All right, good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for joining us today. We are here and excited to talk about Kitsap Great Give. Today's training primarily is gonna be focused on getting to know the new platform for the Kitsap Great Give. So we'll walk you through an agenda, get you comfortable with the new platform, what you need to do to get onboarded and registered, go over some of the basics, key dates to remember, et cetera, to get you and your campaign off and running for the Kitsap Great Give. I am Bethany Natoli from the Mighty Cause team. As you'll hear more about shortly, Mighty Cause is the new platform partner supporting the Kitsap Community Foundation team. We're the technology partner supporting the giving day, but we're also joined by a team of wonderful people from the Community Foundation. Shane, Melissa Gretchen, happy to let you all pop in and say a quick hello if you'd like or just one of you, whatever you prefer to do, but we're joined by the Kitsap Community Foundation team as well. Sure, thanks, Bethany. I will go. So this is Shane Shramling, I'm the funds and grants officer at the Community Foundation. We're delighted to welcome Mighty Cause and just really appreciate all the people who are participating for nonprofits. And on behalf of the Foundation, we are excited for another year. This is like one of the most fun events that we do. So we are deeply appreciative to all of you guys for taking time today and welcome you. And I'm gonna let Gretchen and Melissa go ahead and introduce themselves too. So how about Gretchen next? Hello, let me mute myself. Welcome everybody, thank you all for coming. And I am the creative and marketing officer at the Kitsap Community Foundation. So I tell everybody that my job is to make us look good and to make the Kitsap great look good. Great to give you. And I'll be working on lots of materials for you in the coming weeks, as far as the non-profit toolkit and materials that you can use in your marketing campaigns as well for the great gift. Hello everybody, my name is Melissa Luatua. I'm the development associate here at Kitsap Community Foundation. And I'm very, very glad to see all of you on this webinar. It is our first year with Mighty Cause and we're really excited about this change. I personally really like the platform, but it's a learning curve and I'm really glad that you're all here. I'm the development associate here. I deal with many, many things. And great gift, just as Shane mentioned, is one of our favorites. So we're happy that you're all here. We're happy that we're all learning and we're grateful for Bethany and all the things that we can be taught today. So it's gonna be a great time and we're always here to help. Great, thank you guys. Just a quick overview of the agenda for today. As I mentioned, we're gonna start with some of the basics about the Kitsap Great Gift Event. Talk a little bit about what's new this year with that platform transition. Spend most of our time focused on the actual platform itself. How can you get started? How can you get registered? What can you do on the platform? Where can you navigate some of the most important things that you're going to be looking for? End it off with some key dates to remember so that you can get your timeline scheduled out between now and April and then we'll make time at the end for Q&A. So again, in case you missed it earlier, feel free as we're going through the webinar today. Type any questions you have into that Q&A. We'll do our best to cover as many questions as we can towards the end. If we run out of time, as long as you post a question in the Q&A, we will have that information and we can make sure to follow up with you after today's training. So Shane, I'm gonna send it back over to you to kind of kick us off and give us a little bit of introductory information about the giving day before I go into more detail on the platform. Sounds great. So as many of you know, Kitsap Community Foundation has been doing the great give. This is our 10th year. So it's kind of a fun anniversary. I was here when our former CEO talked about bringing a giving day to the community and some people had heard Seattle Foundation was doing give big and so we thought, let's do one in Kitsap. So thanks to the support of United Way of Kitsap County, there are presenting partner and many other sponsors. It's a, you know, it's billed as a 24 hour give day that unites our community. There's, I think last year we had 384 nonprofits, which is amazing. Just tons of all volunteer organizations, some that have huge staff. And what I love about the event is it really brings the entire Kitsap Peninsula and North Mason area together in one day, all doing good for our community. In the 10 years we've been doing this, we've raised over 14 million. We meaning you, the nonprofits have raised over 14 million. So it's amazing. People didn't think we would do as well as we did. So we love it. Early giving will open on Saturday, April 1st. And the big day this year is gonna be on Tuesday, April 11th. We got some feedback that people wanted to actually before tax time. So we're listening to you and we just can't wait to get started. It's always a lot of work to switch platforms. So we appreciate everybody's patience as we move forward, but we think you are going to love some of the changes. So I'll turn it back over to you, Bethany. Great, and I'll kick off a little on this slide and then Shane, please feel free to chime in with anything I miss on this or any other information you wanna add. This is just a little bit of eligibility information about who can participate. As I mentioned in a little bit, we'll talk about how you can participate, how you can get registered. But of course you'll wanna be a registered 501C3 up to date on your tax filing, serve the residents of Kitsap and North Mason. And as I mentioned, register, register, register. Registration deadline is Thursday, February 9th. So I don't know that I think I got most everything, but anything else, please let me know, Shane, if I missed anything. You're good. Great, all right. So then as I mentioned earlier, this year new to the Kitsap Great Give is mighty cause. We are the technology platform partner that will be working with the Kitsap Community Foundation to help make this event happen. So we are very excited to have the opportunity to partner with the Community Foundation and all of you participating nonprofits. Mighty Cause has been in the giving day space since about 2007, 2008.  So we have many years of experience with giving days and we're really excited to bring our experience and our features and functionality to this event and look forward to walking you through today what you might be able to take advantage of on this new platform. But we know very well that, you know, with any transition, there is always the potential for a little hesitation change can be overwhelming and we've really done our best in partnership with the Community Foundation to try and ease that transition for you wherever possible. And so the key way that we've done that is by migrating data and information from your previous platform onto your existing profile page on the new platform. So what that looks like is the Kitsap Food Bank, Kitsap Food Bank, for example's profile on the old platform. We copied over as much information, content as we could in terms of the mission statement, the story, your logo, et cetera. So when you log on to the platform for the first time, if your organization had participated in the past, you should see a familiar profile, not a blank profile that you need to fill in. We migrated in three years of donation history. So even though last year's event took place on a different platform, you're still able to access your donor history, your donor contact information so that you can reach out to and engage those donors for this year's Giving Day. And we have a specific tool that I'll show later that's really built to help make that donor retention piece of your communications really quickly, really quick and easy as a part of your strategy this year. And the final thing that we migrated over was your admin user accounts. So if you had a user account on the old platform, you will be able to use that same email address to log into an existing account that we have pre-created for you on the new platform. So your first step will be setting or resetting a password on the new platform to align with that same email address that you've used on the old platform. So we'll get into that a little bit more in a moment, but just wanted to walk you through a little bit of that process, why we did it and what content and information you'll see carried over from the past platform in an effort to really streamline your transition, allow you to focus as much energy as possible this year on building a great fundraising campaign and less on trying to start from scratch on a new platform. So the first thing to do is, of course, get started and register. So I talked about this just a little bit a moment ago. For those of you that had an account on the previous platform, we pre-created an account for you on the new platform and that account that we've created for you is already connected to your nonprofit organization, has access to that nonprofits, page, data, content, et cetera. So all you need to do is to set a new password for that account. So what that can look like is in an email that you would have received last week from the foundation, there was a link to set your password on the registration page on the platform. There is a button to reset your password or if you're starting from scratch, you just wanna come and try to log in. All you wanna do is enter your email address and click forgot password and you'll get a link in your email to reset your password and that should allow you to log in. For anybody that's brand new, we're, of course, welcoming to you as well. There will be no account pre-created for you, of course, but you'll have the ability to create a new user account before you start the registration form. So you create that new user account either linking your Google account or just a single email sign on.  