer size. So what's nice is when the picture really flows into the different blocks, you can stretch the boxes. This is not so amazing to see, but we are really excited about this. Yes, it's amazing. As a designer, point of views. Okay, we can... So that's maybe an answer to the liquidity we were discussing yesterday, the beginning of an answer. At this point, we will work on it tomorrow. We take two questions and I take the honor to ask one. So how do you go to print from this? We will do a PDF, we will tune it and we will give it to the printer, basically. The thing is that, for example, this flex feature, when you export it, we can try it here, live, but then it's out of the boxes, everything is... The flowing is okay. Okay. Questions? No questions? Seriously? No questions? Okay. Thank you very much for an exciting prospect.


Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Run It Back. Three of the four of us are wearing pants. Guess which one's not. Chandler, you want to speak for yourself before we move on? It's too hot in here. I wore pants yesterday. Never again. I wore pants yesterday. There's the quote of the day. And they made me stand up. They made me stand up yesterday. I'm not doing that today. No, you made it possible. I'll get you to do that. Stadium insider Shyam Shrani, he's working on his phones. I expect something great is happening. No? Okay. Possible. All right. My name is Michelle Chandler. Lou Will on the end. I'm sorry, Lou, that you have to be on the far end of this. It's all right. I prefer it. But we had some moments last night. We had some history being made last night. It was a crazy Monday in the league. But here we go. Joe L. Embied, a career high, 70. Yeah, 70. First time meeting Wemby. Sixers defeat the Spurs. 70 by 10. He did have the 70. It was 24-41 from field goal line, from field goal line from field goal, 21-23 from the free throw line with a career high 18 points. I don't even, look, there's so much being made these days of everybody, every star, their first time facing Wemby. What's it going to look like? And I know everyone says the right thing, but are guys getting extra up for these moments against this unicorn named Wemby? Because it feels like it to me. I think he definitely wanted to make a statement. He wanted to kind of impose his will. You can tell when you watched these highlights, you were watching the game, he physically just dominated the game. They were throwing double teams at him. They were throwing triple teams at him. They had no answer for him, missing shots, getting on the offensive glass. And Wemby, Wemby played so good and we're not even going to talk about him because Joel, this is one of the most dominating performances of all time. He got to the free throw line. He sized them up pretty much every, every play and in there, took the jump shot and made it was efficient. But yeah, I think there was definitely a little extra juice here. Yeah, also the career high 18 rebounds. Come on. It was an insane performance. The fact that Will's never done this is now just him and Michael Jordan and this company is insane. And Joel just keeps continuing to have games like this. We're going to be talking about a possible back to back situation of an MVP here. He deserves it. He's absolutely dominating.  And you know, when it comes to Wemby, that's not a unique experience for him. Every top rookie is going to be attacked because we want to see what you're made of. We want to see who you are. And unfortunately, it had to be him last night to get that get a lot of that 70 piece, but all rookies, especially the top draft picks with a lot of hype coming in, the guys who feel like they're the superstars that are the pillars of the league, they're going to test you. They're going to check your temperature and see what you're made of. And so this was definitely a statement for Wemby. And this is one of the few matches for him. That's going to, it's going to be bad because the physicality is just he can't match that, right? He's got the skill. He's got the ISO.  But when it comes, there's nobody in the, in the league that can guard Joelle and be one on one with that kind of body, with that kind of presence in the paint. So this is just a mismatched nightmare for Wemby. I'm in the spurs.  I mean, they tried. They didn't really try. They never gave up. Try. They tried, but man, he was on another level. That was, it was kind of ridiculous. It was fun to watch. I'm not going to lie. John's your biggest takeaway watching that game last night from the bead. I thought it was absolutely unbelievable, uh, his performance. And I had a funny story that I heard during the fourth quarter when the game was going on, Joel and B started to take his shoes off. And once someone on the bench told Joelle and B that the record, the franchise record is 68 points, he started putting his shoes back on and said, let's go break this record. And he didn't do his normal pregame routine either before the game last night. So something was definitely a little different about him last night going into the game and the way he's performed this year, clearly right now, one of the MVP for owners, if not the MVP for runner, but if he misses eight more games this season, he could be eliminated from winning an MVP award. And so that is going to be something interesting to monitor. But this six year organization, Joel and B, they're playing for the playoffs. He knows he's been MVP already. He's been all NBA. He's been all star.  