All right. So I'd like to begin by addressing a question that someone asked after the last lecture. It's a very good question. The question was, if I interpret it correctly, was, first of all, where so far have we been using smoothness? And secondly, is smoothness really important? So first of all, what do I mean by smoothness? Well, if I say that a map is smooth, and I just use the adjective smooth, I mean that it's infinitely differentiable. We can actually talk about spaces of dynamical systems, the set of all C infinity self-maps. That's like a big space, right? And we can ask what properties are common in these spaces of dynamical systems. And that's a whole kind of branch of dynamics is looking at the general picture. If I look at the space, this crazy enormous space of all dynamical systems. So to answer the question, or to give some indication of why smoothness might matter, I'll just tell you about just a couple results. One goes back to 1939. One looks at the space of all volume-preserving homeomorphisms of a manifold, say the torus. Just do the torus. So let's look at all area-preserving homeomorphisms of the torus. And let's say two of them are close, if they're close in the uniform topology. So there's a topology on this space. And you can talk about large sets of homeomorphisms because you have the bare category theorem. And in that space, there's a very large set. It's a set of, I think it's called first category, or it is a countable intersection of open dense sets. That's sometimes called a residual set. There's a very large dense set of homeomorphisms that are ergodic. And even more than that. And that was proved by Oxtoby and Ulam in 1939. So the typical continuous dynamical system-preserving area is ergodic. If I have something that isn't, I can change it a little bit to get something that is. But these are only continuous objects. They have no differentiable structure. You can't take derivatives. If you've seen, like, Vierstrasse's curve, that's nowhere differentiable. That's kind of what they're looking like. They're really, really unsmooth. By contrast, if you go to C infinity and you look at the space of all C infinity, diffeomorphisms of the torus, those are just C infinity maps that have a C infinity inverse. And you look at those that preserve area, then there are open sets of diffeomorphisms that are not ergodic. So there are diffeomorphisms that fail to be ergodic. And you can't approximate them by something ergodic. So every homeomorphism, you can approximate easily by something that's ergodic. But there are C infinity diffeomorphisms that cannot be approximated by something ergodic. And that's because of a theory called KAM theory developed first by Kolmogorov in the 50s and then Arnold and Moser. And it uses very much a lot of derivatives, at least three derivatives. In fact, you could make it C3 on the torus. And the statement is still true, three times continuously differentiable. So whether a system has a property, even as simple as ergodicity, really depends in a delicate way. I should say, for C1 diffeomorphisms, preserving area, it's still an open question whether a typical system is ergodic. So if you just add one degree of differentiability, the picture changes, all the techniques for continuous systems go away. So we're focusing most of the systems we focus on today will be C2. We are going to need, today, this week, we are going to need at least two degrees of differentiability. What I'm going to do today is not talk very much about these ugly, smooth systems.  They sound very smooth. But in contrast to the linear examples that we're considering, these F sub A's, these rotations, in contrast to those, a general smooth system has some very complicated features that you can't analyze using Fourier series. So for a very simple example, well, Kanim gave one at the very end of the lecture that he said was ergodic. But that's not, he did not prove that. Hopefully I might give some idea of why that system is ergodic. We might give you some idea by the end of the week. But here's another system.  Sine is sort of arbitrary. I chose it to be periodic, x plus y. This is a map from the torus to itself. It preserves Lebesgue measure. So epsilon is some positive fixed number, non-zero fixed number, but it's small. Let's say it's small. Let's call it f epsilon. So when epsilon is 0, this is just f sub a or f sub 2, 1, 1, 1. This is just a map we've analyzed so far. We know it's ergodic. When epsilon is not equal 0, if I wrote this correctly, this f sub epsilon still preserves Lebesgue. Y, because f sub epsilon equals a map that I'll call Psi epsilon, composed with f sub a, where Psi, I don't want to use Psi, H, where H epsilon of x, y is x plus epsilon sine 2 pi y comma y. This preserves volume. And this preserves volume. The reason this preserves volume, well, how can we tell? Let me just do a little smooth here, because I think you guys are craving it. Well, let's write down the derivative of H at a point x, y, or H epsilon. So by the way, I'm totally going off script here. But d epsilon H of x, y, which is a map from the tangent space to the two torus. But if you like, we can just think of it as a matrix. But formally, it is such a thing. But written as a matrix with respect to the standard basis of R2, dH epsilon, the derivative, the total derivative, the Jacobian matrix, is of the following form. Well, differentiating with respect to x, I get 1. Differentiating here, I get epsilon 2 pi cosine y, 2 pi y, 0, 1. And you'll notice that the derivative determinant of this is 1. And that's the infinitesimal distortion of area is constant, it's 1. And so from calculus, from the change of variables formula, and I'll say more later, this implies that H epsilon preserves the bank. So here's a map, F epsilon, very close but nonlinear. Is it ergodic in a preserved area? Is it ergodic? I defy you to try to prove that using Fourier series. All right? It's just not going to happen. That's even though there's a sign there, it's not a Fourier series kind of thing you want to do. So what I'm going to show you, what we are going to show you this week are techniques that work for 2, 1, 1, 1. But they also work for systems like this, for proving our giddycy. So we're going to give you some techniques that will allow us to deal with nonlinear examples like this. It's an obvious question, right? Is it ergodic? I can even write. Question is, well, I don't actually know the question answered to this question. I don't know the answer to this. But I do know the answer as long as epsilon is sufficiently small. So there you go. Answer, yes, if epsilon is sufficiently small. Otherwise, I'm not sure. OK, so that was a little bit of looking forward. Why are we doing all these things? Believe me, all these disparate techniques will come together. And we will be able to prove some, I think, kind of interesting things using them. And in any case, I'm going to give you what I would call a toolbox of techniques that you can begin to use to analyze nonlinear dynamical systems preserving volume. OK, so there's an important principle that's probably going to occupy most of the rest of this lecture. Yes? No, sine is not significant. Sine could be any periodic function. Basically, f epsilon could be any perturbation of f that preserves volume and is smooth. It preserves area and is smooth. So sine is not significant. Yeah, how small does it have to be? I could write it down. I mean, it's not that small. It's not terribly small. No, I mean, it's not epsilon has to be 0.0. It's a pretty big epsilon. The epsilon's reasonable. And it has to do with the size of the eigenvalues of this matrix. It has to be on the order of the eigenvalues of this matrix. Too far from that, yeah. Other questions? So the main principle for today's lecture is that oil and water do not mix. It's a property of measurable sets of positive measure. So this is just some mnemonic for remembering that. So what do I mean by this? More precisely, this is a property of Lebesgue measure. Other measures share this property in different forms. It says the following. If I have a set of positive Lebesgue measure and I look really close, I zoom in on a point in that set, I will see almost entirely that set. I will barely see its complement. So it's a manifestation of the principle that Lebesgue measurable sets can be well approximated by open sets. Lebesgue