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Julia Patrick had this wonderful idea a year ago, and here we are celebrating well within our 240, maybe 50th episode. So our 300th episode will be coming up in May. Really excited for that. Julia Patrick is the CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy, and I am so happy each and every morning to serve alongside Julia as her co-host. I am Jarrett Ransom, also known as the Nonprofit Nerd and CEO of the Raven Group. This morning, I'm really excited to share and welcome Sharon Goodson, Vice President of Philanthropy and Organizational Development with Leech Tag Foundation. Welcome, Sharon, and thank you so much for joining us for today's episode. Great, thank you so much. I really appreciate the invitation and I'm happy to be with you guys this morning. It's great, you know, I absolutely, when you came on, I was like, this is my gal. You have a picture of your founders right behind you. That's right. I love that. And so talk to us about your founders and the foundation. You know, first of all, I've got a witness to you. This is a big deal for us to get somebody from the inside of a foundation to talk to us. Not all foundations are the same, but we have found in doing this for a year. You know, there's not, there are not a lot of foundations that are willing to come forward and really kind of talk about what they're doing and what their vision is. A lot of times they'll say, oh, talk to the folks that we fund or, oh, you know, they're just not as comfortable and not that they're trying to hide anything. It's just kind of an unusual voice to hear from. So talk to us about Leigh and Tony. Great. So the Leech Tag Foundation were located. We consider ourselves having two locations. We have a site where I am now in Encinitas, California. So that's North San Diego County and have staff on the ground in Jerusalem, Israel. This area in North County was where Leigh and Tony Leech Tag lived and worked for many years and the area was very important to them as Israel was. You know, it's funny that the Leech Tags are very present in our work every day. We have all sorts of stories that we tell about them and it really informs our work. So the Leech Tag Foundation started in 1991 as a family foundation. And then the plan over that time was for their daughter, Leigh and Tony's daughter, Jolie Ann, to take over the foundation when they had kind of had enough. And very tragically, she passed away of lung cancer in 2007. And basically it put sort of a question into the minds of the Leech Tags of who would be running this foundation going forward. So more tragic, Leigh Leech Tag or dad then passed away from a single car accident just a few months later. And at that point, her mom, Tony was already in her 90s and had really given so much of her time and energy to the nonprofit community. And basically overnight, you know, had said, I think I'm ready to turn this into a private foundation, not a family foundation anymore. So their longtime attorney, Jim Farley, who is our president CEO was named in the trust to run the foundation. And he, you know, basically didn't, you know, he had a lot of experience being on nonprofit boards and being an attorney, but not necessarily running a foundation. So over time, you know, we were brought in to help develop the guidelines, the bylaws, well, they had the bylaws, but to, you know, sort of make it, you know, more of a private foundation in terms of broad community work. So we joke that the, you know, when anybody would ask Leigh Leech Tag where his strategic plan was, he would tap his head, you know, it's just up here, you know, and when they would say, well, where's your budget? He would tap his back pocket where his wallet was. So this wasn't a foundation, they had done some really great work in San Diego, but it wasn't a foundation that had sort of, you know, strategies, guidelines in terms of what you might find in another foundation. So came in and did a bunch of research and white papers around the key areas of interest that the Leech Tags had, that was our, you know, edict from the board. And what came out of that has now transitioned, you know, I guess these last 14 or so years to be a focus on building Jewish life in San Diego's North County. And by that we really work on programs that are very welcoming and have very few barriers to participation. So we find in California at least and much of going up and down the West Coast that many Jews are journeying through life with a partner who's not Jewish. And, you know, many were not resonating with some of those traditional institutions that they had in the past. So we did a lot of research in focus groups. We do that a lot.  And of course we know that that's not true. So after a few years of being in, working out of an office, an opportunity came available for us to purchase a 67 acre agricultural property here in Encinitas, which again is this sort of amazing opportunity. It's in a terrific location right in between, we have the YMCA, we have an older adults, a Jewish older adults home, Botanic Gardens, we're in this terrific cluster of organizations. And the intent was to make this the platform for our work. And so we have providing, so a lot of our building Jewish life in North County happens right here on our property through cultural, social, educational programming. So I'm so interested because you, it seems like you had the founder's vision and they were moving through tragically and through time things changed. It seems to me, and this is also the stuff I'm leaning from your website, that things really changed when you've got this physical campus. I mean, is that fair to say? Because what a revolutionary thing to go from, you know, Mr. Leach Tag's mind and wall it into a physical site. Absolutely. I mean, that really turned us, you're completely right from being a grand tour who mostly wrote checks, although as I'll share too that, you know, that's never been our strategy. We try to do a lot more with tools other than just the funds that we distribute. We invest in young talent, we host events here on our property, we do a lot of capacity building. But we really needed a place to do that. So it was very interesting. So we're not a operating foundation per se in terms of like the IRS, but we do emerge. So we do some grant making still and do a lot of place-based work. That is a handful. And I love the story, you know, where he's like, clearly it was passion. So much passion, so much purpose, but really driven into that. Now, you said one of my favorite, I'm gonna say buzzwords, right, in our sector, but that capacity building. And I would love for you to go a little bit deeper into that, Sharon, based on, you know, how does the Leach Tag Foundation provide support in that space of capacity building? Sure. Yeah, I love this part of our work. I mean, it is just- It's so important. So important and so stimulating. And so, you know, as I said, we still do some grant making around help, and we have since we began in providing some, you know, grants for organizations to pursue training and development, strategic planning, et cetera. But we also use our team here. We have a terrific team that is very accomplished and provides a lot of the training that we offer. We have a theory here, too, or a philosophy, I should say, of not positioning a nonprofit for a grant with our board for approval unless they were really positioned ready to go. You know, we, and we did, we've always done a lot of technical assistance to be sure that their, you know, proposal was great, that they did have a plan, that there was sustainability on the other side. We also don't go into projects as the only funder. And that's really a sustainability piece. You know, something happens to us. We don't want the work not to continue. So we do a lot here on the property when we were all on the property. We're still, you know, we're hoping to be able to come back soon. But we have a number of workshops and, you know, these days, webinars on a whole bunch of nonprofit, you know, building topics. You were part of, you're an instructor, an adjunct instructor of the fundraising academy. I should get my fingers right. Yeah, right, yeah, right. So that's interesting, which we didn't know that. Not until this morning. Yeah, that was funny, yeah. Right, well, we'd like to really leverage the work that we do, you know.  And so if, you know, however we can best reach people to do that, to build the capacity of nonprofits and also to educate philanthropists, you know, to let people know through our training and helping facilitate things like giving circles and community education work that anybody can be a philanthropist and really wanting to look at the equitable aspect of that. Really, I guess the way to say is democratize giving.  I can see how it's grown and morphed over time. And one of the big impacts that we've all had obviously in the nonprofit sector is COVID. And I'm wondering if you could kind of share how your organization has been impacted and then second to that, how do you think you're gonna move forward? Like what are some of, as Jared always says, the silver linings and some of the lessons that are gonna actually, I think maybe perhaps, improve your organization. Absolutely, I'm so glad for you to ask that because we talk about it all the time. You know, we saw ourselves very early on in COVID wanting to pursue our grant making but wanting to do that leveraged with other foundations, other givers. So very quickly we became involved with two funding consortiums. One here in San Diego's North County with two of our community foundations, the Rancho Santa Fe Foundation and the Coastal Community Foundation. And we launched the North County COVID-19 Response Fund which the foundations have brought resources in really focusing on basic needs of vulnerable populations in North County. And that has been a very robust fund. We have, and we've done a fair amount of fundraising through that also. So our foundations all contributed resources but then we went out to other groups and individuals as well and brought in probably close to $800,000 and it granted out very quickly. So I think this was not kind of building a fund for a later time. We did a similar piece in the Jewish community here by pulling together with the Jewish Federation and the Jewish Community Foundation. Also all contributed resources, also fundraising and did some grant making but we also did some interesting loan programs to organizations before they had gotten the PPP loans. We've done funds to rabbi's discretionary funds because