So I've got a little screenshot here of your starting point in the registration form. You'll enter the name or EIN of your organization and that's where you'll get started. You'll complete information on this form. There's a series of questions. Once you complete that form, your next step in the registration process is to complete a to-do list that you will find on your profile page and I'll walk you through where you find that and what's on that to-do list. Filling out the registration form and then completing that to-do list will meet your requirements for participation and then the foundation staff will do their review, make sure that you have the appropriate statuses for the state of Washington, et cetera and then after that time, they will be reviewing and approving profiles for participation in the event. So we'll walk through that in more detail but at a very high level, you're gonna log in, complete the registration form and then complete your to-do list. Those are your sort of three immediate next steps to get yourself started. For those of you that have already logged in, already filled out the registration form, you're in great shape and for anyone joining today who has not yet started, that will be where you get started. So after you do that, you really get to kind of shift focus into the next phase of the campaign which is customizing your profile a little bit more. In that to-do list, you will complete all the required elements of your profile but you can always continue to tweak and customize the profile so that you're telling a powerful story, getting your donors excited about giving and then off platform, what is your fundraising campaign look like for this year's Great Give? How are you gonna be promoting your campaign? What channels are gonna be used are you using to promote? Are you gonna consider peer-to-peer fundraising as a part of your strategy for this year? And then of course, when early giving starts on April 1st, you kick into that final phase which is raising money for your cause. So before I walk, I'm gonna walk through a deck here today in the remainder of our time where I'm gonna walk you through what you can do in each location on the platform if you will. But I'm gonna pause for a quick moment, jump out of this deck and walk you through a quick live demo of the kitsupgreatgive.org website, what you can find where and a very quick overview of your dashboard just to help you visualize some of that initial clicking around, how do you get where you wanna go? Then we're gonna come back into this deck and get reoriented about what you can accomplish and where you can accomplish it on the platform. So I'm gonna allow anybody to chime in if for some reason you're not seeing the new screen that I've shared, but I think it should be up for you all sharing. I'm now on the kitsupgreatgive.org website. So I'm away from the deck at this point. We can all see it. Great, thank you, appreciate it. Appreciate that feedback. So from kitsupgreatgive.org, you'll land right here. Of course, your primary call to action is registration. As we've talked about, I've already said that word too many times in our brief webinar so far, that's your most important first step, but just quick orientation for you. There's some quick links up here for information and in the upper right-hand corner of the screen, that's where you're gonna log into your account.  When you're coming back to the platform time and time again to either access donor data, update your profile, et cetera, that login button is always gonna be in the upper right-hand corner. You're gonna click on that and then you'll see the options for logging in. I'm gonna stay logged out for right now and just show you a couple of other things that I wanna call out. If you scroll down the page, you'll see again more quick links to some important information, FAQs, resources, more FAQs, these are donor focused, these are gonna be nonprofit focused FAQs, a toolkit with resources, information about sponsors and then of course clicking on the registration page here. You'll see some introductory information. This is that reset password button I mentioned to you before. You'll have to log in and once you log in, whether you're creating a new account or logging into an existing account or you've pre-created for you, clicking this button will start your registration form. So I wanted to start you off with that and now I am gonna zoom in more to your experience as an organization, as an administrator for your nonprofit. So I am now in this screen logged in as myself on an account that I manage for the Mighty Cause charitable foundation. That's the nonprofit account that we're viewing right now. So the view that I'm seeing right now is the exact same view that you will see for your nonprofit. When you log into the platform, again from that upper right hand corner, instead of log in, you'll now see your name and a photo if you choose to upload a profile photo. Hovering over your name there will allow you to scroll down this user menu. You'll see organization and then where I see Mighty Cause foundation, you'll see the name of the nonprofit that you manage. And if you manage more than one, if you're a part of more than one nonprofit, your administrator for more than one, you'll see multiple here. So clicking on the name of your organization here will open up this dashboard here. This is your organization's dashboard on the platform. You as an administrator will always be brought right here to your overview screen. This is where you'll see key metrics about your organization's activity. You'll see very important to-do list. We'll come back to this in a moment in the deck and walk through the detail here. But this to-do list is where you're going to follow through and complete all the items on that to-do list. It's also where you'll see either a prompt to complete the registration form if you haven't started it yet. Or once you have started the process, right here is where you'll see an indication of if your registration is pending for Kids Upgrade Give or if your registration has been approved. Your status will always be visible here. Moving down the dashboard, just to call it a few items, your organization page, this is the profile page that you are going to customize and build out. Again, as a returning organization, you won't be starting from a blank page. You will see content, but you're welcome to customize and refresh any content that you'd like. Fundraising tools is where you'll find some exciting fundraising tools. We're not going to spend a ton of time on this today, but for example, peer-to-peer fundraisers, matching grants, those are some fun features that are available on the platform that you might want to explore and that we will come back to in our second webinar where we talk a little bit more about things that you can do on the platform. Reports, this is where you'll access your donation reports. So all donations will include the full amount of all of your donations on the platform. If there's recurring giving, retention report we'll come back to later. This is that one that I mentioned earlier that I think will be hopefully especially useful for everybody during this year's Great Give. Checkout is where you'll have the ability to customize the checkout process for your donors in terms of what are the suggested donation levels donors are seeing on the platform when they make a gift to your organization? What does the thank you page look like after they complete their gift? And then what are they receiving in a receipt? And then settings, you'll control some of your organization setting here in term, according to you wanna update your organization's legal address, for example, setting up EFT for direct deposit disbursement and adding, removing, managing any administrators for your account. So I walked through this very quickly but I did it on purpose. We're gonna go back and refresh all of this information but I wanted to, before I spent the rest of the time in a deck, I just wanted to click into the platform live and allow you all to see kind of how I can navigate from my user profile to my organization's dashboard and down the key items on the dashboard that you're gonna want to come back to and manage throughout the campaign. So now I'm gonna jump back into the deck and sort of re-go over in slower pace, some of the things that we just covered there. So again, the dashboard, I walked you through the key pages on that dashboard but just to reiterate the overview screen, you as an administrator will be dropped there whenever you click on your dashboard. Donors, visitors to your page can of course not see that overview, that's just for you as an admin. So check back there for your registration status throughout the campaign, but it's also the place where the Community Foundation might be posting announcements for you with information about upcoming events, trainings, information on the Great Give. The organization page, next item down your dashboard, that's the profile page, that's what you're gonna build, where you're gonna customize content, that's the page that you will share with donors. That's where they will click the donate button and initiate their donation process. That fundraising tools folder has all of those kind of amplification tools for fundraising, if you will. Some organizations may not really take advantage of that and that's okay, but for anybody that's looking to really take their campaign to the next level, you want to engage peer-to-peer fundraisers, you want to get matching grants that you secure from a local partner and add that to your campaign, that's possible through that folder. Reports, just like it sounds, that's where you access all of your reporting information. We'll come back and talk a little bit about disbursements later on, but one of the reports that you'll have access to is a disbursement report so that you can reconcile the funds that you're receiving from direct deposit with the exact amount, any fees, what donations were included, et cetera. Checkout flow, as we talked about, you can customize and preview that checkout experience, so I always encourage organizations to preview the checkout experience, start to finish before the event, especially because the platform is new this year. The Mighty Cuzz team offers customer support. We are here for you and your donors with any questions during the campaign, but we always encourage participants to get comfortable with what that flow looks like ahead of the event, and then finally, all your settings down there at the last item of the dashboard. So the profile page, as I've mentioned, this is really the page that you will be sharing with your supporters, so the link is gonna look something like kitsappgreatgive.org slash organization slash Kitsapp Community Foundation, for example, that's the link that you're gonna share. This is the page that you're gonna share. So it's yours to tell a story with. And as I've mentioned, for past participants, you'll see a logo already there. You'll see an image there at the top. You'll see text content in that story section. So you may not need to enter something, but we absolutely encourage you to use this as an opportunity to refresh that. Make sure that the content really tells a dynamic story that is going to be compelling for your donors to get them to want to make a gift. Your to-do list, I clicked into this briefly when I was in the live demo. This is something you can access while you're on your overview screen, but throughout your dashboard, you'll always see a little indicator of your to-do list right towards the top of the screen. And if you have outstanding items on your to-do list, if there are things that are incomplete, there will be a little red circle always on that to-do list, just like you see on your email icon or messages if you have unread messages, that will be your indicator that you still have action to take in your to-do list. And when you open that to-do list, you'll see there's two categories of tasks that you're gonna be asked to complete as a part of that to-do list. On the left here is gonna be the requirements. That's things that you need to complete in order to have your page, your organization reviewed for participation in the event. That's gonna be basic page completion items like the logo about section needs, which we'll talk a little bit more later. That is going to be similar to the 10 words that was used on the past platform. So Shane and team, either now or when I come back to this later, please feel free to chime in if you wanna add more about the context of that 10 word description. But that's what the needs section of the profile allows for here. You'll have the ability to select search categories to help inform when donors come to the platform and they're searching for organizations by mission category, et cetera. You can help inform, make sure that your organization is gonna show in those right places, set up EFT for direct deposit and enter some information about your organization's leader. So those are the required elements that you'll need to complete. Beyond that, there are a couple of other recommended items that you are encouraged to complete but not required to complete. When you open your to-do list, clicking on any one of these items will take you to the place on your page, take you to the place in your profile, where you need to complete that. So we really encourage you to think about your registration, your completion in two steps. Step one, fill out your registration form. Step two, walk through the to-do list. Click on every item, click on it, complete it. Go back to the to-do list, click on the next thing, complete it. You can always go back and refine your profile but that's gonna be kind of the easiest way to walk you through what you need to do in order to complete your application basically for the event. Bethany, can I just chime in here because it seems like it makes sense. We did have one question in the chat which is how long does the banking verification process take? Great question. I could talk a little bit more about this later but just to answer that question briefly, it can be immediate or it can take 24 to 48 hours. It depends.  