Yankees as we continue on our postseason preview Michael Kaye joins the show and Michael listen anything can happen in a series but this one feels like it could be very well pitched at least on paper and maybe a run early that just scratch out or a run late will be the difference what are your thoughts on this match up. Well certainly I think that's the way Cleveland has to look Cleveland's not a high scoring team they're 29th in home runs they just don't basketball what they do is they string together hit so if the Yankee starters do what they're supposed to do you will not allow them to get four or five hits to put up a crooked number in an inning. So if you could keep them in the ballpark and hurt with Jack and John said earlier with Ramirez you just pitch around them let other people beat you with a single or a double don't allow that ball to be hit out. That's why the matchup in the first game with Gary Cole being a starting pitcher if you could take one thing that Gary Cole struggled with this year it's giving up the home run. So now you're facing a team that doesn't hit the home run that plays in the Yankees favor. Now the Yankees do know they're going to face pretty good starting pitching with the Guardians. But I remember the last time they faced the then Indians at the time. Those Guardian pitchers have spent a lot of time facing American League central teams. The American League East is a completely different animal. Now they did shut down the Tampa Bay raise a team that struggled in the month of September couldn't get out of their own way. Can they do it to the Yankees. I think the Yankee lineup is much more stout than anything that the Guardians face on a regular basis. Michael you brought up Derek Cole's name. He gets the ball in game one. How important is this game for him pitching in front of the Yankee fans during the postseason for the first time. Well it's going to be important. Obviously everybody's looking to you know either support him or jump him. But everybody seems to forget you know he pitched poorly against the Red Sox last year in the one game wild card. But the year before he pitched very very well in the postseason. So now this is year three of him being in the postseason for the Yankees. I think it was a smart move. Having a pitch the first game. There's a lot of pressure on him. If he doesn't perform it's going to be the three hundred and twenty six million dollar man that didn't perform unfair. But when you look at his numbers overall overall forget about the homeruns it's hard to forget about the homeruns. But overall this guy is a stud. He is the ace of the staff. He's got filthy stuff. Most pitchers of Major League Baseball would hope to have the stuff that Gary Cole has. He's got to be focused and he's got to put together a great outing tomorrow. Give the Yankee seven innings and then they could turn it over to the bullpen. Michael it's easy to say that Aaron Judge as the Yankees best player needs to have a great series. But when you dig a little deeper into that lineup who would you say can be an X factor for the Yankees. Well the guy that carried them the last time they were in any kind of extended run in the postseason is Stanton and you know you could be heartened a bit by how he actually hit against the Texas Rangers. He turned around a 99 mile an hour fastball and drove it almost 450 feet. That was a good sign for most of the last two months of the season Jack. He looked lost. He looked like he couldn't hit a fastball even if it was a 92 mile an hour fastball. He was between everything. He was too far out in front of off speed and too far behind in fastballs. If this guy could step up. It's obviously two fold. He steps up. He puts runs on the board two or three with one swing. And the other thing it makes it a little more difficult for Terry Ferncona to say we're just going to pitch around Aaron Judge. I think that what happened over the last month of the season as Aaron was chasing history and the 62 home runs. Most managers came to the conclusion. What have we been doing for five months. Why are we pitching to this guy until they can hit behind him. Why why not just put him on base. So if Stanton actually does have a monster pro season. I think in turn that judge is going to have a monster postseason because it's too difficult to pitch around him when you know lurking right behind him as John Carlos Stanton. So that's the guy I look at to have a big big series. Michael before we welcomed you in we heard from Anthony Rizzo. He talked about the vibe in the clubhouse. Really good guys. They get along. Do you feel that more so with this team going into the playoffs than maybe recent Yankees teams. You know what I think that teams that win get along. This team seems like it legitimately likes each other. And I think that's important. But you know I look at the Oakland A's of the 70s. They hated each other's guts and they won three World Series in a row. The 77 and 70 Yankees were 78 Yankees were always sniping at each other. And they won two World Series in a row. I think the Yankee team that won four out of five in the 90s. They actually did get along and that means something. I think that's a little sketchy. I never really buy into that.  You want to drive in a guy. It doesn't matter whether you like him or not. So for the most part I do agree this team really likes each other and there's a vibe there. Pitch well hit well everybody get along. Michael you talked about starting pitching. I want to flip it to the bullpen in years past. It seemed like Aaron Boone wanted to go to the bullpen earlier rather than later. I think this year he's going to keep his starters in a little bit deeper because that bullpen is a little thin in my opinion. John is my biggest concern. When I try to handicap the postseason the rest of the way at the Yankees are going to win their 28th championship. I scratch right ahead and who's going to close. You know so Jack just said you know give me that one variable guy. Well I just I don't know who's going to be the closure. It's very very difficult to manage that way. So Clay Holmes has to step up and be pre all star game. Clay Holmes because all the pressure is going to be on Boone. If you're going to manage bullpen by committee and you're going to look for lanes and you're going to bring in this guy or that guy. Well all of a sudden you are ripe to be second guest. You know when you were Joe Tory and Joe Giordi and all you had to do was go to Mariano Rivera. And if Mariano Rivera didn't do it wasn't your fault. It was Mariano Rivera's fault. But the way it's set up now if the guy that Boone and Matt Blake goes to doesn't do the job and it's not the conventional guy like a Clay Holmes. It's going to be on them and not on the pitcher. So I think one of the keys for the Yankees is Clay Holmes has to pitch well and then also Jameson Tyone and Domingo Herman have to translate the success they had in the starting rotation and make it happen in the bullpen. And Boone said today that Tyone could actually close games as well. There's just so much uncertainty there and you can't ask starters all of a sudden to give you eight innings when they haven't been trained to do that. The one guy that you know can do that is going to be Garrett Call. He's a horse. He can give you seven or eight. Can Nesta Cortez do that. Is Severino going to be able to do that because the Guardians do put the ball in play. They're going to build up pitch count as well. That's one thing they do. The bullpen is so central to what the Yankees do and it's just an area of concern now because nobody exactly knows who's going to step up and who's going to get those final three outs. We've all seen baseball for a long time. Those final three outs it takes a different kind of stomach than any other three outs that you get in the seventh of the sixth. Answers to those questions begin to be answered tomorrow night. Michael will let you go. We'll see you for our coverage starting at 6 30 tomorrow night here on yes and streaming on the


గమ్కనారడ్ి? గమ్కన్త్ి కమ్నిలుటారు కేఏంటిక్ిన్స్కార్రగిక్నాద్రగా? We don't need you here, bro, like... Afrika to the world, but Ghana is still home, you know. I am... But I'm leaving Ghana tomorrow, though. That's how I wanted to see you. Why are you going to Congo? Ivory Coast? Josef of Africa? No, I'm going to... I am going to US. No, I don't want to US. I always want to travel to Africa, experience Africa. I'm going to South Sudan and Somalia. You know Somalia? No, I swear. Ah, you didn't get any place to go down that place. Ah, why? I'm going to Somalia. For what? What are you saying? Hey, where are you? I said I'm going to Somalia tomorrow. What side are you? You are not reading. About what? Piracy. You are not reading. All my friends out there, I know that you love me, but you know what, I just have to do this. Just to prove to you guys that there are no pirates in Somalia. Pray I come back. Hey. Hey, hey. I'm glad you're so loud, man. Hey, yeah, hey. Geez. Kidnapping, you are not reading. Masa, what year is serious? They are even kidnapping kings. You, you. Who died and made you a demigod. I come here and we're still riding in the dark man in Mogadishu. So, as you can see in the dark and no one is coming to kidnap me. No, no one. Absolutely no one. It's crazy. Yo. No one loves you. After all that she said. I didn't mean to eat, I'm hungry. Yeah, I'll take you to eat, but you know what, I'm not going to listen to you because I'm on a journey to change the narratives of Africa. So, I'm definitely going to Somalia. Whatever you like it or not. Hey. How are you, man? I'm good, man. How about you? Welcome to Mogadishu. Thank you. How are you feeling so far? I mean, feeling great, man. No bombs, right? No. Say that again, say that again. No what? No explosion, stop showing up. Explosions, yeah?  