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ExtraGive: Celebrating Generosity in Lancaster County with Dave Koser and Kim Shorter · Clean Water Conversations

0:11
SPEAKER_04: Hello everyone and welcome to Clean Water Conversations, the podcast where we have casual discussions about creating clean and clear waterways right here in Lancaster County.
0:20
SPEAKER_04: I'm Ken.
0:21
SPEAKER_03: Hey everybody, it's Allison.
0:22
SPEAKER_04: Allison, we are fast approaching Thanksgiving.
0:26
SPEAKER_03: It's been a fast season.
0:27
SPEAKER_04: It it has.
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SPEAKER_03: What a beautiful one, though.
0:30
SPEAKER_04: And a busy one.
0:31
SPEAKER_03: That's true.
0:31
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
0:32
SPEAKER_03: Thank goodness for colors and cool temperatures and love it.
0:35
SPEAKER_04: Yep.
0:36
SPEAKER_04: Love it.
0:36
SPEAKER_04: So I have a question.
0:38
SPEAKER_04: Do you or your family have any Thanksgiving traditions?
0:42
SPEAKER_03: Well, we growing up in a family that had a business that was open on Thanksgiving.
0:48
SPEAKER_03: We had traditions of having a late dinner or doing it in some other format.
0:53
SPEAKER_03: But I also remember going out to Pittsburgh to see my dad's side and Thanksgiving traditions there of yes, full turkey dinner.
1:01
SPEAKER_03: And still today people talk about my grandmother passing the bowl of mashed potatoes, saying, Everyone take your scoop and then give the bowl to Allison.
1:11
SPEAKER_03: How about you, Ken?
1:12
SPEAKER_03: What do you guys do for Thanksgiving?
1:14
SPEAKER_04: We invariably well, I invariably watch the parade.
1:18
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
1:19
SPEAKER_04: Used to watch it with my kids who would usually get bored about an hour in.
1:23
SPEAKER_04: And uh then I would finish watching it and and depending on which house we were going to for Thanksgiving, either either my wife's family or my family, we we would get ourselves ready and go enjoy Thanksgiving.
1:36
SPEAKER_04: So yeah.
1:38
SPEAKER_03: Sounds good.
1:38
SPEAKER_03: Pretty low-key, pretty laid back, you know.
1:41
SPEAKER_03: Well, like you said, it's been a busy season building up to this.
1:44
SPEAKER_03: So we have quite the list of awesomeness that has so many things for us to be thankful for this year.
1:51
SPEAKER_03: And I am trying to keep this relatively short, but I'm really excited to announce that the Watershed Leadership Academy is kicking off, and our newest group of scholars has been selected, and we'll have our official kickoff here in December with the session starting in January.
2:06
SPEAKER_03: So a group of 16 that we're really excited about.
2:09
SPEAKER_04: And if you want to know a little bit more about what that is about, check out episode 12 of this very podcast.
2:16
SPEAKER_04: We also announced at the full partners meeting recently that we have the network participant experience form.
2:25
SPEAKER_04: Whether you're a partner or not, we're trying to track how everybody is interrelated within organizations.
2:33
SPEAKER_04: That's a lot.
2:34
SPEAKER_04: That's a lot to track.
2:35
SPEAKER_04: So we are asking individual organizations to go in and start with the network participation experience form.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's a way for us to do some storytelling about the awesomeness, like the network itself, but then individual partners and what are you doing within it?
2:50
SPEAKER_03: What are you looking for within that?
2:52
SPEAKER_03: How can we be a better network to tell your story, to tell the impact of all of everybody working together?
2:58
SPEAKER_03: So yeah, part of our list of awesomeness is growing that storytelling.
3:02
SPEAKER_04: And you have participated in a couple more presentations.
3:06
SPEAKER_03: Just a few lately.
3:08
SPEAKER_04: It's been crazy for you.
3:10
SPEAKER_04: Last week, you you and Alex actually presented at the LCAT, uh, which is the Lancaster County Association of Township Supervisors.
3:22
SPEAKER_04: Excellent.
3:22
SPEAKER_04: And that I assume went well.
3:24
SPEAKER_03: It did.
3:24
SPEAKER_03: We were really appreciative of the chance to be on the agenda as a presenter, have a table, have some individual conversations over buttered noodles at Yoders.
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SPEAKER_03: So it's a great place to have more time with some of our municipal partners, some of our engineering firm partners, understand what are their priorities.
3:41
SPEAKER_03: And this was two days after the national election.
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SPEAKER_03: So there was lots of news and emotions and things to talk about.
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SPEAKER_03: So a great place to be.
3:51
SPEAKER_04: And the week before that, you presented at Hourglass Lancaster.
3:55
SPEAKER_03: That's right.
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SPEAKER_03: It's a monthly forum, and we were invited to be the November First Friday guest.
