And thank you and welcome everyone to the last session today about COVID. It's been very exciting to see all the presentations earlier and I hope many of you have caught those. But I know there's been parallel sessions and there's actually so much of interest that has been presented, especially from countries. So I hope you will have a chance to catch those because they're already recorded. They're all be available on YouTube and the links are in the sked and on the website. Also, I'd like to remind everyone that we have a Q&A set up in our community of practice forum. And I just posted the link to that in the chat. The link should also be in your schedule. So without further ado, I'd really like to introduce the presenters in this session. We're very fortunate to have our key global collaborators and partners. Thus, Karin Gashen from Gavi, who will talk about, of course, the impact of COVID. But I think also the much longer collaboration that we've already enjoyed for a number of years with Gavi for immunization and also some perspectives beyond COVID. And then we'll have Michelle Monroe from the Global Fund. Obviously again, the COVID response is very central, but we should not forget that all the impact of COVID on the health systems in general. A bit like the Ebola crisis has also affected all other vital health programs. So I'm sure Michelle will go into that. Today, Carl Kinkade from CDC will present not only about the work we've been doing with CDC over the years, but an exciting recent development, which allows, will allow us to work very closely with CDC in the coming years. So with all that, let me hand over to Karin Gashen from Gavi. Good afternoon. Hello to everyone. Let me share my screen. So I think you should be able to see. So thank you very much for the opportunity to come and speak during that plenary to close the day. Of course, we are all missing to be together in a slow, but let's take the opportunity to reach more people. So I was asked to come and speak about how to strengthen surveillance and COVID-19 and beyond, but actually won't really twilight that the partnership has started before COVID-19. And I want to share with you how we decided to collaborate to strengthen integrated national surveillance information system. And of course, at the end, we can open it and see how beyond COVID-19 we can scale up and sustain that effort together. So quickly, I will present to you about the DHIS2 and immunization and we have that Gavi partnership with the University of Oslo and of course with WHO and UNICEF for some other aspect. Rapidly, Gavi is in support of DHIS2. And I just wanted to remind that Gavi is a signatory to the principle of donor alignment for digital health. You can see the whole list of activities we are doing. I just wanted to acknowledge that Gavi and all the alliance partner, including UNICEF, WHO and CDC, we are all software platform provider agnostic. However, we have to acknowledge the adoption of DHIS2 in over more than 60 countries. And we have also to acknowledge the leadership of University of Oslo and all the ISP network in providing guidance and technical support to countries. So it's how we engage further with that specific application and those partner. You can see Gavi has started to engage with DHIS2 and University of Oslo via the partners from 2016, the laboratory in UNICEF and then directly with the direct partnership since three years started in 2018. And this was really following the demand from the country. We have a wide range of activities to support DHIS2 can really be of help in a lot of areas. We have been talking about aggregate data for immunization campaigns, how to really work now also on the individual tracker for electronic immunization registry. We have a lot of work to do on interoperability and on GIS based on link with LMIS, but today we'll be focusing on the surveillance data. And really, I will never emphasize enough how surveillance data is really a life saving intervention. And actually, the vaccine preventable disease surveillance information system is really essential. Of course, and really a saving life start by preventing outbreak and improving the detection and response against outbreak. But also in another area that is very important for us is that the information from the surveillance help us to identify areas with immunity gap by using triangulation and we can then target area with the highest number of what we call the zero dose of the children who never been vaccinated in routine immunization. So then as that is also very important for us to understand the disease burden and therefore understand how what is the level of coverage of vaccination says the efficiency of the immunization program. And of course, we are all waiting the moment when COVID-19 will become a vaccine preventable disease. Very, very soon now and as soon as COVID-19 will be a VPD, we'll have to all work together for the introduction of that COVID-19 the COVAX and then VPD surveillance system will be critical. So what is happening with DHIS2 as a platform for surveillance data. So I'm presenting really, you know, we supported the project but all the work was done by WTO and I want to acknowledge Oliver and Katia and also by all the team in Oslo and in East, especially East, West and Central Africa. So you may know that the VPD and the Vaccine Preventable Disease Surveillance Investment Case for Africa have six major components. And one of this is really the information system is an ambitious work to be doing. So why we decided to support the work on DHIS2 and we actually just listened what the country and the Parliament were saying and we heard it very loud and clear. We understood that APN4 was no longer to be supported and this will be really, really a huge problem for the countries if there was no other solution to come up. There was more at the time there was already more than 40 countries in the WHO are for regions that were already using DHIS2. And actually, a lot of countries already installed the WHO DHIS2 package for immunization coverage and DHIS2 started to be used by in surveillance and immunization program for surveillance and also the country and the panel were really asking web system to have real time data. So the proposal came to really have an integrated information system for VPD and all the epidemic prone disease surveillance in DHIS2. So the scope is at both level at the global level to really work to have an information system design and to evolve the DHIS2 development and then there is a specific work on Africa for now to have to follow up and support implementation at country and at regional level. The feature is to really try to replace the existing Excel tool for IDSA and several countries talk about it and also all the EPN4 work for reporting system. And we wanted also to have this link to the regional platform to have a kind of DHIS2 for VPD at the regional level and to have a country focus. To have systems that are really adaptable to country surveillance specificities for country can still choose indicators and disease and the system should be interoperable with all the other existing system in the country. So it was quite ambitious to start. We're not just supporting two or three diseases, but you can see more than 15 different diseases and all of this you know with a specific partners, a specific entities, a specific modalities. So it's quite ambitious. So the package, the DHIS2 package for integrated surveillance came with that different list that is in front of you for both aggregate and case-based. But of course, you know, any other disease can be added based on the national recommendation for each country for both aggregate and case-based surveillance. So because there was a lot of diseases, a lot of people to coordinate and Rebecca mentioned it. There was this high-level support that was really needed to solve several issues and kick off that work. And there was this big consensus meeting with a lot of people from a lot of different sections in WHO and from HQ, from AFOL level, a lot of partners, CDC, ISP were all represented. And the objective was really to develop several package, a package with several documents to really work on the data element documents who have all the standards and norms very clear for everyone to work on the dashboard. It could be this specific to also present alert, epidemic to all together agree on the system requirement and specificity. And of course, all of this will not be useful if we don't use the data. If so, it was also important to come up with a facility analysis guidance document and to our knowledge CDC, especially on that piece of work. So the regional work was really important and you can look at the diagram. It was also mentioned by Alain, a bit earlier. So there is a WHO piece, but there is also a collaboration with WAU ECOAS in Africa. We had already a functional DHS2 platform for aggregate disease surveillance and an existing collaboration so there is a way forward to make sure that the aggregate package is in all the WAU countries and the database from both WAU and AFOL will be speaking together. Just a quick update where it is now, so Mali and Togo and Rwanda have started to work on this and Camun is about to start. Some of the countries have shown already the interest and the interest can still be expressed, of course. And no pressure, but by May 2021, during a couple of months and in the middle of the pandemic, we will say that this project will have been a success if you know the DHS2 surveillance package for both will be operational. And if the serverless data are really collected, reported to the DHS2 platform and you. So we are targeting 20 AFOL countries and for the aggregate package and at least three AFOL countries for the entire case-based project. And then we'll have to make sure all integration is considered and also all the region and partner are kept informed and we have a plan for further implementation. After that initial planning, now we are going to talk about scaling and sustaining this for all the country. I mentioned some of the challenges of course coordination is really talking about many, I mean, so many different, you need division organization. So it could be a challenge, but it's also a great opportunity to learn how to work better. And then