often that might be the person somebody feels comfortable going to and we've been grants to organizations. So it's been very interesting and creative. I love that. You know, we've had a couple of comments, one of, I have to read this. It says, this is a testimonial. Sharon and the Leash Tag Foundation offer tremendous capacity building opportunities and are a terrific partner of the Fundraising Academy. I'm a big fan and that comes from Tony Beale. Oh, my friend, Paul. That's cool, huh? That's really, really sweet. Yeah, that's awesome. Well, you know, talk to us about the Hive because this is another interesting piece that you have and again, it seems to me like this is something that was born of your maturation and your journey that the Leash Tags probably would have never conceived of. And before you do that, Julia, pull up that slide because that logo of the Hive, I just, it's so great. So we're gonna get that on the screen here so you can see as Sharon talks about the Hive, which is an initiative of the foundation. Right, absolutely. The Hive is an amazing place and the idea that being a be Hive really, we attribute to a colleague of ours who passed away, Naomi Radkin, who was our first director of all programs here on the property. She conceived of the idea of the Hive and it is, again, when it's sort of in full form, a buzzing co-working space of over 35 nonprofit and a couple for-profit organizations that are mission aligned. So Jewish or environmentally focused foods, systems, kind of connecting into some of our work. So it's a great sort of hub of activity and then adding our capacity work onto that, there is always something happening at the Hive. There is always a professional development program of some kind going up. There's a lot of wisdom. You have these 35, 40 organizations and there's a lot of information to share and it's very social. There are coffee hours and a couple of some happy hours. The idea behind it is really that if you, it's kind of intuitive, but if you put organizations all together that good things are gonna happen and collaborations are gonna happen. And that I think is a huge silver lining that we've had with COVID is that we have had partnerships and seen partnerships that you might say you partner, but it really changed how we have all worked these past, this past year. I'll mention real quickly, we started this fundraising Fridays group as a project of the Hive for fundraisers last June, thinking that people needed, wanted, and we made it an opportunity every Friday morning, like a weekly opportunity to just talk and see what was going on and what questions had come up, especially as everybody was navigating virtual programming and what are we gonna do? Our Gala isn't happening this year and this whole move to technology. And it's been super successful. I think if I say so myself, we again partnered, we didn't try to go it alone. So we partnered with the North County Philanthropy Council, which is here in North County, one of our professional associations for the nonprofits. And we've also partnered with the association for fundraising professionals in San Diego. So the three organizations kind of were like the think group of what were we going to do and how would we attract people? We all then also were able to share the invitations with our collective elists and we've averaged probably about 40 or so folks every week. And people have had new collaborations. They found out about new funding opportunities. They have come up with new ways to engage donors. And we did a survey last week and I'm really glad to say that I think we had, like in the high 90 percentile people so that they would continue attending, fundraising Fridays, even after we could be back in person. So. And another silver lining, there's been so much that all of us have had to pivot. That has been the word of last year, 2020. But you've proven Sharon with collaboration, which is another one of my favorite words, capacity building, collaboration. So much good comes out and for the community when this happens. So thank you for sharing that wonderful story. It's really interesting. And we don't have a lot of time left. And before we go, I want to delve into another piece of this. And that is you shared the very beginning that the Lee Chag said, interest in following their journey of philanthropy and mission change too into Jerusalem. And so I'm wondering what that has looked like, especially in a growing part of the country in Southern California. Yeah, you have so much need that you've identified there. How have you managed and built support and done that piece so far away? Well, I have to say a lot of this, all of it really, is due to the brilliance of our executive vice president, Charlene Seidel, who is really the architect of so much of our work, but of our Israel piece as an example, of really seeing so much potential in Jerusalem in particular. Jerusalem is sort of a place of trends in Israel. Things happen first there, that it also is a city that has clear demarcation with very religious Jews, Arab communities, and secular, non-religious people. And there's so much opportunity and promise. And Charlene, we were learning that people were leaving Jerusalem young adults after they finished going to a university. And so this started probably about 10 or so years ago. Of again, back to this capacity work, really building the capacity of young social leaders, social entrepreneurs, advocates, who could really help to be forward thinking and build relationships. And it's been amazing. So in COVID, though I'll say very quickly, Israel was locked down before we were and has been locked down several times, of course, since. So a lot of the grant making and the work focused on these micro communities because people really, and they were locked down, like they could only go down the block or to the grocery store. So they really focusing on Palestinian communities that didn't have access to food or older adult areas that were really isolated now.  We have a staff there who's a brilliant on the ground staff and they were able to very quickly mobilize and get that work going. Wow, amazing. I love it. Now, as we finish up, what do you think the like shacks would think? You know, we get that question a lot. Yeah. And, you know, I think, gosh, I would hope that they would really be proud of the work. There's no way we could, you know, obviously be doing this without their tremendous legacy. You know, they left 98% of their wealth to the community. They really felt that they were products of the American dream.  And I like to think that they would be pleased with how we've done that. Yeah. It's an amazing story. And I, one of the things that Jared, I was really fascinated with is Sharon said we want to teach people how to be philanthropists as well. Wasn't that cool? Very cool. As you know, that is one of my favorite things. And going back to, you know, the definition, the very basic definition of philanthropy and what it is to be a philanthropist. And it does not mean that there are several zeros at the end of a number, right? It means any gift, any size, any, any way of being of service. And that is definitely one of my platforms. That's right. It's true.  Yes. You know, I feel like what we do here, we're so lucky. You know, these are just jobs that we fill. This isn't our money.  And we're really lucky to be able to help in tangible ways. I love it. Well, you have been just a wonderful, wonderful guest. Again, we don't often get to see or hear this side of the story. And so it's been really amazing for us to have you on Sharon. I'm going to throw up Sharon's information here. You need to check out their website and their story. It's really an interesting journey of innovation and understanding the marketplace and how things have changed. And a lot of times we don't think of foundations as being terribly nimble, but it seems to me like your group really has embraced in a fearless way how you could be more of a service and grow according to the cause that are needed to be met. So really, really interesting information. Again, Sharon Goodson, Vice President of Philanthropy and Organizational Development of the Leach Tag Foundation, located there in Northern San Diego County. I'm thinking, Jared, that you and I need to do a road show. Yes. I think so. Yes, it was great. Oh yeah, you could film here at the hive. It would be terrific. And if we could do that, let's say August, September when it's really horrible here. Yeah. I love it. I love that idea. And we're only a few miles from the beach. So we are in a great location. Very nice. I have to think about that. I'm going to check my calendar right now. I know. Oh my gosh, I can see the promotion now. Well, hey, it's really been great. And it excites me, and I know it excites Jared, that when we get to see the vision of people that were blessed with a lot of largesse who could turn that back out into their communities and to see this amazing work, it's really inspirational. Again, I'm Julia Patrick, CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy. I've been joined today by the non-profit nerd, my non-profit nerd, your non-profit nerd, Jared Ransom.  We want to make sure that you also know, and this is just one of those random crazy things, but we have partnered with the Fundraising Academy, and they're doing a series of really bold lessons. And it's all about cause marketing and how your organization can work with folks that want to build a relationship with you and move forward on some sort of mission-based work. And it's been really exciting. Tony will be back with us again next Tuesday. And so we just want to give you some ideas on that. Again, thank you to our intrepid sponsors without you. We would not be here having this discussion. A year this week, we launched this program and all the programming that's come since then and is going into the future. We would not be here without these people. And so we are incredibly blessed and fortunate to have that. Wow, Jared, another great episode of The Non-Profit Show. I love it. You know, again, every morning I start my day with an environmental scan in the sector. Sharon, you were phenomenal to talk to. Thanks for all that you do and for sharing the insights of the Leach Tag Foundation with us. So thank you for joining us. Thank you. It was a great opportunity. Great way to start my day, too. Good. Well, hey, everybody, it's been another really exciting time to share with you. And as we end our day every day, we like to remind everyone, stay well so you can do well. We'll see you back here tomorrow, everyone.