He wants to win a championship in Philadelphia. They know keeping him healthy is the most important thing for April, May and June. I bet whatever his routine was before last night, that's what he's doing. There's a new routine. There is a new pregame routine. Right. Like how different could it have been? It's like, by the way, the only needing to miss eight more games to be out is that's not a lot of games. That's tough too, because when I think of this season and the season he's had, I don't feel like he's missed that much time. So this new rule implemented, it's going to hurt. And I guarantee you, Joel knows that and he's going to want that MVP. He wants that on his resume. He deserves it. And if he does play enough games, the MVP is his for the taken. We're trying everything. We're trying to end the season tournament. You're trying to put in regulations for guys to play a certain amount of games. Just shortening the season. You shorten the season to 65 games. You get the atmosphere that you got from the end season tournament and you give them an opportunity to play at a high level. Some of these games, I understand what this is about. But just short the season. Think about if Joel plays 64 games and Tatum plays 66. He gets the one in the MVP. Right.  And now he's playing in game just because he's at the quota of the game. Like, when he's playing in games, he'll fade it.  Maybe he's banged up. Maybe he's sick. Maybe he's going through whatever he's going through. Now you have a guy that's going out there giving you a half a product instead of the games that you want to see him play at a high level. Your miss could have the reverse effect where if he is now trying to grind through injuries and playing and that gets worse. It's that happened because he's trying to meet the quota for the MVP. But do you think a guy like Joel Embiid, who's already won the award, would do that? I think so, too, because most people in the NBA, they say who's the best part of the NBA? They say Jokic and that and Joel hates that. And he knows he has to and he wants to. He thinks he's better than him. He thinks he's the best part of the NBA. He told us he told him that he's the best player in the league after that game. We say all types of things after a game. It's emotional. It's emotional right after games. Everybody says something. Joel warns the MVP. So that means he can't miss eight more games unless it's something serious. He's playing that minimum games. I mean, if he gets the eight and everything goes swimmingly and he's got, what, 21 straight, 30 point games so far, which is kind of insane to me. Is there an argument to be made? Because neither one of you have him as your MVP. What's the argument against it? The argument against is that the Philadelphia 76ers just weren't going to kind of take that jump. They weren't going to be as good of a team as Boston, as Milwaukee, but man, he keeps playing like this. They keep winning games. I wish the MVP of voting also would go through the playoffs.  Not just get the number one seed. If you lose first round, you shouldn't win MVP. So I feel like the voting should start later. But yeah, I mean, he keeps playing like this and they keep getting all these big games from Maxi and Tobias Harris. And they keep stacking up wins. He's going to be right there. I'll be honest. He's a victim of us being bored with excellence. You have so many of these guys that consistently they're at the top of the mountain. Sometimes we want a fresh feel. We want a fresh idea. And I think SGA has done something that we hadn't seen before. OKC is back at the top of the Western Conference since we've seen that with Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant. And so we're excited for that. Embiid, he's been playing like this for so long, playing for Welfare so long. He's like, ah, it's boring. Let's get a new feel. And so I feel like he's been a victim of that. But he's playing his tail off, man.  It is true. The NBA always is looking for that next star, right? They'd rather Anthony Edwards. They'd rather Shay. They'd rather one of these guys get it for the first time and kind of keep having this balanced star power of guys. They don't want Yogesh to win it again. They don't want Joel Embiid. But you keep putting numbers like this. You can't not vote for the guy. I feel like the example of what you guys are talking about happened in one night, even last night, because we had the 70 points. We had the, what, 62 points. And then we had Durant with 43. By the time I got to the Durant with 43, I was like, who cares? Big deal. Yeah. And then I realized, no, that is actually a big deal. The environment in the building last night was actually kind of fun. Everybody on pins and needles. Afterwards, it was a party. It was fun. Well deserved, too. Yeah. I mean, this was a historic night. We're feeling like well deserved. Literally him and Michael Jordan. And everyone knows everything Joel has went through with his injuries early on in his career. Oh gosh, no. His foot. He is happy. He is healthy. And he is absolutely ballin'. I couldn't be happier for him. I know you have a take on Pop, because he does like the psychological warfare. I don't know that people have figured out that Pop sarcastic about 97% of the time.  But as players, though, you know he's messing with you.  That it even happened. Probably not before the game. Yeah, I love it. We're so stuck in our minds. Like we were just talking about your pre-game routine. It's structured. You're not worried about anything outside of the bubble of getting yourself prepared for a game. So if somebody even walked up to me to tell me what an opposing coach said before a game, they'd probably get cursed out immediately.


