WEBVTT 00:00:00.482 --> 00:00:08.632 - Welcome to the Bloomington Rotary Club's weekly celebration of service. I'm Steve Wicks and I'm honored 00:00:08.632 --> 00:00:16.624 - to serve as your president this year. Please silence your electronic devices. On this day in history, 00:00:16.624 --> 00:00:24.539 - March 24th, 1989, the Exxon tanker Valdez struck a reef and spilled approximately 11 million gallons 00:00:24.539 --> 00:00:28.222 - of crude oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound. 00:00:29.954 --> 00:00:46.510 - David Wright will deliver today's reflection. Well, it's May 10th, 1940, and a young couple are in their 00:00:46.510 --> 00:00:58.494 - backyard in Antwerp, Belgium, bearing a small marionette in their backyard. 00:01:00.322 --> 00:01:10.063 - His name is Isidor Osnowicz, and her name is Francis, and they have made a deal with each other that 00:01:10.063 --> 00:01:19.804 - if the bombs start to drop, they are going to flee the country. You see, the Nazis have just invaded 00:01:19.804 --> 00:01:27.134 - Belgium, and his grandmother has told him that he needs to bury that puppet 00:01:27.778 --> 00:01:38.447 - because that is a puppet of Adolf Hitler. You see, he's been doing political satire about the Nazis 00:01:38.447 --> 00:01:49.223 - and doing anti-fascist performance theater. And the Nazis take notes of these kinds of things before 00:01:49.223 --> 00:01:57.438 - they invade. So they take their bikes and they flee the country. Problem is, 00:01:58.882 --> 00:02:08.305 - They have to flee through France and the Nazis are invading France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands all 00:02:08.305 --> 00:02:17.911 - on the same day. So now they have to flee France and they make their way through France over a few weeks 00:02:17.911 --> 00:02:27.151 - and find themselves in Northern Morocco. If you've ever seen the movie Casablanca, that's about that 00:02:27.151 --> 00:02:28.798 - evacuation route. 00:02:30.658 --> 00:02:43.181 - And there, they end up in an internment camp because Vichy France, France has fallen and now the Nazis 00:02:43.181 --> 00:02:55.947 - are present there too. With some help, they manage to escape and they make it to Lisbon, Portugal. Their 00:02:55.947 --> 00:03:00.446 - hope is to come to America to escape 00:03:00.866 --> 00:03:09.691 - the problems of Europe. But at that time, immigration is clamping down in the US. I know it's hard to 00:03:09.691 --> 00:03:18.430 - believe in our modern times, but at that time, there was a movement called America First, and it was 00:03:18.430 --> 00:03:27.341 - out for America itself, anti-immigration. And they were shutting down the avenues for the war refugees 00:03:27.341 --> 00:03:30.110 - coming. So he gets in on a boat 00:03:31.490 --> 00:03:42.541 - and goes to England if he agrees to fight for the allies, they'll let him and his family come. Eventually, 00:03:42.541 --> 00:03:52.973 - the war is won and he tries again to come to the US. He goes to the immigration office every day for 00:03:52.973 --> 00:04:00.926 - several weeks. He said his goal was to pester him until they finally agreed. 00:04:01.826 --> 00:04:11.630 - He had to find a job, which he did. He found a job in Montana doing store design, storefront designs 00:04:11.630 --> 00:04:22.017 - with his artistic abilities. And he brought his family over in 1950. He had to put them on a train because 00:04:22.017 --> 00:04:30.462 - he only had enough money for his wife and his son. So he hitchhiked his way to it. And 00:04:32.002 --> 00:04:41.717 - Basically, they were refugees looking for a place to escape the threats of Europe and the hardships 00:04:41.717 --> 00:04:52.113 - there. And they found that home in America. His son would go on to grow up and become part of the Muppets, 00:04:52.113 --> 00:04:58.622 - Frank Oz. So the next time you see the Muppets and see Miss Piggy, 00:04:59.874 --> 00:05:14.225 - or you watch Star Wars and you see Yoda, know that that was Frank Oz, a son of a refugee from Europe 00:05:14.225 --> 00:05:29.854 - that became an American and was able to become a fun little immigrant story for our nation. Thank you, David. 00:05:30.274 --> 00:05:38.812 - Sam Udeck will introduce our guests today. Hey, we have a few guests in person today. We have Danya 00:05:38.812 --> 00:05:47.692 - Jaburi, a guest of art, Shane Gibson, guest of Jim Bright, Nick Capus, a guest of David Meyer, and Anne 00:05:47.692 --> 00:05:56.231 - Edmonds, a guest of Judy Schroeder. And do we have any guests online? We have Marianne Pelleck from 00:05:56.231 --> 00:05:59.646 - 100 Women Who Care. Welcome, everybody. 00:06:05.282 --> 00:06:12.662 - Then if you would like to learn more about Rotary, turn to the person next to you or across the table 00:06:12.662 --> 00:06:20.187 - and ask away. A couple of birthdays to observe this week. On the 29th, Liz Irwin, and then on the 30th, 00:06:20.187 --> 00:06:27.566 - Carol Ann Hussler. Two anniversaries to observe. On the 27th, Mr. Rotary Jim Bright, 19 years. And on 00:06:27.566 --> 00:06:32.414 - the 28th, Future Club President Hank Walter, nine years in Rotary. 00:06:34.050 --> 00:06:40.786 - Announcements. So we're doing something different this week. If people like it, we'll continue. But 00:06:40.786 --> 00:06:47.522 - subsequent to last week's discussion. Anyway, the announcements were flashing across the screen for 00:06:47.522 --> 00:06:54.596 - about 15 or 20 minutes before the meeting. But I'll go through them quickly. Rotary District Conference, 00:06:54.596 --> 00:07:00.254 - May 8th and 9th, Golf House in Louisville. Lots of fun things to do Friday evening. 00:07:00.610 --> 00:07:08.382 - And then on Saturday, lots of informative sessions. Chambers business after hours tomorrow, 530 to 730 00:07:08.382 --> 00:07:16.456 - at One World Catering. See me if you'd like to learn more. Tree planting, April 18th, Lake Monroe, subject 00:07:16.456 --> 00:07:21.662 - to the water being down. We'll have more details in the weeks ahead. 00:07:23.298 --> 00:07:29.719 - On April 14th, which is a Tuesday. That's one of the days where we're kicked out of the union as per 00:07:29.719 --> 00:07:36.394 - our agreement with the IMU And our gathering that day will be joining the heading home of South Central, 00:07:36.394 --> 00:07:42.879 - Indiana at their regional housing summit We'll have more details soon But at this point just remember 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:47.838 - that unlike one of our regular meetings when you show up, this will be one of 00:07:48.098 --> 00:07:54.790 - that will need to have a head count probably a week in advance so we can make sure that we have the 00:07:54.790 --> 00:08:01.616 - right number of meals for all the Rotarians. Need a Zoom host and someone to deliver a reflection for 00:08:01.616 --> 00:08:08.509 - next week? See me if you have an interest. The deadline for this year's district grant is on the 27th, 00:08:08.509 --> 00:08:15.134 - so it's coming up. If you have any interest in applying for what hopefully will be a $6,000 grant, 00:08:15.586 --> 00:08:22.554 - See Sarah Loughlin who's back at that table or Diana Hoffman over there can help you, but please get 00:08:22.554 --> 00:08:29.522 - your application in. Next Rotary Book Club meeting on the 22nd of April, home of Judy Schroeder. The 00:08:29.522 --> 00:08:36.420 - book is Audrey McCluskey's Girl Child. We heard from Audrey McCluskey a few weeks ago, did a really 00:08:36.420 --> 00:08:43.733 - good job. So see Judy Schroeder or Sally Gaskell if you have questions. My Sister's Closet organizational 00:08:43.733 --> 00:08:45.182 - member, they have an 00:08:45.346 --> 00:08:51.838 - hosting an evening with Maya Angelou, a dinner theater April 10th and 11th. And they planned a really 00:08:51.838 --> 00:08:58.458 - elegant event at the Bloomington Country Club. Proceeds will benefit the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra 00:08:58.458 --> 00:09:04.823 - and the My Sister's Closet Relocation Fund. For more information, see club members Sandy Keller and 00:09:04.823 --> 00:09:11.570 - Marcy Hibbard. They're both here today. Wave your hands, Sandy. And there they are, kind of in the tables 00:09:11.570 --> 00:09:15.198 - in the back. Or you can go to My Sister's Closet website 00:09:15.554 --> 00:09:23.685 - and find out more. Finally, we heard from organizational member Health Net a few weeks ago. And anyway, 00:09:23.685 --> 00:09:32.207 - they're in the middle of an advocacy campaign. They'd like you to check it out. And if you have an interest, 00:09:32.207 --> 00:09:40.651 - file something online to provide support. So you want to go to indyhealthnet.org, search for 340B advocacy. 