and welcome to the day of caring this is our second annual event we started last year and we've more than doubled the size of it this year thanks to you and all the project sites and our sponsors which is Aurora Health Care United Way and yeah and American orthodontics this event is put on primarily by the Volunteer Center of Sheboygan and we are a program under the direction of the partners for community development Lucio Fuentes here is the head chief of the partners for community development and it's an honor to work with him just a bunch of housekeeping I hope everybody's found their table that designates the project they'll be working on today most of the tables have a team member from the project site that can give you any special directions and answer any questions you may have there's there's food and water here to please help yourself before you take off you might need it for extra energy during the day box lunches will be delivered at around noon so look out for those and what else could what else did I forget to say well the volunteers are wonderful thank you thank you so right now that we've asked the mayor to say a few words he and his wife Sue will be working out the Girl Scout project this morning and we really feel honored to have you here Terry so morning everyone you know this is great too many times Sue and I get to work with volunteers with organizations whether it's fraternal organizations the Lions clubs who optimist those type of groups habitat for humanity but this is really what Sheboygan's all about people caring about each other caring about our community helping out each other and taking a day on a beautiful day like today taking your time and being willing to help the community and help others with whatever we're going to do as you can see I'm in my paint clothes so I'm going to be out painting at the Girl Scout house my wife Sue used to think I was a painter she owns a painting company so she she she used to take me along and make believe that I knew what I was doing and in painting but it's going to be exciting thank you for all being here today and again this is what Sheboygan's all about caring for each other helping each other out have a great day today and let's get out there and get to work thank you Terry thank you one final thing and one final thing to say and then you can take off and have fun for the rest of the day is at three o'clock this afternoon we start having a lot of fun here at the park serving beer and refreshments a pig roast we're going to have music entertainment raffles silent auctions and I'm sure what by the end of the evening we'll have a few people dawdling out by the lake so anyway have a good time and thank you for coming and volunteering you're all great hi this is Nanette Boulevage from WSCS I'm so delighted to be here on the second annual day of caring I am with the two people who are making two among many but two chief people who have put all this together so I'm going to let them introduce themselves Jose yes I'm Jose I want program director partners for community development partners is the organization that it's the umbrella organization for the volunteer center of Sheboygan County okay and Scott and my name is Scott Johnston I'm the program director for the volunteer center and I work kind of ham and egg it with a Jose yeah this is put together with a lot of effort a lot of hours and this is the second annual one so before we go any further tell me what is the purpose of the day of caring well day of caring event is it's as you said it's one once every year event where we look with the the main purpose of the event is to promote volunteerism in our community so we recruit volunteers from different companies and corporations that are in Sheboygan County and we ask them to donate a day of their day or a day of their life to help others in Sheboygan County okay so promoting volunteerism now last year I know you had five sites we had six sites six sites and about 90 volunteers and this year it's more than doubled right we've got 15 sites so it's more than doubled and we have close to 200 volunteers this year oh it's a terrific and we're not just volunteering I mean we'll tell me first of all what kind of work our people doing what are some of the sites and what are the tasks okay well at the Girl Scout offices we have a lot of painting going on which will involve the mayor and his wife Sue and also Maywood there will be picking weeds and cleaning pathways let's see the March the March project yeah the March out in out in El Carleg we're working at the March we're doing some cleanup as well out there moving some rocks that need to be moved we're gonna be at sunny side town houses doing a little bit of gardening as well planting new plants doing some walching the building that partners for community development doing some outside painting as well the White House the White House and that White House they're actually it's a it's a really nice project they're creating a new path for their carriages so as Scott said there's 14 different projects there's four you know different products for it that to fit the interest of all the volunteers that we have this year and everyone has been just wonderful we especially want to thank the collaboration and sponsorship of American orthodontics in Aurora Aurora it's actually our sponsor for the event for the second year in a row in and also the United Way of Sheboygan County they have also been behind us and supporting us on this event and supporting the volunteer center since the beginning of the program and all of in all of our major sponsors have had people on our planning committee since December of last year so they've been very instrumental in helping organize this entire event besides just providing monetary funding. Tell me a bit about the response from the hosts of these sites I was I had the privilege of working with you last year on this event and I remember going to the little old school house and I think the minister a minister was the host and he actually broke down into tears yes so grateful for the workers have you been hearing? I think every one of these sites the leaders at every one of these sites are very grateful and we've not had to really push them to get organized they are ready to work these volunteers they've been very very good and they work hard yes they do and okay final tell me what's going on tonight at the end of all the activities tonight at the end well at three o'clock all the volunteers are gonna finish their projects and then come back here to Kings Park and we're gonna have a celebration of volunteering and the event is also gonna help us raise funds for the Volunteer Center of Sheboygan County so we're gonna have some music free life entertainment we're having the Water Street hot shots playing tonight from 4 to 5 30 and at 6 o'clock from 6 to 8 o'clock we have Benson Clemmie playing we also have a wonderful pig roast that's gonna be grilled by three guys in the grill they're already here they've been here since 6 in the morning these guys are amazing so that's for sale tonight as well we also have raffles and silent oxen items we have almost 25 raffle items and almost 10 silent oxen items so there's a lot to be had there what else is going on well we just have a lot of fun people are having a lot of fun today they're giving back to their communities learning a little bit more about the different organizations that are in the community even us have been learning of new organizations such as the the equine sanctuary out in by keel so or close to Elkar Lake so there's new organizations there that we didn't know of that we're gonna be able to help today with the help of these volunteers that are have come out today and just a word now how's your chance to talk about your website which is so exciting that's a one stop shop for people to find out how to volunteer it's a it's www volunteer sheboygan.com volunteer sheboygan.com even I can remember that yeah and it's a very user-friendly site where people can find out the volunteering opportunities that exist within the county right currently right now there's a over 130 volunteer opportunities posted on the site and people can go in there and find something that fits their needs and interests and talent okay one last question is there gonna be a third annual day of caring of course of course this is going to be our annual event and we hope that every every year it grows more and more and more hopefully we can double again next year double the excitement and double the sides and double the volunteers but yes this is going to be in our annual event and of course the volunteer center is here to stay so we're now able to say and proud to say that sheboygan county has a volunteer center and it's working wonderful okay so remember folks volunteerism isn't just one day it goes on the whole year keeping sheboygan county great go to volunteer sheboygan.com and you will find out how you can help the community thank you okay so here we are at the partner is on 13th in Georgia and I think we have a pretty fairly sizable crew from the Kohler company spending a day here painting the building and what is your name please my name is Luke Zimbrick and what do you do at the Kohler company I'm an engineer I work on bathing products okay and this is your first year of volunteering or did you do it last year this is my first year with the company volunteering how can you do it well it's a nice change of pace it gets me out of the office and and I just get a good feeling from it and especially working with these guys it's just a good time most of us yeah yeah and we are a team yeah and what specifically are you doing here well I'm getting the paint ready to go in the roller pan so we can start painting the the brick surface of the building we're gonna do two colors today and hopefully get about 75% of the building painted for us yeah yeah we got a couple issues to cover first but it'll look pretty good by the end of the day looking forward to it yeah no problem okay we're still at the partners for community development building on 13th in Georgia and we're talking to another Kohler company worker and you are Allison Blake Allison Blake and you're also an engineer yep yeah that's right bathing engineering group it's just a great chance to get out in the community and help take care of our neighborhoods so are you a professional painter by no not at all yeah it might be but