Hello, everyone. I think we have quite a few people here, so we will go ahead and get started. My name is Amanda Falon and I am the director of marketing and development at the Community Foundation. And I am your main contact for gift for good, as well as Ashley crook who is on as well and she is our marketing associate and so you will hear from both of us often, and can reach out to us for any questions or needs that you might have. All right, so we are really excited to kick off the 10th annual gift for good. And introduce you to our new platform so we have transitioned to a new platform this year with mighty cause and we are really excited about it and so we're going to show you all the ins and outs of that today and Don is here with us from Michigan. And she is the expert on the platform and she's going to show you guys all the tips and tricks that you need to know. So, 10th anniversary we're super excited for those of you who don't know gift for good started in 2014 and long before my time, and we when we started we had 76 nonprofits. That year we had 24 donors participate and raise $1.2 million. We've grown to over 200 nonprofits every year. And now we are averaging about 5000 donors. And last year we raised a $2.4 million. So since inception gift for good is raised 16.6 million and we're super proud of that. You guys do that. We are just here to be a support and provide trainings and marketing and so we love partnering with you to raise a lot of money for our region. We love to do what we do this year. So let me introduce you to Don. Don is our project manager with mighty cause and we've been working closely with her for about the last six months when we started looking for a new platform throughout the migration to mighty cause and now she is our project manager and so we work with her. We meet every week we meet and virtually and just go over all the ins and outs and logistics of the platform and making sure that everything is set for a successful giving day.  Thank you, Amanda. Like every or like Amanda said, my name is Don. I'm really really excited to help you all this year. I'm really excited to show you all of the new tools and features that you'll be able to take advantage of for this 10th year anniversary. In case any of you aren't familiar with mighty cause. We have been around since about 2006 and we are a year round fundraising sweet platform for nonprofits. We have a specific giving day tool set and kind of niche market, but we also offer the year round version of our software for just any nonprofit to come. So, lots of tools are included, which you all will also be able to take advantage of through the giving day like peer to peer fundraising donation tools, social sharing, etc. So, I'm really excited that you'll be able to take part in all of the tools that we have to offer. And we're always happy to help kind of teach you and help you learn the tools since that's a big part of, you know, kind of switching platforms and getting used to everything so that you can try and raise as much money as possible on the day of. So today, during the getting started webinar, we're going to run through the basics for this year's gift for good. We are going to talk through kind of getting started on the platform, I will be doing a platform walkthrough.  And basically just give you an overview of everything that's available to you. We have lots of resources that will allow you to do any like deep dives into certain features or functionalities that you think are interesting or you want to know more about. So I'll reference those as well. And then at the end, after the site demo, all of our information will do a Q&A session. If you want to let us know your questions at any time during the presentation, you're welcome to use the Q&A button on your Zoom webinar module. So you can go ahead and enter them in there and then we will answer any questions that come in either during the demo or after at that time. So yeah. Okay, so give for good basics. So this year's gift for good is going to be on May 2. The advanced giving this year begins on Tuesday, April 18. So you can see the website right there, giftforgoodnla.org. The main things that your organization needs to do for this year, as in every year, make sure that you customize your profile on the giftforgoodnla.org site. That is one thing that I will be touching on today, just kind of tips and really some pointers on making a really interesting and vibrant profile for your donors and supporters to come and give for you during the giving day. Always important to plan the fundraising campaign. People do the most when they're able to plan and get things set up ahead of time. That aspect of it is going to be something that we will hit on more in detail during our next webinar, which we'll, you know, mention later on in this presentation. Promotion of the campaign is something that you'll need to do as well. You'll, you'll want to invite your supporters to either donate or participate as peer to peer fundraisers and then of course you'll want to raise money to win all of the awesome prizes that are available during this year's gift for good. Okay, so just some rules and reminders. I know most of you know this, but we have a lot of new people this year. So we want to remind you that you are raising unrestricted dollars during it for good. You can highlight your programs you can we want you to showcase all of them, but we cannot commit to our donors that their dollars are going to a specific place. And the reason for that is not because we are trying to control too much but because your grants come from us your, your donations you raise come from us in the form of a grant. And because of that, when we enter a grant we have to enter the purpose for that. And so if we did every purpose for all 200 and something organizations that would just be to time consuming. I want to remind you to understand that it is strictly for unrestricted purposes. When those dollars come to you. You can decide what to do with those but we just really need the donors to understand that that is strictly for unrestricted purposes so no benefits can be received from get for good donations so we asked that you are not soliciting sponsors or members if they're going to receive goods or services from the donations that they give you. We send the tax receipt, because the donations come to the community foundation so please do not send a receipt. We encourage you to send. Thank you notes to your donors, but not an official tax receipt because we take care of that and they actually get that on when they donate through their receipt email receipt so if you have a donor who comes to you after the fact and needs a receipt reissued which we're getting a lot of that right now. Feel free to send them to me and I will take care of that. So if you're hosting an event for give for good if you're branding your event as a gift for good event. It can be any time between early giving to the day of. We do require that you provide a certificate of insurance naming community foundation as a holder of that so if you there's details about that on the website and we can provide more if you have questions. But we need that in our office by April 17. And we do encourage you to host an event so definitely look forward to either having people on your site doing tours of your site, partnering with a local business brewery restaurant and getting out there during the day up because it's just a really exciting day. And we want to provide a lot of energy in the community so we love going around and we will attend your event will stop in during the day ups and the photographer so we definitely hope that you will take advantage of that and go to the next slide. Okay, so the linear fun this is always something to just inform people about and remind past participants that linear fun is a bonus pool that helps you grow your earnings cover the fees. It encourages donors to give because they know that their donations are going a little bit further. It is not a dollar for dollar match is a proportional match based on the amount of the total dollars that you raise during get for good. So, for instance, if we raise $2 million and your organization raises 100,000, then your organization would get 5% of the linear fund. So, you must raise $500 to receive linear fund dollars and any donation that is over any single donation that's over $10,000 only the first 10,000 will count towards your linear fun calculations. So, just one more thing about linear fun just so that you know, Community Foundation puts in 100,000 of that linear fund, the Grayson Foundation puts in another 100,000. And then we raise the additional through community sponsors. Some of our past sponsors and, again, the share include Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana the powers foundation and herd McBowen best all. So we're hoping to get that it's usually around 230,000. We're hoping to get that up. We have a lot of sponsor requests out there so we're hoping to raise more of that every year for you guys. So prizes throughout giving get for good. There are $22,000 up for grabs and prizes that does come out of the linear fund dollars. So 24 announcements, one every hour during get for good on the day of. And so I will be up all hours of the night awarding those prizes to you guys so we'll talk more about strategy on those in the next webinar because you know some organizations really have it down and they know how to get those prizes in the middle of the night. And those specialty prizes so we encourage you to come up with a strategy and prepare for those. And then you can get those and post gives day prizes and so those are based on your budget size and you're in small, medium and large categories and then how much you grow from year over year, and how much and donors and in dollars. So we can again provide more information that information is also on the website at get for good and like.org. One thing we want to remind everybody and I don't know if this is well known, but you know we have in my past being on the nonprofit end. I know we've had donors in the past who've wanted to give large gifts for get for good because they really would like the land gap dollars to increase their donation, but they're really hesitant to do that and pay a platform and credit card processing fee. So what we offer the Community Foundation is for your donors who want to give more than $5000 and that can be 5000 to just your organization or 5000 in total. So we offer a donor advice fund option here and those donor advice funds are not subject to online processing fees. So, you know, if they want to get started with that we can help them Christy Gustafson is our CEO and she will walk through that with you and them so please reach out to us. Those donations are also eligible for the linear fund match so we encourage you to take advantage of that and if you're working with your donors ahead of time and you know that someone's making a large gift. If you want to help them save those fees and help you get the full amount, then that is definitely a great resource to take advantage of. Okay, so we wanted to kind of highlight a few things that are new this year, obviously everything will be new. But a few things that we want to call out are you all have the ability to, you have increased matching capabilities for this year's gift for good. You have increased flexibility to customize your profile for this year's giving day as well. We do as I mentioned before we do have an extensive resource library we have ebooks we have webinars we have blog posts we have downloads. So lots and lots of items that you can use to kind of you know, either hone in on a certain feature and learn more about it or we have lots of resources based on just general fundraising tips and tricks and learnings as well. You also have increased analytics with your gift for good account this year and we really I want to point out your donor retention report that comes with your account. The command and team at the Community Foundation has worked really hard to migrate over all of your existing donation history from your previous platform. And so you, because of that, you're able to take advantage of your donor retention report right out the gate. So I will, I'll touch more on that during the platform walkthrough but that's one thing that I wanted to point out to everyone since you will be able to utilize it as soon as possible this year for this year's giving day. The other piece that I want to point out is we, they are giving you one of our, what we call advanced features which is kind of like a feature to