And so with that database integration, when your nonprofit goes to set up your EFT, you'll be prompted to enter the routing number and the account number for the bank account that you're trying to connect. We will then run that against the GAI Act database which we'll check to verify that that routing number and account number match the legal name of your organization and the EIN of your organization as pulled from the IRS database. If those match, if that banking system can find a match then your EFT is approved immediately with no further action needed. We have some organizations, some banks are of course smaller credit unions for example that may not participate in that GAI Act database. So in the event that we're not able to automatically verify it, we will ask for further documentation, whether that be a bank letter or a voided check. So for those of you that can be verified immediately, it will be immediate. For those that need to provide additional documentation, that documentation is then gonna be reviewed by the customer support team and that's what can take a couple of days for review depending on how soon you can get that documentation into the team. Hopefully that helps answer that question. And again, I'll talk a little bit more about disbursements as we get later on to help make sure everybody's familiar with what the process looks like, what to expect on disbursement timeline, et cetera. So focusing in on the profile page, the editing experience throughout the platform you will find on page editing for pages that you're trying to customize. So in the top right of the page, you'll see an edit mode toggle, you can flip it to on, you'll see pencil mark icons kind of jump up across the page. That's your indication that clicking on that pencil icon will allow you to make an edit, switching that toggle away from edit mode will give you a preview of what the donor visitor will see when they come to the page. So we've covered most of these things already. The only thing I'll call out here is that for your background image that's up there at the top, you do have the ability to choose something from our gallery. If you don't have a great image, you're not loving what you find or you can add a filter color over top of that image if you wanna help your logo pop out a little bit more against the image, that's an option. And you do have the ability to set a theme color for your page. So setting a theme color will allow, maybe it's your primary color from your logo, for example, that means headings and call to action buttons on your page will follow that same theme color that you've set for your organization. So it's just nice way to kind of have a little bit of consistency for your organization's brand throughout your profile page. Another thing that you'll be able to customize on your profile is page metrics and a giving activity timeline. So you have the ability to add an optional goal and progress bar to your page. You don't have to have a goal displayed on your page, although it's of course a best practice when you're participating in a campaign like this to set a goal and share that goal on your page. And when you share that goal and there is a progress bar that's counting up in real time during the campaign, you're allowing your donors to kind of come on that journey with you, see the progress that you're making towards your goal and of course, hopefully encourage them to wanna contribute to that. So you can set an optional goal, you can edit that goal at any time. So if you set a $10,000 goal in advance and then halfway through the giving day, you meet that goal, you're absolutely welcome to log on in the middle of the giving day and increase that goal if you want to reach more, set a stretch goal for example. You can also choose the metrics that are being displayed. You have the ability to show the amount raised as well as the number of donors. And then the giving activity feed, kind of a timeline if you will, an optional section on your page. If you'd like to showcase some social proof of the giving, John Smith gave $25, Jim gave $50, for example, any donor that requests that their name or amount be hidden when they're completing the checkout process, of course their information will not show on this activity feed, but for those donors that are comfortable with their information being shared, it can be a nice way to add some more of a dynamic element to your profile page. Below your metrics is your story section. So again, and I know I've repeated this a few times, there will be text here. We have imported text from the previous platform, but this is a dynamic inline editor. You don't just have to use text. You can use formatting, bullets, headers, et cetera. You can change color on the text here. You can add photos, videos, links. We encourage you to really make this dynamic. Nobody wants to read a wall of text. So use the tools that you have available here and tell a dynamic story. You'll see a little save button in the upper right-hand corner of this section.  As I mentioned earlier, mission statement is another field that we have brought over from the previous platform. So you'll see, for those of you that were on the previous platform, you'll see a mission statement already available, as well as the need statement, which is the 10-word. So Shane, anything you wanna add on that 10-word description? Yeah, absolutely, thanks, Bethany. So the 10-word description, we use sound publishing, which has the Bainbridge Review, Central Kids Up Reporter, a few others. They have a publication which lists all the organizations that are participating in the Great Give. So it has your organization name, it has the website, and then it has this 10-word description. So you don't need to repeat the name. We've imported everything from last year. So if you don't need to make changes, don't worry about it. If you go over 10 words, we might need to truncate it. So I highly recommend you just kind of leave it as is. It's really distilled down on what your organization does. And again, you don't have to repeat your name in it because your name is right above. And that will show up on your profile page as well, I believe. Yes. I should chime into the description that there were some nonprofits that participated previously but had Mighty Cause profiles for other campaigns. And their need statements may not have transferred. Is that correct? Yes. So there are some participants. Maybe you're joining us today. Maybe you're not joining us live today. There are some organizations that have participated or currently participate in other giving days that happen on the Mighty Cause platform. And as Gretchen mentioned, for those organizations, we wanted to be extra cautious about how we did a migration. So we didn't wanna override content you might have had existing on your profile. Your organization, if you are one of those participating organizations that have done other campaigns on the platform, your donation history still got carried over. So you'll still have access to previous Kitsap donation history but you may not see the mission statement or the need statement, for example. All right. So moving kind of down the profile page, optional things that you can consider. You don't have to do it but you have the ability to connect either upload media on your page in the form of images. For video, we encourage you to do that right in the story that I talked about above inline video editing, video adding. If you have just additional photos you wanna add, you can do that in a media gallery but you also have the ability to connect your Instagram account or Facebook account to pull from one of those, you can either pull from your Instagram feed. So every time you add a new post on Instagram, that photo will automatically show on your profile page on the platform or you can connect to Facebook album. So when you add a new photo to a Facebook album, that will get added as well. Both of those are just kind of nice supplemental ways to keep your page dynamic without having to come back to the platform on a regular basis and update it. You do also have the ability in your settings to update the social share context. So you can change the, you can set a specific social share image, specific language so that when your page is, when somebody comes to your page and clicks share on Facebook, share on Twitter, et cetera, that card, if you will, that the image and the text that's associated with that share, you have the ability to customize that. So options to really kind of go above and beyond, not required, but optional to do so. Moving into some of the features and functionality off the profile page itself. Donations report, of course, I mentioned earlier, whenever a donation is made to your nonprofit, anybody that is a listed administrator will receive an automatic email notification. If you don't want to receive a notification every time an email is made or a donation is made, excuse me, you can go into your user profile and change that setting. But by default, any administrator will receive a notification whenever a donation is made. You can always come to this donation report at any time throughout the campaign and access your donation data in real time. You'll see right on screen some of the key fields of information, but if you click to download, you'll see the full detail of donor information, address, email, amount, et cetera. As I mentioned, we did import historical donation data from the previous platform. So you will be able to access and download that information to contact prior year's donors. And just know that when you come to this report by default, it's going to show you the previous 30 days. So for many organizations, if you go to your donations report today, it's gonna default to the last 30 days and you might see zero activity. But if you change that time filter, look back a full year, for example, or if you want to filter by campaign type, for example, you could filter by giving event and you'd have the ability to select previous year's great give campaigns and then just see the donors associated with that campaign. So the retention report is one that I mentioned earlier. I showed you where to find this on the dashboard. This is one of my favorite tools for a nonprofit to take advantage of as a part of a Giving Day campaign. This is a big reason why we wanted to make sure that your donation history was available and accessible for you. Is this report, you can access it in the middle of the day on Kitsap Great Give and it will give you a quick snapshot of what donors gave last year during Kitsap Great Give that have either been retained this year or have not yet been retained this year. You can filter to see what you're looking for. But in two clicks, for example, you could access a list of the 20 donors that gave last year that haven't yet given again this year. That's a very quick list that you can download and share with your board, share with your executive director or pick up the phone yourself, send emails. It's up to you how you want to reach out to those unretained donors. But