4:02
SPEAKER_03: So we got to talk about the network and bring along two partner organizations.
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SPEAKER_03: So thank you, thank you to Terry from Canarvon Township and to Mike from the Interfaith Partners for the Ches Peak for telling their stories at par as partner organizations, putting some reality and on the ground, boots on the ground voices to this work.
4:20
SPEAKER_04: So and the video of that is available on social media.
4:25
SPEAKER_04: You can check it out on our social media.
4:26
SPEAKER_04: We have a link to it over there.
4:28
SPEAKER_04: So good stuff.
4:29
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, just a few of our list of awesomeness.
4:31
SPEAKER_03: We we could do a lot more, but we want to get to our guest today.
4:34
SPEAKER_03: So excited to introduce who we have from the Lancaster County Community Foundation.
4:38
SPEAKER_04: And they are Dave Koser, who is the director of programs, and Kim Shorter, who is the chief operating officer.
4:45
SPEAKER_03: And Ken, you had such a blast with this.
4:47
SPEAKER_04: This was a lot of fun.
4:50
SPEAKER_04: Let's hit it.
4:51
SPEAKER_04: We like to start things out with an icebreaker.
4:55
SPEAKER_04: So your icebreaker question is Have you ever met your idol or someone you revere greatly?
5:01
SPEAKER_04: And if you haven't, who would you like to meet and why?
5:05
SPEAKER_07: Um I feel like mine might be a little underwhelming, but when I was a kid, I used to watch Captain Chesapeake a lot.
5:12
SPEAKER_07: It was a big Baltimore thing when I was a kid growing up.
5:16
SPEAKER_07: Um he was a shipwrecked sailor and he had this little sidekick Mondi the sea monster.
5:21
SPEAKER_07: Wow.
5:22
SPEAKER_07: Um that yeah, yeah, it was really great.
5:24
SPEAKER_07: And it was like a Muppet Mondy.
5:26
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
5:26
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
5:27
SPEAKER_07: So I had to meet them in Timonium one time.
5:30
SPEAKER_07: It was some exciting stuff.
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SPEAKER_07: I was super thrilled with it as a kid and was so excited.
5:35
SPEAKER_07: And I recited the shipwrecked sailor poem to him, which I don't know if he really appreciates that.
5:41
SPEAKER_07: But that was, yeah.
5:42
SPEAKER_07: It was fun.
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SPEAKER_07: And it was memorable.
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SPEAKER_07: So very cool.
5:46
SPEAKER_07: That's great.
5:47
SPEAKER_02: Awesome.
5:47
SPEAKER_02: About you, Dave.
5:48
SPEAKER_02: Actually, recently, a few months ago, I met Coach Kay, the Duke basketball coach.
5:53
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
5:53
SPEAKER_02: Um, he is in town, the chamber had their chamber dinner.
5:56
SPEAKER_02: He was the keynote speaker.
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SPEAKER_02: We as a foundation we received an award, the Exemplar Award.
6:01
SPEAKER_02: And because of that, we had a chance to get in line and have a photo off with Coach Kay.
6:07
SPEAKER_02: And I was always a big Duke fan growing up, and you know, I was just so excited to have this chance to meet him, and he was awesome.
6:13
SPEAKER_02: He gave a great speech, and then meeting him in person just really just down to earth.
6:17
SPEAKER_02: He just seemed like a really cool guy.
6:20
SPEAKER_02: Um, so the the funny thing though was that our CEO Sam Bressy uh was there.
6:25
SPEAKER_02: So we're we're getting a group shot, and Sam had prepared, you know, what would I say to Coach Kay?
6:30
SPEAKER_02: And he was thinking about this for the longest time, and and he came up with this really good question.
6:34
SPEAKER_02: So here we are.
6:34
SPEAKER_02: You know, I'm I'm right there, Coach Kay's right there, Sam's right there, we're looking at each other.
6:39
SPEAKER_02: And Sam's like, Coach Kay, you have coached LeBron James, you've coached some of the best Duke basketball players, you've won national championships, you've won Olympic gold medals.
6:51
SPEAKER_02: So surely, like everybody else, you know, you have some insecurities.
6:55
SPEAKER_02: And you know, so how do you convert your insecurities into being a champion?
7:00
SPEAKER_02: And Coach K just kind of looked and yeah, I I I don't have I don't have insecurities.
7:08
SPEAKER_01: Sorry, I can't help you.
7:12
SPEAKER_01: I can't help you out with that.
7:15
SPEAKER_01: So we always have a good laugh about that.
7:19
SPEAKER_01: But what it was a great honor to get to meet Coach K.
7:22
SPEAKER_07: And mind you, I met Coach K too, yet I still chose 1970s TV personality.
7:28
SPEAKER_04: Captain Chesapeake.