Today's on demand give big training is focused on matching grants. My name is Sarah and I'm from mighty cause and mighty cause is the technology partner for give big St. Craig Valley. So for today we're talking all about matching grants we're super excited there's a lot of content to cover. But basically fundraising is all about getting your supporters excited about charitable giving and matching grants is just an incredible tool that you can start to use to get your donors motivated to give. So we're going to break everything down you need to know as far as how to secure a matching grant and how to set up a matching grant. So here we go. So what is a matching grant matching grants are a fundraising tool that is used as basically a donation incentive so your nonprofit is going to secure a large donation or even a smaller donation, which is offered up as a match to incoming donations. So basically if someone gives you know $10 they'll get $10 match that would be a one to one match. So if you've ever wondered whether it's better to receive just a one big donation or a bunch of small donations matching grants are just a really great fundraising tool that will give you both at the same time which is really great. A matching grant can either be provided in advance or it can be set as conditional upon meeting meeting a certain fundraising goal. The terms itself for the match can vary based on you and your grantor, but the end result is the same. So your nonprofit is building fundraising momentum, you're getting your donors excited about giving by offering to match their donations, and then your matching grant helps get you closer to achieving your fundraising goals for give big. So why matching grants. We have some, you know, four main bullet points here so one it creates urgency so by offering the chance to make your money go further for a short period of time that's going to entice a lot of donors and help, you know incentivize to give while your matches live. It helps make the donors money go further so that it's also another incentive for why to use matching grants.  So by creating a match and advertising your match and letting your donors know that you have a match live. This is going to incentivize a large group of donors to give well the matches live. During the day, you know, during live, the live event for give big it's a really great to try and schedule a couple couple matching grants to try to just give your campaign a boost during the day. We have this example here a buy one get one store like if you're shopping at a store buy one get ones are going to entice a lot of people to make the purchase to give the money.  We also are going to help you create a clear actionable call to action so when it comes to donating people like to be told, you know, in very direct terms, how they can help you and what is the best way for them to offer their donation when is the best time to give. So with a matching grant you definitely have a perfect call to action. The matching grant is live you're going to let everyone know, give now to double your gift to double your donation. And then it also definitely empowers donors who are giving in smaller amounts so not all supporters are able to you know have the same financial means to be able to give larger gifts and sometimes that can be discouraging to donors who give in smaller amounts they might feel like it doesn't make as much of a difference. And they all know that smaller gifts definitely start to add up and they are definitely, you know, every gift counts. So by offering a matching gift. This is going to empower donors who given smaller amounts to be able to give more and feel like what they're giving is actually boosting your campaign and boosting the impact. So for wonderful reasons to start thinking about how to utilize matching grants. So moving into how to secure a matching grant, securing a matching grant isn't going to be very different from working to get a major gift, or to find a sponsor for your campaign so there are three basic steps you can take to get a match for your next campaign for give big, you can prospect cultivate and ask those are kind of our main breakdown so for step one for prospecting. So prospecting is basically the process of determining who might be able to help provide a matching grant to your organization. So even if your nonprofit is small odds are you have people already involved with your nonprofit that would be good prospects for providing matching funds. So you'll pretty much start by making a list of kind of stakeholders within and outside of your organization, and then filtering them based on a few key factors. So first before you start you'll want to determine your needs for this campaign. Of course matching grants they play a supportive role in your fundraising effort, they're definitely a tool you can use to push your organization closer to its goals. So when you're starting to think about a matching grant the first thing you're going to want to do is really start to understand what it is that your fundraising goals are and what you want the matching grant to do for you. Some examples do you want it to push your fundraiser to raise more money is a major goal for you to get more donor acquisition like new donors. So how much are you looking to raise for your campaign overall, and how much would you need a matching funds to kind of try to make that match the emptying to donors during the day. So understanding how you'll use a matching grant will help you determine what kinds of supporters to include on your list. You can think about, you know, also starting to target donors, maybe larger gift givers who have given to your campaign in the past and you're likely kind of thinking that they might give again those would be kind of people to add to your list to consider for a match at a high level. You can also look within so every nonprofit you all have a few groups of