it's worth it and it'll look really good when we're done so I know from talking to other color people in previous years the company really does encourage you to do this yeah yeah it's a great chance to get out of the office and do some team building get to know our co-workers a little better while helping the community out so thank you nice to meet you good luck well we're still going through the day of caring and we are at the Wisconsin Naval Shipping Association and we're talking to Larry Hinkelman who is the executive director president of the board right okay all right so and then he is watching all these people tearing up carpet that is hard work I didn't expect them to get this far until noon but really yeah I mean they're gonna start in the middle section and we've had that plan for this afternoon already so I gonna have to come up with other stuff for them to do that's my my biggest plan is to get all of this carpet that's been here forever up because in a couple of months we're planning to have new carpet put down so this would have been the hardest part this is saving us weeks of work and dollars and cents this is going to be the part of the Military Heritage Museum we did have some displays as you can tell we were open for a couple of weeks and then with the dredging we had to close so we probably won't be open until let's say January and that's why we want to get this done so we can do a lot of work on the interior yeah this is fantastic this is a you know just a great group the Aurora healthcare system these are all from Aurora yeah a year ago we were thecipient of about 17 people from different companies moving desks and landscaping and yeah it was it was terrific we're very very happy for this we're still at the Wisconsin Naval Shipping Association and we're talking to Kathy Becker from Aurora what do you do in Aurora I'm the Chief Nurse Officer I think you might have so you are almost done tearing up all this carpeting and you're done much sooner than Larry thought and you just told me a minute ago why why that is well and I think when Larry said we have some work until noon so everyone looked around and said noon that's that's too soon we'll be done at noon and then what so but at Aurora our workers work hard every day and overwork and we get this type of intensity every day they're good workers they're fast workers and they're dedicated and motivated and obviously they're dedicated to their community by coming up in working today so and how nice of Aurora to loan you absolutely Aurora is a very very good partner with the community they really try to make things happen and improve the community so how many are you from Aurora today wow oh I know you have a lot of sites we do I don't know the total number but there is a lot of us and we do this every year it's it's amazing the dedication and are you all in the same department or not no different sites different departments the clinic the hospital were from many different areas facilities clinic there's nurses here there's on and on and on lots of people pts and that's physical therapists yeah so I'm personally willing to work here today well when I I came here a year ago and I am amazed at Cheboygan and the community that is surrounds us it's it's everywhere you go people are friendly kind caring they help each other I come from Milwaukee a big city so this in comparison is amazing I'm very very impressed this is the best-kept secret right up here in Cheboygan I'll tell you that much thank you I'll let you get back to work thank you putting your gloves on they match my shirt I'm ready to go thank you good like well we are in my favorite place because I'm a librarian so I'm just delighted to be here and it's so great that me public library could be part of the day of caring oh yes it's a wonderful opportunity for us we're with Sharon Winkle the director of the library and why is it wonderful for you well we are trying to encourage more people in the community to think about the library when they think about volunteering their time it can really help keep customer service levels yeah where we'd like them to be these can be challenging times in which to achieve that and we think it's a wonderful opportunity for people who might need to volunteer indoors and who enjoy being around books and a lot of other people who also enjoy that same environment opportunities for working with technology as well in libraries and I know a lot of people are interested in that both our customers and people who might be volunteering here so bond what would a volunteer do if she wanted here he wanted to work with technology well for example there'd be an opportunity to show people how to download materials from the overdrive service that we have that includes ebooks and e-audio books many people like some hands-on assistance with that and we do from time to time offer that but we could offer those opportunities more often if we had more people to do it augmented by volunteers in addition to staff members so are you all to listen on the volunteer boydon.com yes we are our volunteer coordinator Pat Miller has made sure that we join that organization and that we get the word out about volunteer opportunities at various websites including our own website so people do want to volunteer for the library they should go to that website or call Pat right or they can check www.meadpubliclibrary.org and look at the volunteer information available there thank you thank you fill at the library and we have four volunteers from the Sheboygan Senior Center who are spending the day shifting books and maybe dusting a few off why don't you tell us for first of all give us your name please Jeff Braver and your volunteer for the Sheboygan Senior Center for the senior center okay and what are you doing actually we're taking these shelves and we're rearranging them so that we can get some of them off the top shelf they found that everything at eye level or in between so you don't have to reach so high it's hard to reach up there so we're shifting them around getting them even and putting them in there and then dusting off the shelf after we had done so you know there's a stereotype about seniors I mean normally most people would think seniors oh you should be receiving you should be on the receiving end of volunteerism but no no not really no we got a group of volunteers down at the senior center that it's an extensive group and we found that to stay active when you when you get to be retirement age and help out the community at the same time I think there's a new shift in attitude and we're enjoying it we have a great time we have a wonderful bunch of people down there and it's a great place to visit a great place to have activity so not enough people know about it that's exactly right I mean the more people that find out about it and all of us down there try to bring as many people in down there as we can and show them what we have and it's a great place you have a variety of things that people can do absolutely you can volunteer for any number of things we just did a project about a couple months ago at the at the rehab center and we did some packaging and package screws and and nuts and bolts for them and we had a great time there were about 10 to 12 of us every week on a Friday and did that for about eight or nine weeks and had a great time and do you like being in the library today I love having the library but yeah you bet all my daughter's a librarian at North Carolina so we're kind of giving back a little bit to her too so okay and maybe you'll see some books you want to take home today well like that too and I'm trying to read her four or five while I go down the line here we are this morning with Pat Miller who is the volunteer coordinator at New Public Library and you're the person responsible for getting the volunteers here today is that right yes yes we're um so pleased that we were you know picked to be in in this program you hit yeah I don't know how that comes about how they pick the programs but but you I know you were involved last year but this year right right my impression is is that every year it changes a little bit you know and so that they're volunteering in the community everywhere okay so we have four people from the Sheboygan senior senate yes their assignment today is to um in sections of our library shipped our books so it's a pretty big job it's physical I think and we've removed some of the books and making room for new ones okay and it's important work that has to be done as he was saying because people can't reach those top shelves so it's good to lower them right and and also to add new books it's so that they don't get too tight and um to make them in order and plus we gave our volunteers dust rags today and this is as Sharon told us a few minutes ago this is becoming increasingly important for public institutions such as libraries because of budget cuts does it really make a difference yes it does yes it does we um you know we have ongoing volunteers here and we have um volunteers who come in just for special projects such as day of caring recently we had the co-work company and their amazing race and hope to have them back again I think that's something that they're going to repeat so we're very happy to be in the day of caring so if someone is interested in volunteering at new public library they can contact you yes or they could go to the website yes it's on our website and the application form is at each of our desks that they can be picked up I can be called um any of them or they can go to the volunteer sheboygan.com website yes yes we are partnered and members of the volunteer um center how many volunteers do you think are involved in the library right now on an ongoing basis right now we have um about 40 okay and your job is to keep them online right and um it's actually a new position here at the library so um you know an attention is also to grow the program okay and and you are a volunteer too I believe right I am so I am I'm you're willing to spend so much time I'm a sheboygan volunteer center volunteer and I've been doing that for about a year and a half and um my specialty in that is to do special events so I've um bartended badly actually people help me they've been very kind and um you know take tickets and money and that sort of thing and registration and so for you day of caring is every day so okay and what is your name please my name is cindy breaker okay