point out called opportunities so we want to encourage everyone that has an event to fill out and the opportunity section on their profile. I'll touch on that during the walkthrough but this is a really great opportunity for more than just you to get the word out about any event or, you know, virtual piece that you're having for this year's gift for good. We have a special section on the website that allows donors to search specifically for events, volunteer opportunities, etc. that you all have going on so that I think it's under community events. Is that right in the on the main website. Yeah, so yeah so if you click on that, if you go to get for good in LA or click on community events you can see the specialized search so anything that you fill out any of these opportunities that you fill out you can see pop into that specialized events and opportunities and volunteer search. So that's definitely one thing that you'll want to pay attention to and fill out. If you do have some sort of event going on for this year. Okay, so, without further ado, let's get started in our platform walkthrough. So I am going to go to the site. Okay, so I wanted to kind of show you what just the public sees when they come to your gift for good profile. If so, let's say you send out an email with a link to your organization's profile page during gift for good. A donor will come here and they will see, you know, a banner image a logo your organization name, the donation button for them to give. So instead of goal, you can set metrics to track in real time during the campaign as well. You have the ability to add an about section that you can make really vibrant add in bed videos, add images, have headers bullet points, bolding italics, add buttons. So lots and lots of things that you're able to customize and make look very pretty for people to come to your site. There's different sections within the profile that you can add, or take away totally up to you.  And you this the system will automatically have those show up for people. If you have an opportunity. That will show up on your main profile page as well. And people can come in here and they can click on the opportunity and review all the information about it they can register for it right online, or you know you can link out to wherever they need to register that you have it set up. And then there's some quick organization data at the bottom. Most of the stuff on your profile will be prefilled because it's stuff that we collect from the IRS. But you can add in you know phone number email website etc. for your organization so this is what people see when they come to your profile and kind of look through it all. So for you as the organization when you log in for the first time. You are able to. It's going to show you your dashboard and right. One thing that is new this year's we've got all on page editing for you so when you log in you'll see your login name you can click on it and you can kind of see different you know your organization will be listed under here your account will be listed under here. You'll be able to see and navigate throughout that with that dropdown. Your organization page you can go ahead and toggle edit mode on and off so you can see when I turn it on. It gives me these options. So we've got, you know, our theme color so you could change this to be whatever your branding is. Obviously you'll still have the gift for good and only you know kind of branding up top, but you'll be able to add in you know your buttons and any like hyperlinks and stuff will be in whatever your branding colors are. It's really easy to update images. You can choose from all of these different places to gather images from for your logo.  So anything with a button next to it is essentially going to be editable by you so you can come in and edit your goal you can hide any sections that you want. You can choose what you want to show. We're going to have everyone's metrics start essentially from the day early giving starts so we'll take care of that for you but you know if you want to include the amount raised or the number of donors or you only want to include the amount raised then you'll be able to you know manipulate that from this section as well or you can completely hide it if you would rather the page be evergreen and not really show anyone how much you're raising. So this is the about section that you have on your page. This is a really important place where you can really explain your mission and let people know, you know, why you're participating in gift for good.  So this is the section to do that and so you can see all of your editing tools are right up top. You can, you know, you can save any changes that you make you can embed videos. You can add in emojis you can add in tables. So it's really flexible. And there's lots of stuff that you can do to make your page look really visually appealing for the people that are coming and visiting the page when you share it on your social phone and in your emails and all that good stuff. There are like I said there's different sections that you can add so we have a giving activity section where it's going to show in real time the donors that are giving the donors can choose whether or not they're anonymous or their amounts are hidden so they make those choices during the process. But if you decided you know what I don't even want to show that section then you can hide it. And then when somebody comes to your page, you can see if I toggle off edit mode, then it no longer shows up. So you can control the different sections that are showing up on your profile page. And then these can be updated at any time the page does not get locked down for editing. And so if you wanted to, you know, if you wanted to show your giving activity for the first part of the day, and then decide, you know what I don't want to show this anymore then you can go into any time and make those changes to your profile page, during the campaign, after the campaign, before whatever you want. We've got static media gallery so these images when you you know when you add them. They will be there until you do anything different with them. We also have the ability for you to connect to your Instagram or Facebook galleries. This is really nice if you're, you know, really small organization that works off of volunteers. So if your sections are really nice because anytime you update your Instagram photos then this section will update on your profile.  So that, you know that section is going to be all set for you when the next go around for give for good starts. And like I said, if you have any matches set up those will show up here. If you have any volunteer opportunities, those will show up here as well. Organization data. This is a demo site so it has a lot more than what you guys will like need or probably want to fill out but down here though it's super easy to make any changes if you need to update your phone number update your email, and then you save it and it updates right away so that is your organization page. I had mentioned earlier that you get increased analytics with your new account so that those can be found in the overview section. So what you'll see in this section are analytic tiles, which is going to show you, you know, kind of stats over it defaults to the last 30 days but if you want to change it to a different time period then you totally can. So these are, this is this section is going to give you a really good idea of kind of how you're performing during give for good. You know when early giving starts so you can add in you can adjust any of the tiles you can add in new tiles if you wanted to see your highest donation. You know if you wanted to see, you know how many shares that people have given you over the last couple of days if you wanted to, you know, remove card cards or if you want to move cards you can do that too so you can really personalize this section to allow you to have a quick glance of how you're doing and, you know, make really good strategic decisions from that. So the next thing we have a chart. So you can see really easily year over year, how you've been doing for, you know, each year is give for good. The next section that I want to go through is our fundraising tool section so we will dive more into peer to peer fundraising, a little bit into matching grants etc in our next webinar but I wanted to point out that there's a whole section where you'll be able to find those tools within your account. The, the campaign section is going to tell you all the peer to peer fundraisers that either you've set up, or that others had set up for you so you can see total campaigns are all of the ones all of the peer to peer fundraising pages that are benefiting you and 10 of those have been set up by people who are a non admin on your account so you can see who they are on this. And you can see what type of page they are if they're an individual funders or if they've set up a team page, you can see how much they've raised the title, the dates that it was created and published. And, you know, if it's, you know, if it's the status of it if it's published if it's ended etc, then you can filter through those as well and if you wanted to create, you know, a campaign from this page you can. Another option, especially for those individuals who are wanting to set up a campaign for you for good for good. There's a fundraise button right on your, right on your profile as well so they can go there to set up a page. You can also do it from there as well. But you do have that button within your campaign section to the other tool I wanted to point out is our widget that you can put on your website. And that widget is going to funnel any donations collected through it right through gift for good so that way this is a really nice way to be able to have a wide array of places that can collect funds and for the gift for good campaign. So you can, you know, one of the one of the pieces that we really encourage is like if you go all in, you can add, you know, a donation button that's connected straight to give for good, right on your website. You can add, you know, the mini donation form right on your website as well. That's again connected straight to get for good so we have lots of resources on the widget that you can embed. And if you have any additional questions about that or want to find out more about it, then I encourage you to visit the our support articles on it, which there's links to that in the toolkit as well. One piece that is is really nice for fundraising and that we have a pretty comprehensive grasp on is our matching grants. So with the matching grant manager in the fundraising tool section, you'll be able to see any live matches that you have any upcoming matches that you have as well as any past matches. So, with the matches that you get with this year's gift for good account. We do have additional features and functionalities that come along with those. When you, you know, create a match or have, you know, if you wanted to edit an existing match you can add in your name your match sponsor, add in the match value. The title the start and end date for the match, as well as if you wanted to make it a one to one match two to one match three to one match.  