that's a really obviously critical list of donors to connect with. It's a lot easier to retain a donor than it is to acquire a new donor and across the fundraising sector, across Giving Days is no different. Donor retention rates are always lower than they should be. So this is meant to be a very concrete way for you to, in the middle of the campaign, out having to do a ton of Excel work for comparison to see who you need to contact to improve your donor retention rate. Disbursement details, I mentioned this a little bit earlier, but just kind of going to go in a little bit more detail now. This year with the Kitsap Great Give, donations are going to be processed and dispersed by the Mighty Cause Charitable Foundation and they will be re-granted to participants. So that is why you're being prompted to sign up for EFT direct deposit so that the Mighty Cause Charitable Foundation can get you your donations by direct deposit for the campaign. So you can sign up in the settings tab of your page. This is a quick screenshot here of what that sign up looks like. I mentioned this earlier for many organizations entering their routing and account number and selecting the account type. Might be all the information you need to give us and then that database is gonna work in the back end to try and verify your account. You'll receive information immediately, whether it's been approved and verified or if we need more information to do that. Once you're signed up for direct deposit, the schedule for disbursements is twice monthly. So any donations received from the first to the 15th of a month will be dispersed to your organization by EFT on or around the 25th of that same month. Any donations raised in the second half of the month will be sent on or around the 10th of the following month. So we'll come back to in the key dates at the end and just help make sure it's really clear when you expect your funds from the campaign. But it is a twice monthly schedule and each direct deposit will come with a corresponding report that is in application for reconciliation. So again, I called this out when we were talking about reports earlier, you can access a disbursement report for any EFT that you receive from the charitable foundation and that should help you reconcile dollar for dollar, penny for penny exactly what you received, what is and isn't included. Just a note, prize, incentives, bonus pool disbursements, those will be completed by on or around May 25th. So checkout flow is another important tool that you have the ability to customize within the platform. We just like we encourage you to build a compelling story on the profile page. We encourage you to continue that story in the checkout flow. So we want, you want your donor to have a consistent experience, a consistent message from start to finish. So from the email they receive to you to the content they see on the profile page to the information they're seeing in the checkout all the way through, you want to be telling a consistent story about the impact of your work, what you're raising funds for, et cetera. So you can do that in a couple of ways. The first is in on the actual donation page you have the ability to set suggested donation level so you can choose the amounts 50, 100, 250, 500. For example, you can also optionally add labels to that. So what, for example, does $100 do for your organization? Does it sponsor a child to go through a week of programming or does it buy food for a family of four for a week? It's gonna be something different for each organization but something as little as adding a label to the dollar amount here helps the donors connect the tangible impact of their $100 gift or $200 gift. And it also gives you the ability to kind of help move your donors slightly up, up the tier of what dollar amounts you're encouraging them to give. You'll also of course, just like on the donation just like on the profile page there's gonna be a toggle in the edit functionality here where you can preview the checkout flow as a donor would see it versus opening up these editing tools and allowing you to customize the experience. After the actual donation page itself is the post-checkout experience. And there's kind of two aspects that you have the ability to customize and we encourage you to customize both. The first is a thank you page that donors will see on screen when they complete their gift. So they complete their donation, click submit, click pay for example, they'll then see on screen a message from your nonprofit thanking them for their gift. So immediate stewardship opportunity that you don't have to do anything except for set this thank you page in advance. You have the ability with an inline editor here as well to add photos, videos, personal story, message from your executive director, whatever it might be. You can kind of tell that immediate thank you to the donor right here on the screen. And then you also have the ability to customize, add custom language into the thank you receipt. So when a donation is made on the platform an automatic tax receipt is going to be sent to the donor immediately. You don't need to do anything to send that tax acknowledgement. But by adding language into the donation receipt which you can access through your dashboard you will insert a custom message into that acknowledgement email. So again, by filling out the thank you page and adding content on that receipt that's two different touch points for you very immediate post donation stewardship that you don't have to do anything manually for. Of course, we will encourage you to go beyond that for the thank you post event, come back, tell the donors what you were able to accomplish with their gift, what you raised overall, what you expect in terms of impact. But there are tools built into the platform to really streamline that. And we really encourage you to take advantage of those stewardship opportunities. Settings, last item down on the dashboard. Again, I previewed some of this earlier but some of the key things that you'll do here adding and removing administrators. So for those that managed your account on the previous platform, all of those individuals should have access to your non-profits account on the new platform. But if there was turnover, if somebody left if you had a new staff member you can manage that yourself by clicking on admins you can remove anyone that should no longer have access and you can add anybody that should new have access. This is also where you under disbursement settings would sign up for direct deposit. And then if you want to update your legal name or legal address on the platform that's something you would do here under organization info. So the Mighty Cause platform imports the IRS database on a once monthly basis so that we're making sure that we are staying in sync and up to date on five one C three status for nonprofit organizations. And so the legal name and legal address that are associated with your account will be what's on file with the IRS database. If you've had a name change you're going through a name change or an address change you'll need to provide proof in the form of documentation in order to make those changes on the platform. And so within the organization info section on your page you will be walked through how to submit that documentation for review by our customer support team. I previewed where to find this on the website earlier but make sure to make use of the nonprofit toolkit that's on the platform as Gred should mentioned. There's great stuff on there already and there's gonna be more information coming soon. This recording for today's training will be up there shortly. So take advantage of the resources available there. Key dates to remember. Of course registration is already open. It's closing February 9th. We will have our next webinar on February 28th. So while today's webinar focused primarily on foundational elements getting started, getting comfortable with the platform our next webinar will really dig a little bit deeper into strategy for the giving day how to take advantage of some of the tools on the platform to compliment your strategy but other things like marketing and social media strategy as well. Monday, March 6th deadline to secure ad space in the sound publishing special insert. Early giving opens April 1st. The giving day is April 11th. So the first set of giving day donations should be dispersed to your organization on or around April 25th when you sign up for direct deposit. And then as I already mentioned, May 25th is when prize and bonus pool funds will be dispersed. Couple notes. Okay. Can I interject and just... Of course. Somebody asked a question which was what happens if they had the wrong email address on the old platform? What's the best way to get that corrected and get access? So the best way honestly would just be to either reach out to our customer support team and explain the situation or just create a new user account with the correct email. And when you go through the registration process, you will have, you know, let's say Shane, you had a bad email on the old system. When you go through the process of registration and you request to register the Kitsap Community Foundation, our customer support team will be reviewing and approving that this new person that is requesting access to your profile should have access to the profile. And we will grant the new user account access to the profile. So I think that's probably the easiest way is just to create a new user account with the correct email address. And then going through the registration process will get you access to your organization's page. The other thing is we could potentially correct a typo in an old email. So perhaps reaching out to customer support, you could do it that way either. Either way should work. Just a couple of notes here on how to stay connected with the Kitsap Community Foundation and make sure you're using the hashtag KitsapGreatGive. When we get closer to the event and on the day of, there will be a really fun social media feed on the live event site that pulls from that hashtag.  