hi cindy oh we just met your husband I think yes yes that was my husband you're both volunteering today yes you're both representing the sheboygan senior center right and are you a volunteer active volunteer in other things too yes I volunteer a lot through the center and at the center um I do a lot of help with children's reading uh children that are struggling in the lower grades I try to help them catch up and and why are you doing this a lot of people would say that a senior citizen at this point in your life should be receiving volunteers oh no I believe in giving back to your community to your church to your family to your friends because what goes around comes around you never know when you're going to need help and then those people always come back to you and that's way to put it this is your first day of caring yes this is my first time of doing caring day and I just think it's fabulous I didn't know about it until they told me about it at the center and I just think it's wonderful it just think if every church would have a caring day and help somebody in their congregation who maybe needed their house painted inside or their lawn mode or something so not just organizations but spreading out spreading out right right right yeah the clocks are ticking do you like working in the library yes this is fun I love books so yes yes so this is a great opportunity although I've caught myself uh reading the verbs on the book at that time yes well thank you very much you're welcome okay good life how great that you guys do it where do you work with the children um I have a private tutoring job this summer that I got through the senior center oh you did yes about during the school year I worked two and a half hours a day at Longfellow as a playground cafeteria supervisor yes I was a nurse for 40 years you were I was going to ask what your career was okay and um that it got too much with the lifting and stuff right so there's always things that fit in to that career someplace I mean like working with kids I love kids it's super yeah that's great this is a little precious and there's so many that just need that little bit of extra love the gorgeous children's garden we've got two volunteers here and can I have your names please Jane Jane and Bob Bob and your violin who are you representing today retired folks okay so you're not with one of the employers no you're just here just here and how's your day going so far it's beautiful and what are you doing here picking holes and filling them up planting trees and bushes planting trees and bushes yes and you're with the children's museum okay what is your name I named David Peterman David Peterman and your title you're I'm basically kind of an art director around here but I do maintenance work and the garden gardening of course so sort of wherever they need my help so does this make a difference having volunteers yes absolutely otherwise I have to do all this myself so anytime we can get some volunteers they help it always makes things a little smoother getting things done a little quicker so absolutely more volunteers we can get around here the better above and beyond there's always a need of volunteers not just on the day of caring right right every day we can use volunteers and we do weekend events like broad days coming up and things like that so there's always help needed when we do events we do have to staff people there while we're also somewhere else if someone is interested in volunteering how would they do that oh they would have to contact one of the other staff people within the museum generally Cindy or Jeff Mann the executive director would help them out and they might work in the garden or they might do other things right we have some volunteers inside doing some painting and working on another wall then we have to remove some hands from a few earlier projects so we can get it ready for a new project and why are you willing to spend a whole day out here working you could be lying on a hammock or something it seems like a good thing to do with our time okay I that that's it we uh had bought tickets for the dinner tonight and said well if we're going to go to the dinner we should probably work during the day so so called up and this is where they found for us so you'll be lying the stereotype of senior citizens who are just relaxing you're you're like out there I mean I'm not sure that that's the stereotype I would agree with not anymore okay good that's good okay I'm glad to hear that yeah so you're going to the pig roast and you're looking forward to that yeah that's super sorry word for this right yeah we'll be ready for this big girl you've got sunscreen on I hope well we're out here at the Girl Scout house out on highway 42 we're doing some painting for the day of caring and we have with us Jennifer, Maggie, Crystal, Jessica, Rosa, jewelry, Sue and what group are you folks with a lot of you are from the same area from HSA Bank HSA Bank and Sheboygan yes and Megan you're Maggie you're from uh AmeriCorps oh so we we got a great crew here we're we're about half done with our work already this morning and my wife Sue and I are are happy to be here and this is a great organization so we're going to get back to work I'll fly away I'll fly away when I die I'll do you bye bye my shadow is on this life before you are home where George will never end I'll fly away I'll do you bye bye when I die that's we're very proud to be here we'll be this Friday afternoon before we get into the music let me introduce some of these folks that you might need to know this is George Reynolds and he's going to do all the mandolin chores for you here this afternoon my name is Mike this is Tim Decker he's going to do all the fiddle work for you this afternoon and over here playing the big fiddle the stand-up bass Alan the Doc Mock right there enjoy yourself let's start out with a piece called The Walking Doze this is from Sunhouse Robert Johnson walking blues well back there we appreciate that that makes us play into a piece here called I Know You Right I'm going to start with a little instrumental that I call white fish and kerosene used to play this a lot when I lived up in Dork County and played for the fish boilers as people are enjoying their wine coolers it's a while ago you remember wine coolers don't you it's a little bit fuzzy there good can I get just a little bit more of this one in the monitor here for me Volunteer Center's second annual day of care um it's really really huge and amazing event they had 180 volunteers working from eight o'clock to three o'clock this morning of 14 different locations giving their time and their effort to get the kick back party it up a little bit and celebrate um for doing that also it's a fundraiser I know they've got some rapping and things going on so please take part of that but thank you all for being here and almost all the music you're going to hear tonight with the exception of like two songs it's all original music going through I said I was over the past six years so the next song that we're going to do is actually the very first song that we ever wrote and this is how we got started here and this one's called can you tell me what's up market chain is this how you get now eat the strength or at least buy a good book come back to me


Hey everyone and welcome! This is Melissa with TheStalkSwish.com and I thought I would invite you to a webinar that is this coming Monday. It's going to be about a method to get the right pick daily. If you'd like more information you can email me at Melissa at TheStalkSwish.com and feel free to go to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or Skype and like me at any one of these places. I have a lot of videos, a place that I've done in previous webinars on YouTube if you'd like to watch them. You can also feel free to reach me by phone at<PHONE_NUMBER> if you'd like more information on what the method that I trade or this upcoming webinar on Monday. So feel free to reach out and sign up. It's Monday, September 22nd at 4.30 Eastern Time. All you have to do is go to this link right here. Registration is required ahead of time. It's free. But all you have to do is just sign up in advance. You want to get your spot there and register. It's going to be a very interesting webinar. It's fall trading season. It's here. Fall is underway. And it's a great time to trade the market and to learn how to pick the right thing to trade every single day. So can you get the right pick each day in the market? Yes, you can. And that's the way you make money. If you're looking and scrambling every single day to do something and have no idea what to focus on, it's going to be hard for you to be a consistent day trader or swing trader or court trader or any type of trader. I have prepared in the morning before I trade what I know I want to watch, what I know I like, and what I have my picks. And some days I have more than one pick. Do you need a method to get the right pick each day to trade? If you do, then this webinar is for you. Do you want to trade the market but don't know what to trade each day? Again, this is a great reason to come to the webinar. Do you trade now but struggle every day trying to pick what to trade? Maybe you try to watch the same single stock every day. But that stock doesn't have a set up in it every day. I've even trained for years and have no idea why some picks work and some don't. And you don't understand the direction to take them on any given day as well. Would you like to become more consistent with your picks and trades? Of course you would, everyone wants to be consistent when they're a trader. That's how you make money, especially if you do this for a living. Do you sometimes get the right pick but in the wrong direction? And again, even if you pick a stock that moves on the day and has momentum on the day and volume on the day but she don't take it in the right direction, then you're going to have a difficult time making money. So you've got to get the right pick and the correct direction. Do you need to learn how to get picks and read directional bias of the picks? Would you like to trade for a living and make enough money to pay your bills each month? I don't know if this is your goal or not, but you do need to know your goal when you get into the market. What are you doing this for? Part-time income, full-time income, savings, retirement, you need to know. You absolutely 100% have to