people who should always be on your list of prospects for matching grants. We always want to start with your board of directors, one of the most common sources of matching grants during, you know, give big and giving days are your board members. The digital board members may be willing to provide grants but boards you can also consider pooling together money for a match. So fundraising overall is one of your board's primary commitments to your organization so your board is definitely kind of a natural starting place to start to look when you're prospecting and kind of searching and figuring out who could provide a matching grant. And then like we I said a little earlier, matching donors, major donors. The major of future behavior is always past behavior. So if you have any donors with a history of giving at a higher level, those people might be at the top of your list as well. And then any existing sponsors so any companies or organizations you've had sponsorship relationships within the past. Those would be good matching grant prospects as well. It's easier to cultivate an existing relationship then start a brand new one. So don't feel like you have to reinvent the wheel. You don't have to start completely from scratch start with the people and the groups who you already have as part of your nonprofit circle. And then some criteria for consideration. There's a few key items that can help you determine whether a prospect is likely to give. You'll want to make sure you do a little bit of research on each prospect with some things in mind. If you have a prospect connected to your cause, what's your relationship, you want to make sure there's a strong link between, you know, your prospect grant maker and your organization in order for the prospect to be worth pursuing. Does your prospect have a history of giving to organization have they given to, you know, other organizations like yours if you're looking at someone new. Prospects usually have a strong history of philanthropy. So if you're looking at, you know, previous donors who have given in larger amounts. Those would be good prospects. And then it's just overall it's important to do the research and just make sure you're organized before you practically start reaching out to secure a matching grant so all of this information should just help you start to think about those conversations that you're going to make and help, you know, allow you to make a very more much more informed ask before you do so. Getting into step two for cultivate nonprofit development. It's all about building relationships. So this step is really where your nonprofit starts to reach out so you get to know your prospects you start building the relationship or, you know, reopening that relationship and you haven't, you know, communicated or outreach to the donor very recently. Hopefully you are because you know you want to keep your donors close, but cultivation is very individual it's very tailored to the type of relationship that each prospect has with your organization. So obviously a board member is going to require less get to know you than someone who might be a little more new to your work. If that's somebody on your list. Likewise, you're going to interact with the company in a very different way than you will an individual supporter. If you are reaching out to like a sponsor to reach out for a match for your organization. But ideally the relationship you're building with your donors are going to last throughout your campaigns. So it's going to build many gifts into the future and many more conversations. So as you're talking to these, you know, starting to cultivate and you know reach out and put the feelers out make sure you're taking notes listen to what they're saying maybe it's not a good year for them because XYZ maybe they need you to ask earlier. Or maybe they need you to ask a little closer to the event. Make sure you're taking all these notes because you can come back, you know, at another time if it doesn't work out. You can use that information to help you make a match during a future campaign or even, you know, next year's get big. But you can learn a lot by reaching out to these potential prospects. How does your donor like to be contacted as a preference for how they, you know, everyone's totally different so definitely do your research take your notes. And, you know, if it doesn't work out you have the knowledge for this donor for a potential future match. But if it does work out you know you move into step three for your ask. This is where of course all your hard work you've poured into getting organized doing your research and chatting with your prospect will hopefully pay off. It's generally the easiest part of the process but there are a few tips that can help me get more likely so that you'll hear a yes, and help secure that matching grant. So you should definitely be prepared to break down and more detailed for your prospect how matching grants work your plans for the campaign. What time you're thinking for the match what it can do for your nonprofit any goals you have if you're trying to raise like you know a total dollar amount where you're trying to secure a new donors by like having a match. Let them know how providing them matching grant is going to benefit you at the organization while also benefiting them so do some homework make a solid pitch to help you feel more confident. And your prospect will feel more confident in your nonprofit because they have all of this information they can tell that you've done the research.   