the show for people who care about their health and the health of our planet on the ThinkTech Live Streaming Network series. I'm your host Dr. Grace O'Neill. Joining me today are Lorraine Sakaguchi and Carol Janisek from the Vegan Society of Hawaii, better known as the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii. Today we're going to talk about what's new with the SH. So Carol, can you tell us what inspired you guys to change the name from the vegetarian to the Vegan Society of Hawaii? Well, we've always really advocated for a vegan diet and our group is open to everybody and we want everyone to feel welcome. But when the group started years ago in the early 1990s, they used the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii because nobody even knew the word vegan. All these years have transpired now and it just felt like the right time to change the name to express who we actually, what we're actually doing and who we actually are. But again, we're still open to anybody who's interested, even if they're not ready to follow being a vegan, having a vegan diet and vegetarians who are lacto-oval vegetarians or eat fish, we're welcome them as well. We want everybody to feel that they can come here and learn and enjoy and socialize. So, Lorraine, can you tell us about what the SH has been up to since the pandemic? Okay, so we were originally going to wait the few months we thought it would take to be able to resume our in-person events and that didn't happen as everyone in the world knows. So, we started to do Zoom talks by some really wonderful people and, for example, recently we, so what that speech shows is our television program. We have a weekly television program called Vegan that shows on Olelo Channel 54 and sometimes in other community TV stations as well. And we put all of our speakers on that, so that people who missed the original event will get to see it and we have a lot more people doing that, so we're really thrilled being able to address a much wider audience. So, that is Dr. Kim Williams. He was the top and is the top cardiologist in the country. He was the president of the American College of Cardiology and we were so thrilled to have him just a couple of weeks ago give a talk for us via Zoom on nutrition and mortality in the dual pandemic and you'll get to see that in a couple of weeks on television. This is Dr. Colin Zoo who just did a cooking demo over in Waimuku on Maui last night and today right now he's over at Govindas. We're doing an in-person dine-out with him. That's a vegan lunch and tomorrow over at Down to Earth in Kailua. We're hosting a wonderful session where he's doing a talk and cooking demo for us and giving out lots of free vegan samples of his food. So, if you're able to see this program before that date tomorrow on Saturday, 4 p.m. September 3, please come and join us. It's gonna be exciting. Delicious, Lorraine. Yeah. I could go, yeah. Tell us about the next speaker Carol, the speaker for next month. Oh, Dr. Campbell, he's so well known. He was the author of the China Study and he's just a superstar in the vegan community and the health community. I'm very excited that he's coming. This is going to be a Zoom lecture but we're so privileged to have him. It's going to be a really special event. I think maybe Lorraine might want to add something. She might have some other details actually. Lorraine, do you want to add anything about Dr. Campbell? Well, only that we're very privileged. I think everything Carol said was correct and we're very privileged to have him because we have on our board as our person who gets speakers to come and talk for us, Dr. Ruth Hydrick, who's really famous for her race for life book and for being a star on the Forks over Knives documentary. We're so lucky and privileged to be able to work with her and she's a friend of Pika and Campbell. It was so easy. It was wonderful to be able to have her be able to get them to talk for us. So, can we look at the pictures of prior events now? Sure. So, tell us about this Carol. What was this? Oh, that was Dr. Gregor's lecture. He gave such a fantastic lecture. He is the person who started the site on nutritionfacts.org, which has all these short little videos of every topic that you can think of health related topics. He's known worldwide. Anyway, he came out in person to speak to us and the room was just packed and he's quite funny as well as being so brilliant and we had a great time. I know he went to, he went to, he went to Kauai, didn't he? Or Maui, actually. Maui, yeah. Maui. They had a huge crowd as well. The room was just packed. It was kind of a little thrill to have him there, actually. That's all I can say. He's got, he's the author of a bunch of different books, How Now To Die. When people hear that, they say, what do you mean we're all going to die, but it's really about how now to die of diabetes, of heart disease. So, if you haven't seen those books, it's really worth checking them out. He's got also the How Now To Diet books and cookbooks. Really good stuff. What was this, Lorraine? This was over at Foster Botanical Garden on Oahu and one of our board members, Jeff Pang, set it up. Jeff Pang has also been the head of a couple of our groups that emphasize, for example, grow your own food. So, it's all about learning how to garden and do sustainable, edible gardening as well. And another one where we did a vegan potluck. This is the vegan potluck group, and I think our grow your own food group together. We met for the last pre-COVID, Mid-Summer Night Gleam, get together at Foster Botanical Garden for this wonderful, huge, picnic vegan potluck. It was amazing. What was this? This was over at the University of White Campus. It's the week that the kids, the students move into their dorms and they set up a lot of tables for the kinds of things, activities that the kids might be interested in. And this was to sign them up for learning about vegan society of Hawaii events, which was at that time still called the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii. So there are some of our volunteers along with some of the students. How about this, Carol? That's a picture of you. So, because Aloha Animal Sanctuary was going to be doing a lecture and they invited a group of people from the Vegetarian Society to come and have a tour of the sanctuary. It was so fun. The animals there are very friendly. It's not a petting zoo by any means, but the goats and all the animals, they seem to wander up and they want attention, especially the goats. They're so cute. And we had a good time. The sanctuary is really a beautiful place. They really thought it out, put a lot of love and care into it to make sure that they're taking proper care of the animals and made me really appreciate it even more. I had done some volunteer work over there working on planting trees and laying moths and things, but this time I felt even a little closer to it. So it was a nice experience. We should note that that event happened just a few weeks ago. This is one of our more recent events. How about this? That is what used to be our annual event and we hope to resume it after COVID. Every year we've had a very large Thanksgiving vegan feast where we have a lot of people come together. I'm not sure whether we're going to be able to do it again this year, but hopefully certainly next year. We had hundreds of people coming in the past. How about this? What is this, Loree? That's our vegan Society for White newsletter. This shows what it looks like, the front page, and it's a colorful newsletter. If you get it online, it's also an interactive one. We featured a lot of local authors as well as some main ones. I don't know anything else to say about it. Maybe Grace can make it. It's very hard on that. Loree works very hard on that newsletter. That's what I wanted to add. Who does that? It's very worth reading. There's a recipe usually in it. There's a lot of recent vegan events in the newsletter as well that people would be interested in. I wanted to ask you guys, Carol, if you can tell us about joining the Vegan Society of Hawaii, what are the benefits, for instance, to joining? Biggest benefits are that you are joining a group of people that have like-minded ideas and a group that you can socialize with, but you're also supporting a group that is doing good things in the community. It's inexpensive, but it's really a worthwhile thing. We also have a lot of different restaurants and groups that provide discounts.  