we have a lot of staff distortion with COVID-19 response. Not easy to implement to support country to work at distance and also for the communication between developers and all the technician. I want to highlight the fact that there is especially due to the pandemic, a lot of funding diversion, multiplication of tools and sometimes I think the interest of the country is a bit lost in all of this. And you will see the coming step of that project to a lot of dissemination training and making these resources available to the country. So just to finish, yes, it started before COVID-19. And now I can just tell you how the pandemic had just like given a strong sense that so what we started before was extremely relevant, really, really important. And honestly, no one want another pandemic, but if another happened, but already all the surveillance information system are strong. And if many countries are using such system, like we have seen on DHS2 is a WHO package will be way more ready for the next pandemic. So thank you again very much for all the partner you see the contacts and all the people who should be acknowledged for for that work and all the team beyond that work. And I'm happy to hand over to you. Thank you so much, Karin. That's an excellent overview of the work that Gavi's been doing as well as the key partner from WHO. I must say, as the University of Oslo, we were also very grateful to the flexibility that the key partners like Gavi and also Global Fund have shown in this very turbulent period. And I think together this partnership has shown its value in this period and hopefully very much beyond. So please, Michelle Monroe from Global Fund. Please share your screen and present. Okay, sharing my screen. Hello, everybody. Can you see it well enough if I do it this way because I always have issues with presentation mode. Yeah, I think that's also fine. Okay, so it's great to follow Karin and Gavi because we have a lot of similarities and and ways that we've been coordinating with each other so a lot of the information that Karin has just shared on the support and the standards and the packages that are used for the vaccine preventable diseases. It's been a very similar approach on HIV, TB and malaria, and in fact with both DHS, two and WHO across more multiple disease and programs. So I'm going to skip some of the pieces that Karin has already gone through about the kind of development of these packages and this pieces of the support. But know that those pieces have been have been going on for each of these modules as well. I also want to introduce some of the areas that we've been supporting and then how that also had recent results impact and then also how that has strengthened the response to COVID-19. For the first slide you'll see it's actually quite similar to Karin's as well and we coordinate between Gavi and Global Fund and the other partners working in these different areas but using the same packages and systems. So for the Global Fund, we have investments in DHS to base systems in of our 5053 highest burden countries, 41 of those plus a few others that are also piloting and rolling out now. There's three more are using DHS to base systems, at least for their national aggregate at GMS, if not also as well for using tracker for case base surveillance for HIV, TB or malaria elimination. So this is mostly funded through the Global Fund grant investments to the specific countries and that's maintaining and strengthening the quality of the DHS to base HMIS. And then now in this next we're entering into our next three year cycle and we're seeing so far a large increase in the country's funding as well more national scale community health information systems and linking those to the DHS to HMIS. And then also for case based reporting for HIV, TB and malaria for elimination settings. And, you know, it's a we can't say for sure yet at this point but a breath estimate you know it's about 65% of those are DHS to tracker based those requests so far for funding. So similar to Gavi, it's a this is a for us that the countries are using DHS to base system we are also system agnostic, but essentially we're able when we support these these improvements to essentially and also to the packages and the country investments were able to support many countries efficiently at once. So we have some much smaller but central investments. Not through the grants, and that's really about increasing the efficiency so that each country and each grant does not have to invest in some of the core cross cutting work in DHS to systems. So, exactly what Karen was talking about in this development with W. A. Joe of the implementation of the data analysis and use toolkit and the accompanying packages that current share very well for for EPI and the vaccine diseases that we have for HIV, TB, malaria and other disease programs. Also a good segue I think for tomorrow because that's one of the big focuses for tomorrow's sessions. And really trying to also increase local and regional and country level availability and and also the coordination of technical assistance and other support for strengthening countries not to my HMS and getting to our own strategic goals and targets around that. So, next slide is just to show a few results from this. Most recently, I will say these results are on this chart here are pre over there from in 2019 we expect things will have dropped for this year but we expect actually that will be temporary. We've seen through supporting and this is not only DHS to base systems here but as we said about 75% of these systems are DHS to base that are included in these results shown here. So we have seen actually a pretty significant increase in the one the integration of especially for aggregate reporting of the three diseases into the national HMIS so that's moving away from having siloed TV system and a siloed TV system and a siloed malaria system and into one national HMIS which of course creates a lot of efficiencies, then the quality piece of that, making sure that when it's integrated that there is still the needs addressed for each of those diseases monitoring in the national HMIS that the standards that are in these WHO and DHS to packages really helps to ensure that. Also, I think really important to see is that there has been an increase that we see at a global reporting from HIV, TB and malaria and in completeness of reports, you know the percentage of facility reports and especially in timeliness it's still low timeliness averaging across the three diseases across our one year and increase from 47 to 63%, which is very exciting to see, especially as people start looking at this concept of even faster than before. And then of course looking into into how this has supported for COVID-19. So my last slide here, what I want to highlight that we have found one having this existing partnership with DHS to with WHO and other partners facilitated a rapid response just in a way that we could move funding quickly but also this piece about having the standard and established systems in place that could be adapted rapidly to add surveillance for COVID-19. And one of the items around that that has come up is that because these packages were for the diseases were already installed in so many countries. And one when these packages same similar, the similar model was used for COVID-19 it for that DHS to and the network has used to to create those, you know, packages that can then be quickly added into the country's HMS. And so, so we see that having had that model there and then also countries having had the experience of installing those packages and adjusting, you know, adapting their system to them, enabled them to very rapidly develop this system, essentially implement it in countries, of course, with a lot of different partner supports, including global funds, but several others as well. And then we also, again, it provides a efficient way for us, you know, we can put some fairly minimal funding at a global level to strengthen the COVID-19 surveillance and also the virtual means of disseminating and training folks and to have that have an effect across many of our high priority countries. And then a very important part of this is that in addition to having the increased COVID-19 surveillance and ability to react to those data for the pandemic is really, you know, trying to ensure that the HIV TB and malaria reporting as well as services but but the reporting is still strengthened and for us to be able to have countries adapt their existing systems and in this case for many countries DHS to systems that they're using for HIV TB and malaria reporting to adapt that to COVID-19 really makes it easier to keep up the HIV TB and malaria reporting, not adding systems and parallel training and and then efficiencies that would cause their actually strengthens the disease reporting as well. The last thing I'd want to highlight is that it also has, and I think there was, you know, there was, I think there was a session on this already today is that having this in place has helped countries to to monitor the impact on the disease programs of COVID-19. And we are starting to pilot here as well ways that we can take advantage of so many countries using standardized systems and the standardized packages to make it easier for them to report to us to global fund directly from their systems. And so we're starting to pilot activities on that, especially as we're asking countries to to give us indications more frequently what's happening to the program services. And so this is a new area as well that we lost the expanding as we move forward monitoring COVID-19. So those are the key things I wanted to highlight and I'll hand it back to you. Thank you so much, Michelle. I really like your emphasis on on the importance of having having systems in place but not just systems it's the whole approach and procedures that the teams on the ground are familiar with and that has really helped I think with the COVID rollout. And I also also like what you mentioned about, you know, monitoring your last point about facilitating the monitoring of the impact on the other diseases or the health system overall. We saw that with Ebola actually that in Liberia they were still able to continue reporting we could see the impact. And we very much hope that that the established HMIS systems out there will will allow us to really do the same with the code. So last we hand over to Kalkin Kade very happy to have CDC also present on the collaboration. Please crowd. Hi, thank you. Let me pull my screen up. All right, can you see it okay? Yes. So hi everyone it's, I'm happy to be here and and it's been interesting, you know, throughout this response I've been wearing two hats, you know, one I'm currently on the CDC COVID-19 international task force where I'm on the surveillance and information system team, looking at at surveillance activities across the globe. And on my, my day job I've been I'm on the surveillance information system team in the division of global health protection which of course is focused on on the global health security agenda, and how we support countries for ideas are any ideas are and the like. And so, as I see these activities occurring, I see the overlap of both my response responsibilities and my day job and and see the the benefit of what, if any benefits and come out of COVID. It will be that will have strengthened our systems, and I'm hoping that we can leverage those activities. And so what is it you know what does that mean. And I think that we all talk about surveillance in different ways, you know, and we talk about sustainability. But what does that mean. And, you know, we need to create sustainable systems.  