But your boy is not hiding bullets. I'm actually hiding from fruits, bro. I mean, I will lie to you guys, man. I don't know if I'm really sure of what I'm doing. It's 755 exactly here in Harigasia. And we are heading to Mogadishu, man. Like, in fact, I'm going to stay in Mogadishu for two days. I'm really scared because anyone that I've been asking about Mogadishu they don't really say anything good, man. So, this is the end of my journey. And so, this is a matter of taking the risk, man. So, yeah, I'm just going to take Ejibuti from here to Harigasia. Where are you from? You go this way? This way, eh? Yeah. I think Stephen is already scared, but… Yo, how do you feel, man? Are you okay? I'm okay. Are you sure? Yesterday, he sent me a picture of, what do you call it, like… Oh, hi. See, how are you doing? Good. Man, thank you so much, right? Yeah, we'll see you. Oh, come here. Thank you. Man, I got, like, YouTube subscribers everywhere, man. So, this is the airline Ejibuti. But that's so good, man. Yeah, that's Ejibuti, man. We are really doing this. And you just have to come with us, man. Whoa. Touching down inside the Indian Ocean, man. It's the one who made everything possible. I hope I have a good time in here. Yeah, but so far, Ejibuti, like, take-off, cruising, landing was perfectly smooth. So, I recommend whatever you travel within Somalia region, definitely try Ejibuti. Come to Somalia. You are in the city, the capital city of Somalia, Mogdishu. We are a nation that's located on the Horn of Africa, the eastern side. We are neighboring by Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Yemen. We are a country with history, with people, with heroes, and with young people like us, who are here to show you how beautiful our country is. Right now, we are currently at the Sayyid area. The monument you see behind me is called Sayyid Mohamed Abdul Hassan. He was the hero of the Somali people. He was a nationalist. He was the hero. He brought the Somali country together. He was the one that fought with the British. He was not only was he a hero, he was a poet. Imagine fighting with the Sayyid and he's using his poetry to get the people together, to tell them, hey, we are a nation who is Muslim, who are one, who share the same tribe and the same religion and the same food. He was not only a hero to the Somali people. He was a hero to Africans. Basically, I had to face my fear and come to Mogadishu. I had a lot about Mogadishu. I know nobody even knows that I'm here because if I should tell anybody that I'm going to Mogadishu, they will be telling me that why would you do this? Is it even worth it to risk your life to go to a place like that? But hey, look at me right here, walking in the street of Mogadishu with no bodyguards or whatsoever. I mean, I feel like it's just like any other African country. I'm here to explore so you know what, come with me. Let's have fun, enjoy Mogadishu just like any other city in the world. It's your favorite village boy and I'm here in Somalia, Mogadishu. And all I can tell you guys is that Koso-do Somalia. You don't know, you know, I've been here for the past 48 hours and I can tell you something. Do you all know the flag of Somalia with the white star and the blue behind? The entire country looks exactly like their country flag. So as you can see, you see the sea behind the ocean behind me. The ocean is what? Blue and white. Even though some of you think that ocean is colorless.  And just look up here, look at the sky. It's also blue and white so I just want to turn to Somalia. Do you all know that the people of Somalia are blessed with what? The sea, right? So when I go here, I realize that fishing is one of the major occupation in this country. As you can see the young people from this country actually fishing right now. You know, I don't know if I should go try that whether I'll be able to catch one fish for you all. I want to carry this fish man. I don't think I'll be able to carry it. Hey. It's wrong man. I'm sorry, I'm not doing that again. I'm not doing that again man. You know what? I'm super excited to be here in Somalia because I found one of my favorite meat of all time. So which means that Ghana and Somalia have something in common. You know what? Don't get me wrong. This thing right here is my favorite meat of all time. If you've been watching my videos for so long I keep on telling you that Kako is my favorite. I mean getting Kako and Fufu is like making my entire year man. And I'm seeing this in Somalia. That's amazing man. I would say that this place is actually home for me because I found my favorite dish. Yo. It's your favorite village boy right here in the Horn of Africa. As you can see I'm right here all by myself chilling at the longest coastal line in mainland Africa. If you don't know the distance or the length I'm just going to tell you today. It's 3,323 kilometers. As you can see they've got white sand beaches. I mean I feel like being in Somalia is just like being in any other African country enjoying yourself at the beach. And this is what I'm doing. Wow. This is a beautiful country man.  I'm so glad that I came. I just want to tell you that welcome to the longest coast of Africa. 1,2,3 go. Yeah let's go, let's go, let's go. I am give Somali a chance. You know what coming to this country a lot of people told me so many things even when I arrived the very first day they refused to allow me to enter. It took like 9 good hours at the airport. But I was still I mean positive to come to the country just to come and see what the entire media is talking about is so true. I'm not here to tell you that Somalia is the safest country in the world. If I should tell you that which means I'll be lying to you.  I mean coming in here I see similarities between Mukadishu and Dakar of Senegal. I mean maybe some part of Ghana looks like this so my brothers and sisters give Somali a chance.   Go ahead. She got Ghana? Hey! Let's give me some. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Yo! We got a gift. Thank you. Now they're going to fly, man. They're going to fly, bro. Are we really doing this? Fun of this, man. On beach, yeah, walking along the beach. Not taking a boat, huh? Not taking a boat. Go hide to your friends, man. When I get back to the shores, I say hi. Mine is afraid, man. Just stand, man. The village boy. How many words do you have? I just want to say set a high. But since you all are playing to watch me. We have a set high. No, no, no. Set a high. It's called Rama. But right now, you don't know where I'm going there. I need to ask you. How are you? Longest coastal line in Africa. And I never knew where they would come. I will actually be walking along the longest coastal line in Africa.  You know what? I've been hearing a lot about Somalia. I mean, this is the country that I know I've got a lot of fans in here. They keep on calling me names. Maya, you've been to Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda.  You're discriminating against us.  It's not the perfect time. But I know for sure that the right time will come. A day will come that I will step my foot here in Mogadishu Somalia. And today is the day. The day has come. You know, I actually faced a lot of challenges at the airport. But at the end of the day I came here for the people and I know that immigration doesn't represent the people. So after 9 hours I made it to Mogadishu and look at me right here. Walking along the longest coastal line in Africa, man. It's such a beautiful place, man. I feel like I made history. You know, I made history.  Believe in yourself.  I love you all and I'm going to see you in the next one. Yo, it's my last day here and I just want to say something. I am so glad that I came to Mogadishu. Described all the challenges that I faced. I was able to meet the people. I mean, the people makes a country, right? The people have shown me nothing. My pure love, man. I feel so bad that I listened to what the media was saying. I had to book two, three days of which I've regretted for booking a short time. I should have actually booked longer time to have more time in Mogadishu. So, yeah. I'm definitely going to come back for sure. Thanks to Mogadishu for making this whole movement in Mogadishu a good one and a big shout out to the lady who actually made this trip possible. I'll say like, the person who really convinced me real hard was Marian. It's been a pleasure, a stranger, this is Africa regardless of the situation, regardless. That's all I want to say and we hope to see you again and I hope. So, she's a YouTuber. You also check out the description box. Go check her out. Subscribe to her YouTube channel and support her. Mokatari is also a YouTuber. The link will be in the description. Even though he has been absent for decades and I hope he comes back again. It's your favourite village boy right here and big shout out to Steven even though he was scared but he made it. I mean the first time, the last day we had to come he's like Maya, are you sure we're doing this? Yeah, we did it. And we'll see you all. Keep going, keep going. Oh, okay. Yeah. I mean, the police are even nice man.