measurable sets, for many purposes, you could almost think of them as open sets. Because if I look in a small enough ball around almost any point in a Lebesgue positive Lebesgue measurable set, I'm going to see just that set. So that's called the Lebesgue density theorem. And I can make it more precise. And in your exercises, I will have you prove a very kind of basic form. It's not a very hard theorem to prove, but I'll give you an even simpler version that you can prove with your bare hands. But here's the statement. OK, so let me describe, first of all, we've talked about conditional expectation of functions, but we haven't actually, at least I haven't talked about conditional measures of sets. So conditional measure is something much simpler than conditional expectation. Conditional measure, or another word used is density. Let A be inside of, well, we could stick to the torus, or we can look locally. So these could be subsets of Rn or Tn, or in fact, any manifold that has some kind of volume on it. We define, when we suppose that the measure of B positive, I'm better use mu. So mu is always going to be Lebesgue measure. And these aren't just in Rn. Let's make them Borel measurable sets in Rn. Then we define the conditional measure, mu of A bar B, is just defined to be the measure of the intersection divided by the measure of B. So from probability, you recognize this as if mu is a probability, this is the probability that an event A happens given that B has happened. Geometrically, the conditional measure, here's B. Maybe A looks something like this. Here's A. Oh, I just admonished adding for using A. X and B are two sets. Here's X. And the conditional measure, mu of X bar B, is just the proportion of B occupied by X. Now, you can think of mu of putting a dot here. You can think this itself is a probability measure. Just note that. So it's a probability measure that you obtain by just focusing on some little point. Now, we've seen the property. This is a completely side note, because really what I want to talk about is density points. But here's a side note slash remark. You saw the property of mixing. So suppose I have, using my notation, I have a space, which I'll call M. This is just some measure preserving system. And this is mixing. So we saw the definition of mixing, but here's another way of defining it. Really, it's just another way of thinking of it if, for all A and X, if I look at the conditional measure of F to the minus N of A inside of X, that actually just approaches the measure of A. So in this sense, mixing just means that if I look in any subset of the space and I let my sets kind of push around, so what is this? This is actually, if you like, this is the push forward. Excuse me? No, no, this includes the measure of X. It's in the denominator. So in other words, if I push forward N times this conditional measure, it converges to mu itself. That's a way of saying it. So every little space looks like every little part of the space from a measure. You could zoom in as much as you want in any part of the space. And when you push this forward, it starts to look more and more just like the regular Lebesgue measure itself. OK, so that's just a comment. I'm going to give an exercise, but I'm getting a little behind. I'm going to give an exercise just to clarify the connection between conditional measure and conditional expectation. But here's the key Lebesgue density theorem. If the measure of X, I don't care if the measure of X is positive because the statement is vacuous if it isn't. So if X is a beryl set inside of our N, or TN, then for almost every mu, almost every little x and big x, if I look at the density of X inside the ball around little x of radius r, this is just the Euclidean ball. In fact, it could be any ball, any family of balls where the shape is controlled as r goes to 0, the limit as r goes to 0 of this exists, and it actually equals. So around almost any point in X, if I zoom close enough, I see almost 100% of the set X. So this is a super powerful tool that we can use to prove vergedicity for systems that are not algebraic in nature. I would like to remark that there are lecture notes from last week. And I understand that not all of the lectures were covered, but there are nonetheless notes where a lot of these techniques are actually discussed, so proving ergedicity using density points, the Lebesgue density theorem, and so on. So there is, and using Fourier series to prove ergedicity. So there's quite a bit of material if this is unfamiliar. So that's the Lebesgue density theorem. And let's, we can call dp of X, set of X, X and X, such that this holds. Well, the set of X, let's actually make it the set of all X in my space, such that star holds. So you can have a density point that's not actually in the set. How much you have that? What would be an example? I could take like an open set and remove a point, and then that's a set. And the point I removed is a density point, but it's not in the set. OK, and then these are called the density points of X. And I just proved to you that the measure that almost every point in X is a density point. So if I look at X and I subtract off the density points of X, that has measure 0 from what I just claimed. That's the theorem. But also, if I'm a density point, almost every density point has to belong to X. Why is that true? I'll give you a hint. Look at the complement of X. But yeah, it would not be disjoint. Not necessarily disjoint, but close. So if it's not a density point, well, maybe, if I have a density point that's not in X, look at the complement of X. If the complement of X has measure 0, then that statement is vacuous. Because then there are no density points that are in measure. But the complement, if it has positive measure, then it has exactly the same property. Almost every point of the complement is a density point. For the complement. So I can't have, if this has positive, or even this, which is a subset of the complement, if this had positive measure, then I could find a point where it's almost 100% this, but not this. But this is contained in this. I don't see enlightened faces. I could draw some pictures. So maybe here's X. And maybe here's a point, little x, but it's a density point of X. But it's not in X. Well, let's assume, let's assume, OK, I'm going to just prove it, damn it. Suppose this is 0, but it is positive. Then the measure, then almost every, I won't do iterated density, but almost every x in this set is a density point for the set. Again, by the Lebesgue density theorem. Well, but now we have a contradiction. Because on the one hand, take such an x, so take such an x, and take r very small. If r is really small, then inside this neighborhood, since x is a density point of x, that means that 90% of this ball lies in x, because this r gets really small. But on the other hand, since x is a density point of dpx minus x, that means that 90%, if r is small enough, lies in dpx minus x. In particular, it lies in the complement of x, contradiction. In m minus x or whatever, rn minus x, contradiction. So that's an important picture to keep in mind. So if I take a set, its density points, the symmetric difference between x and the set of density points has measure 0. That's a key property. Let's use that to prove ergodicity of something. Something that's not algebraic. Well, something that seems not algebraic in any case. So using density points to prove ergodicity. So example one. So let m, let's let f from the n-tourist to itself. I'm trying to avoid using general manifolds in the lectures. So let's just suppose I have a map from the n-dimensional torus to itself with the following two properties. And then we'll just focus on an example. So the first property is that the Euclidean distance. So we have a distance here. Let's call it d. d equals distance, Euclidean distance on Tn. So that's the shortest line segment connecting two points. The length of that is the distance. So two properties. The first is that the distance between f of x and f of y equals the distance between x and y for all x and y in Tn. So this is what's known as anisometry. And the second property is that it's transitive. And I will give a different definition, but it's equivalent to what Khadim gave. So f is transitive, meaning that there exists some point x not in Tn, such that if I look at all iterates, I could do n greater than or equal to 0 or just n. There's some point that should be x not whose orbit is dense. Example, n equals 1. An example when n equals 1. What's a transformation? Yeah, an irrational rotation. Irrational rotation, right? Because it preserves distance, preserves two points. Their distance doesn't change. And did you prove this yet? I would assume. I mean, it's ergodic. And we just saw that ergodic implies transitive, sort of. We saw ergodic implies some form of transitive. Anyway, have we done the exercise that this has a dense orbit? Yes, OK. All right, so this is an example. So I'm going to give you a kind of silly general proof that this is ergodic, seem silly, using density points. So continue, da, claim. I should say, well, this property actually implies that f implies it preserves Lebesgue measure.  