Customer support, I mentioned this a little bit earlier. The Mighty Cause team offers customer support and is here to support you and your donors with questions throughout the campaign. So you can reach us at support at mightycause.com. You'll also see a little question mark icon when you're in your organization's dashboard navigating around. There's a little question mark icon in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. Clicking on that will open up access into our help tool. We have a support forum that has tons of resources, how to articles, short videos, walkthroughs of features and how to do certain things. So definitely click on that question mark and make sure that you peruse the self-help resources that we have. And if you can't find what you need, of course, feel free to reach out to us. We've also included here the information for the Kitsap Community Foundation, your local partners in the ground. They're still here to support, of course, but the Mighty Cause team is here to help answer any technical questions you might have about how to use the platform, login issues, question how to add a logo out of video, access your donations report, all that kind of stuff you can get support from the Mighty Cause team as well. And now I'm going to take a quick look at questions. We only have a few minutes left. So I don't know how many we'll get through, but as I mentioned, as long as you post, as long as you've posted something there, we can make sure to follow up with you after to get your question answered. So one question I've been, we've been monitoring the Q and A a little bit. Somebody wants to know, can they continue to get paid by check or are we requiring an EFT? So this is really a question for you all, Shane, at the foundation, technically on the platform, we encourage EFT, we prefer EFT because we can help you get your funds faster. They can come twice a month, but if for some reason you cannot sign up for EFT or you really don't want to, we do have the ability to send a check on a once monthly basis to the address that's on file with the IRS database. There will be a $5 check fee associated if you choose this option. So hopefully that's helpful in terms of general guidelines. You can let me know, Shane, or let the participants know your requirements for participation, though. That's how we feel too. Doing the EFT will be a huge help, I think to get things dispersed faster, but if you really, really do not want to do it, that's fine. I want to go to a question which is, can an organization say they have a program that really is funding two different types of causes and we don't want them to create two profiles? Is there a way that they can have a second, like two different programs that donors can designate their funding towards? Yes, so in that checkout customization that I mentioned earlier, I focused primarily on the donation levels that you can customize, but there is the ability to add a designation question to the checkout. So if you'd like to ask your donors to select a designation with their donation, you can do that. You also have the ability, if you'd like to create dedicated fundraising pages, let's say there are two programs that you want to fundraise for and you'd like more of a content page to talk about that program, to set a specific goal for that program. A participating organization could have two fundraising pages that sort of both live underneath their profile page. That is an option. It's a little bit more work, but depending on the importance of the different programs, how you might want to market them, if you have a different audience that you've send one program page versus another, you might want to consider that option, but there is the ability to add a designation question to the checkout. Thank you. All right, we're right here at the top of the hour. Let me see if I know that there's a handful more questions in the Q and A, so I don't know that I will be able to get through those. Look like I'm seeing a couple of questions on EFT. If you specifically submitted one and you're waiting verification, you don't have to redo anything. The team will just review your documentation in the order that it came in. Let's see. Last one. Clarify, somebody said, just to clarify, we register for the event and then complete the required to-do list items. That's correct. That's what gets you in our queue. We have to do a little due diligence with the Secretary of State Charities Program to make sure that you're current on your filings there. Yeah, so hopefully that answers your question, anonymous attendee. And the last question that I'll answer, just because I think this is an important one, I wanna make sure there's no miscommunication. When I say funds are dispersed on a twice monthly basis, that means it's rolling. It doesn't mean that your funds will be spread out over the following year for any funds that you raise. Any donations that you get to your organization's campaign account on the platform from April 1st to April 15th will be dispersed to your nonprofit around the 25th of April. Any funds in the second half of the month will be dispersed around the 10th of the following month. So this, Shane, I'm not entirely sure how different this might be from the previous platform, but you as a participating nonprofit have the ability to accept donations on your profile after the event ends. So if somebody comes back to your profile page a week after the event, for example, they can still make a donation, those funds will still be dispersed to your nonprofit. So if let's say somebody randomly clicks on the link in an old email that you've sent them in May and makes a donation, we will still make sure those funds make their way to your nonprofit. It's just that on a twice monthly basis, rolling basis, any funds that your organization has raised in that period of time will be sent to your organization. So hopefully that helps to clarify. Okay, I think I'm gonna go ahead and let everybody go for today. Thank you for your time. Mighty Cause is excited to be here working with the Kitsap Community Foundation team. We're excited to welcome you all to the platform. If you have questions, please do feel free to reach out to either support at mightycause.com or the Community Foundation team. And again, final reminder, this recording will be posted and available on the nonprofit toolkit soon. Thanks so much. Thanks everybody for joining us. Thank you. Thank you.


Where do you start if you're going to build a house cleaning business from the ground up? Where do you start? We're going to talk about that today. Hi, there. I'm Angela Brown, and this is Ask a House Cleaner. This is a show where you get to ask a house cleaning question, and I get to help you find an answer. Now, today's show is possible by House Call Pro. This is the number one service software for service professionals.  So House Call Pro will help you with a lot of the details that go in the background of your business, as far as the scheduling and the customer details, the upsells on the jobs, the price of the jobs, the one-click credit card processing, and all the stuff that runs the automations of your business admin tasks. It saves on average about 10 hours a week for the small business owner. So check it out at housecallpro.com forward slash Angela. All right. Today's episode is a very interesting topic from a brand new house cleaner that called in and asked this question. Hello, hi, I am Harman speaking with you. I'm looking forward to build my cleaner production industry.  Thank you. All right. So where do you start a house cleaning business? This is really interesting because there are so many different places.  You can even use like keep Google keep, which is just a checklist format. And then check items off as you go because there are a whole lot of things that you're going to do. And then the more you know, the more you learn and then the more items go on your checklist. So you will never be there as far as achieving your business in the sense that you will have done all the things you need to do. There will always be something new that you can work on. Okay. So what do you start on and what should be your first focus? All right. So what we've done over at the Savvy Cleaner Learning Library is we have created a business from the ground up. And the reason we did it is this, we get a lot of questions where people have already built businesses and they find that they're running 20, 30 employees and they have a whole bunch of houses and they're traveling all over and they have cars and they have all these different things, but some things have fallen through the cracks. And it's things that either they didn't know that they were supposed to do or they're things that they oversided because it didn't seem like it was important at the time. So what we do is we start over from the very beginning and even if you already have an established business, it's a great place to start because you will see very quickly some of the things that is required and you'll say, oh yes, we've already done that. Okay, we'll check that off your list. Then you're going to see some things that you haven't done yet and you're going to say, well, I was waiting for a rainy day, but because you did not do that one thing, it's causing a lot of other problems or even worse. There's one or two little things that you could tweak that would save a lot of time in reinventing the wheel with these other steps that follow it. And so when you start looking at it as a system, like if I did this, it equals this, it equals this, it equals this, it's like setting up dominoes in a row. And if all the dominoes are set up correctly, then when you push one domino, everything else falls into place. And that's where the automation comes from. It's setting up a little series of systems that then automate themselves or are easy to hand off to an employee or a manager or a lead or somebody that's on your team. And so once you have the system set up, and that's where the biggest challenges lie, is in knowing what are the triggering events. So if I set this up today, it will save all of these tasks moving forward. And we have a lot of business owners that are just grinding it away and they're spending days and nights and they're not getting very much sleep. They're eating the wrong kinds of foods. They're super stressed out because they're trying to do all of these extra steps that are actually part of a simpler system. So at Savvy Cleaner, we walk you through piece by piece of all the different systems and we help you create those standard operating procedures. So it is a membership where we have ongoing training. We have ongoing group coaching where you can ask your questions and get those problems resolved. And then we also have Facebook groups that allow for you to go in and talk with other business owners that are going through some of the same things that you are that are either setting up your business or there are members in there that have been around for a while that can say, but if you do this, expect this. And they can give you advice to help prevent you from reinventing the wheel or learning by trial and error. So you don't have to make the same mistakes all over again. It's a great investment in your business if you're willing to spend the time. And I say, willing to spend the time, this is one of those little systems. So you can either spend all the time reinventing the wheel, doing all these weird crazy things because you think you have it all figured out, or you can come over to the Savvy Cleaner training learning hub and you can figure out what are the systems I need to set in place and then shortcut those things and template them and then outsource them so that it is easier for you as you move forward. Because running a business has so many different moving parts that if you as a solo business operator feel like you have to run all of those areas yourself, it's going to be exhausting and overwhelming. So where do you start? There's no one place to start, but if you were going to start, I would say start from the ground up and build a foundation that everything builds on top of. Because if you don't have a foundation, we know this from just regular architecture. If you don't have a very strong foundation that's been dug deep and wide and has the proper structure in place, when you build something on top of it, it falls through and it crumbles. You get sinkholes and you get shifting and altering of the ground and then the structure falls apart because it wasn't set up properly. So where do you start? You start at the very beginning. So we have lots of YouTube videos if free is your thing. So I don't want to discourage you and say you have to spend money. If free is your thing, we've got lots of videos on YouTube. We have a podcast, it's also free. There's a free book that I wrote that is on Amazon that you can download and read on any device with a free Kindle app. It's called How to Start Your Own House Cleaning Company. So there are a lot of free options for you. But if you want the structure and the design and the systems, come over to SavvyCleaner.com and we will walk you through all of those different elements so you can build an empire. Woo-hoo! I'm super excited. I will see you on the inside. All right, if you found this helpful, please pass it on to a friend. If we've earned your subscription, please subscribe or just give us a thumbs up. Let us know how we're doing. All right, until we meet again, leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it.