Welcome everybody to another episode of the non-profit show. We have one of our favorite people here today, LaShonda Williams, one of the superstar trainers with Fundraising Academy. And we were just chatting in the green room that it's, LaShonda and I worked together but only on camera. And she got to the opportunity to actually meet IRL in real life, Jarrett Ransom, the non-profit nerd at AFP icon. So it's really an interesting way that we've formed relationships. Fundraising Academy at National University is all about relationships. And so this is such an interesting time that we've navigated through and we're still navigating through. Wouldn't you say LaShonda? Oh, absolutely. We're still doing hybrid events. My colleagues are across the US and country at times. So it is very interesting. We forge really great relationships online. But to me, there's nothing like being face-to-face of AFP icon created that opportunity for us to strengthen our relationship with our partners and for us as a team to get together and spend some quality time. And it was absolutely spectacular. I'm so glad. I'm real, I'm just thrilled. But we had a wonderful time and we are very, very fortunate that one of our big sponsors, Bloomerang, actually had us in their booth. And we broadcast from their booth for two days. And so, again, we want to thank them because that's a big, that's a big give to give a valuable, expensive real estate on a convention floor to somebody to do something else. And so we are very, very appreciative as we are with all of our presenting sponsors and they include American Nonprofit Academy, your part-time controller, nonprofit thought leader, Fundraising Academy at National University, Staffing Boutique, nonprofit nerd, and nonprofit tech talk. Again, you know, we say this day in and day out, but these are the folks that allow us to have these amazing conversations. And Fundraising Academy has really stepped up to lend us their talent every Friday to help answer and navigate the questions that come in. LaShonda, it's really interesting now that I'm going out to things. I was at a very large public event on Tuesday, Tuesday or Wednesday on breakfast. I'm not so good in the morning, so I can't remember which day it was. But, you know, I had a couple of people that came up to me during that breakfast that said, hey, can you get this question on your show?  But I mentioned this to Jared and she said the same thing as she's going out. People are saying, hey, would you put this question up for me? So it's really an interesting thing how we're navigating this. You know, again, all of our broadcasts come to our community through streaming, through podcasts, but now we have a really cool thing. And that's a new app. And so you can take an image if you're watching this live or through one of our archives, you can scan this code and we'll get you set up so that you never miss any of the information that we're pushing out. It's really fun and I want to also thank our team here at American Nonprofit Academy led by Kevin Pace. They did this amazing technology and we are super excited about it. OK, my friend, talk to us about cultivating and Cultivate 2023. Cultivate 2023 is the conference at the nonprofit. I'm sorry that the fundraising Academy is putting on June 1. It is our first conference. We will feature a variety of talent across the San Diego, California area, along with our keynote speaker, Ken Miller, who will bring a variety of information and will talk throughout the day about how to cultivate relationships from the nonprofit perspective. We have two tracks, one for those who may be new to fundraising or in the middle of their career. We'll also have another track for leadership. So anything and everything that you want, one stop shopping all day long. It'll be an opportunity to engage with other individuals in the philanthropic sector to learn from each other, to grow from each other and also to network among each other to strengthen our professional relationship so that we can create our own community of practice as we cultivate new relationships. I love it. Well, we will be there. The nonprofit show will be there. We'll be broadcasting live for two days. You know, your event is on a Thursday, but on Friday is our general. We generally do our ask and answer episode. And so I think we're trying to figure out how we're going to convene. But we've been thinking about doing more like a panel discussion. And so that's to be determined. But we are very, very excited at the nonprofit show to be there and be a part of this. You can scan this QR code again, if you're watching this live or through one of our archives, go ahead and scan that. And that will link you in. If you are hearing this on podcast, go ahead and go to fundraising dash academy dot org and you can learn more about that. Navigate through their website. It's going to be a really great opportunity. And hey, I got to say, it's not just because I live in the desert, but going to San Diego in the heat of the summer, always a good choice. Always a good choice. And you'll always be surrounded by good people. Yes, absolutely. And you're going to get to meet LaShonda if you show up. OK, oh, this is crazy. Somebody from San Diego is written in a question. OK, Jerry writes, I want to join my local AFP chapter. And I feel that my nonprofit should pay the dues. However, this is not flying well with my executive director. Am I wrong thinking this is a bad decision?  Please advise. You know, we've had this question, something similar like this about professional designations. We get these questions every now and again. What do you think LaShonda? So there are a variety of different layers. And so let's kind of first start with the first layer. And me thinking about AFP is phenomenal. The affiliation is important and it's paramount to your professional development and adds value to your organization as you're maintaining high standards and you are being immersed into current trends. And local chapters offer a variety of ongoing professional development for which obviously your organization will benefit. However, as a professional development person, development professional, I ask you, did you provide your full case for support?  So let's first start with what your case for support was. OK. And then, you know, with with the Fundraising Academy in the cost selling cycle, we talk about overcoming objections. And so this is an opportunity to transition that objection into an opportunity. So did you, Jerry, in fact, ask your executive director follow up open ended questions? Is there something that I haven't provided you? Is there more information? What can I share with you to convince you? You know, ask additional questions so that you'll know what that factor is that has led the executive director to derive at the current note that is still a possible yes. And then I will also say that when it comes to professional development, it's really important that we as development professionals are also willing to invest in ourselves. Yeah, when organizations offer the memberships, that is a wonderful added benefit for obviously, which they'll benefit from. There's great ROI. However, at the same time, you also have to be willing to invest in yourself. And I say that from personal experience when I was going through my CFRE process, my organization paid for several professional development opportunities. When it was time for me to take the exam, I didn't even ask them to, you know, to pay for the exam because they invested so much in me through the years. And I paid for my CFRE exam out of pocket. And for some people, you know, they say, well, LaShonda, you should have had your organization do that. I did it because I wanted to invest in myself. And it's no different from when you ask donors to invest in your organizations. The cultivation begins within. And so by me willing to invest in myself, I will reap the long term benefits. The organization reaps the benefit. And it also demonstrates an act of good faith and gratitude that I appreciate that, which you've invested in me. And so I'm going to take it one step further and invest in myself as well. So there's multiple things to think about, Jerry. There's not a true, right or wrong answer, but it creates an opportunity to overcome the objection. OK, so you you blow my mind every time we're together on the on the nonprofit show because I would have never, ever, ever, but I love it. I would have never taken the link because in my mind right now, I'm seeing the cause selling cycle. I call it an icon, but really it's that graph. It's it's that process. And I love that you wove in the concept because what that tells me, LaShonda, is that you're you're living this process and you're looking at your life, not just with donors, but the the ecosystem of philanthropy and saying, how does this work? And that was super cool because I would have never, ever thought of that. And I love that because the more you look at life, doing that process, the more natural I've got to believe it becomes. Exactly. And that contributes to the authenticity that your donors will see because you are living it, you are manifesting it on an ongoing basis. It's not just in the workplace. These are principles that are applicable to you as a fundraising professional in your personal life as well and your personal career as you're growing. Right. So, you know, my my thought when I read this, Jerry, is that I thought of this in a completely different way. I thought of it as we are all struggling to find talent. And when you go to AFP meetings or any AFP engagements, heck, AFP icon in New Orleans, you get to meet people that maybe you can work with or they can maybe deliver business to you or you can partner with. Or it's it's an opportunity for. I don't know, more engagement. Does that make growth engagement? It's an opportunity to cultivate new relationships. It's an opportunity to discover opportunities, leads, prospects. They're a plethora of benefits. The question is how convincing was your case for support? Bottom line, bottom line. I love, love, love that. And Jerry, I hope that you don't feel like we've just like smacked you upside the head. You should have done this. But I love to me when with your response is like, man, you're walking the lock. That's super cool. OK, Jerry, go back and and do what LaShonda said and and do this case for support. And you know what? It might not be a bad idea to say, this is how I work with donors and this is how I, you know, communicate and try and build consensus. I don't know. I love it. Really cool. LaShonda, that was so good. I don't even know if you can be able if you can top that answer. But let's move on to city withheld, name withheld. We've had a similar question to this in the past or questions. And to me, when I when I read this question, I was thinking about the sanctity of the relationship and the personal communication that we often have with our donors. And so the question goes like this. And I I'm going to tell you I did take off this person's name because I didn't I just thought it was the right thing to do. So this woman, it was a woman wrote help. I just had a donor who is a significant donor in my portfolio. Call me up and ask my thoughts about another nonprofit. I was totally caught off guard and did not know what to do. I told them that I really did not have any information, but that I would ask around. I'm in a tough spot here. It's kind of like spying. Or, you know, what did you think when what do you think about this? That is definitely in a tough spot. But the first and foremost thing you want to think about is ethics as a professional development, as a fundraising professional. We never give any disparaging information out or share anything disparaging about another organization. The fact that the donor has contacted you directly and asked about another organization, it speaks to the strength of the relationship. Apparently, he or she feels very comfortable with speaking with you, which is great. That means that your relationship is strong. And it's also an opportunity for you to ask additional questions Do you mind sharing what is it about this organization that has you curious? And it's an opportunity for you to discover why they're interested and when the donor shares their interest and the reason for their interest. It's also an opportunity for you to tie in how your organization supports or satisfies that interest that they're inquiring about with the other organization. So you want to ask additional questions. Don't jump the gun. Don't be disparaging. It's an opportunity to strengthen your relationship to learn more about the donor, whether or not they're considering making a contribution to that organization. What we do know is that donor have choices and there's a donor bill of rights. And you want to make sure that you're very respectful of that. And again, as a professional, don't be disparaging about another organization. Provide what you can, but you're not necessarily going to be their prospect researcher on that particular organization. You know, I agree with you. I mean, I feel like my first reaction was this means they trust you and they know that you're on the inside of an of a vibrant community and in the philanthropic you know, health and recommendations that this donor searching, they're strong. My other my other piece is not so generous.  