Same shape, right? So I have the same measure, so usual thing. That's the first. And then the second is that f is ergodic. Proof. Suppose there exists a set that's invariant under f. Measure of f of x is neither 0 nor 1. It lies in the open interval, OK? So then the measure of its complement is also positive. This also has positive measure. In particular, it has positive measure and not measure 1. Let's call this x prime for simplicity. So we want to derive a contradiction. So let's draw x. Maybe we have two different colors here. Very hard to see colors. There's x, and there's x prime. And note, since x is invariant, its complement is also invariant. So we have two invariant sets, OK? So if I take a point and I apply f to that point, I can make that point move everywhere. And these two stay stationary. These two sets are fixed. Well, we have a point. So here's x, and here's x prime. Now we have a point, x naught, whose orbit is dense. Well, that means that I can take any point here and get as close as I want by iterating long enough. And similarly, over here. So let's take a density point. So let's take x inside of dpx. And let's take a ball, r. Well, let's also take a point x prime. That's a density point for x prime.  So just imagine these are incredibly small balls. So if I pick r small enough, I can arrange so that this ball is 90% x prime. OK, by which I mean, i.e., the conditional measure of x prime inside the ball around x prime of radius r is greater, let's say, greater than 0.9. And let's do the same thing over here with the blue. So we pick r so that this is 90% x, density point. Now, little x0, I can get as close as I want to x and as close as I want to x prime. So let's take an iterate of x0, where the distance between f, let's say, f. So there exists two constants, m1, let's say, less than 0 and m2. That's kind of not so important, but we just want m1 less than m2 such that the distance from f to the m1 of x0 to x is incredibly less than r. And the distance from f to the m2 of x0 to x prime is also way less than r, maybe less than r over a million, if you want. And now consider to the m2 minus m1 what it does to the ball around x, that density point for x of radius r. Well, f is an isometry. So this is the ball around f to the m, whoops, that's why people had a face, m2 minus m1, f to the m2 minus m1 of xr. And this is unbelievably close to the ball around x prime of radius r because of what I just said, it's very close to this, close. All right, so that's like the triangle inequality. And in fact, we could have chosen m0 and m1 to be, so that those are as close as we want. And then because x and x prime are invariant, the density, what is f to the m2 minus m1 applied to the intersection of the ball, I'm sorry, of, yes, the intersection of x with the ball around this density point. Well, it's x because of the invariance, it's x intersected with f to the m2 minus m1 of this ball, which I said is incredibly close, like the centers are just slightly off, incredibly close to the intersection of x with the ball around x prime of radius r. Finally, what is the measure of f to the m2 minus m1 of this intersection? Well, this preserves measure. So this is just the measure of the intersection. And this is the same. Well, it's the same as the measure of that intersection, which is, we just said, this is much bigger than 0.9 times the measure of the ball around x of radius r because of the conditional, because it's a density point. So I'm definitely finishing on this proof. And that equals 0.9 times the measure of the ball x prime of radius r, right? They're just both balls. They have the same measure. All right, so let's put this all together. So the measure, on the one hand, the measure, let's look at what is the density of x in the ball around x prime of radius r? Well, measure of the intersection. So it's the measure of that intersection. But this is incredibly close to the measure of this intersection. This is incredibly close to the measure of x intersect the ball at x, x prime, but they're the same, right? Because this ball is incredibly close. This intersection is incredibly, or this ball is incredibly close. If I apply f to the m minus n, it's incredibly close to the image. The image is incredibly close to the ball at x prime. Well, and this is just the density of x in the ball of radius. I'm pretty sure I kind of said a little more than I needed to. And this is greater than 0.9. So we have a contradiction, but this contradicts the fact that the density of x prime, which is the complement, is also greater than 0.9. The picture proof is easier than whatever I said. I should have just stuck with the picture. I have a ball. It's mostly x. I have another ball. It's mostly x prime. Because of transitivity, I can move this ball, the center of this ball, under iteration as close as I want to the center of this ball. In the process, I don't change the shape of the ball. I don't change the measure of the intersection. And I don't change this set because it's invariant. And so I can take this whole picture with 90% pink and move it on top of 90% orange as close as I want. And that's a contradiction. All right, so I just want to emphasize the two things I proved, or two things I used, which I just said in words. Because now we're going to, or in the next lecture, we're going to try to relax some of these conditions. So that's the end of the proof, but remark. Marks, we used two key properties. This might not be clear. But the first one is that because f was an isometry, f to the n reserves both the size and the shape of these balls. So if I took a ball over here, and I iterate until the cows come home, because it might take a long time. Because transitivity, it doesn't say I can do it in 10 steps. It might take forever, OK? Not quite forever, but practically so. But this stays a ball throughout. And so that denominator, that set that I'm taking the density in that I need to use for the density theorem, that set is not distorted. Imagine that's incredibly special and is not going to work in general. And the second is that f preserves density. In the following sense, measure, or the conditional measure, of f to the n of some set x inside of f to the n of some set y is the same as the conditional measure of x given y. So we use that as well. As an exercise, but this is really what I was going to talk about in the end of this lecture. But I don't have time. What happens if you try to do the same proof with f of x equals 2x? What happens if you try? Think about that. I have an advanced exercise. So it looks like we did something marvelously general. We proved that if we have a transitive isometry, then it's ergodic. And that seems like, wow, we've done something that you can't do with Fourier series. But in fact, this takes a lot of advanced thinking, but some of you might know the answer, be able to figure this out with a lot of help. If I have a compact manifold, Romanian manifold, and I have a transitive isometry, then the manifold's a torus, and the isometry is a rotation. So I haven't done anything more general than what we've essentially already seen. But it was illustrative. Are there any questions before we wrap up? Yeah, just use metric spaces. Oh, but you mean in my question? Well, it's an isometry of a Romanian manifold, which automatically makes it very nice. If you know about Romanian manifolds, an isometry is automatically the set of isometries formally group. There's a finite dimensional smooth. They're nice. So yeah, you don't even need. It just has to be a manifold. No, no, they're compact