But at the end of the day, we should be working toward as in donors and implementing partners. We should be working toward working ourselves out of a job in the country. And so that means that that, you know, ministries of health will have the capacity to implement and maintain their systems. And it's theirs. It's not ours. And we're donors, we're implementing partners, etc, supporting countries to do their jobs and take care of their population. And our jobs is to work ourselves out of a job. And so how do we support countries and how do countries support their population by creating a sustainable capacity to detect diseases and you can read the rest. I'm not going to read it to you but the point is how do we do our day jobs well enough as a public health community to then respond to things. So, you know, COVID-19 is right now. Ebola was, you know, a few years ago and currently in DRC. Things will continue to pop up. And so we shouldn't just build systems to support the current thing, whatever that is, we support systems to help day to day work that enabled the saving of lives in each country. That's our goal. And help our decision makers make good decisions. And so that's, that's what we're trying to do. We're also helping countries to meet their international health regulation, you know, disease detection and reporting. So we all sort of know that and those countries that are part of the joint external evaluation see their scores and where they're at and what they need to do.  You've already done in your country, and now you're supporting countries around you. And so that move to, you know, real time and near real time case based surveillance with lab integration I think is critical. So, you know, so what do we do? How do we get there? First off, we've got to, you know, respond and deal with the current outbreak of COVID-19. And most countries at this point have, you know, something in place. And then how do we take that investment and move it on? And this whole idea of COVID and beyond means how do we leverage this current investment into people and systems and improve the next time and improve the day to day work. How do we, how do we ensure that this work is interoperable or integrated? You know, one of the challenges we always have are lab results. You know, I was in Liberia for Ebola and then, of course, post Ebola for many years. And one of the challenges during the Ebola response was that integration of lab results into, you know, the suspect data. And then post Ebola, when you look at the IDSR, you know, for Liberia, they've been, you know, have been brought up a few times during this, during this conference so far. They wanted to continue their case-based surveillance for their IDSR and it's still been Excel based. And so, so here you have the surveillance system collecting data on case-based data and you have a lab system reporting case-based lab results. And then they have to match those up. Sometimes they match well, sometimes they don't. If you have a few cases, that's okay. If you have thousands of cases, it's not manageable. And so, as you look at the current, the current pandemic, we know this data in many countries isn't manageable to sit there and manually match data. So, how do we fix that? And how do we work across and coordinate with partners and systems to make sure that the lab results, for one, are going in, you know, automatically, but bigger than that. How do we work with other parts of the health information system? You know, how do we make sure that we know stock out? How do we make sure that we have a workforce, you know, proper workforce and we're protecting them? And then how do we have collaboration across investors? You know, to me, this is critical. My time in Liberia taught me that I need to work closely with Global Fund. I need to work closely with USCID. I need to work closely with WHO. We all need to be in those conversations together on how these structures are supported. You know, countries oftentimes are putting out fires and they're sort of responding to one donor and respond to another donor, respond to this need and that need. And oftentimes, you know, they're burdened by reporting, it's done for reporting's sake, because the donor needs a report. And then that document goes on a shelf. So that document ideally would be used to improve the health system, not just to meet the need of the donor. And so how do we take those processes and work with countries and ministries of health and improving their health systems so they don't need us? That's the goal. And how do we have a common vision of what surveillance is? You know, right now we have HMIS, which oftentimes sits, of course, in the ministry of health and the M&E unit. But then IDSR may be in a different organization. So IDSR may be in the MPI. So in Liberia's instance, it's an infill, the National Center for National Public Health Institute of Liberia, and then the M&E aggregate data is collected through the Ministry of Health. And so those ideally are together. It's not into the end users and the end recipient of the workload, which is at the health facility level, it shouldn't matter to them. They should only need to understand that they have something that need to report on certain timelines and whether it goes into an IDSR or HMIS or some other system and to the MOH or to the MPI or wherever it goes, that shouldn't matter. It should just be how do we make the people at the bottom end who do the work, how do we make it easier for them to do reporting and then leverage those results across groups. And then of course, we need to leverage standards and past investments. You know, oftentimes people want to build their own stuff or build new systems because it's bigger or better or whatever. When you put systems into countries, it's not just technology, it's processes, it's people training, it's all these things that go into the structure and setup that ultimately make up the system. And that investment is large in human time. And that's hard to replace. So leveraging those investments, leveraging partnerships, leveraging collaboration are critical to get to a sustainable component of surveillance. So what is CDC trying to do to sort of help this? You know, one is we of course work with partners and work with different software vendors and universities and the like through funding mechanisms. One of our funding mechanisms is a cooperative agreement. You know, people have been recipients of grants where basically money is just given to someone to do lion item activities. A cooperative agreement isn't that a cooperative agreement is a funding source that CDC pushes out to our partners. We have many cooperative agreements between ministries of health and CDC and WTO and CDC and. But now we have a new one, which we haven't had in the past, which is with the University of Oslo. It's a five year cooperative agreement. And in this, the idea is that the CDC and University of Oslo work together on these outcomes that will support the globe. You know, the nice part about this investment and others have said it before me is that by investing in University of Oslo, it's the most bang for the buck, so to speak. I would invest in one place and it gets pushed out globally. So now we're helping Asia and we're helping Africa and we're helping Central and South America. And so all these things are these investments get pushed out globally and sort of a one point of investment, but it doesn't mean that we're forgetting what the HISPs are doing and what the country work is doing because there's also funding going to HISPs and there also is activities directly with countries. And so it says three prong approach of how do we support the University of Oslo to develop what you see on the screen. And then also HISPs to assist countries and then countries to do their immediate needs based on their specific activities. You know, so one of the highlights in our cooperative agreement work, you know, one of course is to continue the work around the COVID package and extend that work. Number two is to look at interoperability, especially with lab. I think that's the biggest thing that we have to address is how do we sort of standardize that process of lab integration surveillance. And then this move toward regional surveillance. And I'll talk more about that coming up. But in addition to that, you know, other components of this, you know, are, you know, how to be continued to build on their system of educational tools. And at the end of the day, excuse me, at the end of the day, Ministry of Health staff will be the ones who own this system and they should have people trained and more they're trained the more successful they'll be. So CDC has been involved with University of Oslo through many different mechanisms and other partners, you know, one through PEPFAR through Datum and then with GAVI and WHO with the VPD work, which we just talked, we