After finishing a modest 8-8 last season, the Minnesota Vikings are looking to rebound and hopefully make a run at the Super Bowl this year. If the Vikings were to make the Super Bowl, they would be the first team in NFL history to play a Super Bowl in its own stadium. The NFL released regular season schedules for all 32 teams tonight and the Vikings will have a tough road to the playoffs. The Vikings will open up the 2017 campaign in prime time on Monday night football against the New Orleans Saints at US Bank Stadium. That's the first of three prime time games for the Vikings with the second coming week five when they traveled to Chicago to face the Bears. You might want to circle week eight when the team will take its talent across the pond to London. Set your alarms now because it is an 8.30 a.m. kickoff for that one against the Browns. With the London game, the bye week is set for week nine. For the second straight year, the Vikings will be spending Thanksgiving in Detroit to take on the Lions in the annual Thanksgiving Day Games for the first time of three straight road games before returning home week 15 to rumble with the bangles of Cincinnati. The third and final prime time game finds its way to Lambeau Field that pissed the Vikings against the Packers before closing out the season at home against the Bears. And the NFL season will kick off on September 7th when the Kansas City Chiefs travel to Foxboro to take on the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots. And just in case you haven't heard already, Super Bowl 52 will be held Sunday, February 4th, 2018 at U.S. Bank Stadium. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Hello, my name is Morton and I used to pretend I understood Git. Turns out, I wasn't the only one. In fact, most people pretend to understand Git because Git is very, very confusing. And I realized after a while it's actually not confusing. It's not Git's fault. It's not our fault. It's not my fault. It's simply because we're thinking about it wrong. You see, Git is not a development tool. It's science fiction. So in this very short talk, I will explain Git to you in science fiction terms. Now to do this, I have to tell a story of Mike, a person who has to use Git to save herself. As all good stories, this one starts in space on a small ship with a very big problem. We have a gigantic oxygen leak. And to make matters worse, the jetpack is busted. So the air is leaking out, the single astronaut on board, Mike in, is royally screwed. She's screwed because if it was just the air leak, it would be fine. She could simply go outside, grab the patch kit on the outside of the ship, and just patch it. The problem is the jetpack is busted and she needs the patch kit to be on the inside of the ship. And she can't really go outside the ship without the jetpack on because that doesn't work. Now, of course, she could solve it if she had her cloning device with her, but that was left at home right before she went into space. So that doesn't work. The only thing she has is the Git console. But with the Git console, all things can be solved. So anytime you do anything, you always want to start by committing. Start 8, 1, 2, 0, 4, 2, 0, 15.2. I am royally screwed. When you make a commit, what you're doing is hitting the save button in a game or taking a picture of everything at its current place and time. And then you can always return to it. Once you've done that, you can create alternate timelines. So anytime you do something in life or in programming or anywhere else, you start by making an alternate timeline, you jump to that timeline and then you can start experimenting. So what do you do when your patch kit is on the outside of the ship, your suit is on the inside of the ship and busted and you need to do something while you go to the airlock and see what happens if you open it and you drift into space and turn it to space junk and whatever. So that didn't work, but that's not a problem because we are on an alternate timeline. So all you do is check out the original commit. Now you're back where we started. Simple. So we can start over and make a new timeline. Only this time, Mike takes a precaution. She ties herself to the bulkhead, then opens the airlock, lets the air escape, swings herself out the door, grabs the patch kit, stuffs it in the kangaroo purse on her suit and turns into space junk. But now the space junk has a patch kit. So everything is fine because when you're on an alternate timeline, you can always jump back to the original one and then merge the two together. As a result, Mike did not have a patch kit. The merge happens. Now she does.  Only problem is the patch kit is not good enough. It only patches half of it, which is not a problem because she's on an alternate timeline, a branch. And whenever you're on a branch, you can always check back to the original timeline again. Then she can just merge the two together and now in her original timeline, she has a patch kit, a half-patched air leak and the ability to go back in time, grab the original patch kit again and patch the other half. Now if you're doing any kind of programming, this is usually where things go wrong. You've started working on a project, then you went, I need to do something else. You made another timeline or another branch. You messed around with it and you try to merge everything together.  And then you go, delete repository, download, start over. But you see, what's actually happening is Git is saying, hey, you're trying to do two things in the same place. It doesn't actually work. I'm not going to try to fix that for you. You have to fix it. So you have an overlap and all you have to do is jump into space, find the two patches that are overlapping and just edit one of them, make another commit, and everything is fine. The only problem is Mike is still in space and she kept opening the damn airlock so now she has no air. And when you have no air and you're on a spaceship, your friendly AI will tell you, are you sure you want to do that? Which is the best air message ever written, I think. The problem, of course, is she has a patched air supply but no air. But she also started the whole process by committing the starting point, which means you can just go back to the starting point where she has 70% air, recommit it in a new timeline, and rewrite history. If you go into Git and you create an alternate timeline or a branch and you rebase it, you are in fact applying something that happened in the past to the future. So she goes back in time, grabs air and puts it into the future. So using Git, she used one patched Git to fix three different problems and borrowed air from the past to save herself in the future. Like I said, science fiction explains this. Of course, you're all super confused right now. So here is Git in terms of science fiction. See, Git actually solves everything for us. First of all, Git is software, runs on your computer. Git Hub is where you store that software in the cloud so other people can collaborate to that software. A repository is your universe. That's where everything lives for your project. Git commit is the save points that you create as you work forward. Any commit you make, you can always return to at any time and you are literally resetting the universe to that state. Git branch is an alternate timeline. Once you create branches, you can jump to any branch at any time and any commit within that branch at any time and you can make as many as you want. Git checkout is a time machine. It allows you to jump between the branches and it allows you to jump between the commit points. Merge is when you take two timelines and merge them together. If you ever watched space, like what is it called? The supernova, the worst science fiction movie ever made. No one has watched it here. That's good. If you ever watched it, you'll understand why that's relevant. A conflict is when you make a change in the same place in two timelines and try to merge them together and to resolve a conflict, all you have to do is just go and fix it yourself. Rebase is literally rewriting history. You take one timeline and you stick it on top of another one as if that was always where it was. A fork is when you take one universe and create another universe that's an exact copy, whereas a clone is if you create an empty universe and then clone the content from one universe into that one. A push is if you take the contents of one timeline and stick it onto another timeline. A fetch is if you grab the content from one timeline and pull it into yours without merging it. A pull is if you do the same thing but you actually merge it to your timeline and the error everyone runs into. Detached head, the end of all attempts at using git. All that's happening here is you made a change and then jump back in time and you didn't save the change first. And to fix it, all you have to do is create a new branch and it automatically catches itself. Now, the last thing I'll say is this. If you've ever tried to use git, you likely started on a command line and that was likely the end of your attempt. So don't let that command line deter you because there are better options. Right now, we have two. GitHub desktop, with just everything for you and links to GitHub, and source tree, which is the same thing, but also links to Bitbuck. So as you can see, if you think in science fiction terms, git makes sense.  I want to see that story one more time. Good for you. I checked out my timeline before I came here and if you go to my blog at Morton.com, you can see the annotated version of this entire talk right now if you check it out. Thank you very much.