Oh, I mean, I hate to say it, but I, you know, and I know that's a scarcity mentality and I know that's the wrong way to think.  However, this particular donor being a significant donor. It is not uncommon for donors to have a diverse portfolio when it comes to philanthropic support. And so because you have a strong relationship with the donor and you've been cultivating and engaging him throughout that time, that trust is there. And I'm certain whatever endeavors he or she has been supporting, you'll continue to support. And in fact, when you share information about another opportunity and I'm using that word loosely, you never know, the donor may it could be a test. And the donor could still say, OK, thank you for sharing this information. I've looked up this organization and I really want I decided that I'm going to support your organization even more because you add more value because your program differs. But we want to respect donors having the option and we want to also be supportive of each other as we're all in the nonprofit sector. And we're trying to advance all of our causes. Yeah, yeah, it's real. It's very interesting. Man, I hope we hear back on how that went. I'm definitely curious on that outcome and the choices that she made. I'm really intrigued because it's it's interesting. OK, Jeffrey from New York writes in I'm a board chair and have asked our members to bring us some new candidates with different talents. This has been such a challenge. They keep bringing the same types of people to the table. Basically, they are not helping us to build diversity in a strong talent base. Any suggestions? This is absolutely timely, Jeffrey. I appreciate that question. AFP's Advancing Philanthropy, April 20, 23 edition. I do have a submission supercharging your board, your fundraising board. And I speak specifically to that that point, which is creating opportunity to diversify the board, looking at a variety of different demographics from the typical demographic groups where you're looking at race, religion, age, but taking it one step beyond and thinking about those that are representative of the community that you serve, those that are in untraditional spaces and creating an opportunity in a space that supports diversity, equity and inclusion by granting access and also providing the necessary training because granting access and diversifying your board but not necessarily providing that foundational training does not create an environment that you can sustain and that you can grow and promote success. So definitely look at your board demographic, have really meaningful conversations, look at, check out the article and try to apply some of those principles and also talk to your board about what are their strong skill sets and what are some skill sets that we're currently missing and let's really be intentional in identifying individuals that will bridge those those those holes that we have in in our in our in our community. I think you're exactly right. We created a board assessment tool at the American Nonprofit Academy years, I mean, years ago and probably 10, 15 years ago. And we've changed it over the years. And I I think people are like, you know, everybody, we need more board members because Joe's leaving and yada, yada. And I think what happens is the board members like look around at their table, their circle and say, well, you know, Betty would be a great choice. And Raul would be a better choice or whatever. And we don't look at to your point what it is we need. You know, maybe this is a board that needs an HR professional or an attorney or a physician or somebody that can lend a voice to a certain topic that is not being heard, right, or is not being accessed. Exactly. And so you have to have candid conversations with the board. And that may mean that board member referrals may not necessarily your recruitment process may not necessarily be limited to just board member referrals, perhaps their individuals within the community space that are not directly connected to board members. And that is an opportunity to engage your community in a very meaningful way. And in many instances, unfortunately, boards can become homogeneous because people associate in the same circles with consistency. And so if you're looking to diversify, that means you have to look outside of that space that is your norm. And so you have to be very intentional with that. Yeah.  And so for a lot of people, it's a big like aha moment to say it's not just another body, it's the right type of body, right? It's exactly the right person and the right fit. And so I think I, you know, maybe I'm a Pollyanna, but man, I think your board wants to do right by their mission. They just definitely think so. I want to I want to be on the half full and have, you know, optimism that the board wants the organization to continue to grow and that they want it to be viable. They want it to be diverse. But perhaps you need to really define what diversity means. And what that looks like for your organization. And again, you know, Julia, like you said, looking at various types of professions, because you'll have a heightened level of expertise. The more experts that you have at the table, the better you can do with proven decision making on behalf of your organization and creating plans that are sustainable, meaningful and impactful.  And on their board, they did not have one person that could speak Spanish. And I was like, what? What? You know, so it's I mean, just the linguistics, just a language issue. So it's not always just about, you know, race and gender. Exactly. It goes beyond a lot. Yeah, a lot of things. So anyway, OK, well, that was a good question. And I really hope that Jeffrey in New York can can navigate that into some better solutions. Holy cow, New York City is like super diverse. So you shouldn't have that problem. Now, our next question comes from Lincoln, Nebraska, not as diverse. And this is interesting, LaShonda, because this comes from a group of people and they wrote into us and said, how do you feel about having our board members be required to fundraise? We are thinking about a specific number and adding it to our board member policies. We are in the discovery phase of this decision and fear the outcome once this goes before before our board for a vote. It's it's an interesting question. It is a very interesting question. It's springtime. Organizations are starting to renew, amplify, looking at their strategic plans, their organizational goals and structure for success. With that in mind, culture philanthropy begins within the organization. And so I think that it's important to be very authentic with the board and talking about the mission, the goals, objectives that are currently in place and how their financial support is an integral part of that. And their support is an endorsement and a demonstration of their commitment beyond being physically present and being a part of the decision making process. And I think with the right information, the right case for support, that it shouldn't be foreign to them. You never know. One of the things that comes up often in the philanthropic space is the number one reason why people haven't given is because they haven't been asked. And we cannot be afraid to ask our boards to participate in fundraising in an instances where boards may not necessarily board members may not necessarily have the expendable cash. Then perhaps they can be responsible for providing referrals to solicit X set amount of dollars as their participation for the requirement for funding. So there are a variety of ways to include the board in the fundraising process, whether it be actual cash at hand or referrals or a combination approach. You'll have to, you know, have a conversation with the board to find out what and where you can meet in the middle and be very transparent about the needs of the organization and that their commitment as a volunteer is greatly appreciated. But it is their philanthropic support that ensures that the organization is able to sustain its mission and continue for with the work. You know, LaShonda, I'm seeing a lot of grant portals and you probably are, too, asking the question, do you have 100 percent financial participation with your board? And it's not like, you know, at what level or what dollar amount, but it's just to your point is everyone giving. It might only be 100 bucks. But do you have 100 percent philanthropic and financial support of your board? And that's that is important. And, you know, and depending on the types of gifts you're soliciting when you're when you're cultivating larger donors or preparing for capital or comprehensive campaign, they want to know who are the supporters. You know, I can recall working in in another institution and we were seeking opportunities to secure larger gifts from corporations and from foundations, and you're right, that was the first question. It was at a high rate institution. The first question that they asked our foundation was how many of your alumni are currently supporting your organization? How many donors do you have? And again, the culture philanthropy begins within the institution and then it spurs outside of it. And it starts with having that conversation with your board members and then your staff members and then leading out into the community. And there's nothing better than a donor to hear that 100 percent of the staff members do support the organization. It's magic.  I used to manage faculty, staff giving and with faculty, staff giving. We had coordinators and divisions all across the organization. And it starts with as a coordinator, you are required and expected to be a donor. And so and then they're able to connect with those that they're soliciting. I support the giving campaign and please join me. I've already made my gift. And so, you know, when you're asking the broader community to support you, it's important to say that our board, we have 100 percent board's participation. And so that just it solidifies the organization. It provides financial stability. It's another revenue stream. There are nothing but pluses associated with board financial support. Well, speaking of gifts, Lashonda Williams, a trainer with extraordinary. I'm going to add extraordinary, extraordinary at Fundraising Academy that's based at National University. Lashonda Williams, you are such a great mind in our sector. And shoot, I'm glad that you're in the nonprofit sector and not in pharmaceuticals or automobile sales or something else because you are great and I've always learned something from you. And at the same time, I'm always very encouraged. And so what what a joy to have you on another episode of the nonprofit show. We have Lashonda coming back to a two day drill down with us in the next couple of weeks, specifically talking about ways to thank donors. It's fascinating. And it's not your regular deal that we all know and have fall back on. So I encourage you to to check us out. And we'll be talking about that even more. Again, Lashonda Williams, one of the great trainers at Fundraising Academy. We're also very grateful for our sponsors that come to us, come with us, I should say, every day and they include Blumerang, American Nonprofit Academy, your part time controller, Nonprofit Thought Leader, Fundraising Academy at National University, Staffing Boutique, Nonprofit Nerd and Nonprofit Tech Talk. These are the folks that are with us day in and day out. OK, Lashonda, you have empowered me and excited me. No end to get going. Have a great weekend, Julie. It's always a pleasure to be with you and I'm looking forward to sharing more and best wishes to all of my fellow development professionals. All right. Thank you so much, everybody. Hey, as we like to end every episode, we want to remind everyone to stay well. So you can do well. We'll see you back here again. Thanks so much, Lashonda.