7:30
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
7:31
SPEAKER_04: I love it.
7:31
SPEAKER_04: That's how I love it.
7:35
SPEAKER_04: If you looked at the artwork for this episode, you may notice that Dave and I have a slight resemblance to each other.
7:44
SPEAKER_04: I just want to clarify.
7:45
SPEAKER_00: Wait, wait, dude.
7:46
SPEAKER_04: We're not related.
7:47
SPEAKER_04: I I'm actually uh Dave Stunt double.
7:50
SPEAKER_04: So yeah.
7:52
SPEAKER_04: So t tell us a little bit about yourself.
7:55
SPEAKER_04: Where where did you grow up?
7:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I can start.
7:58
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
7:58
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
7:59
SPEAKER_02: Um yeah, I grew up in Lancaster County, um, eastern Lancaster County specifically, went to Peckway Valley.
8:05
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, I know the area very well, spent pretty much my whole life here.
8:09
SPEAKER_02: Uh, did a little bit of traveling after high school, ended up going to college at the University of Pittsburgh, and then when that was over, back to Lancaster.
8:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
8:20
SPEAKER_04: What what brought you to the community foundation?
8:23
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, good question.
8:24
SPEAKER_02: I honestly didn't know what I wanted to do with my life.
8:27
SPEAKER_02: I had no idea.
8:28
SPEAKER_02: I I did not grow up thinking I'm gonna work at a community foundation.
8:32
SPEAKER_02: I don't think anybody ever said that.
8:34
SPEAKER_02: I don't think that's a thing that people aspire to uh just because people don't know what community foundations are by and large.
8:41
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, so I I majored in history and political science, thought for a second maybe that I would want to teach history.
8:49
SPEAKER_02: Um, actually took my classes and got certified to teach.
8:53
SPEAKER_02: And yeah, and then ultimately I did student teaching and I said to myself, this is not for me.
8:59
SPEAKER_02: I do not see myself doing this for 30 years.
9:01
SPEAKER_02: God bless all the teachers out there who do this work because it is challenging and the demands are just nonstop.
9:10
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, I I did some construction work a little bit after that, uh, just trying to figure out what I wanted to do.
9:16
SPEAKER_02: Ended up getting hit in the face with a sledgehammer, uh, ended up shooting a nail through my finger, ended up Oh my gosh.
9:24
SPEAKER_02: And then the final straw was we were finishing up a job.
9:28
SPEAKER_02: It was like December.
9:30
SPEAKER_02: It was like cold, cold rain.
9:32
SPEAKER_02: I was freezing, I was shivering, and I was supposed to put scaffolding away that like metal, you know.
9:37
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
9:37
SPEAKER_02: So I'm grabbing onto the metal, and it was like just grabbing onto ice.
9:41
SPEAKER_02: My hands felt like they were gonna fall off, but like the scaffolding had to come down that day.
9:46
SPEAKER_00: Right.
9:46
SPEAKER_02: Got got the job done, and I just I was so cold, just shivering.
9:51
SPEAKER_02: And I said to myself, I went to college and I think I should not do this.
9:56
SPEAKER_01: Again, God bless all the construction workers out there.
10:01
SPEAKER_02: It is not for the fiend of heart.
10:03
SPEAKER_02: So I started looking for a job.
10:04
SPEAKER_02: My my sister knew somebody who was working at the community foundation at the time.
10:08
SPEAKER_02: I said, I never heard of the community foundation, but I looked at the job description and I said, I I I think I can do that, and I think it will keep me warm this winter.
10:16
SPEAKER_02: That was that was my my mindset going into it, and somehow it turned into a career.
10:22
SPEAKER_02: I've been there almost 17 years now, and it's just been absolutely fantastic.
10:27
SPEAKER_02: The team that we have working with people like Kim, I've worked with her almost 17 years, 16, 16 plus, and it's just been an awesome journey.
10:36
SPEAKER_02: Just a great team, people who are passionate, who really care about the community deeply.
10:41
SPEAKER_02: We're we're kind of generalists in a sense that you know we have to have a little bit of expertise in a lot of things.
10:46
SPEAKER_05: Right.
10:47
SPEAKER_02: And that sues me, well, I'm a jack of all trades.
10:49
SPEAKER_02: I like I like to do anything, you know, involve myself in any kind of project.
10:52
SPEAKER_02: So it's just been an uh an incredible place to work for a while.
10:56
SPEAKER_04: And no sledgehammers.
10:57
SPEAKER_02: No sledgehammers.
10:58
SPEAKER_02: I had a black my I had a black eye in my interview for the community foundation because I had just been hit in the face with a sledgehammer by my boss.
11:06
SPEAKER_02: He uh obviously unintentional well, I think it was unintentional.
11:13
SPEAKER_01: That was that was quite a day.