There's lots of different, you know, settings and qualifications that you can add to the match if you wanted to make it, you know, you know, if you wanted to make it last longer throughout the day if you wanted to queue one match after another. It's a pretty comprehensive and really strategic tool that you can use for your gift for good campaign. And then we have lots of resources on that. If you know if a match in and of itself is something you've never done, then I definitely encourage you to try and just make it a one to one match keep it, keep it nice and simple. But this is the section where you can go and you can set set those matches up. And then if you one thing I want to point out is at any any page that you're at within your account. You can find support by clicking on the gray question mark icon in the bottom right hand corner. So if you click on this, if you're on a certain page like the match manager widgets, etc. It's going to offer you the suggested articles that go along with that page you're on so you can write in these articles, you can browse up top help topics but you can also fill out a contact form for our support, who will be able to answer your question really quickly. So this is a if you know if you're struggling or you're confused or just need a little bit of help while you're you know working through your account and you're customizing your site, you can always go to that. Great question mark bubble in the corner and click on that and then find the support you're looking for. Within the fundraising tool section is also where you can find the opportunities piece that we've been mentioning so you can see I have one opportunity that's live with this organization if I want to add an opportunity I can click this button. I can also edit an opportunity at any time. I can view the details I can view anyone that's registered or signed up I can email those people through the system as well, or I can delete it if I want. So you can see here on the opportunities you can choose you know an online or in person event if it's volunteering or a calendar event, you know where do you manage the opportunity you can link out to an existing opportunity that you have. However, you know you can host the opportunity right through the gift for good site as well. You can add in any details for the opportunity where where it's located, the exact address, how many, you know, people can come. This is optional so like it you know if it's an event that you want to get as many people as possible to you don't have to like put a limit on it. You can add in a description, you can add in the contact information to the person on your end. You know you can show a date and time for the opportunity that's happening. Any conditions, you can add multiple conditions you can attach any files waivers etc that you want right on your opportunity as well as soon as you have the. As soon as you allow, you know, save the opportunity and have that there, it's going to show up in that specialized search on the gift for good site. And that way, you know, people will immediately be able to start finding it, and signing up for it, being aware of it, etc.  See what you have going on for the day, especially, you know, like Amanda mentioned getting the community involved getting excited about it. With you all hosting events and doing things out there, getting your name out there. This is a part of that and we really encourage everyone to take advantage of this tool specifically. The other tool I want to point out is our built in fundraiser templates that you can create for any peer to peer fundraisers that you have who might be joining or who you want to encourage to join. So with this fundraising template you can go in and you can pre fill out a lot of the pieces that they would need the individual would need to fill out when creating a peer to peer page so this template itself just makes it really really easy for them. When they click fundraise on your profile, the system will say do you want to use this, you know, template, they'll say yes, and then it'll pre fill out everything that you fill them. Once they've gotten their page created, they can edit anything that they want on, you know, this template so you know if they wanted to add in you know here's why I love this organization here's why I volunteer for them here's why I want to fundraise for them like they can add in their you can see they have the same capabilities on their fundraiser page so they can add in videos of them, you know, volunteering or, you know, if you're if you're an animal organization they can show pictures of them with their favorite, you know, animals at the shelter. They can add in a video paragraphs etc, and then they have their own individual link that they can then share to their friends and family. Not only helping your efforts, but also hopefully expanding your network, so that you have additional donors that you can reach out to during the year for any other campaigns that you do. So those are the fundraising tools that I wanted to point out reports is also a great section for you to explore. Donations report is going to be that a donations report. The report I wanted to point out to you is going to be the retention report so this report you'll be able to use closer to the giving day. You'll be able to come in and this report is going to show you how many donors gave during that time period. So whatever, you know, it'll be the giving day last year you can, you know, kind of choose which days that you want. And then from here you can see who has already given to your campaign. You can see the amount they've given, you can see, you know, this will be this will be green if they're retained so like yes they have given it given this year, if it's read that means they haven't given yet. You can come in and say, Oh, Bethany hasn't given she gave $50 last year.  She can go ahead and send her an email to say hey don't forget to give today's today. Last year gave $50. You can also download this report. So if you wanted to upload it into your email system to come sort of, you know, math email and fill in, you know people's names or amounts or then you can do that as well to make it a little easier for yourself. And then from here as well, it will update in real time. So I would recommend coming back here a couple times throughout the day and early giving to say, Okay, who gave who hasn't given, and then you can, you know, continue to ask and put the word out there about your name and remind these people that, you know, Hey, today's the day. We'd love for you to give. Here's why, etc.  This area is going to allow you to fill out your donor within your brand. So that, you know, I feel like that's a lot of buzzwords, but you can fill out your donation form. When they click donate on your profile. This is this is what they'll see you can, you know, you can toggle off edit mode and then this is what they're going to see so you can see what it'll look like for them. There's a link right here where you can copy direct to donate link. So if you are the type of organization who wants to share the direct donation link and you don't want people to go to your profile, totally fine. Copy the link there for the donation form and then you can send that off in your emails and then when people click on it, they'll be brought directly to your donation form. I do not pass code. Hopefully you collect $200, but on this page, you can turn on the edit mode. You can add in suggested donation amounts. So, you know, if you wanted, you know, this, this sample org has $40 will get 10 pounds of food. You can add more than four. I, I, you can, technically you can add as many as you want. I do not recommend adding more than six. So the sweet spots between four and six, four is probably better.  But I don't really recommend going over that donors can add in any donation amount that they want that they want. So if somebody wanted to give you know $101 then they would just add that there. They also have the ability to choose their anonymity. So if they wanted to hide their amount, you know, if they wanted to show up as anonymous to the public that they can, they can choose to do that. You can choose to allow them to add in dedications. You can choose them to allow designations. You can choose, you can add in, you know, if you wanted different sections, you know, any additional questions that you want them I think you get one, you know, additional custom question if you wanted to allow for that. And then this section down here is not editable but you know we wanted you to see what the actual donation form look like. So when you've, you've, when you're done setting it up. I always recommend, you know, turn it off edit mode see what your donors will see. And then once early giving starts make a donation to your organizations you can see what, you know, that looks like on, you know, the whole flow, etc. You can review that during, you know, beforehand so it's not like, you know, it's not shouldn't be a surprise, but if you wanted to and then kind of kickstart everything. Have, you know, some of your volunteers make a donation, etc. Then this section you can find in your checkout section on your profile. The other piece that we encourage you to fill out is the thank you page that donors receive after their donation is complete. So from here they'll see, you know, thank you for donating your receipt has been emailed. And then your specific thing you will show up on that confirmation donation confirmation screen that your donors get. So from here you can add in, you know, a video you can add in images.  So this is a really important piece to continue that stewardship for your donors.  Then, you know, you can do that there as well. But this is a great, great spot for you to add in a thank you to them, because it really is awesome that they're donating to you and supporting you during give for good.  I've seen people do that before and it's kind of fun because then donors have that interaction piece that they can take advantage of and see. The last thing in this section that I wanted to show you is the donation receipt. So, like Amanda said, all of your donors will be getting a receipt after they complete the transaction. This spot here is a great place for you to add an additional thank you for your donors that they get right away. So, while, you know, the Community Foundation doesn't need you to send out any, you know, of your own like thank yous after the fact, you have a spot here that will that you can provide a customized to your donors to tell them thank you on their email receipt that they get so there's lots of different places within this checkout flow that you can customize and make it, you know, really make people feel really warm and fuzzy about donating to your organization and so I really encourage you to take advantage of each of those pieces. So that, you know, they just they feel really good because when they feel really good then chances are they will want to donate to you again. The last thing I want to point out in our platform walkthrough is the settings area. So, general setting. This is where you can go to customize your organization's URL. So if you want a different URL what we what we did when we migrated over all of your information we really tried our best to match your or the URL that you had in your old platform to the new platform. With some of you we weren't exactly able to do that because somebody might have already had the URL, but if you wanted to update your URL. For whatever reason, you can come to this general settings area URL customization and then customize it there. If you've already shared out your link, and you want to customize your URL after that that is okay. The system kind of keeps that and it will you know if somebody clicks on an old link it'll still take them to your new, like the new link so you know if you. Some people make that mistake or are concerned about that, but don't worry. This is also the general settings is also where you can come into add alternate search names. So if your organization goes by, you know, a couple of different things that people know you for. Then you can add those in here and that will be taken into consideration when people are in the gift for good search, looking for organizations to donate to or looking for your organization because maybe they came outside of, you know wherever you shared your page. Then they can go to the search and then they can type in and the search will include these in you know the results if somebody is looking for your organization or happen to search for that. Now let's see and then this section is also where you can customize your social sharing piece that people like so if they click share on your organization profile, then you know the little preview that pops up on you know if their Facebook share or wherever they're sharing, then you have the ability to customize that in your profile. So again under settings there's general settings scroll down you'll see social sharing, you can add in an image you can add in, you know, the title description. Etc. And then that will, you know, that will kind of help provide uniformity for those that are sharing and it's like a template so it makes it easier and quicker for them to share as well. And then the last thing I wanted to point out in the setting section is the admin section. So if you need to add any new admins to your profile to help you manage this year's gift for good. This is the section where you can do that. If you need to remove any individuals, then you can do that here as well. If anyone you know if there's like an old admin that's on there that shouldn't have access anymore, you can take them off from here as well if you have any questions about people again this little gray support button is going to be there pretty much everywhere. So you can click on that and you know see the suggested articles browse the help topics or fill out a contact form for our support to be able to help you. I covered everything