just just heard about. That work is incredibly important. Because as we look at how how that system is used across countries and how can CDC and other partners team up with them to expand that work or to extend that work to stuff like EIDSR. So how do we work with USA and Global Fund and others on HMIS, you know, oftentimes the PMI work is sort of getting the output of that system and CDC and may or may not always be in conversations around HMIS. But it's important that we're all talking together. It's one should be one surveillance structure of HMIS in case they save it. And so they will collaborate across HISPs and countries to support IDSR and EIDSR. Again, if you look at Liberia's example of IDSR, they would because during Ebola, they were doing case-based surveillance, they stayed with case-based surveillance for all their IDSR but in Excel spreadsheets. And so on their IDSR side, they were doing case-based surveillance via Excel, which means emailing Excel spreadsheets and merging them. And then every week, there's a team of people and believe me, I have sat in this room, I know how painful this is, sitting in the room going through and merging spreadsheets from across all their counties or 15 counties into one spreadsheet to represent the nation and then make their weekly epi-bulletin. And that staff shouldn't spend, you know, two and three days of their week making epi-bulletage. That staff should be helping implement what those bulletins represent. And that's what we've got to get to. How do we spend less time reporting and more time doing the public health work? So, and that falls in then to why EIDSR is so important. How do we build structures so that that reporting can do the work, the reporting the system can do the work and that people can implement what the system is telling us. And from an EIDSR perspective, from the Liberia's example, they went to a case-based EIDSR, it's rolled out in five counties, it's real time from the health facility level where they send an SMS and it triggers the system. The alert goes to the health facility and triggers the whole system of response. And that work came out of Ebola. And that early Ebola work, you know, was in Liberia and we were, you know, at the info was being used early on. We've seen it was not necessarily doing what we had hoped it would do for the country. And then, of course, the Ministry of Health and us and others worked with the University of Oslo and started using DHS to track her for the Ebola data in response. So on the right is sort of that picture of what many of you have seen Luke Bowell represent, you know, show in many conferences, in many conferences. But the idea is that how do we, you know, move these forward? How do we have integrated systems? We need both aggregate and case-based data. We need to have lab results integrated. We need to have this information timely so that so that leadership can respond. And we need to understand the rest of the picture. We can't just understand that we have a disease in this place. And yes, it was confirmed, but then not know if you have meds to respond with it. You need to know stock. You need to know workforce. Do we have qualified people? Do we have stock? Do we have the ability, you know, finances?  And so all these have to be integrated into response. And oftentimes from a CDC perspective, we're not always in those other conversations. You know, that's usually paid for by other organizations. Sorry, Carl, two minutes. Okay, thank you. And so, and so we need to look at how we integrate across health information systems. The way you do that right now is leveraging this response right now a lot of countries have implemented the COVID package. And so how do we take that investment and then move it toward the rest of their prior diseases post COVID or right now, they should already be on their timeline, they should already be thinking, we're doing this for COVID how do we do this for the rest of our prior diseases. And then once you think about how you respond from the perspective of, all right, we're doing this now we're doing it for COVID, we're integrating lab is one disease. Now let's move it to the other party diseases. And then how do we move this to regional and global. And this is important, because, you know, we have to look at cross countries when you look at donors and implementing partners and the like. And then the WHO and CDC and USA and Global Fund and World Bank are all looking at, where is the need, you know, unfortunately money is not unlimited.  And this is where all this helps make those decisions. Leaders need to have information to understand how to invest their funding. Thank you as kind of quick tell end of it. The important part is that that we understand the importance of both the current surveillance work that's been done through the University of Oslo and the HIST and the countries to support the COVID response. We also have to have to think about what comes next, you know, what's what's the system like for the next outbreak we shouldn't be building systems during outbreaks, the system should be there. And so how do we move toward planning these systems is to support day to day work that then also support a response. Oftentimes we're saying I want to build a system for response. Well, in my mind, we're not, we shouldn't be building systems for a response. We should be building systems to support day to day work to relieve the burden as much as possible on the people at the end of the at the end of the road, either from the collect data collection side of it or the people sitting in the national level, trying to put that data together into some usable form to inform leadership that day to day work should inform a response to you can do. Thank you so much. That's an excellent way to end this session. Carl, thank you so much to you and to Michelle and Karen. And I'm just going to hand it over to to Rebecca to wrap up the whole day on the COVID and packages. Thanks. Thanks, Knut. And thank you so much, Carl and Karin and Michelle. I know you guys have very busy days. As many of our presenters have as well. Many of those who are focused on countries and really focused on supporting the response. So we wanted to thank you so much for taking time out of your schedules to learn and share with our global community. And we have so much great work to look forward to together with the support of great partners that want to help countries be able to achieve their own goals and and also align ourselves at a global level. So we will wrap up the day today. We continue to encourage you to look up sessions you might have missed on our YouTube channel. Keep our conversations going on the community of practice thread. There was a lot of learning and asking of questions where I think there are many use cases around our community that we couldn't cover today. And just give you a little bit of a heads up that tomorrow morning. The WHO will open off our conference with the plenary session to share a little bit more about this collaboration around data standards that that has been running through as a theme today. It was one of the ways that we're really able to strengthen these routine health systems to make sure as as Carl reminds us that they're actually getting used. It's not just a reporting tool.


Today we're going to learn how to add animations. These will just be basic instructions when you take an advanced class of PowerPoint. I'm sure you'll learn a lot more. So the first thing you need to do is decide what you want to animate. Animate means you're going to make either the text or image come in with motion. So I'm going to click inside my text box and I'm going to click on the animations tab on the ribbon. If you notice it says none because there are no animations yet. I click on the down arrow and there are many choices. Now you can experiment with this. Just be sure you always test your show before you give your presentation to make sure that this is what you want. You have animation for how your words or pictures are going to come into the screen. You have just emphasis which means it makes the picture or text a little bit stronger with the motions. You also have exit how it's going to exit and you have motion paths and you have lots more so you could spend hours doing this. We're going to do the basic one. Again I have my text box highlighted and I'm going to do the wipe. It gives you an example of how it will be shown on the screen. Now if you notice over here I've also clicked on the animation pane and it tells you here what you have animated. Again one recommendation is I would not say to animate the title of each of your slides because as you go from slide to slide that's kind of like your note card reminder what you're going to talk about. You don't have to wait to click for it. So if you look at this they have numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. That's how they're going to come into the slide. Let's go to the next slide and I want maybe the picture to come on first. So I'm going to click on the picture and maybe I'm going to have a swivel. Again you have to be careful with these. You want your presentation to be professional. You don't want to wait for the picture to finish moving before you start talking. Then I'm going to click on the contact name box here and I'm going to click float in. Now to check this out let's click back on the description. Come down to our PowerPoint show and there's my title showing up so I know I'm going to be giving a job description. As I click I can talk and I like doing it on click because I control it. If you set it on a timer you may have a question from the audience and the text may keep coming on. So I control it depending on how much I want to say about each idea. Now when you get to the bottom you should rehearse your show so you know when you're clicking for the next slide. There's my transition and now my animation. There's my picture and there's my text. The first one and then the second name and the email address.  If you notice you highlight in the animation pane it highlights the numbers around that item. Just reorder. You click on the green arrow on the bottom and it moves it so when I do my show the names come on first and then the picture. Those are your basic instructions for adding animation.