metric spaces like the adding machine, where you have a transitive isometry, where it's not a manifold. There are other compact groups on which you have dense, you have transitive isometries, like the adding machine, fiatic. It's also ergodic. Yeah, yeah, the proof doesn't. This proof is not the proof of that, though. The density point is that a density point is measurable. It differs from a measurable set by a zero set. So it's borrel measurable. Is that the issue? Or it's not a, yeah. So all the sets we consider, we're allowed to change by a zero set. So while I say borrel sets, I mean borrel. I really mean in some sense, Lebesgue sets. But I mean I allow equivalents up to sets of measures zero. It is true for Lebesgue measurable sets, yeah. Oh, yeah, I should have said that. It doesn't have to just be borrel. That's, I mean, that's essentially an exercise. Well, I guess you have to show that that set is measurable. But the proof is pretty clearly shows that dense sequence are measurable. Yes, we should be doing more questions. So I assume you have an announcement. Exactly, yes. OK, so thank you, Amy. Thanks. So just a quick announcement. As I mentioned previously, I would like during this week to have some meetings with some subgroups of you just for no particular reason, just to help you to answer any questions that you specifically might have also related to your country and your region and possibilities with ICDP. And so I would like today after at the coffee break to meet with two groups. First of all, I'd like to meet initially all the participants from North African countries, which I think is Algeria, Egypt, and Tunisia. I think we have. So if we could meet basically at the coffee break at one of the tables outside on the terrace. And then after that, say at 4.30, let's say, I would like to meet with all the students who are interested, who may be interested in applying for the ICDP diploma program next year. I've spoken to quite a few of you. If you remember, this is a one year pre-PhD program for students that are with a bachelor's or a master's or maybe have just begun the PhD. But it's really a kind of preparatory program to apply for PhDs. I hope it will not be too many of you. I certainly will not be able to guarantee anyone's admission, but I want to have an opportunity to find out who might be interested for next year, which means applying now for September soon, for September 2019, and just to clarify any questions that you might have about that. So for the people interested in the diploma program, we'll meet at 4.30, also in the terrace after the coffee break. And for the North African students, shortly earlier, like a little after 4 during the coffee break, also on the terrace. OK, thank you.


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YouTube team keep it clean What's going on the same graven here with another video and in this video? Wanted to ask the question that we haven't I mean we talked about a little bit here and there But we didn't really talk about it talk about it and for force like we should have and shout out to my guy Vegan King aka you get old vegan. He had brought it up to me a couple days ago More so about the table on Austin part But I had to go ahead and throw Tory Smith in there too because that's another potential person that this conversation is about So good morning everybody that's coming through appreciate y'all. Thank you all for coming through. I'm in the question of this video is Should the Ravens go after?  What's going on Ravens rule see nil my boy vegan King? What's up? Jack? What's going on coaster my boy JB smooth? And everybody else is coming through. What's up Devon James? What's going on Andre corporal more than everybody appreciate y'all So oh Yeah What's up Josh? Let me introduce myself before you get into it. What's going on Alex? What's going on chase? What's up Kyle chase congratulations on your boys getting a Super Bowl man But anyway Me introduce myself me. I'm engraving vids. This is my YouTube channel engraving vids and I'm a Ravens fan And even though I'm a Ravens fan on this YouTube channel. We talk Ravens, but we also talk everybody in NFL So if you're Ravens fan, make sure you subscribe if you love anybody else Make sure you subscribe if you just love talking football Make sure you subscribe turn your notifications on And leave a like on a video click that thumbs up button. So again the question if they do become potential casual casual excuse me cap casualties Should the Ravens go after one either Tori Smith or to Von Austin or both? Me oh, he says it looks nice over his old 45 degrees in New York. I'm not jealous of you at all It is extremely sunny outside right now You can see the shine on my forehead from the Sun But ain't no complaints. I love the weather here. Anyway So with Tori Smith if we went after Tori Smith One that would be somebody I talked about it before Joe Flacco has not had chemistry with a wide receiver. He has not had the same chemistry with any other wide receiver ever More so for the deep passes like he had with Tori Smith. None of them. None of them Nobody there has not been not one receiver that he's ever had in Baltimore Where he's had the same consistency with the deep pass as he's had with Tori Smith and nobody's even close Not not one nobody So as far as possession receivers, he gets good chemistry with them when they can catch and when he actually has a good one Like Steve Smith senior and Kwame Bolden Derek Mason guys like that But as far as the deep threat He hasn't had any chemistry with any of them besides Tori Smith And they even try to get Tori Smith last year They try to get him last year And we just we haven't had that deep threat in a long time Mike Wallace his hands ain't good enough It's it's a shame that what's kind of crazy that Tori Smith's hands are better than Mike Wallace Mike Wallace been around the league longer than Tori Smith Um, he's been doing this thing for longer than Tori Smith But Tori Smith's hands are better than Mike Wallace and Tori Smith ain't even had the best hands in the world I remember when he first came in Baltimore and in preseason. He was just dropping everything. I thought this dude was going to be garbage I thought he's going to be terrible I thought he's going to be terrible um But let's see, man um Andre said engraving this day. I didn't know this. I thought Smith had a four-year contract deal with the Eagles I don't I don't remember how long his deal is with them, but They are Over the salary cap by like nine million dollars So They may be forced or they're going to be forced to make some cuts to make some trades and whatnot um So JB Thul said the Ravens should only get Tori Smith only if they if they can't resign Mike Wallace I would rather Tori Smith than Mike Wallace anyway, man because like I said Mike Wallace, um Mike Wallace hands are just oh man and the chemistry the chemistry is just off I feel like Tori Smith. He'd been gone for Eagles last year 49ers. Well for like two years or something. He's been gone for like three years now And I feel like if he came back He would have more chemistry with Flacco Haven't been gone three years than any of the receivers that that's on the team right now straight up Sydney go say Tori Smith couldn't catch either to be honest. He did his thing for us He did his thing for us. He did have some drops now, but Mike Wallace has more drops than Tori Smith does um so I wouldn't be mad if Tori came back because It would be somebody who Like I said chemistry man chemistry. Um a little quick Sorry, I had a loop um, but with Tori Smith could come back. I wouldn't be mad. I wouldn't be mad I wouldn't be mad. Sorry y'all. Y'all had to see that. Um So I think if if Tori Smith did become available I'd say go for it Forget Mike Wallace Go for it. Forget Mike Wallace um And Tori Smith would actually give Ravens fans some hope. He would give us some energy. Um, he would give us Just a boost that we need that we haven't had in so long, man It would be nice. Um Now moving on over and Tori's from Baltimore And so it's Tavon Austin. So let's talk about Tavon Austin. Um, he As a wide receiver No, I see a lot of people already talking about it already again. Shout out to my boy ghetto vegan aka vegan king He was the one that brought this up a couple days ago Speaking if the raven should should sign Tavon Austin um No, man ain't bringing that mustache back at all man not at all that that mustache ain't coming back But anyway, um Tavon Austin Um, if if he also becomes a cap casualty from his team from the Rams I think he would be somebody to look at as one um, definitely a special team Because we have not had a A good special team returner and literally forever. What's up Logan? What's going on coach talk? No, we don't want to flacko stash back. We I'm not bringing that back ever again When I look back at old videos when I had the mustache right here. I hate it. It makes me cringe looking at it makes me cringe um But yeah, since jacobi jones, man But we haven't had no electric punt or kick return and no special teams returner And literally forever in forever and forever So If we could get Tavon Austin for a good price, of course for a good price Um, I'll be down. I'll be down for that too And then something else that uh That vegan king mentioned too was if Uh, if Tavon Austin if they brought him in then they could they could get him in an awesome offense too They could bring him in on some plays and whatnot.  