I wanted to cover Amanda is there anything else that you would like me to point out while I'm in the platform. I don't think so I think you went through it all pretty well. And, you know, I, I'm happy to answer questions or if anyone has questions, I will say just speaking of admins. I encourage you to please go in there and clean that up for just so you know any communication that we send through mighty calls which you will get some of those. Those will go to all the admins on there. We've sent out several communications and a lot of people have bounced back so please if you don't mind just clean that up. And that way we are contacting the best people. I can't think of anyone but we do have some question or anything else but I do have some questions. In the Q&A I've tried to answer some but Don, there's one question about opportunities can you use that for employment and I think the answer is no, but I wanted to make sure that is correct. Yeah, I mean, I guess, I mean weren't you can technically use it for whatever you want but the options on there currently are going to be in person or online so I guess if you have, if you have like a, like a volunteer or you know like a job fair or something, then you could put that on there, if you wanted. It would probably be in person and a calendar event and then you can describe it so it's pretty flexible. So if you wanted to use it for something like that you would have to there's there's a couple pieces that are, you know, that are set like, you know, the location can't be anything other than in person or online but if you can be flexible with those then you can really be flexible with the rest of it as well. So, good question. And then the next question was from Bonnie who asked if you could have multiple fundraiser templates. So, yes and no. So yes, you get one fundraiser template that comes with give for good. If you want more than one, then that more than one fundraiser template comes with our like higher package. You all don't have, you don't have to pay for anything for any of the tools that I showed you today for give for good, but we do have some additional like higher tier tools, like text to give the additional fundraisers. We have like a basic CRM etc that you could get with a higher package, but there is you are under no obligation to do that you get all the tools that you need, you have for give for good. So, there you go. Okay, and is there an admin limit. No, there's not. Nope. And just under under the opportunities yes you can highlight an event that you're having any time in the year. I mean the idea is that people will come here throughout the year to learn about all the great work that's happening in our community, and learn about your organization. So that will be up all year round, and then you can have your volunteer opportunities your events, whatever hosted there if you would like. I'm going to show the piece that we did. So it looks like we have one opportunity so far so I encourage you all to add in your opportunities so there's more than one. But this is the search that people will see when they go to the gift for good site, they'll click on community events come here. They can filter to get their specific events that they are volunteer opportunities that they want to be a part of, and, and then see all of the options available to them. And then when they come here they can, you know, click on the opportunity, they can go to your organization page they could register for the opportunity. And then this link this will go to wherever you've, you know when you set up the opportunity that registration link will either take them to the registration page you have on a different site or through the mighty cause site if you have if you're hosting it all in app. While we're on the gift for good site can we show them the tools and resources. So if you go to nonprofits tools and resources. So this is a great space for you to see all the important dates that are coming up the training we're having right now, the next webinar that we're having. You can sign up for it right now as well advanced giving date and then obviously the gift for good date. Obviously, I encourage you all to add all of these to your calendars. But those are the important dates that we definitely wanted you to think about. There's this handy section right here. That is all about getting started so if you're brand new and you've never done online fundraising before or you're new at it, or you just want to make sure you have your basics covered. This section here is going to tell you okay here's how you can complete your to do list. Here's how you can customize your organization page. Here's how you know the ins and outs of your organization dashboard that we looked at, and then editing your nonprofits checkout flow that we looked at to. And then, you know, if you want to take it to the next level, walking through the analytics on the overview page, matching grants, etc. The fundraiser template, and then if you're like, I've got this in the bag. I know what I'm doing. I'm awesome, which all of you are awesome. But if you're like, I feel really awesome then pro, you know, all about peer to peer, the widget referral codes, and then donor retention report. So there's this is just a, you know, sampling of the many support articles we have, if you want, you know, more than again, the great question mark, you can see, you know, fill out the contact form browse help topics, etc. We'll help get you the support that you need here as well. And then, further on in the tools and resources we have additional webinars that you can watch now. And then all the marketing resources that the Community Foundation has provided for you, lots of logos in different, you know, shapes and sizes and colors. So lots and lots, as you can see, are here for you to be able to take advantage of additional marketing materials. And then there are some webinars that you can take advantage of as well.  So there's lots and lots of tools, and, you know, resources for you within this tools and resources section of the site. And actually, one thing I wanted to point out that I did not, when I was in the organization page was your to-do list. So that is, you can find that on essentially any page that you go to, the to-do list will be here. And you can see what the Community Foundation has recommended that you finish or require you to finish. Yours will look different from this because it is, this is a sample site, but this is a really great place. This to-do list is a great place for you to say, where do I even get started in customizing my page?  This to-do list is a great place for you to kind of get your bearings because it is a lot. And so, you know, to what is the minimum, you know, minimum that I need to do, this to-do list would be it. Can I say something real quick about that? I get a lot of questions lately about, hey, I've done everything that I think I'm supposed to do, but my to-do list still shows that something is outstanding. A lot of times what I'm finding is that it is your cover photo, right? So that header photo right there behind your logo. Make sure you have something there, even if it is one of the stock images that Mighty Cause provides. Then the other thing is your social media link. So even if you have your social media gallery linked to your page where you can see all of your post, you still need to fill it out in the summary section and link it. So that way people can click directly on it. The images that you'll show through the gallery are just simply that. Like they can't, unless I'm wrong. No, if they're just images, you don't click them. Yeah, so you definitely want to be able to link people directly to your page. There was one other thing that I, someone asked about the toolkit about speaking of that. So just so you know, the toolkit is located under the nonprofit tab on the menu on the give for good page. So that is on our site that is specific to our giving day. So you'll go to click that, just get to the homepage. And then if you scroll down, you'll see the nonprofits tab and it is under there. So speaking up, we have a new brand. Obviously, if you've participated in the past, you recognize that the logo is different. We did that as just being in the 10th year we wanted to freshen it up we wanted to give a new look and we really wanted it to tie to the community foundation so that people know that that is an event that we host for the nonprofit. It is our gift to the nonprofit community. So we, we rebranded. So what we ask is that you please, if you have old logos, old, you know, backdrops, anything like that, please do not use those. If we see and we'll probably contact you to move to replace them. We just want to make sure that we are consistent with our branding, and make sure all of our marketing out there in the community reflects the new logo so they're all there for you. Ashley has set all that up. Ashley has also created a brand guide if you need that for your reference. And then also if there we have, can you scroll down? I think we have our backdrops and stuff, which we may not. But if we do have some backdrops available, like you'll see like this report cityscape similar to what's behind us. But it's a drawing and then we have the green backdrop that you'll see. So if you wanted to use some of those, just reach out to us and we can provide those for you to create your own graphics. So just super important. I see one more question in there. How can we learn more about the higher tiers? If you are interested in exploring that, curious, you can go to your organization profile. There's plan management under settings. And then from here, this demo site's already set up on it, but this that area of the site gives you the opportunity to have a free two week trial of all the tools. You don't have to put in your credit card. It's completely, you know, you can just do set it up and use it. And then there's also pieces on here that allows you to set it up if you would like, but it has all the information on what's included in each plan under settings plan management. And then you can kind of make the decision to see what would be best for your organization. And then it is monthly. You can do it monthly or annually. So if you only wanted to use it during the gift for good season, totally fine. You can cancel afterwards. But it's there under settings for you to be able to review everything about it. And then if you, I think there's a, you can also have a link. There's a link there too. There's a link for a demo if you wanted to get a demo of all the tools, all the additional tools as well so. Okay, I think I wanted to, yes. No, you go now we're back. Okay, now we're back. So, okay, so get support. Obviously very important for the giving day we want you all to feel good and prepared and comfortable. So technical support anything that has to do with the website, anything that has to do with a computer or, you know, technical related then, like I mentioned a couple times you have that great support bubble that follows you around in your account. Click on that it'll give you the suggested articles that go with the page that you're on. You can also contact our support team really easily through that. Or, our direct email is support at mighty cost calm. Our team is really nice. And if you're super nice to them they might tell you a joke, which are always on point, but definitely take advantage of them use them they know what they're doing. A lot of times more than me. And so, please, you know, take advantage of them for program support anything that doesn't have to do with a computer specifically or is anything tech related. That's when you can reach out to Amanda and her team over at the community foundation so the email for that is get for good at CFN LA org. And I think Amanda, if if there is a tech related question. Will you refer them to support. If I can answer it no I will answer it but if it is super techie and I'm not really sure you were probably better off reaching out to support just for a quick answer. Because more than likely if I can answer, I will have to reach out to them so just re encourage you to use that just for you know for your convenience and saving time, but I am happy to assist as needed. Especially if you have like numerous questions and part of it per is about programming part of its technical support. I'm happy to address those questions and to the best of my ability. Our team also knows about, you know, they have a well rounded knowledge of what is happening for get for good as well. So if you have a technical question, and you have a programmatic question. You can always welcome to email, I mean you can email both, if you want both emails so. But I also want to point out our support forum. That is, you can reach that you know you can email for that but it's also through that gray bubble as well you can access the support forum. Again, there's lots and lots of great articles help articles etc in there to really that deep dive there's images in there to screenshots etc to help give you support. And then lastly we do offer phone support to for those of you who might be tech challenged. Our phone support number is here. You do get faster responses through email, I will say, partially because we get a lot of information when you submit a ticket that helps our team kind of cut through what would normally be like three or four emails. Or 15 minutes, like 10 minutes or a couple minutes on the phone so if you need, you know, help, and it definitely takes a phone and you might want to do a screen share because you're just really not sure. Then we're happy to help you with that. And our numbers there Monday through Friday eight to four central for that support email support is going to be Monday through Friday as well same times. So on the day of we will be available for you 24 hours. So, and then obviously the help articles are there at any time. They don't sleep. So, um, so basically you have tons of support so please utilize it.  