So welcome to TechSoup's Public Good App House demo event, Apps for Community-Based Fundraising. Cultural, religious, and marginalized communities have a tremendous amount of fundraising potential that is waiting to be unlocked. But how can your nonprofit reach these groups and encourage them to give? Join us for an introduction to three giving apps that work closely with their community to raise more money. The presenters will share the lessons they've learned growing crowdfunding campaigns and provide tips for how your own nonprofit can raise more money with your own community, building on its unique and authentic local voice and diversity. So this Public Good App House demo event will open with a special opening presentation from Giving Tuesday's Lexa Wilson. Public Good App House events like this are an initiative of TechSoup's Caravan Studios. Caravan Studios works closely with nonprofits, communities, and local organizations such as libraries to design technology solutions to help nonprofits address some of their most pressing problems. Now, before we get into today's content, I want to welcome you to the TechSoup Global Network, especially for those that are new here. At TechSoup, we believe the technology like smartphones, internet connectivity, training, and more have the power to serve our communities better. And today's speakers with their Tech for Good app demos will give you a good taste of for what that looks like in action. I also wanted to share a little bit about TechSoup's newest initiative, QUAD. We know the massive effort it takes to keep your organization running for managing volunteers and schedules to communicating with funders and donors, all while keeping your digital data secure. And you're not alone. QUAD members get personal needs assessments where you can tell us how we can best help you and you can make sure that you're getting the most from your membership. Dedicated member support over phone, chat, or email, reduced admin fees for products and services available in the TechSoup catalog. Unlimited access to the entire TechSoup courses catalog to help you navigate technologies and trends that are shaping your world. QUAD is available for $200 a year and there's a link that will be put in chat if anyone's interested. So I wanted to introduce my colleague, Laura Ross Perry, who will share TechSoup's approach to equity, inclusion, diversity, and culture. Laura is a program development manager for TechSoup's global network of nonprofit partners as well as a lead and collaborator on the equity, inclusion, diversity, and culture program. She has a background in international development and ICT for development and a deep interest in exploring the intersections of civil society, social impact, technology, and digital development and global equity. So thank you for joining us today, Laura. Thanks so much, Bailey. Hi, everybody. And it's an honor to be able to join you today and get to share a little bit about TechSoup's approach to equity, inclusion, diversity, and culture. So TechSoup actually had a pretty organic start to our program. In its relatively nascent years, we started in October 2019 and this was from a staff built development of a global diversity awareness month. So we just had some passionate staff members who decided let's do some programming around global diversity awareness. From October 2019 till now we were able to formalize an official program and we actually have a full-time director now leading all of our equity initiatives. So our program, I'm sure many of you have similar programs and you've heard a lot of different acronyms like DEI, JEDI, for example, ours is personally Equity, Inclusion, Diversity, and Culture, EIDC. And we did this intentionally because we believe that equity ensures inclusion which brings meaning to diversity and then that builds culture. So it's really important for us to have those four different terms. Another important piece of this for us is that we really build equity into absolutely everything we do at TechSoup. It's a foundation for us, a foundation for all of our programs and all of our interactions with staff. So you can see on the left-hand side we have built our program into three different pillars. So we wanted to make it, we wanted to be very intentional about not just focusing our equity work internally on staff but also with all of our stakeholders and in our community. So we have different pillars that we focus this work on. We have our organization, that's all of our policies, everything that goes into what builds our culture at TechSoup, ensuring that people feel like they belong and are included and heard and also developing a inclusive workforce. Then we have our network which is all of the partners that we engage with, all of the vendors that we work with, the foundations we work with, all of our corporate partners, ensuring we share similar values and that we build equity into the programs that incorporate these partners. And then taking a step back out, we also have our community. So that's the larger ecosystem of civil society which TechSoup is a part of and we want to make sure that we are leaders of equity, inclusion, diversity and culture in that space and also continuously learning from others in the community as well. So all of our programming fits into these three pillars. The way that we do our work is through a very small but dedicated team at TechSoup but also through a lot of staff involvement and impact. So one of the ways that we do that is through a bridge program. And bridge, we love acronyms here, you can see. Bridge stands for belonging, respect, inclusion, diversity and global equity. And it's essentially a formalized diversity council of cross-functional employees. We collaborate, identify, discuss and think of ways to promote and maintain an inclusive culture. So there's a lot of event programming and different activities that come through the bridge program and a lot of business initiatives that can be leveraged through bridge as well. And then finally, we have recently formalized an affinity group program. So we have four different formal affinity groups now which is super exciting. We have black allies, we have alphabet soup which is our LGBTQ plus and allies affinity group. We have a racial justice allyship group and also one specifically for junior professionals. And these, if you don't know what affinity groups are these are places for community members within TechSoup who identify with different affinities or different interests can come together, have a safe space to discuss, share, do programming and events but also likewise to bridge have ways to leverage their expertise for different business initiatives in the organization. So all of these are different ways that we are really trying to weave equity into the fabric of everything that we do. So just wanted to share a little bit about that. And finally, we have a couple of different blog posts we've put together on our AIDC program. So we have equity in action which is based on a webinar that our director, LaShika, who cannot be with us today that she facilitated as well as a blog post on the power of affinity groups. So talking a little bit about what they are what they've done, what we've been able to do with them at TechSoup and how you can grow them at your own organization. And finally, please reach out to us if you have anything to share we would love to learn from you we would love to be able to share what we have experienced and continue to grow more types of programs like these at organizations and companies around the globe EIDC at TechSoup.org we're looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you. Thanks, Laura. So this event is presented in partnership with Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity. Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 is a simple idea a day that encourages people to do good. Since then it has grown into a year round global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give collaborate and celebrate generosity. Join the movement and give each Tuesday and every day whether it's some of your time, a donation or the power of your voice in your local community. I'm delighted to welcome Giving Tuesday's Lexa Wilson to open the event. Lexa works with organizations to bring data and technology initiatives for the public and social sectors to life coordinating with knowledge management experts data scientists, developers and fellow research enthusiasts. She supports efforts to break down barriers to data sharing and collaborative social research initiatives. Thanks for joining us today, Lexa. Hi, thank you so much to TechSoup. I'm so excited to be here with you all today. I like as I was just introduced, I'm Lexa. I help manage data and analytics projects within the Giving Tuesday data commons team which I'll mention a little bit more about in a second but I'm here excited to announce that it is 12 days until Giving Tuesday. And I know some of you have campaigns planned. I know some of you are just curious to see what happens on Giving Tuesday. So I'm gonna take, for those of you who are just learning about us, what the opportunities are what kind of work we do. I'll take a few minutes to give an overview of the movement and especially touch on why we're excited about the platforms here today. Yes, as mentioned, Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 based on the idea that generosity deserves its own day. And over the years it has grown into a global movement that we believe inspires people to give, to collaborate and to celebrate all types of generosity. We are currently present in over 80 countries, each of which have numerous different campaigns and activities going on Giving Tuesday and year round. And we like to attribute that success to this, to the fact that we've adhered to this core principle that this movement is entirely intended to be co-opted and adapted to any given group's needs. We encourage folks to take it somewhere new and to adopt Giving Tuesday in an authentic way and to innovate and do whatever they want to do with it in order to grow generosity locally. So as I mentioned, a major piece of Giving Tuesday is the data commons. That's the area that I'm most in, which is for those of you who don't know, we bring together different actors in the social sector, researchers, social enterprise, platforms, nonprofits, foundations, policymakers, in order to find out what they need. How can we bridge practitioners with researchers? How can we increase the value of the data that we're all generating so that we can provide real insights for all the different members of the social sector? So this work is done in collaboration with a whole bunch of partners who are willing to share their data with us, share their methodologies, share their needs. And we're so excited that a lot of those here today are partners of ours who share data around their Giving Tuesday campaigns. And