00:09:40.651 --> 00:09:44.638 - And Tyler, I think we're ready for the PowerPoint. 00:09:51.394 --> 00:09:59.469 - So we did this particular membership quiz a couple of months ago, but we have so many Rotarians who 00:09:59.469 --> 00:10:08.351 - exercise at the Southeast YMCA. Some of them probably think they're exercising anonymously, but unfortunately 00:10:08.351 --> 00:10:16.587 - I've seen them. So five Rotarians and four of them exercise at the Bloomington Southeast YMCA. One of 00:10:16.587 --> 00:10:18.686 - the individuals does not. 00:10:20.034 --> 00:10:29.615 - And here are the five individuals. Upper left, we have John Diltz. Upper center, Jim Bright. Upper right, 00:10:29.615 --> 00:10:38.744 - Lauren Snyder. Bottom left, Mark Peterson. Bottom right, Art Omick. So, when I ask the question, put 00:10:38.744 --> 00:10:43.806 - up your hands online, put up your hands electronically. 00:10:44.578 --> 00:10:58.880 - Put up your hand if you think that John Diltz is one of five in this list who does not exercise at the 00:10:58.880 --> 00:11:13.598 - Bloomington Southeast YMCA. Uh-oh. We have quite a few, including John. How about past district governor, 00:11:13.762 --> 00:11:21.391 - Club President, Mr. Rotary Jim Bright. Does he even have time to exercise at the Southeast YMCA? Put 00:11:21.391 --> 00:11:29.021 - up your hand if you think Jim is the one. Oh, I see a couple of votes in the room. I can't tell what 00:11:29.021 --> 00:11:36.952 - we have online. Third choice is Lauren Snyder, past Club President. Put up your hand if you think Lauren 00:11:36.952 --> 00:11:41.182 - is the one. Oh, we have quite a few for Lauren as well. 00:11:42.434 --> 00:11:49.527 - All right, our club secretary, Mark Peterson, who's sitting over there, put your hand up, Mark. Put 00:11:49.527 --> 00:11:56.621 - up your hand if you think Mark is the one who does not exercise at the Southeast YMCA. Mark, you're 00:11:56.621 --> 00:12:03.927 - not getting, oh, okay, Forrest kind of gave you a half-hearted vote. Yeah, it might've been a sympathy 00:12:03.927 --> 00:12:10.878 - vote. And the last one, Art Omick, put up your hand if you think Art does not. Okay, Art, you're, 00:12:11.842 --> 00:12:19.498 - Art, you're generating a few votes. Oh, and John Diltz voted the second time. Online.Lauren had the 00:12:19.498 --> 00:12:27.307 - largest amount of votes. Okay. So Lauren, thank you, Leslie. Lauren's doing really well online. Okay. 00:12:27.307 --> 00:12:35.193 - Well, if you voted for John Diltz, you would be incorrect because I've seen John participating in YMCA 00:12:35.193 --> 00:12:39.710 - classes, sometimes in the same class with Rex Hillary. So, 00:12:40.098 --> 00:12:49.091 - John, good dodge there. You confused others. They'll admire you, but they'll never trust you again. 00:12:49.091 --> 00:12:58.444 - Jim Bright. Mr. Rotary, Jim walks. I've seen him riding the stationary bicycle. When he's feeling well, 00:12:58.444 --> 00:13:07.617 - he is a regular at the YMCA. Mark Peterson. If you voted for Mark, which one of you did, you would be 00:13:07.617 --> 00:13:08.606 - incorrect. 00:13:08.770 --> 00:13:16.166 - Just recently had hip surgery, but he is a regular on the stationary bicycle, and I think he'll be back 00:13:16.166 --> 00:13:23.421 - at it soon. Art Omek. Just a few people voted for Art. Art is a regular swimmer in the YMCA pool. And 00:13:23.421 --> 00:13:30.746 - if you look at this picture, this is Art on a sailboat. If he ever falls off, those swimming will come 00:13:30.746 --> 00:13:36.862 - in handy. And then finally, most of you voted for Lauren Snyder, and you are correct. 00:13:37.346 --> 00:13:45.097 - because Lauren works both in Bloomington and the Franklin offices of Baird Wealth Management. He actually 00:13:45.097 --> 00:13:52.482 - lives in Indianapolis, but he golfs. And if you've ever seen Lauren in person, no surprise, he is an 00:13:52.482 --> 00:13:59.868 - avid runner. So Lauren's in good shape, doesn't exercise at the Y, but he does a lot. So anyway, you 00:13:59.868 --> 00:14:07.326 - did really well. John, you probably had about 10 people. You swayed their votes. So anyway, good job. 00:14:07.938 --> 00:14:15.673 - Show this slide all the time, Rotary seven areas of focus. And a reminder that March is water, sanitation, 00:14:15.673 --> 00:14:23.118 - and hygiene month. We've seen a couple of videos so far this month on Rotary water projects around the 00:14:23.118 --> 00:14:29.118 - world. And we have probably five minutes for happy dollars. Is anyone happy today? 00:14:44.066 --> 00:14:54.538 - There's always a reason to be happy. I just got to see the Chicago Cubs play in Arizona. It was a little 00:14:54.538 --> 00:15:04.612 - bit hot, but we survived and I didn't get a sunburn. Yay. I'm happy because my son and granddaughter 00:15:04.612 --> 00:15:11.294 - visited me from Texas for the last week. We just had a great time. 00:15:16.130 --> 00:15:27.519 - I'm happy because my daughter, who is pregnant, is expecting soon and three weeks earlier than I thought, 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:38.370 - but I'm 13 pieces into my 24-piece quilt, so I'm doing well. I'm happy because my daughter and I had 00:15:38.370 --> 00:15:43.742 - a wonderful vacation to Marathon Florida recently 00:15:44.322 --> 00:15:51.765 - She managed to get me everywhere I was supposed to be when I was supposed to be there, so we didn't 00:15:51.765 --> 00:15:59.283 - miss any flights. So if I could have just one more moment though, I'd appreciate if this $5 could be 00:15:59.283 --> 00:16:05.758 - used to provide some remedial training to John Deltz with regard to the four-way test. 00:16:12.322 --> 00:16:24.672 - as I was one of them who trusted to raise my hand. Thank you. I just recently learned that a second 00:16:24.672 --> 00:16:38.750 - cousin is here as a head oboe teacher in the School of Music. And I haven't seen her father in probably 60 years. 00:16:39.906 --> 00:16:49.945 - And I'm sure he will be delighted when I tell all of you that I was one of the babysitters that diapered 00:16:49.945 --> 00:16:59.889 - him. And I have some happy dollars because we got to see Patrick's family over the weekend and we don't 00:16:59.889 --> 00:17:04.574 - see them as much as we used to. So that was fun. 00:17:10.498 --> 00:17:22.164 - Do we have any online? We do not. OK, I have some happy dollars for a couple of things. One. Oh. Tali, 00:17:22.164 --> 00:17:33.490 - you got one. Oh, hello. Thank you. I am happy because I survived my first ever MRI this morning for 00:17:33.490 --> 00:17:40.286 - my icky wrist, which is sprained. $5, $5 for happy dollars. 