If you go to lots of the restaurants that we have in the area, they'll give you between a five or 10% discount on your meals or other special offers. It's really nice and you know that you're supporting something really special. So Lorraine, what restaurants can you say off the top of your head that you can get discounts from? Well, let's see. Loving Hut, Simple Joy, Peace Cafe, We'll Make a Market, Olena Cafe, Govindas, Vegetarian Buffet, and many more. Ripple of Smiles and Banan. Oh, the Ripple of Smiles, right, Banan. Oh, I forgot about Banan. That's right, Peace Cafe. Isn't there a Peace Cafe? Mention that. Peace Cafe, Govindas, Himalayan Kitchen, I think is one. Himalayan Kitchen. Is that still open? I don't know if it's still open, is it? Sorry, I'm not in time with me. Down to earth, Deli, you can go and eat there and we always get a five percent off for all the food you eat there. Isn't there some stuff on Maui and the other islands as well? Yes, we have a number of different restaurants on Maui, Kauai, and even the Big Island. I don't know if these are open, but it says Maui Burgers, Maui Roots, Pork and Salad, Earth Aloha Eats. On Kauai, there's a whole bunch over there as well. Oh, then there are some discounts that you get no matter where you live, even if you belong to VSH and you live on the mainland or even internationally, there's some internet discounts you can get or you can even tour the world and veg voyages and get a discount as well because you belong to the vegan society of Hawaii. So it's pretty useful. I did that one. Oh really? Where did you go? I went to the veg voyages. I haven't heard of veg voyages. I mean, I saw that on there, but I didn't know where you could go. What kind of options did I have? I went to India and we had a three-week tour on India and it was pretty great. It's definitely something to look into if you're interested in doing that kind of travel. I'm not sure where else they go. I really only researched that because I was planning to go to India anyway. But you know all the food is vegan on the veg voyages? Is it all vegan or all the food is vegetarian? That's the plan. So I'd say when you're traveling in a foreign country you still need to be very careful. But that is the intention and that's, I know that they work hard to do that, but I can't promise that everything was. I'm certainly hoping that it was, but I don't want to say absolutely you're going to have that. So you just have to be very careful and try to be aware as well. But it was very helpful because they took me to places. Well, there was a small group and we went to places that we'd never have been able to go on our own. Pretty cool. So it was a special trip. Oh, I'd like to mention that a lot of people, we're very grateful to the people who want to become members for whatever reason because they support us. We're an all-volunteer group and we've been around since 1990 doing this as an all-volunteer group and we're basically an outreach educational, thank you, group that we try to promote human health, animal rights and protection of the environment. But we don't sit around talking to ourselves. We really welcome people who are not even vegetarians, still meat eaters, still, you know, and we really are thrilled to have them with us because they're showing an interest in what we do and want to support us and we're very grateful for that. So one of the ways we thank everybody who is a member is to be, you know, you get, once you get your membership card, there's so many discounts you can get at a whole lot of people that are, if they're not vegan or vegetarian, they're veg-friendly businesses and we thank them very much for their participation and support. So what can people do if they're interested in getting involved in VSH? How do they get more involved? They can call our VSH phone number that's listed at our website or just go to our website and they can email us at info.vsh.org and let us know they're interested. There's also a little box to check off if you become a member that says that you're interested in volunteering. We're always thrilled to hear from anyone. So Carol, what does VSH need help with currently? Oh gosh, when I think we need people that do everything from video editing to swimming around and fixing up things online for us, like maybe our book list. I'm actually trying to do that now but I'm working rather slowly. When we start up meetings again, someone that will help us set up or break down or sweep the floor and there's so many different types of things that we would love to have volunteers come and help us with. Does that help? Yes, that does help. People are probably wondering how to get involved and then Lorraine wanted to mention something that Carol made for people who, there's a lot of disaster kind of stuff that they sell at Costco and it's not very plant-based diet friendly, but Carol actually put together a dining disaster. Dining during a disaster. I created this brochure. The reason I did this is I've been very involved with the CERT group that's the community emergency response team and they have all these flyers of food packages that you would make for yourself to be prepared when the hurricane is coming or something like that and most of them are involved junk food and a lot of things like spam and other heavy foods that aren't necessarily healthy. So I put together a list of different items. It's actually, I mean, this is just completely full of different things that you can pack. I know nobody's going to be able to see this very well, but can they get it somewhere if they can't see it? I mean, is it online? That's a good idea. We should post this online. We'll have it on BSH.org. We'll have it on BSH.org. Okay, cool. And so we actually, because I created this, we were invited to go to an emergency preparedness fair at, it was at the Windward Mall in Kaneohe and passed these out. And so it was fun. I created a small version of a go box for meals to show people and we passed out samples that Down to Earth provided for us. I was able to talk to people and tell them little tricks that they could use. Like for instance, dehydrated foods versus, well, anyway, I was able to explain a lot of things and there was a lot of interest. So it was kind of nice. And even people from the CERT community, the community of emergency response team were kind of excited about my brochure, the people that saw it. So I'm going to update this for better graphics later, but this is the complete form and I'm excited to present it. So I want to talk about the website of it, the vsh.org website, right? Can you tell us what it has on it, like resources for people who are interested in going plant-based, the rain? Yes. What it has on the website is a library of our videos of the speakers we've had. So there's a huge amount of information available there. There are recipes also on this website, printed recipes. We have our list of, we have a famous dining guide, which was around way before Happy Cow, places where you could dine and get some plant-based food on Oahu, Maui, Big Island, Kauai, and so on. Complete with maps. So you can go and figure out where you are and where to go. We also have our past newsletters. We have videos that a lot of people don't know about from our Kauai group. Our Kauai group has a wonderful videographer named Robert Zelkovsky. And so we have some great talks there too, if you'd like to see them. We have just a huge amount of wonderful talent among our volunteers, and I hope you enjoy the website. Well, thank you so much, guys. We're out of time and we're going to have to wrap it up. I'm Dr. Gracie O'Neill. This is Healthy Planet on the ThinkTech Live Streaming Network series. We've been talking with the Vegan Society of Hawaii. Thanks to Michael, our broadcast engineer, and the rest of the crew at ThinkTech for hosting our show. And thanks to you, our listeners for listening. I'll see you on September 16th for more of Healthy Planet on ThinkTech, a show for people who care about their health and the health of our planet. My special guest will be Level V, 808. If you have ideas for the show or questions about my future guests, please contact me at HealthyPlanetThinkTech at gmail.com. Check out my website at GracieHawaii.com or Instagram at GracefulLiving365 for more information on my projects including future show guests. I'm Dr. Gracie O'Neill. Aloha, everyone.