11:15
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
11:16
SPEAKER_03: And now depending on the weather that year, maybe the extra give could be your cold day of carrying frames or not quite the same.
11:25
SPEAKER_02: Although this year it might be 68 degrees, who knows?
11:29
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
11:30
SPEAKER_04: So what about you, Kim?
11:31
SPEAKER_04: Where where did you grow up?
11:32
SPEAKER_04: Let's we'll start with that.
11:33
SPEAKER_07: Oh my gosh.
11:34
SPEAKER_07: Um, so I grew up, if you didn't guess, from my icebreaker, um, northern Baltimore County and went in Maryland.
11:40
SPEAKER_07: And so when I say really northern, I mean we were two miles from the Pennsylvania line.
11:46
SPEAKER_07: Okay.
11:46
SPEAKER_07: Um, so grew up there, really rural area farming community.
11:51
SPEAKER_07: I went to school at Hereford High, which we have a barn there.
11:55
SPEAKER_07: If anybody knows that school, I had lots of friends, dairy farmers, hog farmers, that sort of thing.
12:00
SPEAKER_07: So it really reminds you of rural Lancaster County.
12:02
SPEAKER_07: Let's see, I went to school at York College and I went, got a graduate degree at the University of Delaware, traveled a little bit, went to Arizona after school, ended up back in the DC area.
12:13
SPEAKER_07: Like Dave, I wasn't planning on a career in a community foundation, but um, earlier in my career, I'd worked at a nonprofit organization.
12:21
SPEAKER_07: We like to call them community benefit organizations.
12:24
SPEAKER_07: So if you hear us say CBOs or community benefit organizations, that's what we're talking about.
12:28
SPEAKER_07: Nice.
12:30
SPEAKER_04: There's the uh the acronym there too.
12:33
SPEAKER_07: I don't I don't like to be zinged.
12:35
SPEAKER_07: I try to get it right, you know?
12:37
SPEAKER_07: But uh yeah, was in the DC area in the tech industry as well.
12:42
SPEAKER_07: And as life happens sometimes, my husband had a brain aneurysm when he was really young, late 20s, was in the hospital for a year in the hospital and in rehab.
12:51
SPEAKER_07: So that kind of changed the trajectory of my life, really.
12:54
SPEAKER_07: You know, I had to rethink what I was doing.
12:56
SPEAKER_07: Um, the traveling situation didn't work for me.
12:59
SPEAKER_07: So came back here to the area where we had family, friends, wound up settling here and working in the nonprofit sector again, came to the community foundation, um, like Dave said, about 16 years ago, um, maybe six or nine months after he did, and was doing some asset development work.
13:17
SPEAKER_07: So working with our nonprofit organizations and working on helping them to gather endowment funds into the foundation.
13:25
SPEAKER_07: And I've been here ever since.
13:26
SPEAKER_07: I love the mission.
13:27
SPEAKER_07: I love what we do, I love how diverse it is and how many people we get to interact with and lives we get to touch through the foundation.
13:36
SPEAKER_07: So I'm the COO now.
13:37
SPEAKER_07: I do lots with operations, HR, IT, development work.
13:45
SPEAKER_04: I gotta do what I'm saying.
13:48
SPEAKER_04: And I'm just bragging me.
13:51
SPEAKER_07: I'm the I'm so I'm chief operations officer.
13:54
SPEAKER_07: I do um some technology work, human resources, as well as work with our group who works with donors.
14:01
SPEAKER_07: So that's really fulfilling to talk to people about what's impactful and what they care about.
14:06
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
14:06
SPEAKER_02: Oh, wow.
14:08
SPEAKER_02: Kim is absolutely the glue.
14:12
SPEAKER_02: That pulls everything together.
14:14
SPEAKER_02: I mean, she just has her hands in everything.
14:17
SPEAKER_02: Any good work that we do has her fingerprints on it.
14:20
SPEAKER_02: Oh, thank you.
14:20
SPEAKER_07: I was waiting when you said has her hands in everything.
14:22
SPEAKER_07: I was waiting for some sarcasm, but thank you.
14:25
SPEAKER_06: I felt the love.
14:26
SPEAKER_06: Thanks.
14:27
SPEAKER_02: No sarcasm.
14:28
SPEAKER_06: How big is the team at the community foundation?
14:31
SPEAKER_06: Uh 15.
14:31
SPEAKER_06: Okay.
14:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we yesterday we added our 15th member.
14:35
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
14:35
SPEAKER_02: Rachel Hartman is our newest program officer.
14:38
SPEAKER_02: So we're super excited to have her on board.
14:41
SPEAKER_02: She comes to us from the Center Foundation State College.
14:45
SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
14:46
SPEAKER_03: I'm thinking of your comment about how nobody is of little kid saying, I want to work at a community foundation.
14:50
SPEAKER_03: So I'm thinking, how do you recruit?