For instance, one example is a corporate prospect, you know a corporate sponsor who's making a matching grant get for you. They may want to know that you're going to provide you know some publicity for them and make the process obviously as simple as possible so we'll get into another side kind of the different areas that you can add publicity if the grantor wants it. But things like this are good little kind of tokens to carry with you because you know how the match works you know how the feature works on give big and all of that is going to help you make a more compelling pitch. So matching grant features on the give big and may cause platform, we have total flexibility on start and end times you can start a grant in the past which is really nice so if you forget to start your match and you need to backdate it we can totally do that. We have the ability to queue matching grants one after the other. So if you have, you know how to really successful kind of first three cold debate as type of steps. Don't feel like you can only do one match you can schedule them throughout the day. We have the ability to include matching grants amount in your total raised on your organization page. We have the ability to include offline donations in your matching grant totals if you want offline donations to count towards the match. We have a bunch of various matching types that you can choose from. You can review your upcoming and past matching grants. And of course you can download a full reports with all the data for your previous matching grants once they close. So moving into what a live match looks like. We have a couple really great features to show that the matches live on your organization page for give big. The match and grant is live donors are going to see a badge kind of like a little sticker. You can see right here saying that there is one matching grant live and alerts them that the match is now available if they click this donate button their their donation is going to be matched. So many cause auto calculates how much of the match has been fulfilled for you so you can kind of you can see you know how much of the grant is left. So in your donations report you can also see which donations were matched it'll let you know specifically which ones have a match and then how much the wet amount. And then on your organization page we also have a kind of a grant summary block that will appear on the main page. If you scroll down a little bit and it'll show live matching grant with a bit more detail people can see you know a photo that you've added that you know the title of the match who's sponsoring it, if they choose to not be anonymous. So a lot of good stuff available to you, you'll definitely still want to use you know your own marketing and not just rely on the page itself you want to you know send out emails and use social media. But this is kind of some different features so that people can see that the matches live on your page. So how to add a matching grant for your organization. So your matching grant tool it's going to be located on your dashboard for your organization under the drop down menu fundraising, and then you can click matching grants and you'll end up on the matching grants dashboard it looks something like this. So you'll have your live matches a little below that you'll have you know your, your past matches so you can pull the reports from them. And then this is what the screen looks like when you're ready to make a new match. So right on your match manager page you can click the plus sign create. And you can start to build out your match. So, kind of briefly what it looks like you can add your match sponsor you can choose to hide the beam publicly. And what this include match value and page metrics means this will be the total value for your match you can add the photo. If your grantor doesn't have a photo say that's not a corporate sponsor and they don't want to personal photograph of themselves up there, you can always just add, you know, your own logo to this match just to add a little bit. Just to add a visual element to your match. So you can see there you can set the start and time and the date, and then we'll get into kind of the different features available for the match setup but there's a bunch to choose from. So as you're getting ready and you're thinking about matches. It's helpful to just go to this page click create and just kind of look and read and see what all is available to you. So when it comes to match types and matched conditions. The most common type of match is going to be your one to one match so basically that means each donation that comes in is matched in full until the grant is filled or there's no more money left. However, there are other options you can also choose from if you'd like to set up your matching grant a little differently or if you've already done a one to one match and you're curious about what else is out there. So you can match a specific percentage of each donation. We need to like this option you're asked to enter percentage this option is automatically set to 100% so that you're one to one match. However, this can be a handy tool if you'd like to stretch your grant a little further by matching only a portion of each donation like only 50%. Or if you'd like to be, you know, super generous and grant that money and match that in two to one ratio which would be 200% so you can play around with the percentage of what amount is match. You can also match a maximum dollar amount per donation. So the tool allows you to cap the amount that can be matched so this helps ensure that you're matching grants so you have $1000 is not fulfilled too quickly with a couple large donations. So we always want you know large donations they're wonderful. But if someone comes in, you have $1000 grant that's live and someone comes in and makes, you know, a $500 donation that absorbs a $500 of your grant. And then that doesn't leave a lot of room left for you know those smaller gift givers and other people to do that kind of buy one get one. So if you have $1000 match available, it's good to consider setting a cap to say something like $100.  