My name is Vincent Smith. I'm an associate professor here at Southern Oregon University and I've been here for six years. The question was, what drove me? What inspired me? It's a question I've reflected on a lot. I think part of the answer was an upbringing in farming, so I grew up on a farm in southern Missouri, on the border of Missouri and Arkansas, in the Ozark Mountains, a piece of land that I've actually farmed myself as an adult with my wife and children. And at the time, growing up there, I actually intended very much to leave agriculture as far behind as possible. I didn't like it. I didn't like my father always asking me to engage in things and I didn't like the country life. I wanted to be the urban, the suburban kid who escaped rural life and then over time as I was in school and as I thought more about what I wanted to do, the more I realized I just wanted to be of some service to those communities that I came from. And so I just blended my interest in biological sciences with an interest in agriculture and was born an interest in food systems and sustainability and how those systems can work both economically and environmentally. And really my interest has been on the economics side despite being an environmental scientist. I'm really interested in how can farmers really make a living? Having watched many of my own relatives fail at that and watched land lost. And now in particular, as my father gets older and starting to have conversations about what do we do with that piece of land, having a very personal conversation about how can I help him preserve that land as agricultural land or as conservation easement. Finding my professional life and my personal life become more and more similar. One of the things that started me feeling like I need to be of service is actually a really simple scholarship. So growing up as a rural farm kid you don't get a lot of opportunities for big scholarships. So one of the scholarships I applied for was actually a scholarship from the, I think it was called the Walmart Community Foundation. And I actually had to go into my local Walmart which was the only store around and tell them why they should give me money. And one of the things that they asked during that interview was in what ways will you take what you learn in college and bring it back to support this local community. And I don't know how seriously they took that question or what extent they were ever intending to follow up and they certainly didn't. I took the answer I gave seriously and I remember telling them that I would use what I learned in college to help end some of the poverty that I saw growing up. And while I didn't do that immediately I went on to school and went to work in the West Coast and went to grad school. It's always sort of concerned me in what ways can I actually give back and in some ways I've been able to give back to that community specifically but more often than not it's asking myself how do I end the classic Marxist critique of the urban versus the rural. So what he called the urban metabolic rift and I always ask myself is there anything I can do to make urban people understand what rural people think and how they live and is there a way that we can work together on issues rather than see ourselves as completely separate. Right now particularly in our political climate that becomes more and more a concern because we have a situation in our society at the moment where rural people see themselves as forgotten and I just came back from several weeks in my hometown in Missouri and that was a very real part of my experience there for two weeks just hearing from people over and over again including my family just talk about how much they've been forgotten and their way of life forgotten by urban people. Urban e-weeds. It's typically how they rephrase that. I've actually worked with Walmart on a couple of occasions once as well in graduate school. Walmart was working with University of Wisconsin and University of Arkansas on sustainable buying techniques and so I think that while you know Walmart's corporate techniques aren't always consistent with sustainability I think that the idea that we need to be sustainable is omnipresent and it's present in the philosophies of Walmart as well which is why they spend so much money hiring sustainability coordinators in their businesses. Whether that's because they feel like their consumer desires it and it's expected of them or whether it's a sincere I can answer but they certainly are they're hiring our students and will continue to. You know the question is was I involved in FFA and 4-H and the answers really know I really I wanted to be anything but that kid that was a part of my growing up and many of my neighbors were part of FFA programs and my father always talked about his jacket and how I needed to get my jacket but it wasn't who I wanted to be I wanted to be the person who got out that's what I desperately wanted and I think it was actually that that drive that's actually been most useful at this point. If I had gone down that route which is the route that I think my parents might have preferred me to take in reality I probably wouldn't have the the perspective on agriculture that I have so it was that desire to not be a part of that at that time and then my longing for it later as an adult that I think was the combined to be most useful to me. I feel longing for home frequently and as I mentioned a minute ago I did actually make this happen so I I quit a job in Santa Barbara, California and went home to farm the family farm for a period of time and it was wonderful and at the time I described it as as having come home from the war and I feel that way often times when I'm working in my office or I'm working for nonprofit organizations or working with nonprofit organizations or sitting in a board meeting and feeling like this is not really what I want but this is what I need to do what I'd really rather be doing is be at a place where I can just be at peace and there aren't people asking me questions and I can think clearly about what I'm doing and watch the systems that are taking place on my farm that's what I'd really rather do so I oftentimes feel like my longing for home is about longing for a moment in my past when I wasn't stressed out and I wasn't worried about what other people thought and I could just do what I wanted to do and the beautiful thing about farming is it's it's some part science and some part art which are two of my favorite things in the world and so I when I see myself farming I get to combine everything I know about agri-cology and food system science with the ability to be creative and just create what I want well there's certainly a lot of hardship which is why I'm doing what I'm doing and the hardship is ever present and it was for us as well and you know to be fair the farm I grew up on was you know very much non-traditional as my father had another job on the side my mother worked outside of the area and so you know we were doing much better than most people in our area most of the poverty I witnessed where I was among friends my friends in school who suffered much more than we ever did I don't know that there's a rosy lens but there are there are beautiful things about our pasts that are worth not forgetting and most of those things are super simple things I you know one of the things I I actually remember with great fondness and they've had the opportunity to do year after years go home and split wood for my father and while it hurts and it wasn't something I enjoyed as a kid I didn't enjoy time with them and they didn't get a lot of that so when you're splitting wood besides someone you care for that that makes a big difference so it's not that I forgot that those things exist it's that there's still things worth remembering I don't want to just forget about I think that there was a sense of community this you know and combined shaft kind of community the sense that people cared for but it was already on its way out one of the time I was there so I was growing up in the late 80s and 90s in southern Missouri and that sense had already started to fade there were the old-timers who would still gather in the restaurants in the morning and talk about how much precipitation they got on their farm and people would shout out well I got one and a half inches how much did you get there was a bit of that but among the younger generation among the individuals in their middle life middle of their lives most of that was lost there they were already moving into St. Louis to work in working office jobs or factory jobs and they would come back home at the end of the day and then the young people people my age were not intending to go into agriculture at all and many of them didn't do much of anything and the meth industry had already started at that point and so there was a lot of that going on so while you know at that time you might have argued that people were still longing for that rosy past community it was already on its way out that stage I remember moments of seeing this I can remember many years after I had originally left I had gone home with my wife and we stopped by the bank to close down my childhood bank account which had just a little bit of money in it we went to go close it down and and she addressed me by name and asked me how my mother was doing and my wife was from a much larger city which just dumbfounded she's like how does she know your name and so there was some sense of that that was still there and that woman knew me and she knew my mother and knew what we did but I can't say that I knew all of my neighbors that was definitely not the case growing up and there was vast mileage between us and our neighbors at times so you don't always know everybody I would say I consider myself a food scientist I enjoy working with people who are activists but I've really enjoyed and continue to try to position myself as the objective person in the room and I see myself as an applied researcher so I see the questions I'm asking is having very immediate utility so I don't wait to see who's going to use this information I make sure that I'm communicating with people who could use this information to make statements about policy but my role has has been here really to provide that information to those who are going to use it for these purposes and and my role in the Rogue Valley Food System Council has really been that person to to create the table the chart the graph to map something that others need I certainly have opinions but for the most part my opinions tend to be very moderate I don't know always what I would want to advocate for based on the evidence that I just found some cases I do but often it's complicated and there are very controversial issues on which people have made you know considerable statements in our region which I'm less certain and I tend to be less certain because I've I've been looking at it from a research perspective for years and recognize that there's value on both sides and I've worked with people on both sides conventional agriculture is an example of that where there are a lot of small organic farmers who who speak very poorly of the large-scale conventional farmers having grown up around many of those people and had them as friends and still working with people who I see as friends in that industry I don't necessarily see that as the enemy either their different approaches and they have values that are different and perhaps there's something we can learn from both at times so I've worked on agriculture at many levels and different scopes and scale I teach a class that's on you know international trade and politics around food and I've worked on civic agriculture and the agriculture that people take into their lives without any sort of monetary transfer here I'm working on how to at the moment working on how to scale up small-scale farmers to mid-scale farm size so they can enter the wholesale markets I don't know that I see myself working in one particular place I see myself as fragment pragmatic I don't like the idea of the academic on the hill trying to solve the community's problems I like working with communities and my work in this community came out of being asked