14:52
SPEAKER_03: How do you grow a team to be the operations that you want it to be in all of the individual parts that come together for the bigger whole?
15:00
SPEAKER_06: Right.
15:01
SPEAKER_07: Well, part of that actually kind of ties into why we launched Extra Give in 2012.
15:07
SPEAKER_07: We had been around at that point for 80 plus years, 85 years, and the community knew very little about us.
15:14
SPEAKER_07: They knew us as a grant, you know, giver, you know, providing grants and this and that.
15:18
SPEAKER_07: Um, but not a whole lot about the community foundation.
15:21
SPEAKER_07: So when we first launched Extra Give, it was all about, you know, the community needs to understand more about community foundations, what they do.
15:28
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
15:28
SPEAKER_07: Um, and it was really what we caught our handshake to the community, introducing the community to the foundation, talking about philanthropy when no one was really doing that, you know, as a whole and the good that that can do in a community.
15:40
SPEAKER_07: So yeah, because that goes into you know part of that recruiting.
15:44
SPEAKER_07: And as time's gone on, you know, 12 years, 13 years on, it's definitely raised awareness about what we do.
15:50
SPEAKER_07: And folks generally, you know, look to us for philanthropic leadership.
15:55
SPEAKER_07: So it's it's been really great to think about um philanthropy in different ways and attract like you said, attracting people.
16:02
SPEAKER_07: It's really helped us to do that.
16:04
SPEAKER_03: So that's great.
16:05
SPEAKER_03: I'm glad I did that segue.
16:07
SPEAKER_03: But yeah, tell me more.
16:08
SPEAKER_03: What tell me about the extra give.
16:10
SPEAKER_07: What is this?
16:11
SPEAKER_07: Um, so the extra extra give is one day of online giving.
16:15
SPEAKER_07: So for 24 hours, um, we work with virtually every nonprofit that you can think of, from animal organizations, health, art, uh, well-being, um, adult living.
16:28
SPEAKER_07: So we have about 450 organizations that sign up for this.
16:32
SPEAKER_07: And um, we have a stretch pool.
16:34
SPEAKER_07: So as you gather donations for your organization, we'll put a portion of the stretch pool to those donations.
16:41
SPEAKER_07: So it's really a fun day.
16:43
SPEAKER_07: We invite, you know, whole community participation, and it's really a way good way to talk about philanthropy.
16:49
SPEAKER_03: Wow.
16:49
SPEAKER_03: So it's a day of online giving, but you guys have really turned it into much more than online giving.
16:54
SPEAKER_03: And I think of events, I think of concerts, I think of branding.
16:57
SPEAKER_03: I think you have grown the extra give into this amazing tool.
17:02
SPEAKER_04: But let's let's take a step back.
17:03
SPEAKER_04: Just 16 years you guys have been working together.
17:06
SPEAKER_04: This is the 13th year of the extra give.
17:09
SPEAKER_04: So I assume you guys were there and at the foundation of all this.
17:13
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, we were.
17:14
SPEAKER_04: How did it get started?
17:15
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
17:15
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, let me just brag on Kim for a second here.
17:19
SPEAKER_02: Because she won't do it herself.
17:20
SPEAKER_07: I think we're gonna owe him dinner after that.
17:22
SPEAKER_07: It feels like that's coming.
17:24
SPEAKER_02: But she's the really the one who came up with the idea.
17:27
SPEAKER_02: Uh we were, as she said, we were an organization that not many people knew about.
17:32
SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, we were really trying to think, you know, how do we put ourselves on the map in this community?
17:37
SPEAKER_02: You know, we can't really, you know, have a lot of impact unless people know who we are, right?
17:42
SPEAKER_02: Uh so that you know, ideas are being floated around.
17:45
SPEAKER_02: Kim brought this idea to leadership and said, Hey, I I heard about you know, Pittsburgh gives and and some other communities are doing these giving days.
17:53
SPEAKER_02: Is this something like I've been doing some research into it?
17:56
SPEAKER_02: I really think this could be something really great for for Lancaster.
17:59
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
18:00
SPEAKER_02: And um, yeah, there's some conversation and and you know, the more people kind of got their their brains wrapped around the idea, the more they liked it.
18:08
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
18:09
SPEAKER_02: And um, you know, our CEO Sam Bressy was on board and and and said, Yeah, let's give it a shot.
18:14
SPEAKER_02: I wasn't actually part of the initial conversations myself so much.
18:18
SPEAKER_02: Uh I I remember the vice president of programs at the time, uh Melody Kime.
18:23
SPEAKER_02: You know, I had a meeting with her and she said, Hey, you know, we're thinking about doing this this you know day where you know people can give to different uh nonprofits.
18:31
SPEAKER_02: And I thought, oh, that's interesting.