know exactly why you're trading what you're doing this for. Again, it's all about the pick. This was Rax. This is a gap from September 17th. Beautiful bearish gap here. And again, it's all about the pick. It's all about the pick. Here was the play on Rax, it's a 15 minute chart on the interday chart. It really doesn't look like much except for it had a nice move. And this did not even get to what I call the dream target. Some stocks get to, there's targets on the day, some stocks get to even bigger moves on the day or what I call dream targets on the day. And again, this is all the information that I know personally from trading for six years and teaching people now. But Rax had a beautiful move in here on the 17th. So how much profit could you have made on one pick, one play in Rax? You just did one trade in Rax, you could have made over $1,500. Now, there was more than one trade in Rax on the day that it gapped, actually. There was more than one. So this one pick, you could have taken several different trades in it. You can take one pick and trade it multiple times on the day when the stock is a golden gap. And that's what I term my method. One of the benefits of learning the golden gap system is not only getting the pick correct, but the details in taking the entry and learning proper exits in the pick so that you can maximize your profit potential. And something that looks like this, that doesn't even look like something that's jimungous for you to be able to make $1,500 or over $1,000. And this is just in one of the trades in here. So I've found that many people have a misnomer about the market, the trade, the day trade. They think they can do anything on any given day or trend trade any stock on any given day. Or a lot of people also think they could just focus on the same stock ticker symbol every single day. But actually, that does not give rise to the maximum amount of profits that you could potentially make as a day trader. Why? Because in most given days of the 200 plus trading days in a year, many stocks don't have any particular strategy setting up in them. It's true. It's actually true. Even if you attempt to trend trade the same stock every day, you may not get paid with profitable entries and exits consistently. Why? Because the setups aren't there, for example, in the same stock every day, aren't in most stocks on any given day in the market. So this idea of watching the same thing like a lot of people want to do, they like Apple. They want to trade Apple every single solitary day. There isn't a play in Apple every day. There isn't a play in Apple every day to do. And also, on most given days in the market, if you play a certain stock, you won't make money if you are not reading the market, the market direction, the QQQ to the spot, ETFs right, to get your entry and exit at the right spot. So knowing this, half in one person, be successful day trading for consistent profit. Learning how, what, and why to choose the right stock to trade each and every day and in what direction is how you're going to do it. That's how you're going to do it. You've got to learn a strategy. It teaches how to read market direction, which I know how to do. You have to learn a systematic approach and method that pinpoints the right stock to play every day so that you can be consistently profitable and in what direction. And you can use this common sense method to help you choose what pick to trade each day and that have to stay focused. And one of the major things that people have an issue with when they're trading is discipline. Why? Because this involves money. And whenever you have money involved when people are making choices, it brings up a whole host of issues, emotional issues, all kinds of things that happen in people, their past experiences, whatever, okay? And you have to work through that and get over it and focusing in the morning. And knowing and having a method and a strategy to focus on and what to look for and do helps you stay on target to do what you're supposed to do, which is use your intellect to be able to make the proper choices in the market to trade and make the money. And you've got to have that focus. Focus on the right time of the day also. It's gonna help you get the profitable setups and to maximize your risk to reward payout and thereby reducing risk exposure by using stops. So you have to train your brain to read price action, which is what I do. That's what I do. That's how I'm getting the pick. I'm reading the price action. It's based on technical analysis. The way that I trade is based on technical analysis. So what is this new method to get the pick? It's called the Golden Gap 26 Point Rating System. I'm gonna talk about this more in the free webinar on Monday. What is a Golden Gap? A Golden Gap is a gap that has a high odds of working on the day. It's like finding gold in the market to me when I find a gap like this. Why? Because Golden Gaps spot institutional positioning in stocks and the market. Golden Gaps are also made for professionals. They are gaps that have a high odds of working on the day in the correct direction of the gap with a large amount to move, which is how as one individual in the market, you can make money because you're trading on the side of the institutional positioning. And that's what you need in order to have the move in the stock to profit. One person, if everyone in my training room did the same entry with me exactly on the day in the same pick, we wouldn't be able to move a stock. It's institutions that move stocks in the market. Hedge funds, banks, funds, all of that. They move stocks in the market with huge, huge, huge amounts of money. Here's an example of a Golden Gap. This was a bullish Golden Gap. This was GMCR. Beautiful. Look to it here. This was a lock. This was back in the month of August. And then we have a nice bearish gap here. This was in August too. This is NUS. So you would be looking to short this. And we're gonna talk about these more in the webinar again Monday too. How to find these. The method reads power money for the pick. That's actually the best thing really about this. Besides the focus, it's besides the fact that I'm looking at 26 things to determine what I'm trying to find to do. 26 things to look at in a chart of a stock to determine the pick is a lot of things. That stock has to have a lot of things for me to like it to work. And that's one of the reasons the detail in my system why I get the right things so many days. I get the right thing a lot. I've been trading for six years, but in the life of a trader, actually six years is not that long. It seems like a long time for me though, because I can't ever imagine my life prior to trading anymore. I don't remember what it was like before the market under my world. But I just threw myself into the market and lived and breathed it for so long here now that it's just part of me. And I'm able to do so well each morning by determining what I like on the day and what is there to work. And this is what I'm teaching people how to do. And I do think that this is how you can become profitable in the market by the focus. Not only focusing on a specific strategy but getting the right pick every day. Because it makes a difference. It makes a difference between whether or not you want to lose if you have the right stock to trade. So it's using a system and a checklist in a professional way. A professional way. Professionals have a focus, a discipline plan. What are they watching today? If it does this, they take it. If it doesn't do that, then they don't take it. Then they may not do anything on the day. Okay, they know exactly what they're looking for. And then they strike, okay? You've got to stop drowning in analysis though of thing after thing after thing. You've got to use one method. People want to do this and this and this and this and this and this and this and they're analyzing all these things by the time they figured everything out that they like the move is gone. This talk is the move is gone of the day. The money is gone that they could have made by the time to figure out what they want to do by 11 o'clock or 10 30 or 10 15, it's gone. 75, 80% of the move is done, okay? You have to have something that preps you early enough to get the momentum and the move on the day. So I teach a class on this which we're going to talk about more on Monday too. And if you're interested in this you can email me at melissathes stockswish.com. The Golden Gap course is the class that I teach and it teaches a strategy and how to trade gaps. The course teaches a 26 point rating system to find the best stock to trade each day. The course also teaches you what direction to trade the stock on the day. The course teaches you chart analysis and technical analysis on an advanced level. You've got to empower yourself to trade if you want to do it. It's not like I can say, well, if you just buy this machine here and you plug it in, it'll pick the right thing for every day and bleep when you should take it in and bleep when you should take it out. No, you've got to learn how to trade yourself.  You can empower yourself to trade. You have to use your brain to do it and learn. It's possible, I've taught people to do it and I'm doing it myself, okay? So it's empowering when you start to trade the market and you're successful. Words cannot describe how self-empowering it is when you get to the point when you are profitable consistently as a day trader in the market. This is a nice testimonial from David, who's a student of mine. I have been a financial advisor for over 20 years and a trader of everything from stocks to futures to options for six years. I will tell you without question, Melissa's short selling system is by far the most profitable, consistent and easy to follow system I have ever seen. The best part is that you can trade the first hour of the market and you are done. Melissa's passion and depth as a person makes it even that much more fun and personally rewarding. Thank you, David. That was a nice testimonial actually from David. So David's been around for a while in the market and he's done the class. So it was very interesting to trade with me in the room. So the class is called the Golden Gap course. 