to join in a conversation and listening very carefully to what people were asking for help with and then asking whether I could help and addressing those questions in this case it just so happens that the questions that were being asked really revolve around regional scale up infrastructure and agriculture whereas in my past research some of the questions I was being asked were what contribution does civic agriculture community gardening play in our region I don't really like I don't think I know enough to know what the problems are unless someone tells me what problems they have and can I help them solve them so one of the findings in that piece of research was that even at the very smallest scale there was a return on investment so of the small-scale gardeners home gardeners community gardeners and school gardeners measuring income and expenses only one garden that I looked at actually lost money every other actually made money and we also calculated dollars per hour associated with gardening itself and the dollars per hour calculations come out to more than most farmers make so in that sense I would argue that small-scale agriculture is absolutely it absolutely makes sense but it's so divided and it's so diffused that it's really difficult to say what contribution a role is playing what I concluded in here at least at that time in that community was if you combined all of it together every bit of it all every home garden a community garden it still wasn't making a difference in the large-scale production but I also wouldn't say that that doesn't mean it can't it means it wasn't and so one of the questions I would have is what is the potential for small-scale production and growth and I would say it's large but it also requires individuals who want to be a part of it and not everybody wants to or even can I think one of the biggest problems associated with viewing community gardening as a form of food security for example is the assumption that the individuals at the other end of that have the time to know how the desire to engage in food production and frequently they don't have any of those they don't have the time they're working multiple jobs they are there's a great statement that's been made over and over again that those who are poor are poor in all things and time is one of those so if you have found yourself in a situation where you lack privilege asking people to grow their own food is a form of privilege to suggest that somebody else has that kind of time I don't think we can make a statement about so I don't know to what extent community gardening home gardening is going to be a part of our future agricultural scenario I think it will be a part of it but I don't think it will ever be all of it so here's what I think so I have current research that looks at how food insecure populations think about their health and their eating which we're currently publishing at the moment and one of the findings in that research is that regardless of who you ask whether that person is food secure or they're food insecure and in the line at an emergency food relief location in town they'll tell you they want to eat healthy and some of the descriptors of healthy will include words like local and organic regardless of their class so I think that there's a desire across sociocultural circumstances to desire food that people perceive is good for them I don't think everyone has access to that food and that is certainly the case there's you know no argument about the fact that the kinds of foods that most people deem healthy are also more expensive and trying to find ways to accommodate that go well beyond the regional scale of agricultural sector those are the kinds of solutions that are going to require nation states to engage in not just regional regional researchers I've done a little bit of research in trying to capture how much we have in terms of production in a couple of locations and most recently has been here in southern Oregon so I've been looking at how much food are we actually producing and then a follow-up question which I'm still starting trying striving to answer is how much could we produce so the answer to how much are we producing is that we produce each year a little less than a hundred million dollars in food which is a significant amount it's not as much as many other counties in Oregon and it certainly not as much as some other counties in the country produce but given the geographic nature of our valley that is a lot of food it is however nowhere near enough to accommodate our food needs so there's a lot of food that is imported into our region and we're fortunate to have most of that food come from fairly close it comes much much of that food comes from the central valley of California for us that happens to be fairly close however when you're looking at the same question in New York most of their food is still coming from the central valley of California it's coming a much further distance and it becomes less less sustainable more costly to make that happen the question I think for our valley isn't how much land can we devote to agriculture it's how much water can we devote to agriculture and I have not modeled that number in part because it depends heavily on whether we decide to upgrade our current irrigation infrastructure so if we decided to upgrade our irrigation infrastructure that would change the game entirely and we would be capable of growing much more at present we have a very old irrigation system that that loses a lot of water and every time we build a farm we need to be asking ourselves whether we can really support that amount of water usage and at present I would argue that we should be asking ourselves the question do we really have enough water to continue down the path we're headed and where agriculture is going in our region and I think the answer to that is absolutely not so what role does Southern Oregon University play in food politics so when I arrived here on this at SU there wasn't a lot going on in terms of agricultural research so I have a couple of colleagues who are working and have been working in food that range from food science to food humanities and I think that there has been really good work going on there what has not happened well at SU at least to my knowledge is collaboration with other universities that can work to solve regional and statewide problems so one of the things I'm very excited is happening at SU right now is that we have several relationships with faculty members here at SU and with OSU and OSU extension that are leading to solutions based research throughout the state I've been fortunate this last year to work on a number of projects related to food hubs that have been in concert with individuals at the state capital in Portland and across OSU extension so that's been a very exciting thing happening here and I think one of the other things that's really exciting is the development of our campus farm on campus and that's been a project that we developed as an institution with insight from other organizations including OSU extension so members of OSU extension most notably Mod Powell were involved in the planning of that farm and one of our hopes has been and still is that we can conduct research here in collaboration with OSU with OSU's research farms on the other end of the valley there's some interest and I certainly have a lot of interest in looking at how regional differences impact growing conditions so we are in a very different place in the valley so we're a little bit higher in elevation than much of OSU's farmland so taking a look at see for example how does grape growing differ as you move up the slope how does organic growing of grapes differ can we accomplish that task and if so does it depend on where you're at in the valley floor so those are some of the things I'm really excited about. The idea of a farm at SAU started five years ago and it came out of a series of conversations with students most of whom were in our business department and those students were asked to engage in a project in which they started a social business they wanted to create a business model in which a social good was also being developed and so one of those students who was a friend of mine was Sean Franks and Sean approached me and approached the university about the possibility of starting a farm at SAU that would produce food for our relatively food insecure student body so his idea was to use student labor at free reduced labor cost to grow food for the students on campus who couldn't provide food for themselves and so we stayed true to that model and we do do that today so over the time of working with those students they were able to gain the support of the administration we four years ago secured a location on Walker Avenue adjacent to Science Works where we were given permission to start a campus farm and we spent most of our first year and a half raising the money necessary for basic infrastructure so the installation of irrigation the development of utilities like electrical down that spot development of refrigeration services on the site places for office office work and we even installed the capacity for high speed internet on locations throughout the farm which have yet to be realized in hopes that someday that farm could serve as a teaching location in various capacities we are currently in our third year of production we've been producing for three summers and we're prepping for our fourth summer we've installed about two acres of annual vegetable production a little over an acre of a half of perennial fruit trees we have almost an acre in vineyards and we're still growing our so our food is marketed from the farm at SU in three ways we have a CSA that's open to students and faculty members members of the SU community who want to buy into the CSA we sell directly to SU dining services the food is served in the hawk and then we provide a low-cost growers market on campus where students in particular can buy food at lower than cost again hoping to provide for our food insecure community it is it's a very real thing and our community in particular Ashland and SU's campus is undoubtedly a food insecure community not only because they don't possess the resources but they also don't possess the knowledge necessary to cook food and they don't possess the infrastructure so many of our students are living in situations where they don't have a kitchen and while that's not legal in our region it happens frequently and so students are living in circumstances where their access to a way to cook is exclusively a hot plate or a microwave and in those situations those students become very food insecure so we've tried to come up with ways to meet that need and there's very little we can do at solving the larger infrastructure question outside of advocating for fair housing costs for students and helping students recognize where available housing might be located at the very least however we can teach students how to eat properly and we can show them ways to cook fruits and vegetables in very simple three simple recipes and we do that a lot at all of our growing market stands are farm and SU market stands each week we provide recipes that can be accomplished with very little often times with a little less than a microwave and the food available at the market I would say that the vast majority of the students who take courses from me here at SU or engage the farm and SU do not intend to go into farming but what they do intend to do is to go into the food system some place and so I think what they're really learning is how the food system functions and the role of production as a part of that system so while they may end up as researchers or they may end up working for an emergency food relief system ultimately they need to understand the circumstances under which production occurs a clear example of that is that for years I have watched as food system or food security advocates and researchers have argued that there needs to be low cost or reduced cost CSA is available and what often happens there is that the assumption is made is that the farmer somehow has enough money to offer a free or reduced cost CSA however there's been plenty of research