18:32
SPEAKER_02: So there'd be like we'd maybe invite like maybe five nonprofits and we'd raise you know, maybe ten thousand dollars or something.
18:39
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I was just my mind, my thinking on this was so small.
18:41
SPEAKER_02: And and and I just remember her saying, Oh, no, no, no, it'd be open to any any nonprofit.
18:46
SPEAKER_02: And I'm thinking to myself, how in the heck are we gonna manage something like that?
18:50
SPEAKER_02: Um daunting, yeah.
18:52
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but it it you know, we pulled it off, we worked with um we found a vendor who provides technology.
18:58
SPEAKER_02: Um you know, we we worked with that, we figured out how to make that work.
19:02
SPEAKER_02: Um we we when we announced it, I remember we were at Steinem Park where we are now, and we we did this thing like where we kind of unveiled these signs for extra give and announced it with fanfare, and and people were just like, what the heck is this?
19:16
SPEAKER_02: What are they doing?
19:17
SPEAKER_02: What how is this gonna work?
19:18
SPEAKER_02: And and we committed, I think it was$250,000 to the stretch pool to the stretch pool that year.
19:25
SPEAKER_02: And there was conversation on our board, you know, what if what happens if we don't raise$250,000?
19:31
SPEAKER_02: You know, what if we only raise a hundred thousand?
19:33
SPEAKER_02: Are we going to yeah?
19:34
SPEAKER_02: Are we gonna do like a double match?
19:35
SPEAKER_02: Or are we gonna, you know, how like how are we gonna make the the match dollars work?
19:39
SPEAKER_02: And you know, the first year we raised, I think it was$1.6 million.
19:42
SPEAKER_02: Yeah,$1.68 or yeah, and it just blew everybody's minds that we could raise that much money.
19:48
SPEAKER_02: And then from there, it just took off like crazy um like like wildfire for the next five, six, seven years.
19:54
SPEAKER_02: It just kept growing and growing.
19:56
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, it's it's Kim right here.
19:58
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, she's this is the origin of extra give.
20:03
SPEAKER_06: Well, thank you.
20:07
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I as Dave said though, other community foundations were doing this in the state.
20:12
SPEAKER_07: So we kind of tapped into something, you know, really in its early stages and saw the opportunities there.
20:18
SPEAKER_07: But I will say, Dave, that first year, I was thinking as you asked that.
20:22
SPEAKER_07: I remember walking down Prince Street with Dave on 48 hours of no sleep, both of us.
20:27
SPEAKER_07: We could barely find our way back to the office.
20:30
SPEAKER_07: We just do not yeah, it was yeah, it was pretty bad.
20:33
SPEAKER_07: So yeah, we've learned since then.
20:35
SPEAKER_07: We get our sleep, it's a marathon, not a sprint.
20:38
SPEAKER_07: So we've we've been pretty good.
20:40
SPEAKER_02: Jim and I have always been in charge of of awarding prizes for for extra give.
20:45
SPEAKER_02: So we have the various hours, you know.
20:48
SPEAKER_02: If you we'll pull five random organizations to get an extra$500, you know, that sort of thing.
20:53
SPEAKER_05: Right.
20:53
SPEAKER_02: So that that first year it it started out great.
20:56
SPEAKER_02: It was it's easy enough to do, it's an easy process, and then you you pull the random winners and then you you notify the winners.
21:03
SPEAKER_02: And there's kind of a a little bit of a process to it, but you know, it's the sort of thing that only takes 15, 20 minutes to do every time we do it.
21:12
SPEAKER_02: And it everything started off swimmingly at first.
21:15
SPEAKER_02: You know, the first few hours, even at midnight, we're just like, oh, this is great, you know, cranking out these prizes, sending emails out, you know, doing everything, checking everything off the list, high energies, adrenaline flowing.
21:24
SPEAKER_03: Waiting for the butt.
21:28
SPEAKER_02: And then the 11 o'clock.
21:32
SPEAKER_02: 11 o'clock at night.
21:33
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we're pulling these prizes, and we could not even put a thought together as what to get an email up.
21:40
SPEAKER_02: What were we doing?
21:40
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, or like sending it to the wrong email addresses and like you know what, don't just see it online.
21:47
SPEAKER_02: We can't we can't possibly be expected to do anything now.
21:52
SPEAKER_07: We were just so sleep deprived and punchy.
21:56
SPEAKER_05: It was bad.
21:56
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
21:57
SPEAKER_02: We knew we needed help and and the next time around we pulled in.
22:00
SPEAKER_02: volunteers to help us and and we yeah we didn't have to do the 24 hour stretch.
22:05
SPEAKER_02: Right.
22:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
22:07
SPEAKER_02: So we we build in breaks and sleeping and yeah.
22:12
SPEAKER_02: Just go take a nap somewhere.