We don't have one of those. Sorry. We don't have any of those We don't have there's no such thing in Baltimore as a number one wide receiver right now so that's that um Cyrus jones, that's that cornerback. Ain't it not y'all can keep him I mean he tried to he tried to help us win that game when we played the Patriots that time on was it monday night football? I forgot what he tried to help us win that game um Oh, you met cyrus jones. Oh, that's what's up, man But y'all can keep him Um, really think we should go after paul richison then they may be doing that. Who knows me? But yeah, we don't have any number one wide receiver. We really don't What's up, alias? What are you talking about? Sydney say don't worry. We didn't have one for five or six years um If you guys want to get up we'll give oh, oh, okay. That was michael grand that brought up cyrus jones. Oh, no, we don't want No, thanks um Andres a he's a albert wilson from the chiefs Not sure man I don't know too much about him d jacks was close D jacks when he wasn't fairly all he was nice, man Because y'all had jeremy macklin and the shine jackson, man. They were burning everybody They were burning everybody, but they just couldn't get over that hump, man Because that's they had a team man. Y'all had some wider receivers And I think they still had brimsell look at titan. I'm not sure though, but Either way, but yeah, if we if baltimore brought in tibon austin, um, he would immediately Point return kick return. That's all he is Right away right away. It would have to be you would have to be his um and Oh for dais bryan. I know george mentioned dais bryan. Um, they said the cowboys are trying to work out an extension with him so That's that I mean we we can't we could take it for what it's worth It's not worth anything right now because there ain't nothing official But they said the cowboys are trying to work out an extension with him. So I mean we just wait and see He would also be somebody that would be an immediate upgrade at where I receive a force even with how bad his hands are He would still be an upgrade over what we got now Um So sammy walkins might not come back. Yeah, he's a free agent too. He's getting ready to be a free agent unless they work So without work something out with him fast and yeah, he'll be gone too He'll get to choose Well, he'll where he'll get to play Um, he said the edge of play titan After that ravens game he may as well been waiting for a year because he was fumbling and just he he was trying to help us win So I guess it's because he was he's from there He's from there. So maybe that's why um Now, oh, yeah, sammy walkins got some injury problems too, but what why receiver that the ravens want doesn't Besides jarvis laundry, you know what it's crazy that um I forgot what the reason was that um I forgot what the reason was that the ravens didn't get jarvis laundry last year when the trade fell through What was the reason I forgot Because it's crazy that they they actually tried to get jarvis laundry last year They tried to get them So That makes me happy that they know they had a problem and they tried to address it, but it just fell through I know jb. I'm sure jb smooth will know um, but I know that they mentioned it What and some of the reporters brought it up too like a couple months ago? um But they tried man The drace said I'm going to say what I said and engraving said the ravens has to be creative and free agency. Yeah Oh, yeah, because you mentioned um because you on instagram when you mentioned uh, do we have enough space uh to make a splash? um They ain't got no I think they got what maybe like 11 12 million right now something like that. What's up josh? um They got like 11 12 million right now and and that number is gonna of course go up and down with cuts and signings and whatnot, but Yeah, they have to be creative um They may trade some people away They may cut some people. I mean they do this every year. That's what it's gonna. It's gonna happen It's just a matter of who and one thing that I was thinking about too That not many people have been mentioning. You know what? I'm gonna save that for another video I'm gonna save that for another video There's some lizard that's been around here. That's just he won't go away I think he like moved in man He moved in He's been chilling here for like the longest um, but whatever Anyway, um My son was trying to chase him earlier I don't know where he is Why this thing moving laggy now? That's weird. I don't know why it's moving laggy. Is it lagging for y'all? It's weird Yeah, yeah, I saw eagles got negative nine million man. They over the cap by nine million and change That's crazy. Let me know if it's lagging for y'all because I feel like it's lagging Okay, if it's not cool All right, let me see him. I said, oh, maybe I won't be able to see me tonight I'm looking forward to that. I'm not looking forward to any other matches on that elimination chamber besides the the main one um Maybe if my dude undertaking might come back and and maybe if they I'm hoping I know we talking about football, but I had to throw the wrestling in there real quick I'm hoping they do a swerve I'm hoping they do a swerve because we all know uh Roman Reigns supposed to win In face Brock because that's been a plan for like over a year now But um, I'm hoping they do a swerve. I'm really hoping that I'm hoping they do some things that's not expected Because if say what if Roman Reigns gets eliminated first? Or even if he gets eliminated second or third whatever if he gets eliminated Then it's gonna be a big question mark like oh man. Who's who's gonna win because we're not gonna know that So we'll see man. Um Yeah, I like stroke man. I like him a lot. He has been great Am I getting on a fortnight wave or I got to get on a fortnight wave I've been singing and everybody's playing it literally everybody even juju swiss shoester. Um, everybody I I just The uh, the the fps games that never been really been my thing never really got into it man. I'm lagging now. Okay Now it's lagging Okay There's lagging for anybody else might have to start it over but He said get on overwatch. Yeah. Yeah, I've never really been into those games Never really been getting getting into them. Like you said Joe Flacco should not cut a salary cap and Know y'all wrong John Cena my favorite guy. I like John Cena, man. I know a lot of people don't like him. I like him I like him. He puts on a really some really good show really good matches, man He does this thing Um, oh, it's fun. Just take time to get the hang of it. I remember when we used to have toy smith and he's going Yeah, he's been long gone for a while now Um, I built a wall on fortnight and God Oh pu bg. I heard about that one. What does that even stand for me? I heard about that. What games am I into?  Un unchartered there we go unchartered stuff like that Um, how do I feel about Lamar Jackson QB from Louisville? I hope he stays at Q at QB. I hope he stays there. Oh, yeah, 2k. Thank you. Um So, yeah, I hope he stays at QB But anyway Those are the questions Y'all have the answers and we're gonna see if ravens post those same questions too If uh, Tori Smith and Tevon Austin get cut and don't forget to tell Gabriel too. He's another one He's another one. Um, I think he would command a little more money than Tevon Austin But hey, we'll see man. We'll see if we get there Uh, because who knows who the ravens are looking out for who knows who they're watching Who knows? So Anyway, appreciate y'all Thank you for watching I got Another video I want to do literally like right now so Something that I want to talk about too The what this why I receive a situation So we're gonna talk about that too. Make sure y'all come right back Because I'm literally coming right back. I see y'all in like two seconds