00:17:41.378 --> 00:17:47.564 - Sorry, Mr. Talley. And then I have some happy dollars, a couple of reasons. One, my son-in-law, 00:17:47.564 --> 00:17:54.007 - Justin Bailey, who lives in town, his book is on sale, and he's actually selling some. If you get a 00:17:54.007 --> 00:18:00.644 - chance to go to Morgenstern's, look for a book by local author, Justin S. Bailey. And then my brother, 00:18:00.644 --> 00:18:06.701 - who is a Vietnam veteran, he was managing partner of his law firm, retired, has become a very 00:18:06.701 --> 00:18:09.150 - good photographer, and his exhibition 00:18:09.474 --> 00:18:16.456 - Coming Home from Vietnam is starting in Maxwell Hall. The evening of Friday, April 3rd, there'll be 00:18:16.456 --> 00:18:23.437 - a kickoff event. There's something else the following week. But anyway, if you get a chance, get to 00:18:23.437 --> 00:18:30.907 - Maxwell Hall, and you can see photos and interviews of Vietnam veterans and specifically their experiences 00:18:30.907 --> 00:18:35.934 - upon coming home after the war, how they retreated, what they ran into. 00:18:38.818 --> 00:18:46.876 - Anyway, thank you for all the happy dollars and a good response. Dave Meyer will introduce our speakers 00:18:46.876 --> 00:18:54.856 - today. And just so you know, the format today could be a little bit different. So just kind of go with 00:18:54.856 --> 00:19:03.068 - the flow. I think it's going to be a really good presentation. Thank you, President Steve. I am delighted 00:19:03.068 --> 00:19:05.470 - to be a little part of what is 00:19:05.666 --> 00:19:14.032 - an opportunity to shine a little bit of light on two volunteer organizations here in the community that 00:19:14.032 --> 00:19:22.076 - are engaged in very important private philanthropy. One is 100 Women That Care, and the other is 50 00:19:22.076 --> 00:19:30.282 - Men That Care. So I have two people to introduce today. Kathy Romy is the two-time convener, which is 00:19:30.282 --> 00:19:33.982 - the organizer, annual organizer of 100 Women. 00:19:34.274 --> 00:19:46.155 - She's also now on the steering committee. She's a former Meals on Wheels director. She was also previously 00:19:46.155 --> 00:19:57.702 - the general manager of Bloomington Pops Orchestra. She won an award in 2016, the Excel Woman Award from 00:19:57.702 --> 00:20:00.478 - the Chamber of Commerce. 00:20:00.802 --> 00:20:09.857 - is a DJ at WFHB Community Radio, hosting Golden Age Radio each week. And she enjoys music, performing 00:20:09.857 --> 00:20:18.824 - music, reading and writing, and loves to root for the underdog. Ken Buzzard, who I work with closely 00:20:18.824 --> 00:20:24.062 - on 50 Men because I'm on the steering committee this year, 00:20:24.194 --> 00:20:34.084 - He is the convener that is the grand master organizer of 50 Men this year. He is a retired Navy engineer 00:20:34.084 --> 00:20:43.503 - who most recently worked at Crane. He is the former president of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra 00:20:43.503 --> 00:20:51.038 - and has been served as an adjunct professor of aviation management at Ivy Tech. 00:20:51.618 --> 00:21:02.724 - So give it up for our two conveners or one former. So I'm microphone. I'm talking to see if we can hear. 00:21:02.724 --> 00:21:13.406 - Cool. So hello, everyone. I'm Ken Buzzard. And before I start my presentation, our organizations are 00:21:13.794 --> 00:21:19.155 - It's kind of similar functionally to how Rotary works for your meetings. You invite people like me to 00:21:19.155 --> 00:21:24.569 - come up here and talk for, you give us 25, 30 minutes and that's cool. We meet quarterly and we invite 00:21:24.569 --> 00:21:30.088 - guests to come up to talk to us, but we only give them seven minutes. Okay. And we have multiple present 00:21:30.088 --> 00:21:35.555 - presenters and the presentations are competitive. So I'm going to explain how all that works. I'm going 00:21:35.555 --> 00:21:37.342 - to limit myself to seven minutes. 00:21:37.634 --> 00:21:42.813 - followed by three minutes of Q&A, then Cathy's gonna come up and do the same thing, seven minutes of 00:21:42.813 --> 00:21:48.249 - presentation, three minutes of Q&A, and then I will join her at the end, whatever time we have remaining, 00:21:48.249 --> 00:21:53.634 - if there's something I wanted to say that I ran out of time, I'm gonna throw it at you at the end, Cathy 00:21:53.634 --> 00:21:58.967 - will do the same, if there's any follow-up questions at the end, we'll have time for that as well. Here 00:21:58.967 --> 00:22:04.095 - in front, Emily is from the Community Foundation, and she is our timer. She holds up green, yellow, 00:22:04.095 --> 00:22:07.582 - and red cards. Green means go, yellow means I have one minute left, 00:22:07.874 --> 00:22:14.385 - And red means finish that sentence, Ken, say thank you, and ask for questions, okay? So, are you ready 00:22:14.385 --> 00:22:20.833 - to start the clock? Off we go. Okay, I'm Ken Buzzard. I am the convener of 50 Men Who Care. Somewhere 00:22:20.833 --> 00:22:27.470 - around here is a slide. I'm going to advance it for a second just to see if it works, and then I'm gonna 00:22:27.470 --> 00:22:33.601 - go back. Okay, I'm the convener of 50 Men Who Care, together with 100 Women Who Care, our sister 00:22:33.601 --> 00:22:36.446 - organization. We are a pair of philanthropic 00:22:36.546 --> 00:22:44.154 - giving circles, which I'll explain how that works in a bit. We convene once a quarter to raise money 00:22:44.154 --> 00:22:51.838 - for worthy nonprofits that serve the community in Monroe County. So I'm going to talk about first how 00:22:51.838 --> 00:22:59.370 - it works before I talk about who we are and who we support. So the coolest thing about our meetings 00:22:59.370 --> 00:23:05.246 - is that when our meetings begin, we have no idea who we're raising money for. 00:23:05.570 --> 00:23:10.976 - We have a social hour for the men at 30 minutes because we're able to be twice as social in a shorter 00:23:10.976 --> 00:23:16.277 - amount of time. The women have a full hour. Okay. And we also needed a brewery where the women meet 00:23:16.277 --> 00:23:21.577 - at the country club. So it's a lot easier to be social. Okay. During the social hour, any gentleman 00:23:21.577 --> 00:23:27.037 - there who wants to nominate a nonprofit to request that we consider supporting them with our financial 00:23:27.037 --> 00:23:31.966 - support, we'll throw his name and the name of his nonprofit on a slip of paper into the hat. 00:23:32.802 --> 00:23:37.821 - After the social hour is done and we begin the business meeting, we draw three names out. The first 00:23:37.821 --> 00:23:42.539 - gentleman, and the women work the same way, so when I talk about gentlemen, if you're a lady, 00:23:42.539 --> 00:23:47.559 - the same thing, the ladies do the same thing because we're actually patterned after them. The first 00:23:47.559 --> 00:23:52.628 - gentleman will speak for seven minutes about his nonprofit. He'll tell us things about who they are, 00:23:52.628 --> 00:23:57.246 - were they founded locally, are they a regional group, a national group that serves locally, 00:23:57.410 --> 00:24:02.873 - They'll talk about the population that they serve, the individuals, the needs that they're addressing. 