22:13
SPEAKER_02: It's fine.
22:14
SPEAKER_02: You know we have people that can help out.
22:15
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, we figured out how to to fix that problem at least.
22:19
SPEAKER_04: It always seems like there's that that first year, why are we doing this to ourselves?
22:24
SPEAKER_04: Sort of thing.
22:25
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
22:25
SPEAKER_04: It's that learning curve.
22:26
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
22:27
SPEAKER_04: It has evolved.
22:29
SPEAKER_04: The question I have is how has the goal of the event changed over the last 12 years?
22:37
SPEAKER_07: Or has yeah I would say it definitely has.
22:41
SPEAKER_07: Like I mentioned, you know, when we first started this, it was like, hey, you know, we need a way to reintroduce ourselves to the community, to think about philanthropy in a different way, also while bolstering our nonprofit community, you know, giving them a hand and a leg up and and being able to support in that way.
22:57
SPEAKER_07: And I would think in the beginning, I would say it was more about like those raising those dollars, right?
23:02
SPEAKER_07: And and getting awareness out about your organization and finding out about the foundation.
23:07
SPEAKER_07: It really has shifted over the last years because what we've come to learn is that extra give is a great place to gain new donors.
23:15
SPEAKER_07: So you have people browsing around in housing or addiction recovery that they're automatically going to see other organizations involved in the same thing, read about their mission, read about their programs and say, hey, you know, I want to support that too.
23:29
SPEAKER_07: So over the years, um initially the stretch pool was based on dollars raised and now it's based on number of unique donors you can gather as an organization.
23:40
SPEAKER_07: So really as anybody who does development work in a nonprofit, they'll tell you the new donor is the hardest to get.
23:47
SPEAKER_07: Once you get them, you can always you know do that donor stewardship and work with them and talk to them.
23:52
SPEAKER_07: But the new donors are are difficult to to get and extra give really helps them to do that.
23:58
SPEAKER_07: And we wanted to focus some energy on that so that folks can shore up some revenue streams for their missions.
24:04
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
24:04
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
24:05
SPEAKER_03: So you've described how other cities or other places around Pennsylvania you were kind of learning from them.
24:11
SPEAKER_03: Over the course of the life of Extra Give, why do you think Lancaster is especially and uniquely positioned to be successful within this work?
24:20
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's a that's a really good question.
24:22
SPEAKER_02: And you know we noticed early on that we were doing exceptionally well as a community.
24:27
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
24:27
SPEAKER_02: And you know we like to think that you know our our work that the effort that we put into marketing and the events and everything really sets the stage but but ultimately it's nothing without the the nonprofits, the community benefit organizations.
24:41
SPEAKER_02: I didn't say CBOs, I was going to say CBS So I don't get buzzed.
24:46
SPEAKER_02: The community benefit organizations in the community who really take it to heart, who really latch on to it, who really plan their own events and their own marketing schemes.
24:55
SPEAKER_02: And um you know it just becomes just such an amazing thing because of all the synergy right like we we do um we do a lot of work to set it up but then yes it's the community that takes it and makes it so special.
25:08
SPEAKER_02: So we were seeing early on we were tracking with Miami in terms of actual dollars raised they were Miami was having a yeah Miami Florida not Miami Ohio.
25:21
SPEAKER_07: And for several years we're the highest per capita per capita giving day in the country.
25:27
SPEAKER_02: Yeah and we're still up there I don't I haven't seen the stats lately but it's we're we're doing very well with with that with our giving day which is really cool.
25:37
SPEAKER_02: And it's like you know why that's the question why why is that and you know I we think a lot of it goes back to Lancaster County's roots you know going back to William Penn and the Quakers and wanting to treat everybody fairly and then you know you you look at the Anabaptists and you know the Mennonite roots and that we have here in in in Lancaster County.
25:56
SPEAKER_02: People are very generous.
25:57
SPEAKER_02: I think people are used to you know giving a lot to their places of worship and I think that really kind of translates into you know what else can we give to so yeah Lancaster it's it's a very very hospitable and and welcoming community.
26:12
SPEAKER_02: And and yeah we we really think that the generosity does extend into the the nonprofit space and extra give is just a really great indicator of you know where our community is with giving.
26:23
SPEAKER_02: And then a few years ago we you know we made a change we initially had a$25 minimum contribution to extra give and then we realized hey that might be a barrier for some folks who really want to give you really care about certain organizations or at least show that they they care and we said can we go down to$10 and we knew that it was going to make the customer service piece of it a lot more difficult.
26:50
SPEAKER_02: But we decided hey this is it's really worthwhile to to make sure that as many people can see themselves as philanthropists in the community.
26:59
SPEAKER_02: So we we reduced it down to$10 and uh we really saw that a whole lot more people got involved with with giving and you know we have between I think Kim Kim might have the numbers but I think 20 to 2500 donors every year.