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So I really am a boutique trading educational firm where I'm teaching people the right things to do in a unique setting where they're grasping the information, understanding it, and I can get to all their questions. So feel free to reach out to me if you're interested. I'm also doing a class called the Trends course. It's coming up in October. It's a course on how to retrends and stock charts. The date is October 1st and October 2nd from 12 to four Eastern time. Cost of this class is $9.99. If you're interested in this, email me at Melissa at thestockswitch.com. I'm running a special for September. If you want to do the September Golden Gap course and the October Trends course, the combo price is $34.99. So you can save $4.99 and do both these classes. You would get the Trends course and the Golden Gap course together in the next month and that's a fantastic deal because you save almost $500. 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And if you're not winning in the market right now, you have to take a step back and reevaluate and refocus. The stocks which LLC, which is me, has a system to pinpoint the specific stock each day to trade. There might be more than one pick, as I was saying earlier, as well each day. If you are looking for, I need an edge in your trading and the stocks which LLC can direct to you, how to choose the right pick, when to take it, and how. The stocks which LLC is a huge edge in her trading because of the 26 point rating system. This is what gives me the edge. This 26 point rating system pinpoints which stock to trade and in what direction. And if you want an edge, this method will give it to you. Come to this webinar, again, it's Monday, September 22nd, 4.30 Eastern time, and you can learn more about how to correctly pick what to trade each day and in the right direction for you to profit. Memberfall trading is upon us. Great time to trade the market. 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Good afternoon everyone. I'm Brent Legs, the Executive Director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. I want to welcome you to the 15th anniversary of the African American Preservationist Meeting. I'm delighted to be joined by my colleagues, Luana Holland Moore and Tiffany Tobart, who you will hear more from in just a few minutes. So the run of show today is I will provide brief introductions. Luana will provide an update and background on the Action Fund National Grant Program. And then you'll hear from Tiffany, who will also provide background and update on our HPCU Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative. Following those remarks, we will have about 40 minutes for Q&A and discussion. And as always, the goal is to facilitate conversation about the issues and opportunities facing the Black Preservation Movement in the US. So as I said, it's the 15th anniversary. The Action Fund is proud to be this year's sponsor of the Promoting Equity and Justice through Historic Preservation Track. We are about to celebrate our fourth anniversary on November 15. And for many of you, you know that the Action Fund was created in the aftermath of Charlottesville. That was an opportunity for the National Trust and for the US Preservation profession to provide leadership and to demonstrate that preservation was a tool for equity and justice. And just four years, we have raised more than $50 million. We have supported more than 200 preservation projects nationwide. And in my view, the Action Fund is a revolution in historic preservation. It is inspiring a commitment to social justice by national statewide and local preservation organizations, and it is shifting practice. As I shared last year, and what I'd like to remind you is that we stand on the shoulders of giants. Black people have been preserving informally our cultural landscapes and historic buildings, partly out of necessity and need, but partly because we have always had a tradition of preserving our stories and our collective memories. Formally in the early 20th century, under leadership of Mary Talbert and the National Association of Colored Women, they organized the first successful national preservation campaign to pay off the mortgage of the home of Frederick Douglass called Cedar Hill, which is located here in Washington, D.C. and in their celebration and in their joy when they burned that mortgage in those ashes, they would berth black preservation movement. So we continue to build on their important legacy. Many of you have heard that we were fortunate to receive a $20 million investment by Mackenzie Scott and Dan Jewett in June of this year. And I just want to give you an update on the investment strategy for those dollars. We were committed to equitable investment so a 5050 split where $10 million is helping to grow our existing endowments from phase one. So in total, we have just established a $14 million endowment. The first of its kind at the National Trust, and among the largest endowment dedicated to the preservation of historic African American places in the nation. The balance of the $10 million is supporting short term outlays that helps to increase our grant making, which will support the protection via easements of a small collection of black landmarks, and then to increase the staffing capacity of the action fund so that we can continue to provide national leadership in this space. I want to take this opportunity to thank a lot of folks and I want to thank our partners like Ford, the JPB and Mellon Foundation for their ongoing commitment to this work and financial investment and black communities and preservation projects. I want to thank our local and statewide preservation organizations for their ongoing leadership and growing commitment in this space. Organizations like Preservation North Carolina, Cincinnati Preservation Associates, Preservation Resources of New Orleans, Historic Boston and so many more. I also want to recognize, applaud and thank the black statewide heritage councils and commissions that are providing crucial leadership organizations in Maryland and Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and others. Thank you for the contributions that you make to our field. And last, I want to thank all of you. You consider yourself a former preservationist, a grassroots leader or just a community advocate. It is because of you that we are helping to tell the full history of our nation that we're able to shine a spotlight on the contributions of African Americans to our nation. And most importantly, we are beginning to redefine and redeploy historic preservation to uplift black communities. In essence, our collective work is helping to expand the American story and highlight places often overlooked in American history. So with that being said, I want to invite my colleague Loana Holland Moore to share background on the national grant program. Loana. Thank you, Brent. I'm Loana Holland Moore. I'm the program officer of the Action Fund. And this nation has been rich in history but poor and fully representing it and funding its protection conservation recognition through our national grant program and involvement in communities such as our historically black colleges and universities cultural stewardship initiative in partnership with National Endowment for Humanities, which you'll hear Tiffany speak more later. We've been able to see and bring awareness to the breadth of African American preservation needs. Since our inception in 2017, our national grant program has become known as a signature program of the action fund. Since January 2018, we have vetted over 2000 project proposals requesting over $190 million and have awarded over $7.3 million to 150 awardees nationwide. In July 2020, we awarded 40 sites and organizations $3 million, such as the Olivewood Cemetery in Houston, the three filling station in Oklahoma, our first awardee in Puerto Rico, Paula natural Lisa, and Roberts temple church of God and Christ in Chicago. Here are four categories you can apply under capital projects, which is bricks and mortar organizational capacity which is board and organization strengthening and training, programming interpretation and project planning. The applications will be available on our website, savingplaces.org and you can see the link in chat, and those will be out on December 3 with the deadline of January 15. I encourage you to apply. The process is simple and was intentionally designed to be so as we recognize that so many of you out there are one person doing it all. And we've also recognized you might not have that grant writing or development experience and that shouldn't keep you from still being able to apply and possibly be an awarding. Excuse me, I'd also like to tell you about the new telling the full history preservation fund grant as well, which provides $25,000 and $50,000 grants to interpret and preserve historic places of importance to underrepresented communities. It was just announced and opened yesterday, and it's that line is December 15. And also as a note, for those of you out there who are in states that are voting today, please make sure you take a time out sometime during conference today to go vote, make your voice be heard. And I'll go ahead and now turn it over to Tiffany, who will share updates about the HBCU initiative. Hi everyone, I'm Tiffany Talbert associate director of the action fund here at the National Trust, and I'm happy to share and talk to you all about our HBCU cultural heritage stewardship initiative, and just provide some updates on the program. So I'm going to share my screen, and just go through a couple of highlights. Hopefully you all have heard about the HBCU cultural heritage stewardship initiative. We launched the initiative in 2020 in partnership with National Endowment for the Humanities. This program was conceived to as you can see on the screen, empower HBCU to the resources to protect preserve and leverage their historic campuses buildings and landscapes, and sharing these academic institutions and symbols of African American pride are preserved to inspire and educate future generations. Again, the initiative is supported by National Endowment for Humanities for Foundation JPV foundation and the Kaplan fund. And of course the African American cultural heritage action fund, and I'll talk about our newest donor in support of the initiative in just a minute. This program provides grants to HBCUs to develop cultural heritage stewardship plans, either for their campus as a whole or for individual sites and historic places on their campus. And so this year, we inaugurated our first group of