So the question about the support forum link is an email address is that they need to email that email to get access to that or is that just. No, I, that was, I should have added the link. I. So thank you. I need more coffee. It's not what can you send the link in the chat or the, yeah, in the chat for people. Yeah, and then is the interface different for max I have windows and I'm having trouble finding how to add administrators. I'm not be different. I wouldn't think so interface. I would. Are you so you I think you're the same person who said earlier that you were having trouble you weren't seeing the same thing and I want to make sure that you're logged in to your organization on the right site. Yeah, so let's touch on that real quick. So I've gotten that a few times. So you when you're logged into your account, you could potentially have a donor account and so that's where you would, you know, be giving to an organization. So click on your little icon at the top right where he says your name. Make sure that you're on your organization, right? Don, like you have to click on the. I forget exactly how it is labeled, but you would see your organization down below. And so just to make sure you're always on that in order to see your page. So you're you click on your name, and then under the organization section you'll see your organization page. You can click on this and it will bring you to where I am now. Yeah, your organization account. And then from there, that that was okay. Yay. Yay. Okay, so let's we're over time and I want to be cognizant of everyone's time so Amanda if you want to walk through what they can expect in webinar to. So that would be great. Yes, so two weeks from today is the next webinar and that is going to cover like just a deep dive into the strategies that we suggest for making your day as successful as possible. So that's what like Dawn said earlier we're going to cover the peer to peer fundraisers. Something that's new this year is like if you have a business that wants to support your organization like they can create a page and encourage their employees to give to your organization. And then the going into more about matching grants, and then just all the ins and outs of marketing tips as far as email social media strategies to engage your donors, volunteers board, etc. So that's the things that you'll need to know to make sure that you are fully prepared and engaging as many people as possible to give to your organization. So we highly encourage that. It will if you've been on the marketing trainings in the past it will include more than what we've covered in the past so definitely please attend. So this webinar if you missed it we will be sending out to the participating admins the link to watch it after so it is recorded. The other thing I want to mention is we did offer an in person option for this but when we were working through it as I've reached out to some of you who were going to attend in person, because I needed to be on the zoom in order to have a quality and in order to for both audiences to hear me we decided that I needed to also attend via zoom so it really doesn't make sense to have an in person option. We will continue to offer that if you really want to be here with us, watching a webinar but that is exactly what you'll be doing is watching the webinar from our office so we'll probably leave it as it is but definitely encourage you to just sign up to attend via zoom. So I think that is it if there's no more questions I see a few. Okay, now that those are the old questions so yeah. In the chat Lucy asked what is a good number email I can contact if we need to borrow one of your signs today. Oh, one of your one of our signs today. I think your signs. Yeah well we will have yard signs and in the next training we'll talk about all of the different marketing tools that we offer for you through our partners that they offer for you to take advantage of and so we'll we'll go into all of that next time. The signs we do will have new ones this year obviously because of the new brand and so we'll we'll be sending out emails updating all of you about all those ins and outs so please make sure if you. If you've noticed that any of our emails are going to your junk or spam or other or promotional box, please do whatever you need to do to make sure those come to your inbox because a lot of really important information will come to that. Some via Mailchimp and sometimes that gets filtered out so just or if you realize you're not getting any emails. Yes, and if that's the case like probably need to reach out to us because you probably have missed something. So, we will send a reminder about the new about the next webinar and then from there you'll start getting more emails from us as it gets closer to the date. So I hope everyone enjoyed it. Thank you for the positive feedback that I just saw in the chat. We are really really excited about this new platform I think it's going to just give all of us an added opportunity to do our best and raise the most money and get the word out about our organizations and so we are really excited thank you Don for all of your knowledge I learned a few new things great. That's always helpful, but please just contact us if you need anything and we will see you in two weeks. Thanks everyone. Thank you.


Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here This is a site of my home office by the way that you guys typically don't see because I'm typically Shooting my videos with a webcam on the desk there pointing in that direction So today I'm mixing it up a little bit Because it's easier to show the tech from this direction So what I want to show today super super quick video. Hopefully it's about a really useful app called unified remote It's actually a piece of software and if you have a Computer running Linux like my laptop, which is also an Ubuntu machine as well as my desktop I run a Ubuntu on all my computers for many years absolutely love it And I have an Android smartphone So if you're looking to control if you want to use your phone as their remote control and make sense that it Would work because Android is after all a fork of Linux so it is pretty good and unified remote works really really nicely So rather than show the tech want to show you guys how easy it is to work So this is my this is how I personally using at the moment. This is my laptop I mentioned in some of my videos I'm improving my Hebrew by watching a lot of Israeli TV with Hebrew captions translated And if you're watching TV for long hours or your laptop, it's kind of uncomfortable dafter You know move into the keyboard every time you want to make a change or pause or unpause So unified remote the way it works is really straightforward. You download a small Debian file This is again for Ubuntu It's like three or four megabytes and you install that on your Ubuntu computer It does have an auto start permission So every time your computer will start the server is gonna start and it's gonna run in the background And then you need to install of course the corresponding app on your phone Now there's two ways that the client on your phone or whatever you want to use as a remote control You could also use a Android tablet, but a phone works great for me That you need to install obviously the app which is going to talk with the server now You can have multiple servers running on your local network for instance I have a server on this laptop and they've also just installed a unified remote server on my media center Which is also running Ubuntu and basically when you connect to one of the computers It'll give you that the option in the app based upon the name of the computer So it's gonna say do you want to connect to laptop do what I connect to home media server And you just go into the computer that you want to control remotely That's pretty much it. There is a premium version of the app which unlocks some more features I haven't yet checked out what it does, but I'm pretty happy with the free version So there's two ways to connect one of one of them is over the local area network So for that to work obviously your controlling device in this case my Android phone and your What you want to control? I think I just unposted by mistake for a second are gonna have to be on the same local area network So if you have them, you know one your media center on ethernet your laptop on Wi-Fi on your phone on Wi-Fi That's perfect. They're all gonna be able to talk to one another the other option is Bluetooth Bluetooth is a little trickier to get to work. I've never got it to work out of the box There is a little page for you can see the server status and it says for me that Bluetooth isn't working I remember fixing it before but to be honest I'm not really gonna bother because Wi-Fi just works well enough for my needs So I'm happy to stick with Wi-Fi and of course with Wi-Fi You don't need to worry about the close field range limitation of Bluetooth Once you're on the same network wherever your computer and control device are it should be good So finally let me show you guys how it works So here's the phone and I've gone into the basic input tab on unified remote So this basically allows me to use my Android phone as a surface for tapping just as you would if the phone is in front of you and I'm gonna put my laptop Up on my screen. I hope you guys can see that. So this is me. This is it. This is me watching TV In my living room, let's say and I want to pause Pop hit again when I want to unpause and I can of course use the mouse to go into The volume control in YouTube and do everything else. I want shut down the computer amazing completely free So if you have a Ubuntu Android combination Your computer is running Ubuntu your phone is an Android then you can use your Android to control your Ubuntu PC Simply by installing the free unified remote server on the computers you want to control and the unified remote Client on the Android devices you want to serve as control surfaces and it all works pretty amazingly Thank you guys for watching for more videos. Please feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel


have talked about it, so they haven't gotten to the point where they've done anything about it. They didn't have to. So they would not be coming for the purpose of signing the agreement. They would be coming for the purpose of having a discussion about their needs relevant to this building in the context of the broader value proposition for the voters, for the public. OK, I'll call David first thing and see if we can get an answer on that. It sort of seems like it would be a good conversation for the whole school board. Because I think Elizabeth speaks for everyone, particularly if they haven't discussed it in detail. She would say, I cannot speak for my colleagues without. Right. So it has been warned for them. So are they going to have their own meeting after they leave here? I assume so. They have a meeting after that meeting. OK. All right. OK, is there any other business? Well, hearing none, I'd entertain a motion to adjourn. Second. All in favor? Aye. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thanks to the public for coming. I'm told motions to adjourn don't get a second. I have.