We also have the cumulative threshold match. This allows this match allows you to create different styles. You can also apply total match when cumulative donations equal the match value. You can also apply total match when a certain quantity of donate. So then we also have cumulative threshold matches. These also are a different style of match. There's a couple different options here. The one that I'm going to kind of highly is apply total match when a certain quantity of donations is received so you can put a little more limitations on this. Okay, so moving on to match types and match conditions. Of course, the most common type of grant money cause and during a give big campaign is going to be a one to one match. So that means that each donation is matched in full until the grant is fulfilled. However, there are a couple other options that you can also choose and we'd like to set up something a little different maybe you've already done that you're looking for something new. So we have, of course, you know, you can play around with the specific percentage that is matched or from each donation a one to one match would be 100% match. You could do a 50% match if you would like to only match, you know, half of the amount that somebody gives. Or if you want to be more generous and you feel like a two to one ratio would be really exciting you could also do something like that which would be a 200% match. We also have matching a maximum dollar amount per donation. This is a nice feature, because it allows you to just cap the amount that can be matched so this ensures that you know $1,000 grant isn't fulfilled too quickly with a few large donations. So if you have $1,000 match available and you've set a cap to $100, you can prevent a few big donations from wiping out your entire grant. We also have cumulative threshold matches which are a couple different options here. You can do an all or nothing match where a grantor agrees to give you you know $1,000 only if you can raise $1,000. We also have applied total match when a certain quantity of donations is received so this option creates a match that is based on the number of donations you receive so for example, you can set up a match that will only be fulfilled once you receive 20 donations. So this isn't based on unique donors. This is if you know anybody who gave so if a donor donates twice that would be considered two donations towards your match. This is a great option to utilize if you are participating in a giving day. It just adds a little bit of extra excitement. You can, you know, really rally people based on how many donations are needed for your match so you can say we need 10 more donors. So it adds a little momentum during the day. We also apply total match on a certain number of unique donors as reached. So this option creates a match based on the number of unique donors versus what we just talked about. So for online donations unique donors, they're considered unique through email address. So for example, if two different individuals donate to your cause we count them individually because they have different email addresses. So it's a good option to utilize if you're participating in a giving day that has, you know, special power hours or prizes so we have to wait and see specifically what the prizes for give big for this year will be but once we know you can definitely start to consider how you set up your match based on different prizes and the conditions for each for setting match conditions. So you have a couple of match conditions that you can include on your match. So you can set a minimum per donation amount before the match is applied. So this option allows you to create a minimum donation amount before a donation is applied towards a match. So an example would be if you would like to motivate donors to donate at a higher amount at a specific time you can set your match up so that only donations over a certain amount go towards the match so maybe only donations over $25 go towards the match. And that definitely incentivizes donors to give a little more if they have the ability. If you give $25 and you'll end up actually getting, you know, $50 towards the campaign. You can also include offline donations in the match. Obviously, you know, this is something we talked about and go in a little bit more detail because this tends to be a point of confusion, but this option is automatically enabled. So we can talk more about whether or not you should enable it or shouldn't enable it. It's coming up. We also have include organization fundraisers in the match. If you're adding a matching grant through your organization page, you're going to see this option. It's also automatically enabled for organizations. So this means that all campaigns, any peer to peer fundraising campaigns created for your organization will be included in the match. So if you would like only your organization page to be included with the match, you're going to want to unselect that option. But if you're comfortable having, you know, the match applied to anybody who has given on any page, even if it's not your directly organization page, this would be like if a board member created a peer to peer fundraising page. If someone made a gift on their peer to peer fundraiser, you would also match it there. So something to think about. And then we also have apply match once per donor. So this option is going to give me the ability to have the match count once per donor. It's