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Welcome. Thanks for joining us for the nonprofit show. We are so glad that you're here either joining us live or watching or listening to one of our recordings. If you joined us for the green room chatter, you probably think that RJ and I are family and we're pretty darn near closed. RJ Caswell joins us from Infinite Giving. He's been on before so he's not a new face, but he is one of our favorites. Today is going to talk to us about managing nonprofit reserves. So before we dive into that conversation, we of course want you to know who you're looking at or listening to Julia Patrick, CEO. She created this wonderful opportunity called the nonprofit show. She's CEO of the American nonprofit and is enjoying a day off. So good for you Julia self care is important. I'm Jared Ransom, your nonprofit nerd CEO of the Raven Group honored to serve alongside each and every day as the co host of the show. 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Believe it or not, we are marching towards 600 episodes and in our green room chatter RJ said, can't believe you do this each and every day and I said me either like can you believe, but it really is nice so if you missed any episode or you want to go back and repeat you're tired of binge watching Netflix you can binge watch us on Roku YouTube fire TV as well as Vimeo and if you're a podcast listener like myself, you can also queue us up on anywhere you stream your podcast but just go ahead and queue up the nonprofit show. Well RJ thanks for sitting and waiting so patiently as we jump into this conversation. I first want to say welcome back. Oh, it's a blast. It was a privilege to be invited back. You never know. After one time, you know what happens you get invited back maybe it's a sign that it went okay. It went okay. The first date was good and we're going to have more of those but definitely you know first impression was phenomenal. You joined us previously with Karen who is the founder of infinite giving. I got the pleasure of seeing both of you and many more of your team members at the AFP icon conference. But since that conference RJ, there's been a little bit of news about infinite giving. Tell us to your horn shoot from the rooftop. Your name was a world changing idea for 2022. Talk to us about that recognition. Yeah, it was a lot of fun actually we found out that fast company was going to recognize us as a world changing idea for 2022 and the software category, which most of you probably know fast company it's a pre recognizable name and a high honor. We found out that we were getting recognized as a finalist. And during the conference we couldn't say anything, because they hadn't released it yet so we had to we had to wait for them to release it which happened right at the end of the conference so we're able to celebrate right after AFP icon, which is just a true honestly to Karen and the idea she had to to found this company to serve nonprofits in a way that wasn't being done before in a way that can be done really well and transparent all those things. But it sure is an honor to be to be named by fast company. Fantastic honor because when was infinite giving founded when did Karen start. Oh, about 14 months ago. Whoo. Well, amazing that that's really amazing so RJ is going to nerd out with me and we're going to have a lot of fun. But again as the slide shows here in this we've listening infinite giving RJ is director of business development so infinite giving you can find learn find more about infinite giving as well as RJ. So we're going to talk about truly, you know, investments what what's going on with our money and our nonprofits RJ we don't have a lot of time. This is really just scratching the surface, and I best confessed up to you. This is not my will house like this is Greek to me so go easy. Lay it on us like you know like you would a kindergarten there. Maybe a fifth grader right help us understand. And let's jump off the springboard here, operating cash and your nonprofit reserves, educate us on this. Sure. Sure. Well, let's let's let's kind of start at the beginning operating cash and what that actually means so operating cash is is the cash a nonprofit needs to actually run the organization day to day so you do that budget process and you start out that budget. Now there's pieces in there right you need to have money in the bank before the budget money comes unless you're a startup. And so I empathize with all those nonprofit startups around the country and I've met with actually a number of them in the last couple months and I've helped start a lot of nonprofits right you start from zero. And so you start spending money as soon as it comes in but once you get up and running, and you have your budget you need to have enough cash in your checking account your nonprofit checking account to be able to handle all the normal expenses that come with running a nonprofit. And for me, that would be like my checking account my personal checking account, what it just takes to run a household with 14 ages and my wife and I and what happens on a day to day basis it's where our paycheck gets directed positive to. And that's the operating cash just kind of those day to day expenses. It makes a lot of sense to you have pretty large grocery bill if you have that many. And with inflation and you put you put a little bit more in that budget now. That's right you've got you know car transportation whatever that looks like again looking at inflation, which is interesting right and so let curve ball here let's talk about inflation, and how that might be impacting how we consider our operating cash and our reserves being by way of this right now. Well I mean I think it's impacting everybody right it's impacting our personal households I mean when we look at our grocery budget and our gas budget, just along those two items. When you're up, you know, six seven right now overall inflation is what 8.2%, I might be off a little bit over 8% still in it. It's been holding that way for a couple months. But our purchasing power is that much less. And so grocery store gas station is where I personally feel it the most. So nonprofits are feeling that as well and purchasing whatever it takes in their normal day to day life as an organization, their purchasing power just decreased. So that they probably the pressure on development teams to make sure everything's coming in when they hope it would come in your operating cash is is at a sufficient level to handle those fluctuations. Yeah, and you mentioned that operating cash is really everything it takes to run your organization. Many organizations work on the you know the fiscal calendar or sorry the fiscal year end. In July and so I'm sure this operating conversation programmatic conversation is happening right now so this is very relevant, very timely. What do we need how do we you know, incorporate current trends and what's happening in our world as we continue to navigate, not to mention something I kind of plugged in your ear earlier that I wanted to ask about is how political campaigns might also impact kind of our overall finances are budget and again not to get political but I know every single time there is a presidential campaign, it really shifts the philanthropy landscape and so I'm sure we need to start you know it's it's not a campaign year but it is a campaigning year right like it starts so early I already want to say stop stop with the messages but but they're coming so I'm sure that impacts you know are are operating and reserves as well. But the next thing you want to talk to us about truly is that investment best practices and so what exactly does this include RJ. Sure sure so we come I kind of come back to that example of just our personal checking account, but the next part of that would be our savings account. And hopefully, most of us have