My life's kind of boring, but I'll film it anyway. No one else for this. Oh my God, please never let me do that again. Hey, welcome to Vlogmas number nine. We're already like three quarters of the way done. That's literally crazy. I have just gotten myself ready. It's actually like 4 p.m. ish right now, actually like 4.30. And we are doing a very fun night with our friends Josh and Noel. We are going to Hogwarts for basically doing like a Universal Studios date night. We all have passes, so it's the holidays. It's all decorated.  And actually we went for Halloween a couple months ago and it was really, really fun. But this time we like literally just wanna go into Hogsmeade, like go to the pub and get some drinks and just like literally have a date night. So they're actually gonna drive here to our house and then we're gonna Uber together to Universal Studios. And I'm just getting dressed now.  What?  I didn't say it, he did. So what I'm thinking, I'm kind of going for like a Ravenclaw theme, but I don't, it's like not blatant. So what I'm thinking, because it is gonna be kind of chilly, so I might have to do like leggings or tights underneath this, but I have this cute plaid sweater from, sweater. This is a skirt from Uniclo. And I haven't gotten to wear it yet. I actually brought it to England and never got to wear it. And then I also have this cute cardigan and it's actually very thick. So I'm thinking if I wear something underneath it, like I'll be completely fine. So that's sort of what I'm feeling. Like a cute little sort of like Hogwarts student vibe. So let's put this on and see how we feel about it. Oh, I also have my cute velvet ribbon. So it's just making me feel very like I'm a student at a school that's filled with magic. So all right, let's put this on and then we'll figure out shoes. All right, here's what we've landed on. I'm gonna go with just a nice casual pair of boots that are comfy to walk around in. I've worn these like everywhere. These are from like Nasty Gal, a couple of years ago. And here we have it. Here is the Hogwarts outfit of the night. I definitely want to get a picture in this. Am I potentially going to freeze? Maybe. Do I care? Not really. I run really, really hot honestly. So I think I'll be completely fine. But I probably will put a pair of leggings in my purse just in case, in case I need to change. But here is tonight's outfit. So fun. All right, got my bag all packed and I'm gonna do my advent calendar before I leave. I've been really bad about doing my advent calendar in the vlogs this year, but it's just, listen, I didn't even finish my main channel video that I was supposed to be editing today. Like I'm really kind of falling behind and I'm just trying to give myself grace for that instead of being like, oh, you're failing. Like you're falling behind because of how busy you are. Yeah? Okay, so anyways, okay. Gonna do my advent. Our friends are almost here. So here we go. 12 days of beauty from Macy's. Number seven. Here we go. So today I got cream. Okay. They know I'm getting old. Okay, we'll reconvene in a moment. All right, we made it to Universal barely. Noel just told us that the park actually closes at seven and it's like after six. So we didn't really realize. So we're actually, we're booking it to Hogwarts. We're gonna have like a drink or two, just get all the festive vibes in, take some photos and then head to like the city walk, which is where we're walking through right now. It's just kind of like downtown Disney for Disneyland. Like it's attached to it and there's like shopping and restaurants and stuff. So we're gonna do that and just make the most of our time. Right? But first drinks. But first drinks. Oh my God. I want to go to there. Wow. First stop. Uh-oh. Is it closed? Say it ain't so. Oh, okay. I was gonna cry. Yes. Well, horrible news. They're closed. The bar is closed. So I think what we're gonna do is like walk around here for like 10, 15 minutes, take some pictures and then just dip and go back to the city walk. I'm gonna do some magic though. Wish me luck. I brought my wand. Don't you worry. Okay, here's my target. And here is the shape that I need to do my wand. Like an eight. Yeah, let me get on this side. Okay. We're ready. I'm just gonna go back down. Bye-bye. I'm so excited. It's so fun. Noel got her butter beer. Is it nice and frothy? It is. I asked for extra foam. She's like, unfortunately not. Oh, okay. But you know. We're having a great time so far. It's fine. I feel like we're really in a back alley in England. The three broost sticks. That was my warm up. That was my warm up. Big reveal, big reveal. Okay, bye. Bye. Yes. It's awesome. So fun. This one here. To me. That's easy enough. Come on, you got this. Yeah. That's a big B. Okay, here he goes. Team Ravenclaw. Magical. All this place is making me want to do is just go back to England. Like that's all I want to do. Swish and flick. It's already going. Yeah.  What? Lights. Oh God. Oh my God. Happy Christmas, Harry. Happy Christmas, mom. Honestly, this night is fantastic. Like even though we only get to walk around for like 20 more minutes, it's amazing. It's our next plan of action. Cause y'all knew I'm a Disney adult, but I'm also a Harry Potter adult. Sort of. And I think what we're going to do is get some. I see someone who's got a flair for fashion. Yeah, what else? So I think we're going to get some house merch because we have a Slytherin, two Ravenclaws and a Riffindor. We actually are missing a Hufflepuff, but Drew says that he thinks I'm secretly a Hufflepuff. Whatever, we'll just pretend it's rounded out. Change of plans. We actually didn't get any scarf cause they were $40 and that just felt like a lot. We were saying if we were going to be here for longer, like if we had another few hours to walk around, maybe we would, but maybe like after the holidays. So we're saying adios to Hogwarts on our supposed to be Hogwarts date night, but it's still day night. We're just doing something else. No, it goes bye. But we did some magic. We got some butter beers and now we're going to get some real beers. Bye Hogwarts. Bye Hogwarts. Until next year. Much soapy snow during this vlog was and I'm very happy about it. All right, we have left universal. We shut it down and now we're going to the Fox and the Hounds. We were inspired by the Hogwarts vibe, so we're just gonna keep it going with the pub. We got a Scotch egg. We got some fried pickle spears. And then what is this? Mozzarella. Don't mind if I do. It is so good. Wow. It's like so crispy and like beer battered. Sweet. While we were eating, we heard some of them over the intercom and say that there was a trivia. So we got sucked into trivia, obviously. We're on round three of five and our team name is Scott's Talks. If you're familiar with that episode of the office, then you know it's the most tragic episode of the world. It's horrible. I can't watch it. I can't either. We've watched it like once since we started dating. He loves it. He loves watching it. Yeah. He loves it. This is too uncomfortable. Which airline gives its plane's saucy names such as misbehaving, lady love, and hot lips? Number four, which airline gives its plane's saucy names such as misbehaving, lady love, and hot lips? You've got to be kidding me. Is that the common thread? This is the round that we're doing. There's a common thread between all the answers. What type of Olympic athlete would be able to perform a Robin Hood? Number five, what type of Olympic athlete would be able to perform a Robin Hood? She has three. I think one of the same. What are your other friends? We've figured out the common thread. We're just still trying to figure out the answers. All right, everybody, we are now home. It is 9.37, so not too late. And actually we only ended up having like one or two drinks tonight. So it was a very mellow night. And it was one of those nights where like nothing was going to plan. Like we got, it took us an hour similar to the last vlog, like LA traffic, especially during the holidays is gnarly. So took us an hour to get there. And then when we got there, we only had like 45 minutes of the park being actually open. And so everything was like already starting to close down. But we were able to like walk around and do a couple of things. So that was really, really fun. And then we just found like a random pub to get dinner and stumbled into a trivia game. We ended up tapping out for trivia. It was like taking way too long. And it's like a school night for all of us. I mean, we all have to work tomorrow, so it's fine. But it was a really, really fun night. And like I love spontaneous nights like that where we just don't really know where the night's gonna go but we do our thing. And we just had a great time with our friends. And it was our last time seeing them before the holidays. And it's just crazy. Like it's crazy that it's already mid-December. I literally can't believe it. I'm just sitting here holding this TL Advanced Tightening Neck Cream by NIA114. And I'm just like, neck cream? Am I really there yet? This is from my advent calendar earlier. It like knows that I'm getting old apparently. Did you see that I got neck cream? I think it's for like wrinkles on your neck. So if you need some, you're just laughing over here. But anyways, it was a great night. And now we're gonna head to bed and that's gonna do it for this vlog. I don't think this is a super long one but honestly, I'm tired. I'm tired. And I'm still having so much fun. We have three vlogmas days left. That's crazy. And then it's Christmas time, right? Oh my God, that's weird. So we're gonna make it fun. We're gonna make it festive. We're gonna do our thing. I just feel like they're getting more and more festive each time but I'm definitely looking forward to some at-home time. We have had a lot of social plans this week and I am very much looking forward to just like chilling this weekend, hanging out at home, making some mold wine, baking some Christmas cookies, watching some Christmas movies. Just getting real cozy and I can't wait. So thank you for being here. Thank you for watching and I will see you next time for vlogmas number 10. That is literally crazy. Good night.