Hi everyone, my name is Abigail Asambaya. I'm one of the conference ambassadors here over the summer. I will be giving you guys a tour of Duncan and its apartments. Monitoring our camera, we have Henry. Hey y'all, I'm gonna move this around a little bit. My name is Henry, I'm working for Housing this summer and yeah, I'll be recording this session today and if you have any questions feel free to put them in the chat and I'll be sure to ask Abby about them and yeah, also be sure to let us know where you're tuning in from City and State. But Abby, where are we going to first? We're gonna go to the left, we're going to come into the great room of the Duncan apartments which is located in Duncan B. Gotcha. Well over here we have one of our CREs. Hi. Hi, I'm Jackie, I am CRE for a doki. However, I did live here for a year when I was a graduate student here at the University of Arkansas. So I'm pretty familiar with this space. I enjoyed my time living in Duncan so much and it's in such a unique part of campus and there's so many great spaces for meeting new people, hanging out with friends and overall I just love my time in Duncan. So where we're at now is actually the community building, it is the building of Duncan. So this is typically where some of our programs happen. Our program is basically an event that is planned by the staff that work here. There's probably gonna be food, music, all kinds of fun things, games. So a lot of events are happening here. I know in the winter we love to do a hot chocolate sort of event here which is really nice. But we also really like to utilize the outdoor space here. It is such a unique area of campus to be able to experience the outdoors. It's a really nice setting. Awesome, cool. Well y'all be sure to let us know what questions you have in the chat about Duncan. We're gonna move on now. Abby, where are we heading to next? We're going to go up. Cool. Abby, what's your major? And everyone in the chat, let us know what your major is as well. So I'm an International and Global Studies major. I've just changed my major so I will be taking all the classes in the fall. I also have a minor in Spanish as well. Oh, super cool. Are you excited for your classes or not really? Yeah, I'm actually enrolled in a lot of classes that I'm really looking forward to. So while many people dread starting the fall, I'm personally really excited to get started in the fall. It's always nice to be excited about your classes and not dreading them. Yeah, this is the face of first time since I started in the University of Arkansas. But I think it's because I'm finally following a career that I'm excited for. So that's definitely the important thing is you'll enjoy it for years. And y'all, we may have lost connection a little bit. And again, we just regained connection after being in the elevator. So where are we at now, Abby? So this is the gym area. This is located on the second floor of Duncan Beach, which is right above the desk area. So once you're into the front desk, if you go to the elevator, it'll take you up to the second floor. All the gym equipment here is free. It is included in your tuition of your dorm. So when you pay for your housing, you're paying for this gym as well. As you can tell, there are a lot of equipment. Anything here that is, anything that is here can be used. We ask that you please just don't take it out of the room. Yeah, that about sums up the gym. If anyone has any questions, please put them in the chat. All right. So how many buildings is Duncan composed of? Duncans? Mm-hmm. We have Duncan A, which is apartments, Duncan B. We have Duncan D, which is down here. And then we have Duncan E, which is at the very end of the street. Gotcha. So this right here is a parking garage. And then that building over there is Champions Hall, one of our academic buildings for the university. Gotcha. And we lost a little bit of connection there. Could you explain what this garage is for? Yeah, so this is a parking garage. It's called Harmon Garage. It's available to the residents. You can buy a parking pass for this garage. There are certain floors dedicated to residential parking. So when you get your parking pass, just keep an eye out for which floor you can park in. And then you can park there across the street and then come to your apartment. Awesome. Good deal. So where are we headed to next? And our CRE Jackie will give you guys a more in-depth explanation of that. Yeah, so typically what happens, most residence halls, your mail comes to a central desk in the building. And then you will receive your mail that way. Here it's a little bit unique because USPS, Amazon, all of those places have access to this area. So if your package and your paper mail will fit in these mailboxes, it will go here. But if it is something that is too large to fit in these boxes, it'll get delivered to the front desk during business hours. And then you will receive an email from University Housing that you have packaged, which is really exciting. We love packages. Yeah, that's kind of how mail works here. Awesome. Good deal. All right. All righty. So now we're going to go on the Greenway. And we're going to go down to like a little outdoor patio that is available in the Duncan apartment. So what year are you, Abby? So I'm currently a sophomore. I'm a little bit ahead. So I'm about a semester ahead of what a normal sophomore has got. So I came in with a lot of credit. So it's a little interesting to see how. You're credit is accumulating in your book years. A lot of AP classes. Yeah, I did some concurrent classes in high school, which if you did that, you're going to be very, very thankful you did that because it takes you out of all those basic courses, which sometimes can just be a pain. If you didn't, that's totally fine, too. It's a good jump start coming into high school and to college is a good way to just get back into that gear of starting to learn education again. Gotcha. So this is the Duncan apartment patio. We have a grill, a little patio. It's called a canopy where we have a picnic table. You're more than welcome to bring your own chairs out here and sit down. And then we have our fireplace, fire pit right here, which is a good place to hang out, roast some s'mores, come read a book at night once it gets a little bit colder. It's a little hot right now. But if the hot stir thing, you're more than welcome to come out here. I'm more of a winter person, so I would be out here in the winter reading my book. Definitely. All right, well, y'all, let us know if you have any questions about this outdoor space or about Duncan in general. And I believe we're going to go see a room next.  What was your favorite thing, your freshman year? Favorite thing about freshman year? I really enjoyed my first few weeks as a freshman. I was super involved in A-week, which will we go over a little bit more later. As well as I was involved in Leigh Hogs, which is a freshman program. Some of you may be enrolled in. Those were two of my favorite parsley hogs lasted throughout the whole year, so I was able to. Oh, there's one space. Sorry, we're going to look at one space really quick. It's some outdoor storage that Abby will show us. Uh-huh. It's a hard tool. You got it? There we go. I would recommend putting anything that is durable outside. Bicycles, a lot of times, would be good.  If you like to go swimming, like deep diving, you could put anything out here. I believe you need your own lock, right? Yes, you will need your own lock. Gotcha. I'll lock the door and keep it safe. Gotcha. So we're going to go upstairs and head to look at this park. And you were talking about a week in Leed Hogs? Yeah, so Leed Hogs is a program available to freshmen. I will be one of the representatives of Leedmore, so I might see a few of you if you're enrolled in Leed Hogs. But it was super fun getting to work with residents that lived in my dorm, but as well as the staff, because the RA staff of the dorm will be super involved. Gotcha. I would definitely keep a lookout for any programs that they host, because it is really, really fun to be in. But we have reached 205 hour rooms. So we'll go ahead and step in five. Awesome. What was your room number? I think it was 205, but in what? Oh, wow. What a coincidence. 