00:24:02.873 --> 00:24:08.602 - They'll talk about their size. They'll talk about their financial health. They'll talk whatever information 00:24:08.602 --> 00:24:14.066 - that the presenter wants to share with us to give us what we need to know, to know whether or not this 00:24:14.066 --> 00:24:19.635 - is a group that we want to support financially. After his seven minutes, and he gets the red card, he'll 00:24:19.635 --> 00:24:25.470 - shut up and he'll have three minutes to take questions from the crowd. Anything he may have forgotten to ask, 00:24:25.698 --> 00:24:31.431 - the crowd will be certain to follow up. Then he sits his butt down, gentleman number two comes up, does 00:24:31.431 --> 00:24:36.998 - the same thing. After 10 minutes, gentleman number three presents, and 30 minutes after we've begun, 00:24:36.998 --> 00:24:42.621 - we're done. Now it's time for the group to decide who are we going to support tonight, okay? And it's 00:24:42.621 --> 00:24:48.189 - done democratically. There's no campaigning, there's no deal making, there's no talking, there's no, 00:24:48.189 --> 00:24:54.142 - it's not like it's silent or anything, but every gentleman gets a voting slip. His name is not on the slip, 00:24:54.466 --> 00:25:00.324 - And on that slip, he writes a one, a two, or a three. I sound like Lawrence Welk. A one, a two, 00:25:00.324 --> 00:25:06.670 - or a three, okay? And he'll put that in the hat. We will collect the votes and count them up. Whichever 00:25:06.670 --> 00:25:13.016 - nonprofit received the most support from our members is our winner that evening, okay? And then at that 00:25:13.016 --> 00:25:19.363 - point, every gentleman will pull out his checkbook. I'm dating myself. We don't actually use checkbooks 00:25:19.363 --> 00:25:23.390 - anymore, but he'll pull out his checkbook and he'll write a check 00:25:23.618 --> 00:25:30.482 - for that nonprofit. Now the ladies write checks for $100 and they have 100 members. So that's $10,000 00:25:30.482 --> 00:25:37.413 - of support to a nonprofit. Their numbers, their membership numbers go up and down. Sometimes they have 00:25:37.413 --> 00:25:44.209 - as many as 200, sometimes as few as 80. But typically 10 to $20,000 from the women's group. The men, 00:25:44.209 --> 00:25:51.006 - we write checks for 125 because we have fewer numbers, fewer physical men in the room. So we have to 00:25:51.170 --> 00:25:58.736 - dig a little bit deeper. And our donations are generally in the scale of 65 to 75 or up to $10,000. 00:25:58.736 --> 00:26:06.605 - The ladies got started back in the fall of 2011. That was 15 years ago. And they have met every quarter 00:26:06.605 --> 00:26:14.399 - for 15 years. The men started 26 months later in the spring of 2014. So they had a two-year head start 00:26:14.399 --> 00:26:19.998 - on us. And they had twice as many people. And OK, is that? Am I doing OK? 00:26:20.674 --> 00:26:26.254 - they persevered through the pandemic where the men did not. And then our founder passed away right after 00:26:26.254 --> 00:26:31.781 - the pandemic and our group kind of went silent for a few years. But Dave and I and Nick and a few other 00:26:31.781 --> 00:26:37.255 - members that were in the old steering committee got together last year and said, we need to bring this 00:26:37.255 --> 00:26:42.676 - group back because we can't let the ladies have all the glory. Okay. So we had our kickoff meeting in 00:26:42.676 --> 00:26:48.097 - January. So the ladies have been doing this for 15 years straight through and have twice our numbers. 00:26:48.097 --> 00:26:48.894 - We've only met 00:26:48.994 --> 00:26:57.106 - half as many times and have half the numbers. So they've generated four times as much money than we 00:26:57.106 --> 00:27:05.460 - have, which makes all the sense. But between our two groups, we have been responsible for $1.2 million 00:27:05.460 --> 00:27:14.059 - in support for groups in Monroe County. If it's a local group, they get all the money. If it's a regional 00:27:14.059 --> 00:27:17.790 - or national group, I've got two minutes left. 00:27:18.338 --> 00:27:24.269 - regional or national group, we stipulate that the support needs to stay in the county, and it does. 00:27:24.269 --> 00:27:30.199 - Now the women, bless them, had been eligible for a corporate match that expired in December of last 00:27:30.199 --> 00:27:36.130 - year from the Shultz Family Foundation. Shultz Family owns Best Buy. To be eligible for that grant, 00:27:36.130 --> 00:27:42.060 - you have to meet quarterly, you have to be registered with the 100 Who Care Alliance, which both of 00:27:42.060 --> 00:27:46.686 - our groups are. That's a national clearinghouse of about seven or 800 similar 00:27:47.074 --> 00:27:54.456 - 100 blanks who care groups spread out nationally and internationally. You have to be a women's group, 00:27:54.456 --> 00:28:01.838 - which disqualified us. We tried identifying as a women's group, but they saw through our charade. And 00:28:01.838 --> 00:28:09.148 - you have to raise at least $5,000 at that meeting. If you do, they kick in $5,000. They did this for 00:28:09.148 --> 00:28:15.806 - seven years. The women qualified for that support every single quarter for all seven years. 00:28:16.034 --> 00:28:26.803 - raising an additional $140,000 for local nonprofits, bringing our total up to 1.23 million. But of that 00:28:26.803 --> 00:28:37.572 - money, 101.09 million of that was all from local members in the form of checks for $100 or in our case, 00:28:37.572 --> 00:28:44.510 - $125. In 15 years, that's roughly 10,000 individual tiny donations 00:28:44.834 --> 00:28:50.694 - from folks in the community supporting the community, okay? Now right here, I'm talking to Rotary right 00:28:50.694 --> 00:28:56.386 - now, but I'm not talking to Rotary because we're not here asking for Rotary support. I'm letting you 00:28:56.386 --> 00:29:02.021 - guys know about these groups because I'm talking to the Rotarians right now. I'm talking to all the 00:29:02.021 --> 00:29:07.656 - gentlemen in the room. We would love to have you consider joining us in the philanthropic endeavors 00:29:07.656 --> 00:29:11.262 - that we're doing to join us in this participatory philanthropy. 00:29:11.362 --> 00:29:18.968 - I swear to God I've been practicing those two words for the last week to not stumble across them, okay? 00:29:18.968 --> 00:29:26.427 - And my time is up. So that sentence is the last sentence. Are there any questions for me before Kathy 00:29:26.427 --> 00:29:34.106 - comes up? Three minutes. My question is how many nominations are there on Everett before you draw three? 00:29:34.106 --> 00:29:41.054 - It varies. At our kickoff meeting in January, we had seven. We've had as many as Nick, 15-ish. 00:29:41.378 --> 00:29:46.759 - in the hat at one time. And if a group is nominated and doesn't get pulled, they stay in the hat for 00:29:46.759 --> 00:29:52.247 - the next cycle, unless that person who nominated them wants to pull them out and put somebody else in. 00:29:52.247 --> 00:29:57.629 - You guys meet four times a year? We meet four times a year. Our next meeting is in, when is our next 00:29:57.629 --> 00:30:03.116 - meeting? It's April 23rd over at Heartwork Brewing. And the ladies meet two weeks later at the country 00:30:03.116 --> 00:30:06.846 - club. I'll let the guy with the microphone figure who's talking next. 00:30:07.106 --> 00:30:13.584 - I love your timing system. Does it really work? Do you have dominators that don't? Yes. And in fact, 00:30:13.584 --> 00:30:20.061 - when I speak, I'm actually, I take every one of the seven minutes they give me because I love public 00:30:20.061 --> 00:30:26.539 - speaking. But the one thing about our group is that public speaking is a terrifying thing for almost 00:30:26.539 --> 00:30:33.017 - everybody. Okay. And even if we've got, if somebody has a nonprofit that they want to nominate, that 00:30:33.017 --> 00:30:35.454 - doesn't seem to be worthy of support. 00:30:35.650 --> 00:30:42.818 - The fact that one person is standing in front of a bunch of strangers and asking them to give them their 00:30:42.818 --> 00:30:49.713 - money endorses the group that they're presenting for. It doesn't matter what the group is, if you're 00:30:49.713 --> 00:30:56.813 - standing in front of strangers asking for money, that says a lot about the individual or the group that 00:30:56.813 --> 00:30:58.110 - you're supporting. 