a great option if you're looking to bring in new donors or you want to reach a specific, you know, donor count for the match period or during the day. So all things to consider, you can of course, you know, if you don't need to do any of this, you can only do the things, you know, that you want, maybe you're brand new to matches, maybe you want to stick with the one to one 100% kind of match. But if you haven't done it before, it's a definitely a very robust tool that you can kind of go in and spend some time like really tinkering with. There's a lot of good stuff that you can do with it. And so this brings us to the setting include match value and page metrics. So I wanted to talk about this in a little more detail because sometimes it tends to be a point of confusion. So underneath the value amount when you're setting up your match, you can see it right here in red include match value and page metrics is automatically checked so you can decide whether or not you want to keep it checked or you want to disable it. So basically keeping this box checks means that the total raised dollar amount on your page is going to include a visual of your grant money. So for example, if you have a one to one match for $1000 say and you keep that box checked, then if your donor makes a $5 gift, your fundraising page metric is going to automatically jump up to $10 so it's showing that additional $5 from the match. In real time. So if the same match were to set to disable that box, then when they make their $5 gift, the pay your metrics on your page are just going to display the $5 donation it's not going to show in, you know, real time that additional $5 gift. So when it comes to whether or not you should include page value and metrics, it really is going to depend on whether or not your donor is going to make their gift as either an online gift or an offline gift. So if your grantor plans to fulfill their match online. That means we recommend disabling this option so do not reflect you know your match value and page metrics that's the easiest thing to do.  Once they go and make that gift you are then going to see that $1,000 reflected immediately on your page because that grantor made the online gift. If you keep this enabled, and then your grantor goes and also makes the gift online you're there by basically doubling the match so it's going to reflect an additional $1,000 so you'll actually see $2,000 in your page metrics. If you happen to have this happen, and you see too much reflected on your organization's metrics that's totally fine. This happens you can go to your matches page and you can go to the closed match. And next to each of the matches that have closed you'll see a little eyeball with a kind of a cross out icon. So that means when you click that it is basically going to uncheck that box on that match. So you'll no longer see that additional kind of we call it fake money, because then you know the grantor hasn't actually paid it yet, you will no longer see that match reflected. So that's the way to fix that. If your grantor plans have filled their match offline then you can choose to either keep it enabled or disabled depending on the condition of your match and the conditions on your page setting so you have an option within your organization metrics display to decide if you want to show offline and offline gifts. If you're not showing offline gifts, then you can keep this enabled because you're not going to see it reflected when you add the donors gift as an offline donation. Same thing if you decided to keep this checked in your donor, the grantor says okay the match has been fulfilled. Here's a check for you know the $1,000 match, you're going to want to go to your page and add that offline gift and so that it doesn't get doubled so you're getting that $2,000 situation with $1,000 reflected. You can still go to that little match and cross out to the icon there by unchecking the box so that all you see on your page is the actual real money that has been submitted as an offline donation. I want to address this to a couple more additional settings I wanted to touch on. So setting up match notifications. So, once you've entered all your match parameters, you also have the option to enter the contact information or the email address for the grantor or the person at your nonprofit who should be notified when the grant is fulfilled. This email is going to go out and it's going to include a link where the donor the grantor can make their gift online to fulfill the match.  Maybe you have special outreach already in place for the grantor. You can be notified and then you can let the grantor know and whatever whatever way that you need. If you're comfortable and you want the grantor to get the email. It's a really great email. And it just says, you know, it gives like an option for them to click and complete payment and let some know that the grant has been fulfilled. So, moving into editing a matching grant so if at any point you need to edit your matching grant while it is live or if it's still upcoming you can head back to your matching grants area that dashboard and you can select the pencil icon on the right side of the corresponding match. Once a match has been closed you can no longer edit it just so that you know. And then of course reviewing your matches. You can also always access match history through your matching grants area that dashboard that you keep talking about. If you'd like to download a full report of your past matches you can simply select download full report at the top right corner of your past matches section. You can also download kind of a singular report on the past match by just selecting the download icon next to the specific