so together we're able to generate insights about Giving Tuesday and its power as a Giving Day, but well beyond that as well. So last year we were able, thanks to those who do share data with us, we were able to find out that $2.7 billion were donated to social good in the US alone in the 24 hours that span Giving Tuesday. But we always like to highlight that it's not just a day about giving money. There is so many other ways that people express their generosity on Giving Tuesday and every day. So it's always interesting for us to make sure that all of those different types of generosity activities are being highlighted and that they're being leveraged as well. Next, this is just another testament to the opportunity that Giving Tuesday presents. Donations are on Giving Tuesday are growing faster than consumer spending on days like Black Friday and Cyber Monday. So there is so much opportunity here to take advantage of people's innate desire to be generous and to leverage that for your own movement's needs or your own community's needs. A few more things just to mention about Giving Tuesday, what we've been able to learn about it. 82% of organizations that participate say that they use it to experiment and try something new. And we love that. We really encourage people to take this opportunity to do something that they wouldn't have done before or to try something and measure the results of it and see how they can integrate those results into their activities later. We know that 80% of those who have heard of Giving Tuesday say that they are inspired to do something generous because of that day. That's incredible to us and that's something that we to demonstrate, to say, hey, take advantage of these people who are excited, ready to do something on this day and then beyond as well. And another thing to highlight is just people to feel like they're part of something bigger than themselves. And we see that as well in how they report about feeling like they're part of a bigger movement. So definitely, this is no surprise, right? People find joy in giving. So make sure that we like to encourage people to include joy in everything that they're doing and everything that they're promoting. But at the core of everything that we do at Giving Tuesday is our communities. So much of what we do is driven by what we learn from them. They are the ones who are showing us how to address equity, justice, empathy and more through generosity. And the number of communities that we have is it's constantly growing, which is so exciting for us because that means we get more feedback about what's needed. We get more feedback about what is the kind of interesting and innovative ways that they are addressing the topics that are most challenging in their area of expertise or their geographical area. Just wanna show the kind of different communities that we have. So you see the squares, these are the types of geographical communities that we work closely with, but we also have causes or identity-based communities. And these are the ones that we're so excited about growing and supporting even more. Because what we've seen is that having these approaches, having communities that create these coalitions around certain causes allowed those causes to be addressed by people who are involved in them. It's led by them, for them. And that's what's so exciting by the platforms that are here today. They are helping build community and inclusion. They're driving change that has to be led by people who are informed of the needs and who are served by that work. So finally, the last thing that I'll mention is that at the core of our work, what Giving Tuesday is trying to achieve as an organization is to reimagine a world that's based on radical generosity, which is this notion that someone else's suffering should be as intolerable as our own suffering. And so we believe that if people flex their generosity muscles regularly, we can create a habit out of giving and that there'll be more inclines to participate in all kinds of other pro-social behavior. So if there's one thing I wanna leave you with, it's just that Giving Tuesday is an opportunity, is a movement that gives us an opportunity to build the world that we're imagining. And especially through the support and the expertise of the platforms that are here today and who are funneling resources to communities that often don't have them or aren't prioritized otherwise. And so we're so excited about that. Thank you. Thank you, Alexa. With us today, we have Heather Infantrade, Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships for Giving Gap, Juneth Mihia, Deputy Director of Philanthropy and Innovation for Hispanics in Philanthropy and Chris Blaubeltz, founder of LaunchGood.com. So let's thank them for being here with us today. And now I welcome Heather Infantrade, Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships for Giving Gap. Heather is the founder of the Atlanta Task Force for Philanthropic Reparations, created in response to her public call-out of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta's Exclusion of Black Arts Organizations and COVID Relief Funding, resulting in an unprecedented contribution of $1.4 million to 33 Black organizations. Heather was also the Managing Director for the Transformation Alliance, a collective advancing equitable transit-oriented development as a pathway to Black prosperity. Prior to this position, Heather served as the Executive Director of Generator, retrofuturist Beltline Social House, whose mission is to bring together people to generate ideas that shape the future of cities. Thank you for joining us, Heather. Thank you, Bailey. And thank you, everyone, for tuning in today and to my fellow panelists. It's great to be able to come online here and share with you my passion and the mission of Giving Gap. So with that, I'll just get into it by first stating that Giving Gap exists to advance racial equity in giving and to mobilize positive action in support of Black lives by connecting people to causes that they care about most. And with that, we'll get into it. So only a tiny fraction of the $450 billion that's given out to charities each year support Black organizations. We have found even in cities where there is a significant Black population that grant-making typically disproportionately is denying access to Black organizations to do the work that they see fit in their communities. There's a really interesting report that came out during the pandemic from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy entitled Black Funding Denied that looked at the grant-making practices of community foundations in the Southeast and across the country, really speaking to this gap in funding that's happening. Conversely, Bridge Span Group did a report called Four Pathways to Greater Giving where they were serving some of the country's ultra-wealthy donors that have signed the U.S. Giving Pledge and found that almost 60% of them reference economic mobility as a funding priority, but they don't have access to a particular platform or mechanism in which they can identify and make contributions in those areas. So there's this gap between one, the visibility of these organizations and donors that have an interest in being able to connect to this kind of work. So following the social uprising during the global pandemic, our founders of Giving Gap created a spreadsheet of Black-founded nonprofit organizations that they were aware of to generate donor interest in very much the same way folks are being called to support Black businesses. And so they wanted to do it in the nonprofit philanthropic space. That spreadsheet has become what is Giving Gap's platform today, which now has upwards of 2,000 organizations and growing every day with the express purpose of raising visibility of these groups and providing a very simple, easy way for folks to find and support them. The premise for the platform is also based on the notion that philanthropic support of Black organizations in particular is a critical piece to tackling systemic racism. Black organizations are most likely to be grounded in the needs of Black communities. They have missions that are connected to positive action for Black lives. They employ Black people and they empower Black leaders. So this is the demo portion of my presentation. What you're looking at now is the homepage of the Giving Gap website platform, which you can access by going to givinggap.org and immediately on the front page, there are links that take you to the various organizations that are in our database. So one of the ways in which you can identify groups that are in our database is either publicly or by category of area in which these organizations are doing their work. So for example, we have highlighted here food justice and hunger prevention, that's a link that would take you to all the organizations that we have registered under that category. I just wanna know at the time that we had prepared this presentation and shared this screenshot. We had created some curated lists around the Jackson water crisis, which is something that we'll do from time to time if there's a particular social issue that comes up and making it really easy for donors that are coming onto the platform to be able to reference those organizations work in those areas. But again, as I mentioned, one of the other ways in which you can filter through the organizations on our platform is by geography, by states. And we're looking to build this out further as we continue to refine and amplify different filters and categories of the database where you might be able to search by municipality and that sort of thing, but currently what you can do is look by state. So if you click on one of these states and it will pull up all the causes that are within that state. This is a sample view. If you were to click on New York, this shows all of the organizations. This shows a portion view of all the organizations in the state of New York. And what you'll see here is not only the name of the organization, the city that they're located within that state. We provide a short little descriptor or mission statement associated with that organization and then a link for you to donate. So you would click on donating for New York glass, for example, and you have the option here through our partnership with PayPal Giving Fund to administer a donation through PayPal. For those organizations that aren't registered with PayPal, that is a step that they have to do. That's a separate relationship where organizations will have to be registered through the PayPal Giving Fund in order to accept donations through that platform. And so for those organizations on our platform that don't have that affiliation, then what we do is we provide a direct link to their organization where users and interested donors, supporters can make a donation through that means. Here we're highlighting here in the top right