to suggest that frequently the lowest income member of the CSA is the producer of that food so they're in no position he or she's in no position to offer that food at free reduced cost I think that's important for students to understand I think it's important for students to pick strawberries and to watch how hard that is and to have a better appreciation for why I might advocate for strawberries that are actually more expensive not less expensive that it's back breaking work and doing it without the use of a lot of chemicals is very hard and you begin to sympathize I think with strawberry growers who have used pesticides rather than see as evil thing this is really hard to do and we have a decision to make do we want to make it affordable or do we want to make it sustainable environmentally and if we can do both then wonderful and certainly a lot of people are trying and I am too but we can't always do that so I think that's the value I direct students who express an interest in farming to several other sources to regular referrals or rogue farm core and OSU extension so I've had students go and work with both of them to my knowledge I haven't had a student yet decide to be a farmer as a result of the courses they've taken here but they better appreciate farmers and they certainly and we have an issue potentially an issue around market saturation and direct market production so we have a lot of farmers who move into the region who for whatever reason are able to move in a region able to afford land here and decide that they want to grow food in this region but they only want to do it if they can sell it a farmer's market and that market is potentially saturated another challenge we face is that many of the farmers who move in here in our region are wonderful people who because of the circumstance of their life have had this unique opportunity to farm in a region that very few people could but also aren't as incentivized to make sure it turns a profit immediately and many of those people are personal friends of mine and as a result of family circumstances a previous work experience they can come in this region and do something they've always really wanted to do they can farm the risk in that is that they will sell food at costs that are lower than they can be produced and when that happens farmers who need to make a living farming can't make a living any longer. I actually think that a large component of the of the credit for the rogue fight food system has actually belongs to the Gordon Elwood Foundation. They did a wonderful job of making sure that people in this region who are involved in that issue all started talking to one another and so as individuals including myself went to foundations family foundations particularly and asked for funds to help on number of projects they had the foresight to say look before we proceed any further why don't you all start talking to one another and let's talk about this as a group rather than each of you coming to us independently and when I arrived in 2011 that's what was happening for the first time there had been a growing conversation among individuals in different parts of the food system about what our food system in this region needed so there were growers meeting with members of access and access was talking to OSU extension and individual restaurant owners were part of the process and Harry and David was at the table and these individuals were beginning to ask questions about what is our what is our rogue valley food system need to look like what do we want it to look like and that stage in the game is where I got involved and my first real contribution was to the methodology used in developing community conversations and I came into that conversation it was already partly developed and we were asking what do what do the members of our community want our rogue valley food system to look like because again I don't feel like I'm qualified to determine what the food system should look like question really is what what does our community want it to look like do we want regional scale farmers do we want exclusively farmers markets and as a result of those food system conversations that happened in 2013 we were able to get a better sense of what our community really wanted and the objectives that we work towards now are based on their desires and there were many conversations and hundreds of people took part in those conversations from all different parts of the food system just consumers who are concerned about what they eat to business owners restaurant ears all the partners you desire comes to the table we we continue to try to bring people to the table who really need to be there and that's easy in some cases and hard in others we've also really struggled to make sure that we were we represent the entirety of the geographic region which we're going to represent which is the entirety of the rogue valley and we also struggle to make sure that we can get farmers to the table who often have so much going on that it's really difficult to find the time for them to come to a meeting recently however I've watched the number of farmers at the meetings outgrow the number of non-farmers which has been very exciting and I think that what has happened in part is that farmers have shared how the food system council and the food system network has helped them succeed and there's been a couple of really good examples of how that food system network is is served farmers recently one example of that would be several of us assisting farmers in grant writing so we have that capacity I have that capacity as a professor to to sit down and write grants and a farmer might not have that capacity alone but together we're able to do something together which is a lot of fun so I think the most impressive example recently has been the development of the fry family food hub that food hub that is located now at fry farm fry family farms main growing land is an example of a project that came out of a wide range of people working together to solve problems we knew what we needed in the area we knew we needed infrastructure for wholesale development we needed washing we needed packing abilities and fry was looking for ways to develop that on their farm and so through the process of working with the larger group of people interested in this we will identify what larger concerns might be and then raise money they would address what one individual entrepreneur needed but also what the regions the whole needed and so ultimately that project is a collaboration between a proprietorship fry family farm and a number of individuals who felt like this region needed more more capacity develop wholesale infrastructure I think we're at the very beginning of growing a wholesale market here we have started asking questions about the infrastructure needed we don't have a lot of growers who are are at a place yet where they are either growing enough or have an interest in growing at that capacity so I think it's yet to be determined whether we have will make significant differences we know from looking at growers who have been in wholesale success programming with us that we've impacted individual growers but the question I think it still lies before us is how much have we made a difference and can we impact the entirety of our region in large ways I I know that the desire of the Rogue Valley Food System Council is to reach all farmers and to serve all farmers you know we don't do anything that wasn't suggested to us by individuals in the community so we're not an advocacy group we don't go around advocate for small farms or large farms we're advocating for what this community desires and what this community desires is a range of infrastructure types including wholesale success so I think the question that you posed is whether the conventional farmer has a place at the Rogue Valley Food System Council is absolutely and we have struggled to get some of those growers to the table although some have been a part of the table as I mentioned Harry and David was a part of the initial development of that council and had a seat at that table through that entire process I think it has been difficult for large-scale growers to see how collaboration benefits them when they have already gone through the the process of developing that infrastructure themselves and to that I would say we need your help that if a farmer has developed a structure that works well and is developing an economically viable and sustainable farm enterprise we need to know how that happened and it needs to be shared with other people and not all of those people will be competitors many of them will move on from this region to go other locations but they're being trained here as we need to hear from those people I also think that it's important to recognize that some nonprofits and particularly nonprofits have a particular desire to see certain types of farm succeed and there's a reason why the table we have representatives from all sectors we don't want to just hear from one group of people we want to hear from everyone and that's not what everybody at the table wants and then of course there's people like me on the table who aren't interested in advocating anything but interesting in solving the problems of farmers in the region and that includes large-scale farmers one of my interests at the moment is to look at ways to better grow grapes in a region and I think that's a that's a place where we're going to be looking at ways to improve small scale and also mid-scale the large-scale farm enterprise well there certainly needs to be more outreach in terms of what's being done the original conversations that we had with the community were held in both English and Spanish and the intent there was to bring out individuals who may represent a component of the labor force that we're not being given a voice and we had individual participants in that but we have as of yet had individuals willing to fill seats on the real value food system council what we try to do is to reach out to communities who might not other would be to have a voice and make sure they know what's going on and invite them and we've had individuals attend various meetings sometimes on and off but they've been present and which is as great space to start ultimately and the bylaws of the rogue value food system network suggest that's reaching a wider range in demographic is the intent but we need individuals who are willing to serve in that capacity to have the time to make it happen and that's that is sometimes difficult for anyone it's difficult for me to find the time to serve on the food system council the question in broad broadly is how do individuals engaged in picking need to be involved and that is a lot more so there has been a very little conversation with individuals who are doing the picking and that is that is a unique demographic in our area that's a complex demographic it can be a Latino demographic but it's not always it is sometimes an abused student population and it can be and it has been in the past and abused internship population all of those people need a voice and I don't know how to give everyone a voice except to bring them to the table it's been a series of conversations not just at the campus level but in the as a community level about how we can make this happen we did have a community food hub our community food conference a couple of years ago which went well the challenge of course behind any of those is that every member of the food system council is independently busy and so how do we collaborate to develop something one of the things we need are individuals farmers foundations who are willing to see the value in collaboration who are willing to help us make things like that happen obviously one of the the ways to make something like that happen is to have a paid staff member who works not for me or not for any individual farm but works for the benefit of our region's farmers and growers or the benefits of our region's food system and that's been a really hard hard thing to accomplish and we have one individual right now with that task which took us a lot of effort to raise the money necessary for that and so with a person who's paid position is primarily