00:30:58.306 --> 00:31:05.370 - I know how it works with 100 women who care. Does 150 men who care, do you have to be a member or can 00:31:05.370 --> 00:31:12.502 - you nominate somebody else to do your presentation for you? And on a side note, you guys give $125 and 00:31:12.502 --> 00:31:19.496 - we give $100. Does that mean you care a little bit more? Well, to the second question, it's not that 00:31:19.496 --> 00:31:26.491 - we care more because we're guys, we're not touchy feely like the ladies are. It's that we understand 00:31:26.491 --> 00:31:28.222 - from a math perspective, 00:31:28.450 --> 00:31:33.985 - that we don't have your numbers. And for us to be able to have an impact and to be able to attract other 00:31:33.985 --> 00:31:39.414 - members, we need to have an impact. Basically, I got dragged in because I was at the time on the board 00:31:39.414 --> 00:31:45.107 - of the Bloomington Symphony. And the ladies group had given them a gift a while back to help our children's 00:31:45.107 --> 00:31:50.590 - instrument recovery program. Our executive director, Donna Lafferty, said, hey, Ken, why don't you join 00:31:50.590 --> 00:31:53.278 - 50 Minutes so you can get some of their money too? 00:31:53.890 --> 00:32:00.664 - By having a $125 donation, it's basically to try to encourage more nonprofits to send their guys in 00:32:00.664 --> 00:32:07.507 - to try to fight for the money. And as to the first question, I forget what it was. Oh, yeah. No, you 00:32:07.507 --> 00:32:14.349 - have to be a member. For a kickoff meeting, we kind of wait. If you promise to join before the night 00:32:14.349 --> 00:32:20.446 - is over, we'll let you speak. But you have to have skin in the game from our perspective. 00:32:22.018 --> 00:32:29.826 - And I think we have a, I have, this is, this is the, I'm out of time. Save your question, save your 00:32:29.826 --> 00:32:38.258 - question. I talk too much. Save your question for Kathy. I'm gonna hand it over. Kathy's got seven minutes. 00:32:38.258 --> 00:32:46.300 - So that advances that. Good afternoon. Thank you so much for this opportunity to come and speak to you 00:32:46.300 --> 00:32:50.750 - today. Ken did a wonderful job at telling you what we do 00:32:51.298 --> 00:33:00.443 - and how we do it. But I wanna talk to you about the impact that this money has had on our community 00:33:00.443 --> 00:33:09.953 - because it's amazing. So you can see, or you saw from Ken's slide that we raised $1.2 million for local 00:33:09.953 --> 00:33:17.086 - nonprofits here in Monroe County between the two groups. 100 plus women alone 00:33:18.178 --> 00:33:31.090 - raised $890,500 since 2011, and that's just individual members contributions, those $100 checks that 00:33:31.090 --> 00:33:44.130 - we write. And then you add the Schulz grant on top of that, which was $140,000 over the last 11 or so 00:33:44.130 --> 00:33:47.838 - years. And that brings us to 00:33:47.970 --> 00:33:56.893 - a total of $1,022,000 that 100 plus women alone has raised since 2011. You know, there's an old saying, 00:33:56.893 --> 00:34:05.645 - it says, if you want something done, ask a busy person. You know that saying? I will add to that, ask 00:34:05.645 --> 00:34:14.225 - a busy woman, because it's really true. So I want to tell you some of the highlights, all right, of 00:34:14.225 --> 00:34:16.542 - how these quarterly awards 00:34:16.962 --> 00:34:25.191 - have changed people's lives and what they've done in the community. Back in 2023, Bloomington Meals 00:34:25.191 --> 00:34:33.666 - on Wheels was a recipient of award from 100 plus women and they used their award to support six months 00:34:33.666 --> 00:34:42.224 - of their operations of their brand new program, which is called the mobile pantry groceries to go. That 00:34:42.224 --> 00:34:43.870 - money that they won 00:34:44.418 --> 00:34:53.457 - They were able to serve 200 families during that six months and deliver over 1700 meals to those 200 00:34:53.457 --> 00:35:02.674 - families. One of the recipients said he would have to take two buses each way to get to another pantry 00:35:02.674 --> 00:35:11.892 - to get the food that he needed. He had emphysema. It made it extremely difficult for him to do so. Now 00:35:11.892 --> 00:35:14.398 - the food is brought to him. 00:35:14.530 --> 00:35:21.945 - he now has the energy to prepare his own meal. Another individual said he was so grateful that drivers 00:35:21.945 --> 00:35:29.432 - bring the food right inside his door in his apartment complex because he has such a hard time breathing 00:35:29.432 --> 00:35:36.990 - that it's hard for him to walk. So he always calls our office afterwards every single time and he thanks 00:35:36.990 --> 00:35:39.006 - us, which is really lovely. 00:35:40.674 --> 00:35:48.981 - In 2023, in addition, Ivy Tech Community College has a program called the Student Emergency Assistance 00:35:48.981 --> 00:35:57.127 - Fund. Basically, it's set up for short-term crises for these students that are studying. Things come 00:35:57.127 --> 00:36:05.193 - up, they can't make their rent, they get sick, whatever, and they want to be able to continue their 00:36:05.193 --> 00:36:09.790 - schooling. We did award some money to them that quarter. 00:36:11.362 --> 00:36:19.921 - And in particular, I was shared an impact about a young woman who was a student there. She had two children 00:36:19.921 --> 00:36:28.005 - already. She was ready to give birth to the third. She was balancing work and kids and school, right? 00:36:28.005 --> 00:36:36.009 - She finds out that her job does not offer paid leave. She wasn't eligible for short-term disability. 00:36:36.009 --> 00:36:40.606 - So Ivy Tech came in with their short-term assistance fund 00:36:40.866 --> 00:36:49.504 - and helped her, otherwise she would have had to go back to work three to five days after giving birth. 00:36:49.504 --> 00:36:57.975 - Not a great thing. I would also like to point out that 92% of all Ivy Tech graduates stay right here 00:36:57.975 --> 00:37:06.697 - in Indiana to live and to work. So that money, helping those individual students, it extends far beyond 00:37:06.697 --> 00:37:08.542 - just that individual. 00:37:09.986 --> 00:37:18.383 - And last but not least in 2022, Teacher's Warehouse was awarded money from 100 plus women. Three of 00:37:18.383 --> 00:37:27.115 - your Rotarians came and made a presentation to 100 plus women, Peggy Frisbee, Nancy Richmond, and Sarah 00:37:27.115 --> 00:37:35.680 - Laughlin. And they were awarded the money that quarter. $20,000 jump started their fundraising, which 00:37:35.680 --> 00:37:39.710 - was fabulous because they got additional grants 00:37:39.970 --> 00:37:47.968 - from the Community Foundation that year and also the Smithville Foundation. And that allowed them to 00:37:47.968 --> 00:37:55.966 - purchase warehouse shelving and professional-grade dollies and display bins to get everything up and 00:37:55.966 --> 00:38:04.677 - running. And now they have at least 1,200 shoppers a year, and I believe that's growing. And their endowment, 00:38:04.677 --> 00:38:08.478 - because of that initial fundraising, has grown. 