savings account that that are needed they're not day to day expenses, but there there's yearly expenses that come up, maybe my washing machine went out. And I need to pull from savings really quickly to go because we're going to have to have a washing machine in my house, we could probably do the laundromat we have in the past for a short season, but we want to get that filled the car. We had a transmission go out last year in our car, and you know three grand out the door we needed to pull that from savings that wasn't in our normal checking account ready to go as a normal expense so for a nonprofit I'd say the same thing you really want your reserve start there. With kind of your savings account, and that's probably 30 to 60 days of cash, operational reserves that are in maybe maybe a savings account maybe a money market account, something you have quick access to as a nonprofit so when something comes up. It could be cash flow just for payroll because large donation didn't come on time you and I talked before you know, if you're trying to counter year out from a budget, you typically also your finance folks are going to want you to kind of do a monthly spin where there's big months where there's more spend and less spend and whereas more donations come December is usually a really high donation month so how do you make that spread out across the year. All those things that are not my expertise but I've been a part of for a long time, all factor into that so that 30 to 60 days of operational reserves, that would kind of be your first and you know money market isn't in. It's an investment because you're getting a return low return, but you have quick access to it. So I'm surprised you said 30 to 60 I would have thought that we probably need much more than that. Well, I think the next step is yes, the next step so 30 60 days where you have really really quick access to it probably after that 60 days you want to start building a longer term reserve fun and that's where I think the investments really come into play where you could build. I would say, eight, nine years ago, it seemed to be rule of thumb you wanted three to six months of reserves as a nonprofit. Again, 30 to 60 days somewhere quick access after that. All the nonprofits I've met with in the last year, and it might be because of coven giving was was a surprise and they have cash for the first time I sit on a board of a nonprofit here in Charlotte and they actually got a huge grant from the city of Charlotte from their coven fun. Unexpected it wasn't in our budget and our board quickly decided with our executive director to say hey that's the start of a reserve fund, and it actually ended up being like eight months of operating cash that we could set aside. So it seems to be the nonprofits we talk about now after they have that 30 60 days are really putting away sometimes 69 even 12 months I talked to two nonprofits in the last probably six weeks that both have 12 months of reserves now right everybody's on a continuum, everybody every nonprofits in a different situation but I think the principles are the same, be able to plan.  If you're a person for me that's a 403b got a couple different ones and put them in our array, but that's all invested in the market. And yes, stepping in the market is risky but we also know for me to retire. I'm going to have to be in the market to realize long term gains over time the markets in a tough spot right now, but we know history proves out that over time, that's going to go up. And for a nonprofit, I would say the same principle those six nine 12 months, you want to get them in where they can work for you because you're not touching them right now. At the end of the giving we would say you want to put that money. Invest the funds that you're not going to need in the next year. That's why we think that 30 to 60 days you probably want quick access to. Liquid accessible. Exactly. Now depending on who you use, maybe a plug for infant giving maybe not. You still can depending on who you use to invest can have access to those funds. Some places that's more cumbersome than others. Part of the reason we exist is to make that easier because we're using technology right. It's still not the same as literally instantaneous with a savings account to a checking account. I mean that would happen that day. With us who still take a couple days but anything over a year.  I love that and I love congratulations you know, first of all thank you for serving your community and being on a board that's fantastic. Congratulations to the organization for for not only receiving that money but acknowledging hey, this is our first little bit that we're going to put away and it's going to help us grow. So RJ mentioned and I kind of kind of went blue by it but the political campaign and and how that might impact our future. Any thoughts on that as we move forward in the next you know two to three years, how that like pull out that crystal ball and shine it up and tell us what can we prepare for that is. It's a great question. I think it's incredibly difficult question. And I'm sure somebody much smarter me can actually start looking at data. There's tons of data nerds out there and pulling donor information overseas and during kind of the, especially presidential elections but any elections kind of what that does and which which party is coming out on top or not probably influences that data as well but I would say, at a bare minimum yes, we're going to see an impact depending on what sector you're in as a nonprofit. What service you provide. Those I think all factor into those debates, as well as law. I mean every. Yeah, I think every season we hear more about this tax deduction. Will it stay what will it shift will it change for donors. Will that change will the standard deduction stay will it will it go up let go down and we saw that shift a couple years ago politically as well. When some donors were making one large gift. That was really a two year gift for making it one year because of taxes. So I think that tax implication for the donor. Not that I'm a crystal ball. What, how that shapes out politically I think really does impact nonprofits, especially on their budgets and those bless their heart those advancement and development folks who are in it every day, trying to navigate that world on the donors. I knew you could fit in a bless your heart. I just. It's a great I can't even stop it. I know no it's fantastic. Well thank you for for riffing off that you know I know neither of us are really the experts when it comes to political or presidential campaigns. But you know infinite giving is fantastic really with the investment investment you talked about best practices. What are other options we might consider and really sink our teeth into when it comes to other options for investing. Is there anything else we really need to like have our finger on the pulse RJ. Sure, I mean a couple other options I think, again, trying to get a good base, whether it's individually and your personal finances having that big strong foundation. The same I think it's true for nonprofit, having really skilled executive directors and finance folks and board members to know what is the foundation we want to lay what is that operating reserves what are the capital reserves not every nonprofit needs capital reserves but someone need to look at capital reserves that they have capital needs buildings facilities. Cars trucks. That's that's separate than operational reserves. So I think capital reserves or another thing that not every nonprofit need to look at, but some will definitely need to look at a capital reserve fund that most likely be invested because you're going to have a schedule for investments that goes out sometimes five to seven years for roots and parking lots and HVAC units and so you actually, it would be wise to look at it potentially investing capital reserves because you're not going to draw on them all the time. Your fleet, if that's something vehicles right your own personal transmission technology that has been a big one, big one, and it's not going away that's going to be increasing right. I just talked to an IT consultant the other day for for an organization and he came back with a $400,000 quote. Now he did give us the caveat that is not a nonprofit right so he really just went out to the market, took a look at technology, the, you