205 in another building. Yeah. All right, so talk us through what's going on in here. So this is, I guess, a typical living room slash hangout area, so you have our living room. You can put up a TV, you have your chairs, and then over here we have a kitchen. There is a microwave, a stove, an oven, a dishwasher, and a fridge, all which work and come included in every single apartment that is in this complex. You have a storage area, so you can cut. What's the main distinction between two types of rooms in the dumpkin, do you know? So what I have come to understand in the May difference between the dumpkin rooms is the living rooms of the bedrooms of stairs. Only two of them have a balcony and one will not. But all dumpkin apartments have this similar layout of the kitchen. I think the only major difference would be that as well as the style of the bathroom. And we just got a question from Hailey Sullivan is, can we look in the fridge? Yeah. We didn't look at it before, let's look in there. Let's do it, let's do it, let's do it. All right. So this is the fridge, got some plenty of space there. Everything's clean. And this is the freezer. So this is how much space you all have for food. All right, thank you. Good question. And let us know any other questions you have. Jackie, do you have anything you want to add? Just to clarify a little bit about the differences between the apartments. Just a little bit more. You can see the diagram of the layout of the apartment on housing.york.eu if you go to dumpkin apartments. But the main thing is that there are two bathrooms in the lower story dumpkin apartments. There'll be one on the first floor and one on the second floor. Two bedrooms will be downstairs and two bedrooms will be upstairs. And I want to say that the laundry room is also upstairs in those first level apartments. And then we have second level apartments. All four bedrooms will be upstairs. Two of those will have a balcony. That'll be your A and B room. C and D room do not have a balcony. And then the other big difference is that the second story apartment only has one bathroom that is shared between the four students living in that space. Gotcha. Yeah, that's dumpkin. Awesome, thank you. We just got another question about measurements of the living room area. So do we have that measure over here? So they weren't, let's, I would say probably, Christopher, you think we start like from this countertop over there? What are we measuring exactly? They didn't specify. So let us know what specifically you want us to measure and we'll get that down. And they're also on our website, but we're in the process of updating the measurements on our website at housing.york.edu. So it may not be 100% exactly accurate, but it would give you a rough idea. Are we measuring in the bathroom? Yeah. Are we waiting? So we'll go ahead and get that. Each of these doors is a toilet area. There are two sinks that are in there. Gotcha. And then this is the shower area. We don't have showers. And we just did, we got two questions from a relevant to the living room, Jackie. Could you explain what's behind the white door downstairs? That locked one? Yeah, that's a great question. So those are locked in every single apartment. That is maintenance space. It is not accessible to you living in Duncan. But about once a month, facilities, our university housing facilities will come in and replace the air filter. So we have nice, clean, fresh air. So that is what that space is. It should always remain locked, and you will not have access to it. Gotcha. And we did get our measurements for the living room. They were asking about the couch area, please, for a rug. So do we want to go down there downstairs? Yeah, we could not get out now, because then we will be able to finish the bedrooms. Gotcha. Great question. What was the question about the couch specifically? Was that right? Yes, let me see. Couch area, please, for rug. So we can measure the couches and the chairs. Give them from here to here, and just kind of give them the general.  That is 11 feet and 5 inches. And then you should be able to remember. Maybe the width is well. So going from this stairwell over to there as well. That is 6 feet and 9 inches. So 11 feet by 6 feet and 9 inches, you said, for this little couch area. OK. And then should we measure the couch as well? We can. We have those measurements on the website, and it will be correct very soon. Gotcha. But let's go ahead and do the couch real quick. And then if you want, I'm going to show them those now. Do you need me to put my hand out there? Yeah, pretty sure. I probably want to get it from the edge there. So it is 4 feet and 8 inches. Gotcha. And then you can probably get it from the edge right there down. 2 feet and 9 inches total. Gotcha. And then you can probably get one more. And I think the person who asked the question, I think they said, all right, go ahead, yeah. 2 foot and 11 inches, we'll say 3 feet. Gotcha. And it looks like we answered that question. All right, so now let's go back upstairs for bedroom. And then we have a question for Jackie about the walls. Hey, Jackie, are you in here? Yes. We have a question about the walls. Are the walls in the bedroom drywall or concrete? Would you happen to know drywall? OK, gotcha. All right, then let's see a room. And a balcony, too. Yeah. You have a chest, a tall dresser, a desk, a bed, and a little nightstand. The beds are twin XL, so any twin XL sheet, a twin XL mattress topper, which I highly recommend. You have one. Those will all fit on this bed as well. This is a typical taller mattress. So a twin might even work better if you would like to have the corners of the sheets fully tucked under the bed with a twin XL. It might tend to come off a little bit. So if you don't mind simply tucking, pulling the fitted sheet back over the ends, you should be fine. But if that would be hassle to you, a twin XL should fit on the bed just fine. Gotcha. This door and this room leads to the balcony, to the little overview view into the forest. You can bring chairs out here. You could have a patio, a small patio table or something out here, a rug, anything to hang out with. And then this door will lead to the bedroom next door. And so these are the two rooms that we'll have without. Can you move the other two rooms in the house? OK. Surprise. Oh, wow. You actually showed up just in time because we had questions for you. Yeah, what's up? Yeah. So can we use nails on the walls or command strips only to hang things? Command strips only. And be really cautious. Don't get any off-brand versions of that. I would stick with the 3M command strips.  Pull very slowly. Otherwise, you will leave a big chunk of paint missing from the wall. And we do charge $41 per paint chunk. And that can add up kind of quickly. And that'll be the same for any holes in the wall. We've got $41 per damage. So keep an eye on that. Gotcha. Enter all the beds, twin Excel. To my knowledge, yes. Does our fact sheet say anything different? Try out. On moving that new identity, they can find all of the mattress sizes and the lofting ability of each of the beds. And I know you're also able to put in a fix-it request. If you happen to have a shorter mattress in your room, you're wanting the twin Excel or vice versa, you can put in a fix-it request. And we usually try to accommodate that. OK, gotcha. Let's go back into this room. And we'll give another look. And be sure y'all to ask us any questions about anything you have about the room or about Duncan in general. Abby, do you have any advice for the freshman coming in? Any words of wisdom? I guess my big one would be make sure you pack enough. My first mistake was I did not pack enough because I figured I would overpack, but I ended up underpacking. So try and find a good medium. As you can see, we'll go ahead and open these up. Because this would be nice to see. Oh, yeah, for sure. You can see how much space you have. You also have these chest drawers. So especially for our ladies out there, I know we like to bring a lot, a lot of clothes. So just keep an eye out for how much clothes you bring. This is about how much things you have. You can always buy standalone closets as well if you really like to have a lot of clothes. I have had some friends that made that work. Again, try and see how much clothes you can bring. But I think that would be my major advice. Don't be afraid to decorate your room. I know a lot of people prefer not to just because it's a hassle. But me personally, I like my room to be homey, so I will always decorate my room to where I feel comfortable being in it. Gotcha. And Jackie and Christopher, we had a question. Can we go into all the rooms or should we just stay in this one? I know they'll be all the same layout. We can go into the other two rooms in this apartment. Unfortunately, we have people staying here, so we can't look at every apartment. But we're certainly going to visit these other rooms because they should all be a similar layout. Oh, also, we didn't show off, I don't know if we showed the laundry. There is a washer and dryer in every apartment. Yeah. But these are what the other rooms look like. Like we said, very similar layout. And then once I need to adjust my camera, we had a question. Are the doors magnetic to hang things onto? It looks like it's just wood. Actually, it kind of looks like metal. Yeah. I don't think they're not magnetized, we might be metal. And someone asked, are there ceiling fans? Yes, in every room, I believe so. And then Abby, could you come back into this room and measure the ceiling? Yeah. Yeah, so you just, or the ceiling, so you can just like put it down there. Is it registering? It's eight feet and five inches. Eight feet and five inches. About seven extra inches just there. Gotcha. All right, we had another question. Is there Wi-Fi? Yes, so when you get here, you will connect to the UR Wi-Fi. You will, a lot of you should already have your email address. You will just sign in with the email address and it will automatically connect with wherever you are on campus. Gotcha. And then someone just asked, measurements for under the bed? Okay. So, using from one in the bed frame to the other. So, three feet and three inches. Okay. And then six feet and nine inches, this way so seven feet. Gotcha. And then could you also measure how tall, since these aren't loftable? One foot and seven inches. Gotcha. All right, and I'm going to check through all the questions again, make sure we answered them. What is the inside of the smaller window in the other bedroom? The smaller window in the other bedroom. The apartment that we're in, this is actually a corner unit. So it's on the very end of the building. So this smaller window that is present here, you are not going to have that in every single apartment. But what you will have are these two windows in the C-room. So that's the standard right there? This, yeah, this is pretty standard. Only the side or end units have an additional window like this. Gotcha. All right. Here in the end unit, there does seem like one small window right there, but