hand corner where you will access the navigation tool there for submitting a nonprofit organization to be included in the database, which is one of our big call to the actions for the folks that are on this Zoom today. If you are a black identifying organization that is founded and led by a person of African descent, then we invite you to be part of our platform and to have your information included in the database. And of course, our second call to action, most important one is to support a black organization doing work in the community. Ultimately, Giving Gap is seeking to galvanize one million supporters to donate $1 billion by 2030. Thank you. Thank you, Heather. That was really cool. And next we have Juneth Mejia. And Juneth is the deputy director of philanthropy and innovation for Hispanics in philanthropy. She's a digital philanthropy trailblazer in Mexico slash not Latin America. And as head of strategy and operations in Hip Give, Hispanic in philanthropy's digital platform, she leverages investment and develops innovative technology to help hundreds of nonprofits from across the Americas to advance their work through crowdfunding campaigns. Having spearheaded the recent integrations of peer-to-peer giving and digital giving circles, Juneth is leading the way and creating the largest digital community for social good and 21st century philanthropy. Thanks for joining us today. Thank you so much, Bailey. And as Bailey said, my name is Juneth Mejia. I am the head of Hip Give, which is Hispanics in philanthropy digital platform, which is focusing on advancing Latinx social impact projects from nonprofits and promoting philanthropy across America since 2014. Please. Thank you. And since 2014, we saw a couple of reasons why we needed to create this platform. We saw a lack of under investments in which Latinx communities receive less than 6% of all international grand dollars from US foundations go toward Latin America. And less than 1% of US foundation fundings go to Latinx serving nonprofits in the US. We as well saw a lack of bilingual giving infrastructure for Spanish speaking communities and donors, and as well bilingual and free training for them. We saw as well the need to keep democratizing philanthropy, change the narrative of what philanthropy means, promote the spaces to show the power of collective giving and the Latinx culture of generosity. And last but not least, but we as well saw the lack of visibility for those grassroots organizations who were willing to find spaces to provide a impact and to share their voice as well. For us, it is about more than just the money. It's about changing attitudes toward giving, creating a community of people that believe in our cause, democratize philanthropy and inspire community involvement, and as well boost the capacity to innovate and estrange their resilience in the long term. So understanding the context of Latinos, not just in the US, but across the Americas, understand how technology and philanthropy is evolving so we could create the best channels and tools to create spaces to engage, to connect, to donate, looking to boost philanthropy. We evolved in the last couple of years of being just a crowdfunding platform and being able to develop new features as peer-to-peer giving, permanent digital campaigns and digital giving circles. And show you a quick demo of how you could get involved with HitGit. In order to create a crowdfunding campaign, we just have to click on register your organization, fill your personal information in order to create your profile. Then we will ask you a couple of basic information from your organization and ask you to upload your IRS letter confirming you are a 501c3. And then it will show you all the different things that we will need to create your campaign, generating information about your crowdfunding project and all the content and description around your project in Spanish and English, a place in which you could upload pictures or videos that illustrates your campaign. And once you are ready to go, you can request validation and in less than 48 hours, the team will reply back to you. While your campaign is going on, you are able to upload different updates about what's going on with your campaign and as well when it's finished, you can upload your results. While your campaign is running, you are always, we invite you to keep filling out all the information around your organization, legal information and as well banking information. So we are, when your campaign is finished, we are ready to send those funds out to your organization. And if you want to become a caregiver from a to a project or if you want to donate to an organization, you only have to click and select within the over 500 projects that we have so far open on the platform. You just need to click to give to this project, then select the amount you want to donate, fill your personal information and select your payment method. As we are legally registered in the U.S. and in Mexico, you are able to ask for a tax exempt receipt. And if you are looking forward to create a giving circle campaign, we will ask you to fill personal information around for you as a leader and as well basic information for your giving circle. From your giving circle profile, you will be able to send invitation for those potential members that you have already spoke with. You will be able to fill out all this general information about your giving circles into description. You will be able to show what's the purpose of being a member of this giving circle and invite people to join, illustrate as well with videos and pictures. What is your giving circle looking forward to do? And once all the members agree that they are ready to send the funds to one or different nonprofits, you are able to click on the page to allocate the funds for those nonprofits. And as a gift, we will take care of making and realizing all the compliance process for all those potential nonprofits and as well send the money for those organizations. And you will be able to share as many things as you want all the results that you have accomplished as a giving circle group. And if you want to become a giving circle member, you will just have to click on give, choose giving circles. And it could be two types of giving circles, ones that are open, that you are ready to go, that you just have to share much more about you. Select the amount you want to donate if it's unique or if it's a recurring membership. And you will then fill out your membership profile. But if it's a close giving circle, you will have to request to join. And the organization have already set a couple of organizations if it's a good fit for you. So you will receive an answer for them if they accept you to join the giving circle. And once they accept you, you will be able as well to create your profile and share it with much more people around this giving circle and invite them to join. Last but not least, we are inviting you to join us for a Latinx gift, which is our largest giving campaign in partnership with Giving Tuesday, where there's a space for organizations, for individuals and for foundations and corporate partners to join. And if you want to know much more about hip-gift, follow us in social media. Next we have Chris Blavouts. Chris is a passionate Muslim-American entrepreneur committed to building up the global Muslim community to reach its full potential. Chris is the CEO and founder of LaunchGood.com, the world's largest faith-inspired crowdfunding platform, which has raised over $350 million across 152 countries from over a million users. Thanks for joining us today, Chris. Hey, thanks, everybody. I'm so happy to be here. Cool. All right, really quick, Alan Hughes LaunchGood and just talk about a little bit of what we do. It's nice to hear hip-gift. We're like hip-gift, but for the Muslim community. I'm one of three founders. I have a crazy background, so engineer, film producer, startups. There's also a brilliant young woman, a mani that I work with and a brilliant designer, Omar. And you know, it's cool about us and I think that's true for a lot of people here. Like we didn't do this because we're MBAs and soft business opportunities. Like we're just community activists and we really believe in the cause. And we just started this thing in our backyards and bootstrapped it and grew it to about 100 people and $350 million raised for charities around the world. And so if you don't know LaunchGood, you can basically think of it as like the Muslim GoFundMe. It's the world's largest crowdfunding platform. And I believe it might be the largest faith-based crowdfunding platform for anybody. And we do a lot of cool things to help charities with fundraising and GivingTuesday is definitely a big part of it. So we're a donation-based platform. Everyone else or hip-gift that's going before us. I already mentioned we've crossed 350 million over a million unique donors, almost 50,000 campaigns. I think what kind of makes us, this is pretty standard. I'm not gonna go over this because I think people here now, if you didn't know before with hip-gift and the other day what crowdfunding is, we got some cool, there's some cool things that we do that I think, and you could do on LaunchGood, but I think you can do it on a lot of different websites. One is leveraging trackable links. It's been a game changer for a lot of our fundraisers. And last year we had three charities on GivingTuesday that each raised over $100,000. I think one of them like $300,000. And the common denominator is all three leveraged trackable links. And I can talk about that a little more, maybe on Q&A. Extension of your team, you can add teammates and this even goes with the trackable links. It's really important that you don't do this alone, that you engage your community and you empower them and make sure that your campaign's really visually appealing and connects with people's hearts. Yeah, this is what I was talking about with the trackable links. So we set up this insights tab. You can probably do this in a lot of different ways. I'm sure there's ways you can do it with Google, Google insights, but this is just how it looks internally to us. And there's probably even a bit thing and some other things that you can use to do it. But within LaunchGood, we have the ability that you can create any link. If you see here, for example, there's two users, one named Imran and one named Ali, that referred four donors between them that drove in $127 in donations, for example. And we started this because there was a charity on Giving Tuesday, like three years ago called Celebrate Mercy. And they had this idea of, and they're fantastic fundraisers. They're like, we wanna really incentivize our donors and we're gonna offer a free vacation for one donor and their family if they're able to drive 10 or more donations to our Giving Tuesday and every set of 10 becomes like an extra raffle ticket. So they needed some tool