grants and we announced them in February and you can see them here on the screen we awarded grants to eight HBCUs across the country. And State University and Jackson State University received $150,000 to complete campus wide plans and Benedict College, Lane College, Belander Smith, Stillman Tuskegee and Stillman received individual site grants. And so they're all actively completing preservation plans around these historic buildings and their whole campuses and we're really excited that we were able to fund these projects as the inaugural group of grantees to the initiative. If you want to know more about these projects, there are a couple of ways to learn. One, we are each month releasing a Q&A with from each HBCU and those are being posted on savingplaces.org in the editorial section. We have our first two that are up highlighting the work at Spelman with the Rockefeller Fine Arts Center and Jackson State University and coming up this month we'll have our Q&A from Stillman and Tuskegee, and from Elisa, Alabama. So I do invite you to learn more about this work that the schools are doing from their own voice and what they hope to achieve and what this will mean for the future preservation of that campus, as well as their students there. We're excited that recently we were announced to receive from the Mellon Foundation a $1.15 million gift for the initiative, which will allow us to continue to offer this grant program for the next two years. And so we are looking to award eight grants per year for the next two years to additional HBCUs and bring them into the initiative. And so that is open right now and the LOIs for that program are actually due this Friday and so it starts at the letter of intent and full proposals will be due in January. So if you know HBCU connected to HBCU and you don't think they know about this program, please share the information you can go to savingplaces.org slash HBCU to get information on the current grantees, the initiative, as well as access to the proposal. And I want to say that the initiative is not just about providing grants, this is a dedicated program that also provides technical assistance so we are working with all of these schools intensely providing direct technical assistance, helping them with their RFPs their scopes of work, and giving them the guidance to develop a process of how to do preservation on their campus so we're really excited about the initiative and we're very happy that it will be continuing with support from our existing funders as well as new funders like Mellon Foundation. So that is an update on the HBCU program so I'm going to turn it over to Brent to get us started with our discussion. Thank you Tiffany and LaWanna. All right so this is the moment we have a chance to talk. It is not the preferred format, given that we are not in person and can engage in that way but I'm hoping that we all have enough experience and comfort and sharing and exchanging on on zoom. And so I want to open it up with the first question. What are the top priorities impacting black preservationist and black preservation projects nationwide. LaWanna can you type it into the chat for us. What are the top parties impacting black preservationist and black preservation projects nationwide. You can use your hand, use the hand button. And, and then you will be unmuted, and I'll ask you to speak and to share your comment, or even pose a question to any of us on on the Action Fund team and it looks like Cory Shaw is going to be the first one. Hey Cory. I'm glad to be here. In my experience, I, I've seen a lot of preservation projects manifested aimed at redress and repair. What that looks like. There's a lot of semantical arguments about you know whether or not we should refer to it as reparations. I recognize reparations is polarizing for some folks and so I think redress and repair is the best way to put it. In some ways, right there are projects like the one taking place in Brown Grove, Virginia, where there's definitely, you know, a reparative aspect to what they're trying to do and trying to right the wrongs. The environmental injustices on this African American community, but they are also trying to find ways to preserve the history that's there. In another, Wegmans is trying to build a distribution center there, and they're very actively trying to push back because there are a lot of African American burial sites on the land in question. In the district where I'm where I reside and kind of I'm operating my own little home base of sorts. Very much the same thing. I'm working on a project in the district where I guess to keep it brief. I have a family goes back to like 1840 and the land was taken in 1929 by the district to build a park and a school. And, again, right like there's this very real restorative justice kind of reparative lens that is being brought to historic preservation of African American spaces. If I can and closing I posed the question. How do we as as advocates and people working in these spaces, how do we properly frame historic preservation, right without just kind of using it as a tool, right to say, you know, preserving history and promoting the history of African Americans and the erasure of communities. How do we go about using historic preservation, not just as a tool, but as a means of educating people. Thank you for that court and before I respond and ask my colleagues if they want to provide any response. Where are you from, what project or are you supporting, if any, there are a few projects that I'm working on right now. I'm associated with the African American Redress Network and supporting efforts in Brown Grove, Virginia. I am associated with the Greater Washington Urban League helping them with housing policy things in the district. I'm associated with UDC and helping them, helping a professor with a reparations project and serving as the chair for the policy implementation group there. I'm also supporting another effort at Mount Zion female Union Band Society Cemetery the oldest black cemetery in Washington DC, and kind of structuring a capstone course around that. I also worked with the National Trust over the summer in the Hope Crew project, working with them to kind of do grounds clearing and then archaeological surveying of Mount Zion cemetery. Excellent. Well you are a busy man so I'm glad you made time for this meeting. So I, I agree with you fully that the word and the connotation behind the word reparations is loaded and an often wanted to use it. It presents white fragility in a very clear way and it can often shut down conversation around this topic.  It is a pathway for repairing the cultural inequities that we see within our historical record within our national register, or even on across the American landscape. There is significant erasure. There is loss of cultural capital loss of financial capital. And what I think is the ongoing issue in our movement. We've often been excellent at making moral arguments for telling the full history, or for some of this reparative justice work. We've often been as strong as making the economic development arguments and defining an asset based strategy for moving what might appear as liabilities within historic built environments, underutilized and bacon historic buildings and and transitioning to the assets that anchor communities. And once we start to be as equipped with moral and economic arguments I think we will grow as a movement as a profession and have greater influence to secure both federal and public investment to sustain this work. Do you have any anything you want to add to that. I'll add to Brent's point. I think it is about doing both sometimes with preservation, we do it as a either or, and that if you're talking about preservation you're not talking about economic development and not talking about community development safety these quality of life issues. We have to start to merge those into the conversations we're having in our community about all of these things that impact our African American life. And so you can talk about both at the same time, because if you are not your it's hard to get things to move forward. And a lot of it is to say that preservation is economic development preservation is safety preservation is how affordable housing preservation is education and finding things that we can naturally tie our preservation goals to in our community. We're aware of zoning we're made aware of comprehensive plans we're making sure these things that are concrete that have funding attached to them, and being able to show that they equally support preservation, so that we're not seeing preservation as a competition against other things that we think are important in our communities. And so we just as again it's the conversation is how we're presenting what we want our goals and making sure it's directly tied to everything else and that helps those leaders those decision makers, those funders both public and private, get it, and support that. Thank you, Tiffany. So now I'm going to invite Alicia, and then Lisa, and then Deca, and then we'll move on to our second question for others to be able to contribute. Yes. Good afternoon, I guess I'll put my picture on. One of the top priorities that I see I live in Loudoun County is all over the news right now because of the voting. And you've been out to Oakland's so you know where Loudoun County is. And one of our priorities which I would see probably across the country would be development. There's coming in and getting ahead of the community and knowing when things are going to be developed zoning and rezoning, sometimes families and historically black villages and communities. They're not even aware that their community has been rezoned. Um, I guess that goes to the idea of ensuring that there is almost African American participation in all of the areas that surround our community somebody's got to be on the Heritage Commission. Someone on the Heritage Commission, someone has to be on the zoning commission, and if you aren't, then you're not in the know. And if you're not in the know, the rug will be pulled, the bulldozers will come in, and you will not even know that they were coming. The territories might be touched in and and disrespected a church may come down that was built in 1801 a school just, you know, before the Civil War even. So I guess I would say I know a lot of people and I'll stop at this but the main thing for me is development