that's typical also. Yeah, and it's always, the C-room is the one that has like the really elevated ceiling like this. And it'll say on top here, the letter of the room you're assigned to, okay. We have another question. Are any of the Duncan beds loftable? No, they are not loftable. I'm trying to rack my brain and remember if that is something that you can request. At this time, I don't think it is. But definitely check on the housing website. That would be where you're going to get the most accurate information. I would say that if you're wanting a loftable bed in here, you can always turn in what's called a fix-it request. And so that, do you know how to get to fix-it? Yeah. It's, I want to say uark.fixit.net. Housing. Housing. Okay, I lied then, I don't know. Housing.uark.edu forward slash fixit, F-I-X-I-T. Okay. And that'll lead you to a maintenance request form that you can request anything. You can tell us that your water's not working at the moment, which probably will never happen to you. But that's something, so we're there to fix that any time. Gotcha. One other thing to note with this being one of the only spaces where an apartment has its own kind of outdoor space on the balcony. Sometimes you do get wasps or dirt daubers. So if you ever experience that, you can also put in a fix-it request for that. That's pretty common in Duncan. Gotcha. All right, y'all. Be sure to let us know. Any questions, any more questions you might have. But, sorry, I was thinking, Jackie, could you say more about what a CRE is and what it stands for? Oh my goodness, yes, I didn't explain that earlier. So my role is coordinator for residence education. And essentially, what that means is I'm here to support your growth to help you get connected to resources on campus. And I also supervise resident assistants. So there are resident assistants in every residence hall across campus, including Duncan. And a resident assistant is someone that you can go to almost like a big brother or big sister in a way, or if you are struggling to get connected on campus or you may be dealing with roommate issues, which are really common. And that's just another person that's closer to your age, most likely closer to your age, that will be able to help you navigate some of those issues, especially if that's not something you've dealt with before. So I supervise those staff members and help guide them and guide you if that makes sense. And I also oversee a lot of the facilities of the building and making sure that everything stays safe, creating events, planning, social media posts, all kinds of things. I wear a lot of hats. Oh, yeah. All right. Well, y'all, this is the last call for questions. Looks like we're not getting any yet. But Jackie, could you give any words of wisdom for our freshman coming in? Yes. The two pieces of advice that I always give you is have a way to manage your time and manage all of your obligations. So one place to report, this is where I need to be at this time, have your class schedule and your calendar, so you don't have to rely on your memory all the time. Also writing down a planner or something of that nature, any assignments or projects you have, whenever your registered student organizations are meaning, or RSOs as we call them on campus, just recording all of your obligations, whether that's time obligations or projects that you need to complete. I would also say check your email every day, at least twice a day, because if a class gets canceled at 8 a.m. and you forgot to check your email, then you walked all the way to class, and now you have to walk all the way back and be really sad about it. But yeah, check your email. And then the third thing that I would say, in Duncan, because you are in your own room, that is super nice, but it can be a little isolating sometimes. But it can also kind of be a comfort zone for you, so it's really easy to spend a ton of time in your room and not really get out and not engage with others on campus. And that's the best way that you're gonna grow is by getting out, meeting new people, challenging yourself, going to new events, learning all kinds of new things that maybe you've never been exposed to before. But that's how we grow, just good. Gotcha. And this is, we do have one last question before Abby signs us off, and this could be either for you, Abby, or you, Jackie. Do you have any move-in day tips? Drink? Yes. It's gonna be hot. It's gonna be very hot. Drink, water. I would say any issue, oh, here's a good one actually. When you move in, you are going to hear about a room condition report. This is essentially what you are going to use to document any damage that is already in the room when you move in. When you move out at the end of the year, we go through all of these rooms, and any damage that hasn't been logged, it becomes your responsibility unless you have proof that it was present before you moved in, unless you have proof that you didn't do it. So go through with a fine tooth comb, write down everything, and you'll be able to do that yourself and take pictures and document all of that. But I think that's something that's really good practice for you in the future. Perhaps next year you might have a lease off campus. Not everyone can be as flexible as we are sometimes with some of our damage billing, but definitely work on noting all the damages that might be in your room, hopefully there's none. That would be awesome, but obviously sometimes we miss things, so that is my biggest advice to save money in the long run. Gotcha, and I know I said there was a last question, but we had one more. Since the beds are not loftable, can bed risers be used? Because it's not damaging the flooring. I know you can get those plastic ones that are four little platforms that you can put underneath the bed. As long as it's not scratching the flooring, as long as you're mindful of the walls and everything, I don't see that being an issue. But if you have something specific that you're wanting to use, you can always run that by your RA once you get here or your CRV, and that way you don't get fined for anything that could potentially not be allowed. But I don't see that being an issue. Awesome, thank you so much. All right, Abby, sign us off. Yeah, well real quick before we do that, I was wanting to go over a few events that we have coming up when you move in, I will go over Pick One and Henry will go over something we have called A Week. So pretty soon, if you haven't already, you should receive an email about something called Pick One. It is an opportunity to sign up to be involved on campus. There are multiple things that you can register for. I personally, when I was a freshman, did the UREC one. So we did a tour of the Hyper, which is where a lot of those activities will take place, they were able to do the Hyper, we saw the gyms, the racquetball courts, we saw everything that goes on. So that is one of the Pick Ones that you can do.  If you are into any outdoor activities that will fall under UREC. If you like painting, there isn't painting, there are so many that are available. So you can pick your top three. And then if your top one is still available, you will be enrolled in that one. If not, you will drop down to your second or third one. I would definitely look into that. That was really, really fun to be in. I made some of my friends that I currently have now were in the UREC that I'm in there in. We would go down to the Hyper, we would go swimming. One of my friends had actually enrolled in one of the cycling classes, which was really fun. So if you are outdoors, the UREC also has any mountain biking stuff that you like to do. I personally like biking. So that was something that I was interested in as well. So anything activity-wise can be looked at will fall under that one. So that is definitely something to look into if you haven't already received the email. And then Henry, do you wanna explain to us what Awe is? Yeah, for sure. And I'm gonna try and give this to you. Yeah, there we go. So Awe, oh you got it? Yeah. So Awe is kind of a series of programs that we put on a week before classes start. So it'll be right after you move in. And there are just so many different programs and events for everyone on campus to get together and have fun. Some of them are educational, some of them are as simple as like a bingo night. But some of our big ones, Chocolate Wasted is one of our big ones, which is learning about alcohol while also getting chocolate. That's okay, I got it. Actually, let me go ahead and hold it. One second, y'all. It's okay. All right, I think this works. Perfect. Okay, I think y'all can see me. So Chocolate Wasted is a big one. We may also be doing Taste of Fayetteville this year where all the, a lot of restaurants, food trucks, et cetera around Fayetteville come to the Greek theater. And they just give out free samples and all that. And there's just so many different events and I would highly recommend going to them, especially if you're a freshman, because that's a great way to meet new friends and start building those memories with your friends and can't recommend it enough. What's the website? Is it aweek.uark.edu? Yeah, so aweek.uark.edu. So go there and there will be a schedule. And also I believe when you move in, we'll put calendars onto your doors and it will give you a schedule of events. But all right. So that concludes our apartment, dining apartment tour. If you have any questions, you can go to housing.uark.edu and you can find any information on there. You are also more than welcome to call. You can find the phone number on there. Thank you all so much for tuning in. Can't wait to see you guys on campus. Awesome.