to be able to see how many donations each of their donors drove. And so we built this tool for them actually and they got, I don't know, maybe a hundred volunteers and between those hundred volunteers that each on average drove like 15 donors. So it was 1,500 donors in one day between all these volunteers. And that was a total of, I think about $150,000 in donations. So it costs them a vacation that it paid like, I don't know, $5,000 or something as a giveaway to one of their volunteers. But for that, they got all this work was done on their behalf and it raised $150,000. So that was really effective fundraising strategy for Giving Tuesday and now we're seeing every year the top charities implement this tool. There's some other things that we do unique to us but it's all about gamification. So Launch Good, we offer a leaderboard on Giving Tuesday, we give out, it's like $100,000 in prizes. Whoever raises the most money or gets the most donors gets like $25,000. And it's very effective to motivating donors actually. So this is something you don't have to be part of Launch Good to take advantage of the psychology of this. And what I see it all the time actually, if you can find a big donor it could be an individual, it could be a foundation, it could be a corporation that's willing to say, hey, if you can raise $50,000, I will match 50,000. Or for every dollar you raise, I will double it up to $10,000, something like that. Donors get so motivated. They really like just open up. And I've seen people like maybe their average donation is usually $10, $20. All of a sudden they give like $200. And I asked them like, why did you give so much? They're like, it was being doubled. So I felt like I couldn't, I couldn't miss the opportunity. And I think a lot of people here are probably familiar with Facebook's giveaway. This year maybe $10,000,000. I can't remember what they announced, but I think it might be $10,000,000 giveaway. The reality is that stuff's gone in a second. $10,000,000, like you're lucky if you get $100 of it. But it's still useful just to be able to tell your donors like, hey, Facebook's giving away $10,000,000. And all we gotta do is get the donors and they'll match it. And we just gotta do it right away. And your donors will be really motivated. So a lot of fundraising is psychology, having fun with it, showing your donors you're having fun with it and making them feel like they can be part of the fund. This is related to team fundraising. So I think also Hipgid mentioned this, but peer-to-peer fundraising is something similar. If you don't wanna use trackable links or an alternative trackable links is you actually give everyone their own micro campaign. So instead of using links, it's like everyone creates a campaign. It's a little bit more work, but people tend to take it more seriously because if the campaign is in their name, it's not just I'm helping celebrate mercy fund raise, but now Chris's fund raise or celebrate mercy, I feel like my reputation's on the line. But I can't hide, I don't want it to say $0. No, I'm gonna work harder. There's a lot of crowdfunding platforms that offer peer-to-peer functionality. It's very effective. Okay, so we've got lots of questions. So I think the first question that I wanna start with is one for all of you. There's a lot of questions about the geography and location in which people can use your app. So number one is this available to folks in Canada or outside of the US and then also US territories. So I'll start with Heather. Yeah, great question. So the organizations that we populate on their platform are explicitly based in the United States of America, including the territories. There aren't any organizations represented in the territories, but that is not an indication of our allegiance to them. It's just that we haven't had any submissions of organizations. And going forward, we're doing a more active outreach strategy to identify more black-founded led organizations to be included on the platform. So we're definitely looking to build out the list of organizations that we have representing all 50 states plus territories. But if individuals are interested in supporting the organizations, that is open to everybody regardless of where they are geographically located. Thank you, Heather. June, do you want to go next? Thank you, yes. In the case of Kevin, yes, we are able to support that the next projects are letting non-profits which are based in Canada, in the US, and as well across the Americas. That's great. And Chris. Yeah, so we do give in to the globally. You can imagine it's mostly an American thing. So we have a lot of charities that work in the UK and stuff. And it's starting to become a thing now because of what we do and all the money we give away. And then, but we had to tweak it a little bit for some areas. So for Southeast Asia, we actually call it like, like they have their own leaderboard and old prizes because they can't really compete with the American and Western charities. But yeah, it's everywhere now. Thank you. There was a question in here that was answered already in chat, but I think that it's worth talking about it out loud. So just give me one moment here. Lizette asked for Junith, can you explain more about giving circles? Can you share a little bit more about giving circles? Yes, as Mappi share on their answer, it's like a digital giving circle. It's a group of people, which it could be friends, it could be college who are joining because of an interest or an specific interest or a specific cause. And they wanted to do something, but they still don't have a specific and nonprofit. They just know like they have this specific thematic that they care about. So they joined together. They researched more and more about it. Like they, as a group, set a goal of what amount they want to donate to a specific cause, as a group, and they could like those limits around, hey, we are going to donate individually, I don't know, like $1,000.  So at the end, we will have this amount. So we will decide as a group which organizations we want to support, one or it could be multiple. So it's an exercise of citizenship and participation and understanding much more about what are your community needs and as well to get much more involved. We are providing all the technology to support you administratively. So we are able to do all the nonprofit background check, all the compliance and as well disperse like all the different funds and support you with administering all those funds and provide you an online tool in which you are able to spread the word about what your group is willing to do and support. Thank you for that. Very helpful. Okay, so I'm going to move on to the question from Sandra for all presenters. How do the organizations that serve as clearinghouses vet organizations that link to them? So I will start this time with Chris. Awesome. Can you just repeat that question one more time? Yeah. How do the organizations that serve as clearinghouses vet organizations that link to them? It varies. Like sometimes it's super easy, right? And if it's a U.S. charity, you have access usually to their EIN and can look up all sorts of records and those are the type of things we do. If they're international organizations, it's a lot more work and frankly we have a whole compliance team. Thankfully I'm not involved in that work because I find it a little boring but yeah, that is really important part of the work we do and there's all sorts of background checks that can get as advances doing background checks on the individual directors of the companies, the nonprofits. Heather. So currently the way that we vet organizations is as it relates to their nonprofit tax exempt status. So one must be a IRS designated 501c3 organization in order to qualify. We're already aware of some of the inequities of that because there are a number of community-based organizations that don't have that designation doing really incredible important work but as a starting point, that's where we are in our vetting process. So one, an organization must be designated as such and be in compliance, however that is defined by the IRS and then of course that the racial identity of the organization's founder and we are expanding that to also include the leader of the organization is of African descent. Thanks, Heather. I think that what you're touching on is just a really important reminder about the natural inequality when we're looking at 501c3 designation in the US and I know that's one thing just here at TechSoup that we're constantly thinking about when we're looking at our programs and our eligibility and I know that recently we just opened up to tribal libraries, which is like a really cool opportunity. I think that's something that's important for all of us to think about. Juneth, what about you? Yeah, in our cases the same as Heather's case, like we will need to have a verified nonprofit with the status of our 501c3 and that the people that it's being served belongs to the Latinx communities. Great, thank you so much. There are a ton of questions in chat and we'll be able to share these with the presenters today and we can always follow up with some of these answers. So thanks everyone for the active participation. So while we're closing out, I wanted to see what is one thing that you all learned today from this presentation? Go ahead and share that in chat and I'll kind of read out a couple out loud just to see what the thing was that you all learned and found the most interesting from today's presentation. I'll wait for a bit because I know it takes a little bit. I know for me personally, it gives me a good opportunity to check out these platforms and see what's going on in my community around me and see if there's some new organizations I can look into to give to this Giving Tuesday. Yeah, Shreema says that she's looking forward to getting the slides and just loves learning about the general platforms that are available. Dixie mentioned matching money strategies. I think that's always a really important thing as well. Lizette mentioned that she's a new nonprofit and I think just looking forward to engagement and Pat mentioned that they liked learning about all the new platforms. Oh, Lizette engaging the Hispanic community in philanthropy specifically. That's great. Thank you for sharing all of these. Okay, so if you like what you saw today and want to support future demo events and if you want to reach nonprofits curious about technology, you can consider being a sponsor for a future event. If interested, please contact Susan Tinby for more information at stinby at TechSoup.org. And thank you again, especially to all the behind the scene producers and staff at TechSoup who made this event possible. Thank you again for joining us today. This is really valuable information. So I hope everyone has a good rest of their day and rest of the week.


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