00:38:08.930 --> 00:38:16.824 - And they're now confident that they can pay their rent every month and keep their shelves well-stocked 00:38:16.824 --> 00:38:24.489 - while helping our educators here in Monroe County. So they do a great job. And we're told that that 00:38:24.489 --> 00:38:32.766 - was a life-changing event for Teachers Warehouse. So in addition to those quarterly awards we make, we also 00:38:32.962 --> 00:38:41.218 - have an endowment at the Community Foundation. So once a year, we all write another $100 check that 00:38:41.218 --> 00:38:49.061 - goes into that endowment. And that endowment balance is now $457,000. And it is what they call 00:38:49.061 --> 00:38:57.647 - an unrestricted endowment, so it can be used for anything. I just want to mention a couple things while 00:38:57.647 --> 00:39:02.270 - I have time, that some of those unrestricted funds have 00:39:02.530 --> 00:39:09.863 - done. So in addition to our quarterly awards we're also reaching out through the community foundation 00:39:09.863 --> 00:39:17.196 - to help others. There was grant support for the community kitchen express rebuild project the one out 00:39:17.196 --> 00:39:25.033 - in Crestmont. They did a rebuild much safer space more functional. Also we had nine months ago the community 00:39:25.033 --> 00:39:32.222 - foundation awarded a hundred thousand dollar grant to support the new Beacon Center and my favorite 00:39:32.802 --> 00:39:41.301 - was the one last year where there was something called the Strengthening Monroe County Non-Profit. You 00:39:41.301 --> 00:39:49.801 - may have read about it. A matching initiative. Oh shoot, I had one more thing to say. Okay. Thank you. 00:39:49.801 --> 00:39:58.135 - Questions? Yes. What was the last thing you were going to say? The last thing I was going to say was 00:39:58.135 --> 00:40:00.446 - a quote from Margaret Mead. 00:40:01.218 --> 00:40:10.705 - Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. That's true. 00:40:10.705 --> 00:40:20.193 - I hadn't realized that an organization could receive the quarterly money more than once. Is there a 00:40:20.193 --> 00:40:29.965 - period of time where they can be re-nominated? Yes. So I believe this is correct. You can be nominated 00:40:29.965 --> 00:40:31.198 - three times. 00:40:31.682 --> 00:40:41.862 - And you have to wait for two years in between those, three years in between that. We've changed that 00:40:41.862 --> 00:40:52.344 - a couple of times. Three years in between that. Men are two, women are three. Yeah, yeah. Any questions 00:40:52.344 --> 00:41:01.214 - online? Not yet. Run, Michael, run. I don't need a microphone, but since I got it here, 00:41:01.858 --> 00:41:10.414 - Does the organization have to, can it be for animals? As long as you are a non-profit 501C3 here in 00:41:10.414 --> 00:41:18.970 - Monroe County. Yes, we've had PALS has won an award. Monroe County Humane Association has received. 00:41:18.970 --> 00:41:20.510 - Sure. Absolutely. 00:41:28.034 --> 00:41:36.513 - Can you talk a little more about your nomination process, specifically having presenters come up? Oh, 00:41:36.513 --> 00:41:44.993 - okay. So we're a little bit different than what the men do. We do ask people to put their nominations 00:41:44.993 --> 00:41:53.721 - in a basket. We draw out three names of agencies to make their presentations. You do have to be a member 00:41:53.721 --> 00:41:55.550 - to make a nomination. 00:41:55.842 --> 00:42:03.638 - but you don't have to be a member to make the presentation. So in other words, I could ask the executive 00:42:03.638 --> 00:42:11.136 - director of my agency that I want nominated to come and speak if they are chosen from the basket. We 00:42:11.136 --> 00:42:18.635 - have a lot of people that are afraid to speak in public, and this helps open up more nominations and 00:42:18.635 --> 00:42:24.574 - more nonprofits for consideration. Yes, I just wondered if you have contributed 00:42:25.250 --> 00:42:36.567 - in the past in my sister's closet. Yes, we have. They've won two or we're saying three times, four times, 00:42:36.567 --> 00:42:47.244 - four times. Thank you. I just want to confirm if as a speaker, if I get selected to be a presenter, 00:42:47.244 --> 00:42:55.038 - do I have to? Well, not me, but does the presenter have to be a woman or 00:42:55.202 --> 00:43:01.340 - No, absolutely. The presenter can be any gender, okay. Yeah. So we've got a couple of minutes left over 00:43:01.340 --> 00:43:06.770 - and there are a couple of questions, but there's a couple of small things that I, because I 00:43:06.770 --> 00:43:12.791 - was so rambunctious and didn't cover all the points. Both of our organizations are partnered with the 00:43:12.791 --> 00:43:18.988 - Community Foundation. We both have endowments at the foundation. They support us. There's business cards 00:43:18.988 --> 00:43:23.710 - on all of the tables with our contact information, our schedules and our dates. 00:43:23.874 --> 00:43:29.623 - that they printed up for us. Both of our endowments collectively are over a half million dollars. The 00:43:29.623 --> 00:43:35.540 - gentlemen also write tiny little $100 checks once a year, and we've only done it for seven years because 00:43:35.540 --> 00:43:41.176 - half as much time. But at our last meeting in January, at a kickoff meeting, we actually said, hey, 00:43:41.176 --> 00:43:46.925 - we only need three or four more of you guys to donate to get over the $100,000 point. And I think Jim 00:43:46.925 --> 00:43:49.630 - might've been the one that pushed over the top. 00:43:50.082 --> 00:43:55.896 - So we have a six-figure endowment. It is a small six-figure endowment, but that helps support the community 00:43:55.896 --> 00:44:01.441 - foundation to support us and to support you and to support the community. Half of the stuff that, half 00:44:01.441 --> 00:44:07.147 - of the endowment is reinvested in the endowment. The other half supports them and allows them to continue 00:44:07.147 --> 00:44:12.638 - to do the work in the community with the rest of the endowment to support the community. So it's sort 00:44:12.638 --> 00:44:16.030 - of like that snake that eats its own tail, but it's all money. 00:44:16.226 --> 00:44:22.846 - So that's all cool. And if we have any time left over, I'm not gonna put Emily on this, but if we have 00:44:22.846 --> 00:44:29.401 - any time left over at the very end, I'll be happy to let her speak more to that. But I know there was 00:44:29.401 --> 00:44:36.021 - at least one question left over for me. Go for it, yeah. Yes, I was a member of 50 Men Who Care before 00:44:36.021 --> 00:44:42.705 - the pandemic. Yes, sir. And one of the things that our organization started shortly before the pandemic 00:44:42.705 --> 00:44:45.790 - was in an effort to get younger people involved 00:44:46.466 --> 00:44:53.915 - we had a lower threshold. So people under the age of 40, I think it was, could do $75 per meeting. Is 00:44:53.915 --> 00:45:00.560 - that still going on? Thank you. I completely spaced. I was going to mention that. We offer 00:45:00.560 --> 00:45:07.863 - junior memberships. They get the same voting privileges, the same all that. It's roughly half. It's 00:45:07.863 --> 00:45:15.166 - $75 per quarter and a $50 donation to the endowment as opposed to $100. So for the year, it's $375. 00:45:15.426 --> 00:45:22.366 - the gentleman for the full year at $600? I think for the ladies it's... Yes, a hundred plus women does 00:45:22.366 --> 00:45:29.171 - the same. If you're 40 or under, it's $50 for the annual contribution and $50 per quarter toward the 00:45:29.171 --> 00:45:35.909 - agency. So a total of $250 for the year as opposed to $500. You get a half vote or a full vote? You 00:45:35.909 --> 00:45:37.054 - get a full vote. 00:45:37.314 --> 00:45:45.877 - Full privileges. We're just trying to encourage philanthropy at a younger age and try to help those 00:45:45.877 --> 00:45:54.526 - that have shallower pockets to be able to play ball with us. Correct. That was actually my question. 00:45:54.526 --> 00:46:00.606 - Yay. We have two questions online. Go ahead. Leslie, you can go first. 00:46:01.442 --> 00:46:08.722 - Um, my question was similar and what, what do you do to actively recruit new members to both organizations? 