rezoning and awareness. So I hope that helps. And what you just described as a national issue confronting diverse communities, and your solution was spot on, we've got to have representation that's equipped inside of those spaces to be a part of the conversation advocating on behalf of our community. That's why I love to use local landmark designation to protect historic buildings at the local level because it does provide some legal protection, which is critical. And as a movement we've got to locally designate more black spaces and landmarks. I also love easements, we recently know we protected Madame CJ Walker's Villa Loire on Nina Simone's childhood home and recently, the Mary and James heard house in DC that's associated to us Supreme Court case, argued by Charles Hamilton Houston that desegregated the racial covenants in DC and, and that tool ensures permanent representation of black stories and places. So I love easements local landmark designation but your spot on we got to be represented in these kind of places. Lisa. Hi there. Thank everybody for being able to present today and everyone who's present with us. I think one of the major issues that we're facing is loss of heritage property. I don't even know if that's the proper term but it describes it pretty well. It's a main street program so I do a lot of preservation and things for the city that I live in but also my family is from the Gullah Gechi community, and I guess it's just a lack of knowledge you know where someone owned property it was being passed down through the family and I didn't know everyone else had moved off for education and work and did not know, and a big company like Bigelow comes in and says we would like that property because it's a great place to grow tea. The family not being, you know, real estate experts is just really going through a whole lot trying to figure out how to keep the property or get a clean deed with a lot of descendants. It's a big thing that's been going on for a long time in areas like South Carolina, especially in the Charleston area. It's just pretty overwhelming, you know, because you don't know where to begin or how to fight the dragon. Well, you bring up a point it really builds on the last conversation because a lot of the threats to Gullah. One of the cultural heritage is because of development threats and desirable locations for the Mac mansions or kind of a second home for for tourists and it's been devastating and the air property rights challenges that exist to has been difficult to untangle. I think what the administration is directing some resources that will support going through the titles and identifying ways so that families can actually understand ownership and have more control in that space. We funded two Gullah projects last year as part of our 3 million investment and 40 projects, and they both were in Georgia, but one of the organizations is working directly with the Gullah community, and they are creating a new pilot program that will help them with aired property rights, and hopefully it will learn some best practices and that that we can share with all of you. Wonderful, thank you. I know before I'm we're going to go to DACA and then Luana I'll turn it over to you. Hi, my name is DACA Hussain Wetzel and I live in Cincinnati and recently got the black sites of Cincinnati researcher position, which is a newly funded position that's through the since I preservation association. And there are a number of challenges that I've started to see through that that relate to the need necessary outreach utilizing community input and trying to pursue community, what I literally was just started to call community preservation, and essentially this idea that I think communities need to have. They need to be things to be more accessible, and they need to be able to more easily understand things related to preservation whether that's what a nomination is difference between local and national, you know landmarks and stuff like that. And also, you know, just getting their stories heard and so before I started this position, I had worked on a podcast called urban roots, and that's out and I'll send information in the chat here but the whole point of this first season which was funded through a Cincinnati local grant was to try to tell the lost voices of Cincinnati's stories I wanted the people in the community to actually tell me what they felt was important and highlight the, you know the buildings or the stories on, you know racist housing in the past, and urban renewal, and I feel so that, you know a lot of the feedback from the community, people in Avondale and evidence in the net neighborhoods I interviewed people and other folks in the neighborhood listen and have been like you know I just made me cry. This really made me like feel that you know, a somebody is paying attention to us and be that other people can start to hear why these communities are important in these communities of color. So I really want to say I just really appreciate the you know you said when you guys say use of active voice to tell the full story. That's something I'm really trying to do and I really think it's just, you know please reach out to me if anybody else is trying to do the same thing. I don't want to leave my my info but yeah I mean I think what's what's happening now is great and I think, maybe one of the challenges that I have seen is with the digital preservation component with podcasting. It's harder to get those funds. So, you know, I was very fortunate that that there was an outlet and opportunity, but then kind of taking that and leveraging it or things that you know I would love to have some some, you know, feedback on and have discussions on. And I appreciate that. It was good to see you two weeks ago and since he want to. Yeah, I was just going to say that, you know it's so important to have those stories heard in the first place. All too often, you know our communities have issues with our resources reaching a point of crisis just because people don't know they exist, or that they were important to the community in the first place. So being able to talk to those knowledge holders, going out into the community and actually finding out what is important to the community with itself is such a huge huge important factor in helping to continue to make sure that these places remain. If you don't know about them, we can't talk about them we can't continue to save them, and it shouldn't have to reach that point of crisis it shouldn't have to reach it being lost for it to finally be known. And I'm going to go ahead and transition to our next question, which is, what are the challenges, obstacles, and concerns that you have encountered in your work. I would like to see Shauntisha that you have your hand up. Yes. Greetings. Hello everyone thank you. Um, concerns from my experience thus far and I have limited limited experience. I'm trying to connect myself into the world of preservation and doing a lot of self study and trying to connect with folks but from my experience thus far as ownership. There are these abandoned sites or that once were viable or vibrant within the community and now that you know the demographics of the community may have changed and these facilities and in my case is a church. It's the A&M Zion church in Watertown, New York. It's just, it's just sitting there is sitting in the middle of a residential area the congregation is no longer there, but there's a need or desire to preserve and restore the church but although it belongs to a particular organization A&M Zion organization that single point of contact just doesn't exist. That has been a bit frustrating for the small myself and the small group that I've been working with the volunteers to try to establish ownership, because we want to respect the history as well as the connection to the A&M Zion church but at some point he kind of got a, you don't want to step on people's toes but at some point someone has to make a decision to what to do to move forward. So from my experience thus far trying to establish ownership and even over the summer I had the chance to visit my father's hometown in Hopkinsville, Kentucky and it was a black community and there is these schools and buildings and businesses that the building is still there and they look in pretty good condition but the need for them is not there and you want to save them but you know there's no ownership there's no no intended in you so trying to talk between preserving these spaces but trying to establish ownership and trying to establish a legitimate in use for them has been a challenge that I have seen thus far. And I just want to say ditto to everything that you just said and and we currently are working on stewardship planning that will help black property owners retain their property and even understand estate planning so that the next generation of family members are equipped to be able to steward these cultural assets ownership is is key and even succession planning, as you just described in transitioning important building to the next generation of stewards. So, part of our, our one of our funding categories to our national grant program is project planning. I would encourage you and your organization to consider submitting a letter of intent in December, January to conduct pre development planning activities for this site and if you can get owner consent, then you would be able to work with a consultant that will help you to develop a market driven strategy for reusing that vision, developing a five to 10 year pro forma so that you understand the financial implications of reuse. And once completed that shouldn't empower you to be able to secure private capital to be able to launch the project, if you have support of the property owner. Particularly establishing ownership. It can be difficult with some of these properties, especially if it's a generation or two out from the original owner. And even with churches, it can be even more difficult because of some of our black churches. The title necessarily wasn't clear maybe a family just donated the land but not an official capacity so once you start actually going through, you find that it's a little more complicated, but there are ways and best practice if you're going into a community to work through the African American community to start getting answers but it's kind of a hunt sometimes to find out the best way and it's really just an old