well would you look at the time it's a time for a serious video because i don't do those but i wanted to take the time today to make my one serious video of the year something that's very serious to me something that i need to share with you and no it's not clickbait this woman right here is the reason why i am here today the reason you see me the reason why i've continued i made a video a few years ago losing all hope it's one of my most viewed videos i lost hope i had no friends i barely saw my family i had no hope no drive no confidence no motivation i wanted to die and ironically i met a girl named live and i wanted to live it was like a sign of the universe and i'm not into signs and zodiacs and all that shit i'm not into that stuff but i'm into her really into her i've been into her since the moment i started talking to her the most interesting funny fun beautiful girl person i fell in love with her on site first site we started dating from the first night we met and since then i loved her every single day more and more it's never slowed down there was no honeymoon phase this is a honeymoon life it's never slowed down we've lived with each other basically since the first night we started yeah we had some nights without each other but we basically were living with each other since that day spending like every day together and you know they say you're gonna butt heads you're gonna find out you don't want to do this anymore yeah we had our fights but i love her more today than ever way more than yesterday and way way way way more than when i first fell in love with her i proposed to her after a few months of knowing her everybody judged me family friends everybody you guys maybe not you but a lot of people people in my audience and you have the right to think that you have the right to feel that way like oh he's only proposing to somebody after a few months of knowing and that's scary wait until they're with each other for a year then they'll really find each other out they'll really see the real colors the true colors and i saw her true colors and let me tell you they're the most beautiful colors because the more i learned about her the more and deeper i fell in love with her everything about her is driving me crazy like i'm so crazy about her and i never want this feeling to end for the first time in my life i'm scared i'm afraid of dying i never felt that way of course as a kid i was happy and everything but like high school and beyond bro if i got shot the following day whatever like being honest with you now i'm afraid of getting hurt i'm afraid of dying because that takes away from time that i get to spend with her she's my best friend i look forward to just sitting on a couch with her driving with her listening to music just not even talking to each other sometimes just sitting next to each other watching a show i'm having a time of my life just laying down next to her when we're on our phones time of my life just holding her hand i never want to let go she's my everything and this is going to be corny to people that don't understand but the people that do understand probably smiling because i really hope every single one of you finds a love like this whether it's through a person or an interest but like if you guys love me this is what's best for me she is what is best for me it's been like this is the moment i saw her it's just the moment i met her my girl is what's best for me and like i said a lot of people judge me right off the bat because i proposed to her a few months in but that was not a mistake that was the best decision of my life i wish i did it sooner because i felt that way sooner way sooner i knew she was the one and i know that's very cliche to say oh you're the one no she is the one for me she is she's the only one for me no one else is for me i've been in other relationships i don't even count those i don't i just see those as lessons you know what i mean they happened they existed i wish the best for those people i don't even think about that anymore all i think about is what's with me now and the memories we are to make i love her to death i love her with all my heart she's so smart she's the smartest person bro she's the smartest person i know so intellectual i i don't even understand her sometimes sometimes i just have to look at her and smile because bro the word she uses wow smartest girl she's the smart girl in class and i am the autistic one i'm not autistic but you know you get my point i'm the straight f student she's the straight a student on on her role i'm not i saw no role all i saw was a fucking toilet roll bro that's all i that's all i've seen toilet roll the paper roll but other than that i don't want to say the cliche thing like it's not perfect we fight it is perfect because we do fight we've had our fights but because we fought we learned how to communicate with each other we've been living with each other since day one we have to learn how to live with each other how to coexist and we have learned trust me we have learned we go to each other with everything if i have a problem i go to her i don't go to a friend i don't go to a girl i don't go to a anybody i don't go i go to her because that's what i feel like is a healthy relationship and if you want to know why i started streaming it's because of her i had that drive before i met her i would have never been able to stream i just didn't have that confidence but she pushed me she believed in me and that's why i'm able to do what i'm doing today right now she's working on her art she wants to become an artist she is an artist but you know what i mean like a successful artist with an art store and i am gonna help her as much as i can because i am her number one fan you do not hold that place i do like i am her number one fan bro i will die for her i'll do everything i'll wear her merch i'll i'll i'll i'll tattoo her name on my forehead i already tattooed it on my arm and i know a lot of people see it as a red flag but like i said it's not she's the reason why i live and that might sound toxic to you but i don't care because i know my destiny and it's with her and i'm having a time of my life with her you know i have to deal with comments like oh is he gonna feel this way three years when he makes a video saying we broke up no there is no breaking up there is no breaking up we have that love that my parents have that her parents have just belonging with each other and living and dying together that's what i have with her i cannot imagine life without her i don't want a life without her there is no life without her i'm so proud to be hers i'm so proud of her and i'm proud of myself she gives me confidence that i've never had in my life i feel like the sexiest funniest man and i never felt that way with anybody else or even alone i never felt sexy i used to date girls i didn't date so many girls i say like i've been with 40 girls i've dated a girl that made me feel like i had to be a k-pop star in order to be attractive she makes me feel like i am johnsina like i am the sexiest man on the planet and i know i'm not but i feel that way to her and i don't give a damn when anybody else feels about me i've been able to be myself more in my videos i don't have to be cool i don't have to wear a tank top or prevent myself from making stupid faces because somebody might be looking and be turned off i don't give a damn i could be myself and the person you see on camera ask her ask my live there's not that much different from who's off camera she's everything she is so fucking cool man i love her so much but i just wanted to talk about this not the brag not to tell you guys how perfect and amazing my life is it is amazing we travel the world together we have the time of our lives every day together even when we're doing nothing staying inside on a snow day what i'm telling you is that i feel like there's a person for all of us whether it's the person you're with right now or the person you're not with or maybe you're not into the whole love thing if it's not a person it's something we're all meant for someone or we're all meant for something i'm meant for her and i'm meant to be doing what i'm doing right now on youtube spread laughter and cheer and entertainment to y'all everybody has their youtube everybody has their live you know what i mean and i have mine and that's all that matters to me everything else is a side mission a side quest problems we're gonna have them but at the end of the day i'm with her and that's all that matters i'm not worried about anything all i'm worried about is if something happens to me because it takes away time that i get to spend with her and i'm scared i'm scared about that because i don't want to lose her i don't want to lose myself i just want to spend eternity with her and i know it's weird to hear me talk like this to my subscribers but i wish all of you the feeling i'm feeling right now honestly there's no hard days there's hard moments but there's no hard days because at the end of the day i'm with her and i know i'm blessed for that very reason i have you guys it's all i'll ever need i have everything i need right here with me right now i don't need more i don't need more money i don't need more subscribers i don't need more views i don't need more cars i don't need more i am perfectly perfect with what i have everything else is just extra whatever happens from here on out is extra i'm living at my peak this is my peak as luffy would say this is my gear five i'm so fucking happy and it's because of her she's my light no pun intended she is my light my nicolas light no no no but yeah i just it's been a very long time since that video and i just wanted to update those that probably don't watch my content because they came from that video and expected more videos like that and i never gave one here's just a little update that i'm doing as perfect as somebody can do and it's all because i found the love of my life and i started to love myself so i'm gonna be fine forever more than fine i'm gonna be perfect and i'm not perfect but i feel that way nothing could stop me nothing could bring me down from the heaven and wish i exist right now and that's here with her with you guys having the time of my life every single day thank you love you and yeah i don't really cry it's hard for me to cry knowing y'all are watching me i could turn that emotion off i'm not gonna be like those youtubers that force myself to cry you know have a water bottle underneath me and and like turn it cut the camera real quick and wet my eyes like i'm not gonna do that or bring a dog in here and start crying i'm not gonna be like that i'm gonna keep it real with you guys i'm not no i'm not an influencer i'm no different than you i'm no different bro i'm literally no different and that's what i try to be you can love me you can hate me whatever i am no different than just a random person you see on the street and i'm not afraid to be myself and she's taught me to be fine with that my crazy brain she accepts because her brain is just as crazy we're crazy together i'm crazy in love with her i'm crazy for her and yeah man i love her so much i love you guys too too like oh yeah you guys yeah i love you too no i didn't mean it like that you know what i mean i'm on cloud nine bro i'm on cloud nine and uh i hope to see all of you up here with me if you're not there already sayonara


Brooks why do you think you had such a tough time tonight commanding the ball. I mean it was just pure execution. It's part of the game. Obviously I got to do a better job and you know that's why I'm working on the consistency and you know want to be someone that the team could rely on big spots and something I'm going to have to do better. Was it the conditions the environment anything in particular that led to that. No I mean I threw here a few weeks ago. Use the environment. It was just you know one of those nights I wasn't executing. How how frustrating is this for you to have to go through. Yeah I mean it's it's not fun.  Any other questions for Brooks. Right and cutting please. Brooks as it's happening. What is going through your mind. Is it just simple working through your mechanics or are you thinking about the situation and in the moment. I mean it's pitching is it's difficult but it's pretty simple. It's just how many times you can execute a pitch that you need to execute. And so I'm just taking it one pitch at a time and I know how I want to attack the guys and it's just a matter of making that pitch.