to serve the best interests of our road value food system council I hope that we can actually accomplish that task in the future I personally have an interest in hosting a campus-wide forum coming up looking specifically at the role of cannabis in impacting our food system in the region so I'm looking forward to developing that form in the coming months sort of narrow though yes that conference would be specific the specific to the way that cannabis production is playing out in Oregon the broader question can we hold a you know rogue valley or southern Oregon food conference is one that the rugby food system council has talked about on multiple occasions I've been involved in those conversations and until we have a person paid to take a lead on it is simply is too hard to make it happen the most we've been able to accomplish is that we have been holding an annual presentation at the Jackson County Fair to make sure individuals know what we're doing and to educate the public generally about the components of the food system one of the perhaps accidental components of that has been that a lot of people have approached us during that that exhibit at Jackson County Fair inviting us to be a part of their group or to come and present to their local community organization and so we've been able to bring a lot more people into the conversation by virtue of being there terroir is a is an interesting component of of agriculture and in my work I think it plays out in a way that's a little different than it does in the wine industry colleagues of mine work specifically on how a region's a unique climate and its unique elevation or aspect play a role and how wine tastes my interests are really about how in in individual regions unique culture and new people make food different and that is a conversation that's it's really more about branding and for me that's a conversation that needed to happen in this region we have not done a very good job of branding the food that comes from our region I can't speak to whether broccoli grown in our region tastes uniquely different than it does in the Willamette Valley but it does come from a group of people who cared deeply about growing it and it came from a group of people that you might know personally perhaps you sit at church with that person or perhaps you see them on a weekly basis at your kids school and that kind of branding is not taking place as much as it needs to it happens at the direct market we see it at the farmers market and we see it at high-end restaurants but for the rest of us who shop at other locations at grocery facilities that conversation can still happen and it really it relates to branding the terroir the cultural terroir of southern Oregon that component of terroir the chemical science of what oftentimes considered to be the food science is beyond my personal wheelhouse I think that that's a component of it there's also you really complicated things going on there for example in some cases particularly with culinary herbs the very best herbs are going to be those grown out of their you know their best growing conditions so they develop their flavor and their uniqueness when they're stressed so it would be interesting to see how something like corn growing out of its primary location changes its flavor I don't I don't have an answer in this case of corn of course we'd have to ask the question of whether we should be growing it at all an area where grain doesn't fall from the sky you know I one way to address the question about the changing face of agriculture can be summed up and an assignment I give I offer an assignment to a group of freshman each year to ask them to create a farmer profile so I take them to a farm and to a couple of farms and I say create a profile of what this these farmers are like you know with their history on how they became farmers and I do that because it almost never looks like the view of a farmer that they perceive they would see so my my students often think that they're gonna find a 60-something-year-old white man with a John Deere cap wearing car hearts and some people fit that description but many don't and certainly in our region we see an increase in women in farming we see an increase in young people farming in our region and one of my hopes is that we can make those farmers successful and that we can scale them up to a place where they can be they can feel successful whatever that place is for them the other thing that you asked is about what's changing what's changing in a major way is the production of cannabis in our region and I don't think anyone knows exactly how that's gonna play itself out but it's having a huge impact on farming in a region and I'm desperately interested in figuring out what that impact might be and then determining what the best course of action might be to to make sure that we can continue to grow food here because land prices are continuing to climb as a result of that industry individuals are moving industries for more lucrative industries land is being sold to more lucrative industry and while I don't want to speak either positively or negatively for cannabis as a researcher I want to find out what that impact looks like so that we can know what to do next I've lived in a lot of places and I've lived in a lot of locations where there were some people thinking about a sustainable food system by sustainable in this case I mean a food system that can survive into the future economically and environmentally this is the first place where I've engaged in that conversation where I wasn't engaging in it alone there are a lot of people thinking about this from a lot of different perspective and a lot of really bright people here working on that issue and they're working on it on large farms on small farms they're working on grapes and cannabis and in fruits and vegetables so for me one of the most exciting things about working here is that there are so many voices and so much perspective and that's not something I've seen in other locations where I've worked


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Hey Psych2Goers, welcome back to a brand new venture. Before we begin, we want to make a quick shout out to Daniel Mosunda who suggested this video topic. If you have any topic requests, feel free to leave them in the comments. Let's start the video. So, what does it mean to be emotionally weak? Emotional weakness is not being able to regulate or express your emotions in a healthy, well-balanced way. It isn't anyone's fault, or is it something to be ashamed of if you feel you haven't reached a certain level of emotional strength? It's a process requiring patience to help you become more self-aware. Here are seven habits that make you emotionally weak. Number one, not believing in yourself. What's something you think you're bad at? What about genuinely trying that activity again after deciding you're no good at it? It's important to realize that an initial failure doesn't mean you aren't gifted or talented enough for something. If you only stick to first tries, you'll likely end up limiting and dragging yourself down. In psychology, this is called a self-fulfilling prophecy. Simply put, if you believe something is true, you subconsciously go out of your way to affirm it. For example, if you believe you'll fail a math test, you're much more likely to do worse since you have such low confidence. What this means is not having faith in yourself makes you both emotionally weak and it makes you perform worse, so watch out. Number two, not taking care of yourself. Do you struggle with taking breaks when needed? While it sounds counter-intuitive, in a work-oriented society, it's actually sometimes harder to rest than to keep pushing yourself to the limit. Emotional weakness tends to force people to base their self-worth on their achievements, status, or finances instead of who they are as a person. After all, regardless of how often we hear the phrase, love yourself, it's still incredibly hard to put into practice. This can lead to many problems, such as avoiding self-care, not prioritizing your physical health and burnout. You may not realize it, but there is strength in taking breaks. Your worth isn't based upon what you do. Instead, it's based on who you are. Number three, making decisions based upon emotions instead of values. Do you tend to think with your heart rather than your head?  If so, you know all too well about letting your emotions get the best of you. Not being able to balance your emotions with your morals and logic is a tell-tale sign of emotional weakness. How you feel should be a factor in your decisions, but when it becomes the driving force, you end up making impulsive, uninformed, or dramatic choices. So, when faced with a difficult decision, trying to identify the emotion you're feeling and seeing whether it's outweighing your values and reasons stops you from making irrational decisions. Number four, judging yourself for how you feel. This isn't a normal feeling, or I shouldn't feel like this since no one else does. Do you ever think to yourself of phrases like these? It may be easy to judge yourself for how you feel, but doing so can have many unintended consequences. These pave the road for emotional weakness. Why so? Because these questions cause you to suppress, deny, or deflect your emotions. In reality, your emotions are one of the biggest indicators as to what you should and shouldn't do, your boundaries, and what you enjoy. They serve as a guide to you, so it's important to remember that all feelings are valid, and so deserve to be expressed. Number five, needing to find a reason behind everything. Do you believe in the phrase, everything happens for a reason? It isn't prudent to hold it accountable for everything that occurs. Trying to find reason in everything may end up making you emotionally weaker. This is because you end up spending more time overthinking and analyzing whenever something that you can't explain or rationalize happens. It takes the focus away from taking action and looking for ways to cope. A huge sign of emotional strength is being able to recognize and accept situations as they occur and making the best of them. Number six, trying to control and plan everything. Do you have your whole life mapped out? Have you planned exactly what career you want if you'll get married if you want kids and more? While making a timeline is a great way to get a general idea of what you want in life, almost nothing goes according to plan. If you become too set on one path, you could become close-minded and miss many opportunities simply because you weren't looking. You may also end up becoming less emotionally flexible, meaning if anything goes wrong, you're more likely to fall apart than adapt. Finally, similar to needing to find a reason behind everything, you could spend more time preparing than actually doing. The bottom line is, a key part of emotional strength is accepting you can't foresee everything, no matter how scary that sounds. And number seven, letting others control you. Have you ever purchased something just because it was popular? Being able to stand out from the crowd and be yourself is a huge sign of emotional strength.  Others could recognize this emotional weakness and try to take advantage of you. So, while it might be hard, it's important to remember that your wants and needs are ultimately the most important factor in your life. Emotional weakness isn't something to be ashamed of. It takes time, energy, and experience to become emotionally stronger, so don't be too hard on yourself if you're not there yet. The most important thing is to remember to be patient and kind to yourself as you continue to emotionally grow and mature. Were you aware of these habits? If so, do you think this can help you recognize and cope with them? Feel free to leave a comment down below with your thoughts, experiences, or suggestions. If you found this video helpful, be sure to hit the like button and share it with those out there unknowingly practicing these phrases. Don't forget to subscribe to Psych2Go and hit the notification bell icon for more new videos. Thanks for watching and we'll see you soon.


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