fashioned having conversations, looking at ownership in the community whether it's churches, you know elected officials just word of mouth like go talk to this person and it shouldn't be that difficult, but it's an understanding of doing African American preservation in some areas that's what has to occur. But it doesn't hurt to just say I'm going to have to just do this, you know, just figure this out and find that communication strategy on my own. I'm going to have my hands raised, if we can have Haley and then the money. Haley. There you go. Okay, sorry about that. Good afternoon everybody we have such a great discussion. So something I'm experiencing in my line of work I am having trouble kind of communicating what preservation in itself is and all that it entails to the black community specifically specifically people back home or from Atlanta, graduated state, you know shout go get your culture all that. And a lot of people back home, you know they're like oh what do you do and then I'm like well I'm community preservation specialist and I do that. And they're like, oh, okay that's nice what you know whatever that is like and it's hard to really like bring out, you know, I guess real discussions around because it's, it's like a blockage of I guess the wording, you know, of what is this that we do like how do we communicate like around that because I think that's also another like disconnect when it comes to getting us in those important spaces. You know people don't know how to look for those avenues because they don't know what it's called, you know the planning commission versus the preservation commission versus the this you know and that and the paperwork and all this.  And so, I don't want to say like that but historically, things have been left out from us. So I've talked to high school students from other cultures and they can recite different house histories and tell you conservation methods and you talk to a high school or from a predominantly black school, and they're like well I don't know like what exactly what is this I don't even like history and it's, it's discouraging because that's something that us as a black community we really need to hold on to is our history so there is. Thank you all. You know I've heard that a lot. I've had a lot of people tell me. Oh well you know I'm doing preservation work but I don't call myself a preservationist. I don't think I'm a preservationist. And the thing is that there are so many ways that African Americans doing preservation work, you know whether it's maintaining family cemeteries or a church building fund, you know, there are we're doing that preservation out there. So you know being able to communicate to tell everybody this is the work that we're doing is a way of framing it in terms of helping to keep our history alive. How do we do that. How do we go forward and do that. Yeah, I would say I think Haley and hey Indiana Haley was on here. It's something I think we've all faced as professional preservation is coming into the field. The scariest question is someone asking you like what you do because you can't just say I'm a lawyer I'm a doctor, you know, I'm a teacher. And that saying that the simplest helps you know and taking it back to something that African Americans, we understand that we understand preserving a cemetery we understand preserving a church we understand, saving a sort of place. That's fine. And then you can go deeper in the conversation, but, and this is not just for African American use people a color this is in general, it's just not a common lexicon in just general conversation about a preservationist as a career. But you can talk about, I say historic places I work with museums, I do this people get that and then that enters the conversation. There is a disconnect in younger people students understanding preservation as a career path, and that's something we seek to address with HPC, HPCU initiative, we work with all the schools to develop how to engage students so having a student on the project planning team. So they're working with the consultants they're gaining that professional development experience. Our fellows program which LaWonna manages introducing to different areas of preservation you have the technical aspect but you also have the marketing aspect you have community development you have engagement you there are different levels of support and work in preservation. And so we have some work to do, both at the high school level in the college level, but I do believe and I think we believe there's no better place to do that than at our HPC use. And to start that growth and that experience there with students to understand there is a place in architecture and preservation for more black preservationist. But it doesn't hurt to continue talking because the more you talk the more you do expand but there's still going to be that disconnect in our terminology and people understanding what we do. And if we can have a mania and then we'll transition to Tiffany. Hi, good afternoon everyone. What a great conversation. So I work in the DC Shipple office, and I do historic preservation work where I am kind of doing the underground permit review style of work. And so I get a lot of calls from community residents property owners in historic districts who have historic homes for a low income a middle income and I hear all the questions of, I have a historic house. What are you asking me to do what what does this mean you're telling me to this is important you're telling me that I need to try to maintain this character. What character are you talking about and there is such a lack of understanding of just the building technology and the building integrity I think in our community just from a, our fathers fathers may have come over and fixed our, our leaky roofs and we really have that type of carpentry and trade system like we used to and so there's not those folks really providing that necessary background for for the building and so what I have noticed as a challenge is there's no documentation on your historic structure. No one, maybe we designated something in 1980, and no one's gone back and looked at that church to see how the roofs are maintained how the shingles are. Where are we now with the foundation and the structure and so when churches are looking to do something with their building or when churches are looking to do something, they're starting from scrap they're like listen I have this house, I, you know they say that I can demo it and build 1010 stories up that sounds like a great idea. They don't have any context to know that what they have is special is unique is one of a kind you're never going to get that window back you're never going to get that citing back you're never going to get that church to look like that again. It's really important. And so, explaining that and giving that back to the community, I think is, is really important so if I could recommend anything I love this conversation about HBC use, and getting them involved in going back into our community and doing that survey work on a student level and really updating these nominations and updating these new sites and so we have a really good wealth of information so when we go to these meetings and when we go to developers or when they come to us. We can say here is where the integrity of my building is this is what's important this is what can say what can you do around that. Anyway, the conversation shifts from not knowing necessarily what we, we should be doing to reuse the building but knowing exactly what we need to be preserving and having a stronger game plan going on to the, that to the table. So, thank you for letting me speak and I love to hear your comments. Move on. I know we do have some comments in there in the chat. But I want to get in our last question and give you all a chance to maybe have one or two live comments but I want you to add into the chat. So our last question is just, you know, anyone want to share any news about any big wins or successes or any best practices through your work. Feel free to add them to the chat but feel free to raise your hand and I'll call on you all. But, you know, a lot of these successes have come from you all they've also come from the National Trust and also through our 11 most endangered program which we are accepting LOIs for that right now what you're doing November 12. So we'll put that link in the chat but if you do have any projects that you all have mentioned that could use that support that attention to advocacy I encourage you to consider 11 most endangered. So, please feel free to add me a Nita has our hand raised. If you want to share any successes are big wins with the group and again, everyone please add any others to the chat. Well, hello everyone. Actually, I wanted to go back to your last conversation. But in terms of successes. The Historic District Commission in Rockville, Maryland. And we have lots, many of our black communities are still in place. And some of the buildings there like a historic school, you know, it's been designated as a site. And the problem with us. Well, the successes that we designated a building that's a success part. But the other party is it's not just saving the building but you got to maintain the building. For example, it's not just the outside of the building, which is fine but also the inside of the building. So how can we get government to understand is the entire building, even though with historic designation only refers to the outside of the building. If the government is in fact the landlord, and they know that a roof is falling in, and they don't care for it which could endanger that site, but you don't see it from the outside. How do we get them to understand that. And just say, because unfortunately needed we are running out of time, but I'm going to ask you to follow up with the money, who can give you advice about that. Maria was a shining star and student at the University of Maryland when I was teaching there and she works for the DC historic preservation office and she can give you the ins and outs of how to make arguments related to integrity and designation. Fortunately, we are at the end of our time, and we need to give you a break before the next session, but this has been awesome. Thank you for being generous with your time for contributing to our discussion, and we wish you a fantastic conference. Keep the conversation going. Bye everybody.