00:46:08.722 --> 00:46:15.868 - Well, Leslie, that's a great question. And that is something that, uh, one of the things we do are things 00:46:15.868 --> 00:46:22.743 - like this. Um, then come and talk to you and tell us about, tell you about who we are and what we do. 00:46:22.743 --> 00:46:30.158 - And I will say that the reason that I'm a member of a hundred plus women and the reason I joined specifically 00:46:30.158 --> 00:46:31.102 - was because I 00:46:31.202 --> 00:46:38.654 - like the fact that the money stays local. That's what I like about it. I'm going to give anyway. I'm 00:46:38.654 --> 00:46:46.254 - going to give charitably anyway. And one of the things I like to do is keep that charity close to home 00:46:46.254 --> 00:46:53.633 - and, and see my community flourish. So that was attractive to me. So that's one of the things we go 00:46:53.633 --> 00:47:00.126 - out and we, we talk to groups like yourself. We encourage our members to bring friends. 00:47:00.578 --> 00:47:10.091 - just like you do here at Rotary, bring a friend and attend and see what we're all about. I can't say 00:47:10.091 --> 00:47:19.604 - that we've really done anything by mail or anything like that. If you have any ideas, Leslie, please 00:47:19.604 --> 00:47:27.422 - let me know. Peggy, you had a question on one? Yep, Peggy. Yeah, if I'm permitted. 00:47:27.682 --> 00:47:35.825 - question for Kathy to answer, but also a comment. I'm also pretty heavily involved with 100 plus women 00:47:35.825 --> 00:47:44.126 - who care and have been actually since the beginning. And Kathy, following up on what you just said about 00:47:44.126 --> 00:47:52.269 - what attracted you, one thing that I've really found so good from being involved is how much I learned 00:47:52.269 --> 00:47:56.222 - about the different charities, even though we may 00:47:56.642 --> 00:48:05.070 - read articles or news reports or be involved with a few. You saw the chart up there of all the charities 00:48:05.070 --> 00:48:13.097 - that have been supported, which I'm not even sure that's everyone. But at any rate, even with seven 00:48:13.097 --> 00:48:21.284 - minutes and three minutes of questions, we really, really learn about the needs of the community. And 00:48:21.284 --> 00:48:24.254 - then my question, Kathy, for you is, 00:48:24.418 --> 00:48:31.838 - Maybe you could talk a moment about sort of the unique structure and that we're not even incorporated 00:48:31.838 --> 00:48:39.549 - or anything. Well, that's true. We are not a nonprofit ourselves. And we are, as Ken said, we're a giving 00:48:39.549 --> 00:48:47.479 - circle or a group of women who are out there to help other nonprofits, but we are not a nonprofit ourselves. 00:48:47.479 --> 00:48:52.062 - We don't have a board of directors, anything like that. We are 00:48:52.834 --> 00:49:02.260 - truly just a circle of women who care. That's truly what we are. There's no president. Somebody gets 00:49:02.260 --> 00:49:11.966 - to take over the kind of the organization for a year, and we pass that around. Yeah, I don't know. What 00:49:11.966 --> 00:49:20.926 - else can I say? Well, I'll say two things. One is our donation checks go to the agencies, okay? 00:49:21.282 --> 00:49:29.759 - They do not go through the community foundation is our backup supporter and sponsor. You could think 00:49:29.759 --> 00:49:38.404 - of it as definitely the sponsor, but when we donate to the agencies, it goes directly to the agencies. 00:49:38.404 --> 00:49:46.965 - We do have a bit of a restriction. That doesn't mean you get on a solicitation list. It goes straight 00:49:46.965 --> 00:49:50.910 - there. The $100 a quarter goes straight to the 00:49:51.298 --> 00:49:59.188 - agencies and so it's not an incorporated nonprofit. They don't write a check to 100 plus women. They 00:49:59.188 --> 00:50:07.156 - write a check to the agency and the community foundation helps us funnel that money to the agency. It 00:50:07.156 --> 00:50:15.124 - helps us do some of that bookkeeping. If I can piggyback on that, the men do it slightly differently, 00:50:15.124 --> 00:50:20.670 - but for different reasons. When we reformed at the first of this year, 00:50:20.962 --> 00:50:26.751 - there were some lessons learned from the past. One of the things with solicitation, when we were writing 00:50:26.751 --> 00:50:32.374 - individual checks to a nonprofit, sometimes even though we asked them not to solicit, we would end up 00:50:32.374 --> 00:50:37.942 - on their mailing list individually. And we kind of frowned upon that. There was a second really good 00:50:37.942 --> 00:50:43.676 - reason why we changed. Oh yeah, collecting was a whole lot more difficult, particularly as we went into 00:50:43.676 --> 00:50:49.630 - the pandemic. Nick was our convener at that time. And when you join the group, you're committing to support 00:50:49.858 --> 00:50:54.456 - our mission for the year. Whether you come to the meetings, we hope you come to all the meetings, but 00:50:54.456 --> 00:50:59.054 - if you don't come to the meeting, that's okay, we'll tell you, oh, this quarter, we're supporting Ken 00:50:59.054 --> 00:51:03.651 - Buzzard's European Travel Fund, okay? And so everybody has to write me a check for 125 dollars. Well, 00:51:03.651 --> 00:51:08.385 - some people wouldn't do that, or some people, we couldn't get ahold of all that. So this year, how we're 00:51:08.385 --> 00:51:13.072 - doing it differently is we're all writing checks for the full year upfront to the Community Foundation, 00:51:13.072 --> 00:51:16.318 - and they're shepherding our money for us, and they write a single check 00:51:16.546 --> 00:51:22.421 - because the burden, if we are sending 100 checks to a tiny little nonprofit that then have to turn around 00:51:22.421 --> 00:51:28.129 - and acknowledge 100 tax deductible receipts with 100 letters, 100 stamped envelopes, then the time and 00:51:28.129 --> 00:51:33.949 - labor and all that, plus the risk of those individuals ending up on their solicitation list, we thought, 00:51:33.949 --> 00:51:39.491 - let's try it differently. Let's just try a different way of doing this. So we send the money to the 00:51:39.491 --> 00:51:45.144 - community foundation. The gentlemen who write that check immediately get a tax receipt for the entire 00:51:45.144 --> 00:51:46.142 - year on the spot. 00:51:46.690 --> 00:51:52.371 - And then they join us each quarter to tell us how to take that money and send it back out into the community. 00:51:52.371 --> 00:51:57.535 - Unity Foundation sends one check, one great big check to the nonprofit. And if they end up on their 00:51:57.535 --> 00:52:02.699 - solicitation list, God bless them. That's okay. We do it differently for different reasons. There's 00:52:02.699 --> 00:52:08.018 - no right way to do it. Ask us in a couple of years, one of us will say, oh, we really should have done 00:52:08.018 --> 00:52:13.183 - it the way the other group did. And then we'll revisit it and change it. But that's one of the cool 00:52:13.183 --> 00:52:13.854 - things about 00:52:14.914 --> 00:52:22.243 - We don't have a board of directors. We're just a club. In our case, we're just a bunch of guys who are 00:52:22.243 --> 00:52:29.643 - getting together once a quarter at a brewery to write a check. We're not there to drink the beer. Yeah, 00:52:29.643 --> 00:52:36.189 - yeah, yeah. We used to meet at the country club like the ladies did. We couldn't afford it. 00:52:36.189 --> 00:52:44.015 - Because again, because we don't have a bank account, we don't have resources. This is all based on individual 00:52:44.015 --> 00:52:44.798 - donations. 