and won an important game in January. That helped it all now that it's a completely different season and with so many new faces. Not necessarily. It was a different team that when we went up there, and they're a different team as well. Obviously, Tom Brady is in the quarterback anymore. Matt Jones is playing at a high level. Their defense is playing at a high level as well. So it'll be a huge challenge for us. I would guess just the routine of knowing where the locker rooms and all that stuff would be a little bit easy. But as far as these two teams are different teams then we're at different parts in our season. But it's two great teams, so I think that it'll be a competitive game as well. So I'm excited about the challenges we have to prepare and get ready to go beat the New England Patriots. Why do you think this team seems to have a knack for playing some of its best football a lot of times either after a poor performance or after losing guys to injuries and things like that? Is there anything you can put your finger on? Not necessarily. I said at the end of the game we didn't play well and we needed to make that consistent. But at the end of the day, I mean, if we consistently play well, play up to our standard, our level will be undefeated. And that sometimes doesn't happen in this NFL and we're still eight and three. So we did play a bad game on Sunday, but at the end of the day we're still in a great spot. And we're gonna have great energy today. Great energy this week and we're gonna be positive and we're gonna go out there and try to get another W. That was the first time you faced a former teammate. What was it like kind of watching John New develop here and what's it gonna be like to face him on Sunday?  John New was a great player here. Enjoy, obviously I played against him in college at FIU at MTSU. Had a lot of battles on his practice, filled with him one-on-ones or whatever that may be. Was really happy and really proud of, you know, the contract that he got his offseason was able to, you know, go through England. And it's gonna be fun going against him.  Anytime he has the ball in his hands, he has the chance to go 80 yards or whatever that may be, but also Hunter Henry's playing really well for those guys as well. So two really good tight ends and I'm excited about the challenge to go cover both of them. They guys talk a lot about the next man-up mentality and I know that attitude is so much of that, but what does it take practically when you're out there and someone new comes in to keep going and keep having that success? Yeah, it takes for number one, usually when we talk about the next man-up mentality, especially the guys that we've had here, guys understand that even if they're on practice squad, that they have to be ready to play in the game because you never know what happens throughout the week. Obviously with all the injuries that we have, everybody has to be clued in to make sure they're ready to play. But when they bring guys in from other places or maybe from the street, those guys do a great job of coming in the building and understanding what the mentality is and how much we love football, how much we love to prepare and get ready for games and they immediately get up to speed really quick. Then at the same time, me personally, especially if they're in my room or just on the defense or whatever, I try to make sure that I'm always talking to them, helping them out if they have any questions, trying to be a coach on the field in a sense. But their next man mentality up has definitely been huge for us this year, obviously with all the injuries. City of Mack Jones now likes to quit passing game. How difficult is going to be for you as a safety to not come up and then they take that shot over time? Is that something you guys are really being conscious of? For sure. I mean, it takes patience. I mean, as a safety, I understand my responsibility depending on what the coverage is and stuff like that. I can't really get to ANC to try to go outside or the defense try to go make certain plays because like you said, then they will take a shot and then nobody wants to see that no big play. So I think as long as we keep the ball in front of us, he can dink and dunk in as much as he want. If we're good in the red zone, we'll be good. But like I said, he's playing at a high level. He's doing exactly what they're asking him to do and we'll try to take away some of those options and those deep balls from him so he can keep checking down to run it back some stuff like that. Do you learn a little bit more than the game that you guys just played? Yeah, similar, honestly. I mean, we gave up, I think, with 107 passing yards. Obviously, at the end of a game and all the emotions of losing the game and stuff like that, you kind of get lost with the stats and stuff like that. But me watching the film, I really felt like we didn't really play that bad as far as on defense. But a couple of key spots that we didn't play well, touchdown in the red zone here and there. But yeah, I mean, I think that if we could play that like that, like we played on Sunday, I think we'll be fine. Just a couple of times where I think we could have just challenged receivers just a little bit more. Do the Jones look a little more advanced maybe than your typical rookie quarterback? Honestly, I think most of these rookie quarterbacks coming to league now is a little bit more advanced than they were when I first came into the league. I think quarterback play in this league is at a really high level. There isn't a lot of teams that just had bad quarterbacks and he's no different by him being a rookie. I mean, it's the reason why he went high in the first round. So I just think he's just being smart. He's not being careless with the ball. He just, I think any quarterback, in regards to your rookie, your 20-year vet like Tom Brady, if you don't turn the ball over and you continue to give your offense chances, chances to keep snapping the ball, eventually, you know, they turn the points and you end up winning a lot of games. So we're going to find ways to make sure we get the ball off here. Running backs, pretty comparable guys or they present different challenges when they're out there? No, I think they are, you know, I think they're all kind of comparable. But at the same time, they do present different things. Obviously, Stevenson or the running back, he's a rookie. He's playing really well for those guys. And you know, I think just as a whole entire offense, they all have different personnel, guys that do different things well. So I think that just throughout this week, we're going to make sure that we're studying these guys and make sure we understand what all these guys do well. But understand you maybe have a, I guess, a Thanksgiving event today. Can you talk a little, maybe a little bit about that and why that's important to you? Yeah, I mean, I've always talked about the community efforts that I do throughout Nashville. And obviously today is going to be no different. We're going to be partnering with Eatwell in Nashville and we'll be delivering to, it's not going to be as big as I usually done it, but we're going to be delivering holiday Thanksgiving meals to 10 different families, but we'll also be giving them a $2,500 check as well to help out with the holidays. Because we understand that, sometimes we all do a lot of Thanksgiving stuff, but I'm not really big on just handing out turkeys because sometimes even myself, I don't even know how to cook a turkey. So it wouldn't feel right for me just handing out a turkey and not actually cooking it for them. So we're going to deliver meals to those guys, but also give them a little bit of relief for the holidays.