Have you ever experienced weird cravings for salty or sour or bitter or obviously sweet? Well in Chinese medicine, these cravings are related to certain organ systems and the functioning of not only healthy organs, but also the pathological functioning or pathology in certain organs. Now of course, certain cravings eaten in excess, like for example, sweets are a big one in modern times, will produce pathology, i.e. they will create illness. In this video, I thought I would share the link between certain cravings, specifically the flavors, not for example, peanut butter, but the flavors and what organ systems they're related to, because people often find it interesting. Hey guys, I'm Dr. Alex Hein, author of the health book, Master of the Day, and doctor of acupuncture and Chinese medicine. So before we jump into this video, two very important links right below. The first is if you'd like to become a patient of mine locally in Los Angeles or virtually via telemedicine, you can contact my private practice right below this video. And the second is that there's a free download for you, five daily rituals that could potentially help you add years to your life with Chinese medicine. So that is right below this video as well. So when we revisit one of our most ancient texts, the Huangdian aging, it specifically says what these cravings are related to in terms of organ systems. So let's look at that passage really quick. It said therefore, the heart desires bitter, the lung desires spicy, the liver desires sour, the spleen dash pancreas desires sweet, and the kidney desires salty. So let's start with if you're craving salty. We just read the kidney desires salty. So salt cravings for many people are often associated with quote adrenals and also people who are hypotensive. So they have low blood pressure. Now I remember when I was in grad school, I was not only working 60 plus hours a week in school, I was also working 20 hours a week to put myself through school and not graduate with crippling debt. And I found myself confused by the extreme degree of salty that I was craving.  Of course, salty tastes good, right? Sugar, fat, and salt all play on the reward system of the brain. But I was very shocked to see that my salt cravings have become so intense. And I see this in a lot of my patients anecdotally as well, where they'll say, yeah, salty is definitely the thing I crave the most. And that is often a quote unquote, adrenal issue from our perspective. And we often treat the adrenals from the kidney as one of the organ systems. Now, are you craving sweet? Let's go back to that passage. The spleen pancreas craves sweet. So sweet cravings are very tricky in this era of obesity, right? Because many of us may not even crave sweet, but sugar is putting everything additionally from pasta sauce, bread. Every liquid you could possibly drink basically has added sugar in a supermarket. When we say the spleen pancreas craves sweet, what we are in a culture of is massive obesity from too much sweet, most likely. Too many calories and too much sweet. I mean, the health conditions related to being overweight and obese from the medical perspective are probably our top five killers today are within the top three, right? Cardiovascular disease, there's some metabolic links to development of cancer as well, strokes, dementia. All of that can be very related as well. So true sweet cravings are a little bit difficult to understand here in the context of our modern culture with way too much availability of sweet and sugar. But in ancient times, for example, someone who was emaciated and was literally starving was underweight. We would often use sweet things like maltose, basically sugar, right? To help build the person up and help them regain weight, basically. So we have a whole category of formulas called deficiency taxation. Basically, they're formulas you utilize for people that have overworked themselves into these nervous exhaustion type patterns. And one of the formulas called Xiaojian Zhongtang is used with a high degree of maltose actually in the formula. So you can imagine how sweet it was. So sweet really builds. But building is not usually an issue in the modern world, developed world, where we have too much sweet. We need more movement to get all this junk and all this sweet out of there. Now for craving sour, which I don't hear very often, there's sour patch kids. Let's revisit this passage. The liver desires sour. I'm gonna leave that because I don't hear very many people craving sour. If we go to craving bitter, there's one example I hear of this often. And let's revisit the heart desires bitter. Now what I would say is the people who tend to crave bitters are people who usually have acid reflux and indigestion or burping and feel full a lot. So it's interesting because we use bitters for the stomach, right? But the stomach and the heart of an intimate link in Chinese medicine and also biomedically, I mean, when we talk about acid reflux, right? It's also called heart burn. So the stomach and the heart have this kind of close relationship in some ways. And even within Chinese medicine, we have what's called the alarm point of the stomach, which is Ren 12, kind of in the upper part of your belly. And then Ren 14 is the alarm part of the heart. And it's just about this much above in the upper epigastrium. So even those two points are very, very close. So stomach pathology and heart pathology have this sort of intimate link. But bitters related to the heart, I'm not too sure. But certainly you see this with heart burn, no doubt about it. And if you're craving spicy, it says the lung craves spicy. Now we say that the nose is related to the functioning of the lung, right? So think about when you can't smell anything or you have a lot of sinus pressure, a post nasal drip. Having something spicy will help often with the mucus in the throat. But what's very interesting is that a lot of warm climates in the world, ironically have very pungent and spicy foods. I know in Southwestern China or in the Chengdu, Sichuan province, you have these incredibly spicy foods which are so humid. And I think a lot of it is just that when there's that much heat, it tends to kill your appetite. And that pungent, accurate spice brings back some of that appetite and some of that fragrance, that ability to smell. It's also a lot of people who crave spices because effectively they can't taste much anymore. So they crave that spiciness because the palate can actually recognize it because it's a strong flavor, right? If you're having peppercorn versus sugar, the peppercorn really stands out. Even though the sugar has a strong taste to it, that's sweet. Pepper corn is really clear as a nostril. So think of when you're having a stuffy nose, you have some wasabi in your sushi. Wow, what it does to the sinuses in the nose, right? That's the function of the lung from our perspective. These are five of the flavors and what they mean, the organs they affect. Don't forget, excess consumption of them will lead to pathology as well and will lead to illness. So we know the effect of excess salt on the cardiovascular system. We know the effect of excess sweet on all the organs related to diabetes, all the physiological pathways related to diabetes, right? So blood sugar, keep that in mind. You don't want to over consume these flavors. They're used therapeutically as well in ancient times. But I thought it was interesting because so many patients ask me, what do these cravings mean and are they useful and truthful? So sometimes they are, and sometimes they aren't, you know? A diabetic person that craves sugar is obviously, that is not the body recognizing it needs more sugar, right? So there's a dark side as well. We'll talk about it in future videos. But those are five common cravings and what organs they relate to. Again, if you want to look more about being a patient, reach out down below, contact my private practice. There's a free guide for you there and I will see you in the next videos here.