00:52:45.090 --> 00:52:50.533 - and the country club changed. I mean, no criticism of the country club, but the target audience that 00:52:50.533 --> 00:52:56.083 - they're aiming for is different than what we are. Okay, they've evolved, they've reinvested, they need 00:52:56.083 --> 00:53:01.472 - to recover that, and that's perfectly fine. We went to a brewery because they're like, we'd love to 00:53:01.472 --> 00:53:07.238 - have all these civic leaders come in and see our facility. They invested in us. They gave us their meeting 00:53:07.238 --> 00:53:12.734 - space for free first quarter. And they're giving, even though we're not registered, they're giving us 00:53:12.734 --> 00:53:13.758 - the nonprofit rate 00:53:14.786 --> 00:53:21.780 - for the rest of the year, for the rest of our life, for the rest of our relationship with them. So I'm 00:53:21.780 --> 00:53:28.977 - not going to pimp for hard work brewing, but if you want to go grab a Brewski. Actually, we have a couple 00:53:28.977 --> 00:53:35.767 - more. Actually, we're until 57. So we got four more minutes. So don't ask me any questions, because 00:53:35.767 --> 00:53:41.470 - I'll use them all up answering. So hang on a second, Dave. Just one quick question. 00:53:41.762 --> 00:53:48.622 - Well, too, actually, what's the meeting like? Do you just walk in and you start talking or is there 00:53:48.622 --> 00:53:55.687 - some kind of connectivity, networking? And then the second thing, what do you do between meetings? Our 00:53:55.687 --> 00:54:02.684 - meeting begins with social hour. We open the doors at five. You can come in and meet other people and 00:54:02.684 --> 00:54:09.406 - talk, get a glass of wine or whatever and do some networking. And then our meeting starts at six. 00:54:09.954 --> 00:54:15.670 - and we do the basket draw and we're out of there at seven o'clock. Yeah, pretty quick. For the men, 00:54:15.670 --> 00:54:21.557 - we meet at six at 5.30. We have a 30 minute, cause it's the bars right there. They have pizzas and all 00:54:21.557 --> 00:54:27.387 - that. And we network as well. Our meeting starts at six. We go until seven. For our next meeting, the 00:54:27.387 --> 00:54:33.275 - group that we supported last quarter will be coming in to get the picture taken with the big check and 00:54:33.275 --> 00:54:37.790 - to let us know how they are. Thank you. They'll let us know how they are using 00:54:38.018 --> 00:54:43.845 - the money that we gave them. We need more men because when we started up and trying to get the word 00:54:43.845 --> 00:54:50.196 - out about other meetings, we're using social media, we're using word of mouth, we don't have an ad campaign. 00:54:50.196 --> 00:54:56.197 - So we were hoping to get half of 50 for our first meeting and we missed that by a couple of gentlemen. 00:54:56.197 --> 00:55:02.140 - Our personal goal is to hit 50 by the end of the year. I'm hoping we have 40 at our next meeting. The 00:55:02.140 --> 00:55:07.326 - viability of the group depends on the participation of the individuals in the community. 00:55:07.778 --> 00:55:15.988 - Okay. Um, that that's, it's all about us. So please consider becoming one of us, one of us, one of them. 00:55:15.988 --> 00:55:23.886 - Yeah. So he already answered one question. Um, what about, so you both look, you both stay in Monroe 00:55:23.886 --> 00:55:31.705 - County, right? Yes. Right. Okay. Okay. And, and you haven't had more than 50 men. We've had as many 00:55:31.705 --> 00:55:36.318 - as 84, I believe is when we were at our peak pre pandemic. 00:55:36.866 --> 00:55:44.738 - We're at 23 right now. But we've only had one meeting. Dave. This is really just not a question, but 00:55:44.738 --> 00:55:52.765 - it is a question that I got from somebody else about 50 men and that was, why participate in this kind 00:55:52.765 --> 00:56:01.182 - of giving circle? I give money to whatever organization I want to. I think I'd like to answer that question 00:56:01.182 --> 00:56:06.014 - that was asked me for the group, which is, well, it's impact. 00:56:06.562 --> 00:56:12.895 - It's the fact that your check that you give is multiplied by all the other people that are in the room 00:56:12.895 --> 00:56:19.044 - and part of that giving circle. And so if it's really a good cause that you're giving to, then come 00:56:19.044 --> 00:56:25.378 - to a meeting, participate, and make the case for why everybody should support that group that quarter. 00:56:25.378 --> 00:56:31.773 - And next quarter, try again if it didn't work the last time. Well, you're right about that. It is about 00:56:31.773 --> 00:56:36.446 - impact. And it is about, as I said before, keeping your community thriving. 00:56:36.866 --> 00:56:45.202 - you are directly affecting your neighbors and all the people that live here in Monroe County in Bloomington 00:56:45.202 --> 00:56:53.074 - with you. And that to me is everything as opposed to writing a check to a large organization that may 00:56:53.074 --> 00:57:01.332 - do good work, but doesn't always have the impact. At 12 seconds, Nick. Can you quickly explain the lessons 00:57:01.332 --> 00:57:05.886 - learned on how to divvy up to quarters for the men? Right. 00:57:07.458 --> 00:57:15.159 - I can't quickly do that. So I'll explain how we do it. How we do it is we observed that when we have 00:57:15.159 --> 00:57:22.783 - competitive presentations that groups that are sponsoring children or dogs tended to win more often 00:57:22.783 --> 00:57:29.950 - than not. Okay. If you had handicapped one-legged dog with an orphan child group, slammed up. 00:57:30.050 --> 00:57:35.411 - Okay, so what we've decided to do is we're gonna, we're dividing, we're attempting to divide, and the 00:57:35.411 --> 00:57:40.772 - women don't do this, this is just a guy thing. We're attempting to divide the donation space based on 00:57:40.772 --> 00:57:45.712 - mission each quarter. We have a free for all fourth quarter. First quarter might be children, 00:57:45.712 --> 00:57:51.021 - second quarter, dogs, third quarter, everybody that didn't get a quarter. We're still learning as we 00:57:51.021 --> 00:57:55.646 - do this. In fact, because our numbers need to be up, we're not doing that this quarter. 00:57:56.002 --> 00:58:04.577 - So we're going to delay implementing that until January of next year. But the goal is to give every 00:58:04.577 --> 00:58:13.323 - group a fair shot in their own space without competing against one-legged orphan dogs. Okay. So thank 00:58:13.323 --> 00:58:22.155 - you guys for your time to give us your time tonight. We got to get out of here. So thank you all. That 00:58:22.155 --> 00:58:23.870 - then can great job. 00:58:24.738 --> 00:58:31.705 - I understood the Lawrence Welk reference. I still write checks and I understood the Pimp reference. 00:58:31.705 --> 00:58:38.741 - So I'm not sure what that says about me, but what a wonderful presentation. $1.2 million. That is so 00:58:38.741 --> 00:58:45.778 - very impressive. And thank you both of you for what you do for Monroe County. In honor of your talk, 00:58:45.778 --> 00:58:53.790 - a donation was made to this quarter to Amethyst House. I want to thank today's volunteers, Houshee Wang, Sam Udak, 00:58:54.114 --> 00:59:00.843 - Dave Meyer, Leslie Katsenko, David Wright, Marilyn Wood, Michael Shermas, Elan Barker, our Zoom and 00:59:00.843 --> 00:59:07.909 - audio producer Tyler. You were kind of dealing with a couple of gremlins today, so thank you. And Mandy, 00:59:07.909 --> 00:59:14.773 - thank you as well. So our next regular meeting will be on March 31st upstairs in the stateroom. We've 00:59:14.773 --> 00:59:18.878 - not been in the stateroom for a long time. It's a very small 00:59:19.234 --> 00:59:27.780 - I'm not even for sure which door we'll use to enter, but hopefully we'll have that worked out by next 00:59:27.780 --> 00:59:36.242 - week. So Robert Frew and Juan Carlos Arango will speak to us about growing new farmers in new lands. 00:59:36.242 --> 00:59:44.705 - So please join us. So Tyler, if you'd put up the graphic for the four-way tests, and if you're able, 00:59:44.705 --> 00:59:48.894 - please stand. Of the things we think, say, or do, 00:59:49.250 --> 00:59:56.432 - First is it the truth? Second, is it fair to all concerned? Third, will it build goodwill and better 00:59:56.432 --> 01:00:02.334 - friendships? Fourth, will it be beneficial to all concerned? And fifth, is it fun?