match that you want to pull that data from. And then of course like we keep talking about if you need to hide a match amount from your page totals, maybe you're reflecting too much. Maybe the grantor is about to go make their gifts so you want to cross off the value that is already being reflected on the page you can click that little eyeball icon next to the match that has already closed. So coming into promoting your matching grant. You should definitely start to plan kind of how you're going to market your match because it is a really great marketing strategy when you have a live match. You don't want it to go to waste you need to make sure people know about it so you should start to plan at least one email announcing the matching grant, and then you can follow up with reminders and any emails that are going out about your campaign. You can also include it in monthly e-newsletters if you have one. You know as you're hearing up for the campaign if you've already secured a match and you want people to know, you know, during the day from this hour to this hour going to have a match so if you want to give during that time you can double your gift. But basically repetition is going to make sure it sticks in people's minds. And it also gives people lots of opportunities to learn about the matching grant in case they don't click and read every email from you. So definitely plan on sending an email reminder once the grant becomes active, you'll want to send out, you know, a note to everybody if your grantor wants to be acknowledged you can also make sure to link to their business if they are, you know, a corporate kind of sponsored match or their website and then definitely thank them for their generosity and providing the grant in your emails. And for social media you should also plan kind of the same kind of route with email for social media. Announce the match on social media reminder followers about the match and create a graphic or do a short quick video let them know this is, you know, live it's happening now. Let them know when it begins and you can also post updates on how much you've raised from the match how much of the matches left. So something that you talk about might feel like a little bit too much about a match but everybody is not online at the same time. And people are only going to see it when they go on so they need to hear about it so you need to post about it, give them status updates you know $100 left of the match. 20 minutes left of the match that type of thing is going to really kick people into gear and help them, you know, give them the momentum to go make a gift. And then, as we kind of wrap up a little bit. Once your match is met and your campaign is over you're definitely going to want to close the loop with your grantor. So if you included the grantor's email address when you set up the match, which we talked about on another slide. Mighty Cause is going to automatically send the grantor a notification email letting them know that their match has been met once it's complete so that's exciting. The email is going to have a button for them where they can make their match as an online gift if they would like. They can either make their gifts through that button, or they can totally disregard it if you and your grantor have already made plans for how they will fulfill their match, whether it's an offline donation like a check. And they don't have to make it through that button if they want to make it at another time online during the day. So that's totally fine as well. But when it comes to thank you on post match make sure you share the stats with them so whatever that looks like, however much you raise in total for the day, maybe how much you raise from the match while it was active how many donors engage and use the match. That's all very exciting reporting and news for your grantor. I'm enjoying the impact that the matching grants had is a really great way to motivate your grantor to do it again to provide another match in the future during another give big campaign. And then you'll want to make sure you tie up any loose ends with the grantor quickly post event. So whether that's you know sending a letter thinking them acknowledging your donation whatever you do, kind of on your end to close the loop with the grantor to make them feel appreciated. Make sure you want to, you know, do that pretty quickly and follow up. Here's an example of the automatic email. This one is for a different giving event, but this is kind of an example of what it looks like. You can see the stat how much of the grant was completed and how much was raised by how many people so two donors made use of the grant. So, very cool stuff. I hope all of you will take some time after reviewing this webinar and start to think about ways that you can use your match. And one thing I always like to stress, when I talk about matches is that it doesn't have to be a huge match. It just has to, you know, be something that is enough that people can take advantage of it. So if you don't have a large donor, if you don't have $1,000, if you don't have $500, think about what you do have. Maybe that's $200. Maybe you can get two people to give $100 each for your matching grant for give big and then you have $200 that people can take advantage of. Every amount is going to help. And it's a cool way to kind of like dip your toes in and see what matches are all about if you're brand new. So that's a match. That's a wrap on our matching grants webinar. Thank you for taking the time to check it out. We have a ton of resources on matching grants and our mighty cause support library and our research center. So be sure to check that out. Thank you everyone and happy fundraising.