Antarctica, one of the world's most mysterious continents, home to one of the largest and driest deserts on the planet, covering an area of around 5.5 million square miles. If there was anywhere on Earth where crashed, preserved, ancient alien technologies could still be found, it would be here. An untouched landscape which may in all possibility be the final resting place as of yet unretrieved relics which may have been stranded there to this day. The deep sea which surrounds Antarctica, for example, are some of the most difficult and inhospitable environments to explore anywhere. Far away from the modern world, deep within the frigid pitch-black waters of this massive chunk of ice, where our next discovery was miraculously made. An out-of-place artifact which is still resting at the bottom of this sea. Known as the Eltanan Antenna, if it wasn't for the brute strength of the nearly 2,000 ton ice-breaking vessel known as the Eltanan, we may never have found it. Initially, a US Navy cargo-carrying icebreaker, in 1962 she was reclassified as an oceanographic research ship and became the world's first dedicated Antarctic research vessel. On the 29th of August 1964, while collecting sample cores and photographing the seabed west of Cape Horn, the Eltanan took the first known photograph of the Antenna at a depth of nearly 4,000 meters. The first public mention of the unusual object would not surface for several months. A news item, which appeared in the New Zealand Herald on 5 December 1964, under the heading Puzzle Picture from the Seabed, would briefly disclose the discovery, yet any further exploratory missions, if indeed there has been any, have been operating in secret. Similar to the Baltic Sea anomaly, yet positioned at a far deeper depth, in an extremely remote, cold, and lonely part of our world, it too shows all the hallmarks of an artificially created object. The question is, what could it be? And more importantly, what was, or is, its function? In 1968, author Brad Steiger wrote an article for Saga Magazine, in which he claimed that the Eltanan had in fact photographed, quote, an astonishing piece of machinery, very much like the cross between a TV antenna and a telemetry antenna, end quote. It is interesting to note that the Black Knight satellite, an anomalous object which is in a polar orbit, has been declared by numerous investigators throughout history as an artificial alien satellite, and with what appears to be an enormous alien antenna resting on the Antarctic seafloor, is it possible that the two are connected? Or possibly, in communication with each other? In 2003, Tom DeMarie, a researcher in underwater acoustics, contacted oceanographer A.F. Amis, a member of the Eltanan's crew in the 1960s, in an effort to debunk any theory involving artificial design. In turn, Amis referred DeMarie to the 1971 book, The Face of the Deep, by Bruce C. Heeson and Charles D. Hollister. It seems Hollister had already attempted to identify the mysterious object as a carnivorous sea sponge. However, these attempts to discredit any unusual hypothesis was solely based on the same photographs we are privileged to. Further photographic exploration of the object, if undertaken, has been done in complete isolation from the public. What is the Eltanan antenna? A mere sea sponge? An actual alien antenna? Whatever it is, it seems certain fields of study would like you to believe it's natural. Regardless of whether confirmation of such claims was made, we always find this highly compelling. We know more about the surface of our Moon than we do of the bottoms of our oceans. To date, we have managed to explore a mere 5% of the floors of Earth's oceans. Much remains to be learned and indeed explored. Unimaginable mysteries, treasures, and the possible odd sea monster could all still be lying deep within the blackness, irretrievable, and thus undiscovered. Our oceans are the lifeblood of the planet, covering more than 70% of its surface. Responsible for the driving forces behind weather systems, the regulation of global seasonal temperatures, and ultimately, supporting all living organisms in one way or another. That's what could be laying upon our ocean floors, lost relics from a bygone era? Possible crashed ancient alien craft? Indeed, we have already discovered the enigmatic Eltanan antenna, which was discovered resting deep upon the Antarctic seabed found some decades ago. Yet what else could be lurking down there, just waiting to be discovered? It seems, fortunately, that an ROV, a remote operated vehicle, managed and controlled by the Olympic Challenger, may have managed to give us another glimpse of one of these utterly perplexing structures resting deep within our oceans. Recorded on September 11, 2010, it is still unknown just what this object could be, possibly ancient, seemingly installed sunk into the ocean floor at a considerable depth. Curiously, the recent event unfolded during a live feed broadcast, and for some reason, as soon as the ROV came into visual contact with this most peculiar of objects, or indeed possible structure, the crew controlling the machine mysteriously decided to maneuver the ROV away, out of view of the object. The small fragment of footage that was seen, however, indicated that the number of right angles within the structure's form, and indeed its overall appearance, makes it seem unlikely to have had natural origins. However, due to the company's reluctance to discuss or even acknowledge the event, not much regarding the discovery has been attained. Just what this thing was may remain a mystery, or at least kept secret, hidden away from most of the public domain. I have said in passing that there is information about UFOs in cable games. A year ago, we shared with you the leaked State Department emails, files, and documents made available to the public by way of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, which pertained to the United States government's full awareness of a UFO crash site near the populated northern town of Igloo-lick, northern Canada, very near to the borders of Greenland. Since this object subsequently sinking to a great depth, it then began to emit a mysterious ping, a possible distress beacon, a sound which for some time began to annoy a large number of the locals. Since this event a few years ago, the strange ping has seemingly disappeared, and the fate of its source remains a mystery. An unfortunate fate which may also be bestowed upon this most recent and intriguing of discoveries made by the Olympic Challenger. Yet thankfully, the world got to see it first. The Sea of Galilee Although not a real sea, it has remained named as such due to the staunch traditions, mainly religious which have grown and flourished from around its shores. The first century historian, Flavius Josephus for example, was so impressed by the areas surrounding the Sea of Galilee, he once wrote, quote, One may call this place the ambition of nature. Reporting a thriving fishing industry around the lake, with well over 200 boats regularly working the waters, archaeologists have since discovered only one such fishing vessel, found in 1986. It has been nicknamed the Jesus boat. According to Christian religion, much of the ministry of Jesus Christ himself actually occurred upon the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and a recent discovery within the waters themselves has continued to perplex specialists within the area, astounding all who have been exploring said discovery, and weighs an estimated 60,000 tons according to researchers. An astonishing size, making it much heavier than any of our modern day warships. Rising nearly 32 feet out of the ancient sea's sediment, it also has a diameter of about 230 feet. Stonehenge for example, which is an impressive ancient structure in its own right, has an outer stone circle diameter of only half that. First discovered in 2003 using sonar exploration of the southwest portion of the sea, divers have since been down to investigate the presumably ancient structure, writing regarding their finds within the latest issue of International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. Researcher Yitzhak Paz, antiquities authority, and Ben Gurion University, believes it could date back more than 4,000 years. Quote, the more logical possibility is that it belongs to the 3rd millennium BC, because there are other megalithic phenomena from that time that are found close by, Paz told LiveScience.com in an interview, noting that those sites are associated with fortified settlements. Could it be that this is where the peoples of Bet-Europe buried and honored their dead? Is this a proverbial city of the dead, or something else entirely? As more research is undertaken, it is only a matter of time before we understand this amazing structure for what it truly once was. We will of course keep you posted. Thanks for watching guys, and until next time, take care.


All right, this is the domestic hockey league in Finland, the Ilvis versus the Pelicans. Pelicans are up two to one in the second period, and you're going to get a funky goal that gets waved off. And I need you guys to let me know what you think.  Now the puck's just hanging loose and bam, batters it home, but the ref says no, that's a penalty, not a goal. And the guy in the Pelicans is like, what are you talking about? Interference, I scored a goal though. And they say, no, you didn't. Stop saying you did. Get in the penalty box. You're in trouble. Doesn't count. Coach is like, what, what?  So the ref's going, look at it, they're like, did we get this right? What do you guys think? So the puck is loose, right? It gets dug up, I think it's like in there. And then the guy's stick digs it up. And now here comes this stick, and it's just going to smash it in. But while it smashes it in, it takes the goalie's pads with him. So I think what the refs are saying is that on his attempt right here, the goalie had it. And then he only scores because he, he smashed and just powered the goalie's legs open. But the whistle wasn't blown. Now the puck's clearly in the net. And even when this defender tries to get it out of the net, our Pelican dude keeps it in. So it never leaves the net. So seems like a goal. It's definitely a weird area of the rule and the interpretation. And they're seeing it and they're like, yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. It's a goal. But refs come off the ice and they don't give any update. They don't say a thing. They're just like, back to normal. Don't mind us. And the coach's like, hey, hey, did you look at it? What did you think? Obviously, I can't read his lips because he's speaking in a different language, but it seems like he's like, well, did you even look at it? What? What? And it's not a goal. It's not a goal. You looked at it. It's not a goal. What? What? That's crazy. You're insane. So yeah, it's a penalty. And they say it's a penalty for goalkeeper blocking. And the, uh, Ilves score, which is links and finish for links. Ilves, they score. So then they score again and then they win.  It would have been three one Pelicans. Instead they get a penalty. Then they get scored on on that penalty. It becomes two, two. And then the Ilves win. And that's pretty huge because in this league, the Pelicans are in playoff hunt. They got the Lukku and the Cuckoo right around them. They're trying to bump up. Meanwhile, the Ilves are sitting pretty in second place. So, you know, can't just be making these calls all loosey goosey refs. But I really don't know. It could have been the right call. Could not. What do you guys think?