know, advancements that this organization needs and he said, here it is and I was like, whoa, my job, you know but that's that's ever changing. Um, so this is very valuable and I appreciate you bring this down to a kindergartner fifth grade level for for me to understand what I need to that's what I need. Well hey you're doing a great job. Who should be having these conversations at the organization like who do we need at the table. So, great question we actually talked a lot about this and if the giving team at AFP icon for folks who are coming by our table and it was really interesting when we were talking really about kind of our tools for stock donations crypto donations and endowments and endowments is another one you said other investment options after you have a good foundation I put a plug in after you have, you know, operating cash set aside your savings account set aside and your reserve account set aside. Great things open up right for potential for endowments and other things like that. That thing get really exciting again from legacy and for the longevity of an organization. So endowments but we were talking about people who came by the booth. But again, it was a fundraising right so most were fundraising professionals. So anytime we were talking reserves it was, oh, I need to pass this on to my CFO my finance director. And sure enough I followed up with a lot of people who asked to be followed up with that AFP and sit them some more information and it was this is awesome I got to get it to my CFO. And so I think you kind of have the split for for folks that need to be in the room you have kind of, I think donor development leaders need to be in the room you have course executive director and then your key finance people, and those are sometimes two different worlds, but I think they're really really important to talk together, because if they're not on the same page. It can be really tough for the organization to advance their mission. Because we talk often about those silos, you know, where it's program it's development it's finance, you don't really mingle and, you know, in exchange information as regularly as maybe it needs to be done. What about a finance committee as part of the board is that something that infinite giving is, is, you know, really discussing with is this finance committee or an investment committee task force like, where on that board governance level should should we include. So anytime I think when you're talking about investing money, it's going to go to the board right, I would say to begin depending on the size of your organization, most medium size nonprofits, even some on the small size are going to have some sort of finance subcommittee that are helping already look at the reports so I think it would start there going, what do we want, how do we approach this and that finance committee which we work with we work with a lot of finance committees was meeting with one last week, whether they want an actual investment policy they just want to make sure everything said line and then typically of course we go to the board and the executive director to go. The board let's let's invest and let's let's let's do this but I do think that those those finance folks that often can get a bad rap right are so critical to grounding the organization setting a foundation to really let everybody else run really hard at the mission. So another question is, how long is this process like if we were to say, okay RJ, we're drinking your Kool-Aid we know how you said bless your heart so we're. Um, what's the process look like what's the timeline. So, so the actual timeline to set up an investment account with us and again we're using technology so it's quicker than historically has happened, we can get you set up in 15 minutes. Wow. Okay, so set the count and then it would take a couple days for the account to be opened, and then the money would be invested so all told what three four days. Now, that's the easy part. Right. So the work is before that moment in time, and that's getting everybody on the same page. And that literally can I had one customer that took a month. I had one customer that took three months, and then I have other nonprofits I'm working with now that it's already been four months and I feel really confident we'll get there but it might be for more. It's really at the pace of what's your board meeting cycle. What's the margin for folks in their day to day to look at this. So how long it takes to get to that moment is really really varied. But we can say confidently once you get to that moment we can do it really quickly, really efficiently and really leverage technology to make it a really good process for you to actually get invested. I've noticed I started my business 2009. I've noticed this hurry up and wait mentality in the nonprofit sector. So, you know, the organization knows it's a great opportunity they know they need to take action they're not always as agile as nimble as others would like them to be. So it's really often that hurry up and wait but it takes whatever time as you said, you know, the organization needs to take do their due diligence best practice I always say you know talk to a couple of different companies you're getting the information. But if you're looking for good people great characters integrity, respect, trust, definitely infinite giving is your team. RJ Caswell again thank you for joining us getting super nerdy I still need to get you some put on those glasses right there. That's right. Just so glad you can join us. How do we go about contacting infinite giving is a you that we need to speak to do we go through the website talk to us about how we can contact the company. Any of those ways you can jump on the website fill out a form we'll get contact with you my emails RJ at infinite giving calm. You can find me on LinkedIn. Send me a DM send the connection request would love to connect with you there as well we make as easy as possible. Shout out to your LinkedIn man you've got like really good post and I was going to message you and say who does your post like, do you get prompts each and every day or they just coming from you naturally. I love to think there was some rhyme reason they that's just something I've got a note app on my phone I've an iPhone and it's a note app and I've just been kind of collecting themes and personal experiences and jot them down and in the morning. For me it's been honestly a just a good rhythm. I'm not have not historically been a writer. And this has just been great for me personally so anybody else benefits that's awesome I'd love to serve, but it's been a great exercise for me so I just opened up my note app and look through themes and ideas and in right. Well they're very authentic and they definitely resonate with me. So I love I love what you're putting out there definitely for everyone else check out RJ on LinkedIn very active and the rest of the team to so. Thank you so much, and thank you to Julia Patrick that created the nonprofit show and allows me to have fun and play with guests like RJ. It's really good and we can connect and have some friendly banter. I'm honored to be here, and we are so honored to have the continued support from our presenting sponsors those of you watching you can see them on the screen but those of you listening to our podcast version. I'd like to give a shout out to blue marine American nonprofit Academy fundraising Academy nonprofit nerd, your part time controller, the nonprofit Atlas nonprofit thought leader, as well as staffing boutique. Now is a great time to check out these companies they are fantastic they're on your team in your community, helping to drive your mission forward so RJ again thank you for bringing this down to a level that I can understand and sharing your your valuable time and expertise with all of our guests. I couldn't be more more privileged to be here thanks so much Jared. Absolutely and congrats the entire team for this recognition that fast company just really thrilled to see the growth of this company and again really really good people so. Thanks to everyone who joined us either live or the recording version we are honored to have you here for the nonprofit show. We hope you'll join us tomorrow and until then we always ask you to please stay well, so you can continue to do well.


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