Ladies and gentlemen, please join in welcoming our host for this evening, the Deputy Commandant for Programs and Resources, Lieutenant General Christopher J. Mahoney, accompanied by his wife, Mary. And now, please join in welcoming our guest of honor for this evening, the Undersecretary of Defense, Comptroller, and Chief Financial Officer, the Honorable Michael J. McCord, accompanied by his wife, Donna Rostandt. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the oldest post of the corps, Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., celebrating over six decades of performing evening parades here in our nation's capital. The ceremony you are about to witness was first conducted at the barracks on July 5, 1957. While the parade is standard for Marine units throughout the world, some elements have been modified to showcase the unique abilities of our marching and musical units. The massed formation of troops on one long line at close interval made possible the massing of firepower from muzzle-loaded muskets of the past. The adjutant forms the line of battle, and in those early days that line consisted of two or three ranks, much like the parade formation you will see this evening. Tonight, we celebrate the pride, professionalism, and esprit de corps that are hallmarks of this barracks and the Marines who have distinguished these hallowed grounds for over two centuries. They represent all Marines around the globe who embody our corps's values of honor, courage, and commitment. By the President's own United States Marine Band, the band traces its roots back to July 11, 1798, when an act of Congress authorized the Marine Corps to employ a drum major, a fife major, and 32 fifers and drummers. Today, the Marine Band has more than 150 members who proudly carry out its mission of providing music for the President of the United States and the Commandant of the Marine Corps. The band will open with a march composed by Henry Fillmore, entitled American's We, Philip Sousa, who led the band from 1880 to 1892. Of all his marches, one so embodied our American spirit that in 1987 an act of Congress proclaimed it the National March of the United States. Ladies and gentlemen, celebrating over 223 years of serving as the guardian of American musical tradition, the Marine Band will perform Sousa's most famous march, The Stars and Stripes Forever. General and Mrs. David H. Berger, Bicentennial in 1976, the Barracks and the Commandant's house together were designated a National Historic Landmark. It is a replica of the National Ensin, displaying 15 stars and 15 stripes that would have flown here in 1801. Ladies and gentlemen, we are proud to introduce the official mascot of Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., Private Chesty the 16th, a pedigree English bulldog Private Chesty the 16th enlisted in the Marine Corps on 14 March 2022 and completed recruit training on 25 March 2022. The first Barracks mascot was named in honor of the most decorated Marine in history Lieutenant General Louis B. Chesty Polar, a name that has been inherited by every mascot of the oldest post. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of the colors. Marine Corps color guard before you is unique. Flanked by two Marine riflemen, our national flag is carried by the color sergeant of the Marine Corps while the Marine to his left carries the official battle color of the Marine Corps. The 55 streamers and silver bands displayed with the battle color commemorate the military campaigns in which Marines have participated. They span the entire history of our nation from the Revolutionary War to the combat operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Decorated with palms, Oak leaf clusters and stars, they represent more than 400 awards and campaigns of the United States Marines. It is the privilege of Marine Barracks Washington, D.C. to be entrusted with the custody of this battle color. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. Marines in the spotlight represent over seven decades of marching and rifle drill precision, a legacy of honor, commitment and discipline that began during the sunset parades of 1948. The M1 rifles they carry with fixed bayonets are standard for all our marching platoons and weigh in excess of 10 and one-half pounds. The platoon executes its drill sequence without verbal cadence or commands. Ladies and gentlemen, Marine Barracks Washington, D.C. proudly presents the United States Marine Corps silent drill platoon. The United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps will open its concert this evening with the march composed as a tribute to United States Naval Service personnel whose heroic actions inspire these famous words, Uncommon Bower. The concert continues with the theme of the HBO miniseries, The Pacific, based on personal accounts of Marines from World War II, aptly and simply named Honor. Ladies and gentlemen, Marine Barracks Washington, D.C. is proud to present the Comic-Con Zone, United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps currently serving in the United States Armed Forces. This evening's concert will close with a timeless and triumphant work by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the 1812 overture. Tonight's performance will feature the saluting battery of the Barracks, which will be fired by the body bearer section of the oldest post. Ladies and gentlemen, celebrating over 88 years of marching and musical excellence, here is once again, the Commandant's Own, in D.C. to have as our guest of honor this evening the Undersecretary of Defense, Comptroller, and Chief Financial Officer, the Honorable Michael J. McCord. Our distinguished guests in the reviewing area are the Deputy Commandant for Programs and Resources, Lieutenant General Christopher J. Mahoney, and the Commanding Officer of Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., Colonel Robert A. Satcher. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for honors. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. As we prepare for pass-in review, please direct your attention to the two marching companies assembled before you. These companies are comprised of infantry Marines who were hand-selected to serve at Marine Barracks Washington. In addition to parade support, these companies conduct joint service honor ceremonies at the Pentagon, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the White House. These Marines also have the solemn duty and distinct honor of performing dignified transfer ceremonies for fellow Marines who have made the ultimate sacrifice while serving our country, as well as laying our Marines and their families to rest in Arlington National Cemetery. When not performing ceremonial functions, the Marines of companies A and B honed their infantry skills in preparation for future service in combat units of the Marine Corps Fleet Marine Forces. Ladies and gentlemen, we ask that you please rise when the colors approach you and be seated when they have passed. Bring the evening parade to a close. The ceremonial bugler of Marine Barracks Washington will emerge atop the ramparts and pay tribute to our beloved fallen comrades by sounding taps. This historic bugle call originated in the U.S. during the mid-1800s as a way of signaling to troops the day's end and lights out. It would later become a way of saluting the honored dead throughout our American Civil War. Today it is the final and perhaps most solemn element performed at all military funerals. Ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing as we now honor those gallant men and women who have given their lives in the service of our country. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes our ceremony. You are free to depart the barracks at this time and we ask that you please remain clear of center walk until the official party has departed and the crescent has been dismissed. Those guests who are interested will then have an opportunity to meet and photograph Chesty the 16th, the drum majors of the president's own and the commandant's own.


Welcome to Unit 1 of Sailor.org's Interviewing Skills course. This may be the first course you have taken in the Job Search Skills group. If it is, we'd like to encourage you to look over other courses we offer in the Professional Development Program. Specifically, the Job Search Skills course and Resume Writing courses will provide you with the information and tools to assist you in targeting the right jobs and career paths for you and learning to write a resume and cover letter that will get you that interview. The Sailor videos you will view at the outset of each of the units in this course are necessarily brief. Our intention is to highlight the informative resources available to you in this course. Each reading contains helpful embedded links that you can click on to pursue more in-depth information on that or related topics. That being said, let's jump right into the subject of interviewing. If you have assessed your skills and interests and have begun to market yourself to employers, that phone could ring at any time. Today's employers often begin their interview screening on the telephone. Your job is to be prepared for that one chance for a first impression and you want to make it a good one. In Unit 1, you'll learn about the various phases of an interview process. The Kentucky Office of Employment and Training describes seven phases beginning with before you go in phase, during which you should research the employer and obtain opinions from people who may work there. You'll receive advice on opening moves and how to progress through the interview to the closing. You'll also receive follow-up suggestions, points to prepare for negotiations, and finally, guidelines for making a decision to ensure that you make the right career choice. Surprisingly, interviewers form their first impressions of you within the first three to five seconds of meeting you. You want that impression to be a good one. North Dakota State University's Career Center discusses how to dress for success for the interview. Whether you're a male or female, you'll be able to learn how to dress appropriately for an interview in a specific industry. To master the interview, College Grad describes techniques and tactics to study prior to your first interview. You'll learn the top 10 critical success factors that nearly every employer is seeking. This article offers links to many relevant articles such as 10 Tough Interview Questions and 10 Great Answers. Trustee Guides Deborah Wolf tells us on the day of the interview there should be no surprises. She describes six steps in the job interview preparation process. Use these suggestions and her interview preparation checklist to appear confident, well-informed, and enthusiastic on the day of the interview. You'll also be able to assess your knowledge about how to prepare for a successful interview by taking Wolf's brief job interview quiz. As is the case with all units in this course, each resource in Unit 1 contains links to allow you to pursue more in-depth information on any items of interest. Please feel free to follow any embedded links in these readings to obtain more detailed information on a given subject. We recommend that you take notes throughout your reading and keep a file on particular items of interest to you. You'll notice a continuing theme throughout this course. Prepare, prepare, prepare. This unit offers you the resources to ensure that you are ready to enjoy the interviewing experience. Remember, the interview is your chance to sell your personality and qualifications to an employer. You'll only have one shot at this, so make it a good one. Good luck and see you at the beginning of Unit 2.


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