27:14
SPEAKER_07: Yeah yeah third about 3000 unique donors across all the organizations.
27:20
SPEAKER_07: And then if you look at that across the 13 years certainly more than than that we've not run like a longitudinal you know 14 year thing here.
27:30
SPEAKER_07: But um yeah yeah it just um really has drawn so many unique donors in and one of the things that I think Dave you didn't mention you mentioned about like Lancaster's generous past and how we're well suited for this but we've also been very modest about our giving right you don't want somebody to know oh my gosh they have money they're giving they're getting we've also you know we've made it okay to say hey I'm giving to this organization will you help me support it I love this mission.
27:57
SPEAKER_07: I love this organization.
27:58
SPEAKER_07: So we've made it more of a collaborative community event around philanthropy and we've made it okay to say hey I'm I'm you know philanthropic and these are my causes that I love and I'm willing to talk about that.
28:11
SPEAKER_02: So yeah be loud and proud.
28:13
SPEAKER_02: Yep speaking of loud and proud we I'd be remiss to not mention our sponsors um with this question of why are we successful.
28:21
SPEAKER_02: We've had we've had so been amazing great sponsors who've sponsored prizes and things like that, you know, chipping in$10,000 in a lot of cases but we also I I wanted to mention the the presenting sponsors High Foundation and Murray Foundation just both um yeah yeah just awesome.
28:42
SPEAKER_02: We're we're I'll let the cheering continue we are so grateful to have them on board um to to help us out.
28:52
SPEAKER_02: And then also the Steinman Foundation is sponsoring again this year the Pursuit of equity prize which provides some extra dollars to organizations that are really trying to chip away at equity in the community so you know organizations supporting BIP populations.
29:08
SPEAKER_02: Sorry by him on that Black indigenous people of color LGBTQ lesbian gay bisexual transsexual queer questioning plus maybe missed some letters there but I my apologies if I did um also people with disabilities so really trying to give a boost uh to these organizations that are really taking that work seriously that's that work is really important to the community foundation is obviously really important to Steinman Foundation and we're just really proud to support those organizations.
29:43
SPEAKER_03: Wow thank you for all that you do it is making such a difference and makes an impact on those individual organizations, those individual people and like you said that messaging the shift in the messaging to the people participating in the extra gift to feel comfortable to feel like they can access it and they have an important role.
30:01
SPEAKER_03: I had never thought of it that way of that handshake to the community I love that that image in my head are most of the donors from Lancaster a majority but we actually get donations from all over the world.
30:16
SPEAKER_06: Sure.
30:17
SPEAKER_02: Like people who are from Lancaster but move somewhere else absolutely absolutely I used to map it out like we could like you know put in the address and then do like a a Google earth or whatever.
30:28
SPEAKER_02: Yeah um and then you'd see the the little pins where everybody donate and it's yeah it's it's like really clustered in Lancaster County and then you'll see yeah regionally there's a huge draw regionally because you've got a lot of organizations with footprints like you know Harrisburg, York Lancaster Berks you know it's it's pretty amazing.
30:45
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
30:46
SPEAKER_07: And then it goes down the eastern you know Delaware Virginia Northern Virginia you know that really concentrated east coast but then people who retire in Arizona or Florida and they have Lancaster ties.
30:56
SPEAKER_07: And international too exactly it depends and you think about social media right so you have your friend network you know people in Amsterdam or Africa or where wherever you know when you're sending out it's really it diminishes those borders in a lot of ways the online giving so yeah.
31:12
SPEAKER_04: It's the megaphone Ken it is I was thinking the same thing.
31:15
SPEAKER_02: So what this means logistically for our finance teams is that we need to there's a you might be aware there's the Pennsylvania Bureau of charitable organizations and there's also these similar types of organizations in every state.
31:30
SPEAKER_02: So any state that we're collecting money from we have to register with these organizations.
31:35
SPEAKER_02: So part of our finance team's responsibility with extra give is that they need to register us in all these organizations and it just takes hours and hours of time and it's crazy.
31:46
SPEAKER_02: So that's it that's just like one little detail that nobody thinks about when they think about extra give but just wanted to give a little shout out to our finance team who does all the work to make sure that all of those details are executed flawlessly to your finance team and a shout out reminder to our partner organizations that may be based in the Chesapeake somewhere and are participating in this work with the finance team so one of the things that we get to share with you all at the community foundation is the Clean Water Fund and that is one of many opportunities for the public to support local conservation efforts.
32:20
SPEAKER_03: So with the extra give kind of in mind how have you seen Lancaster County embracing conservation efforts?
32:26
SPEAKER_03: That is a fund that you guys provide.
32:29
SPEAKER_02: I'm curious how that has touched extra give but the community foundation in general it it's interesting you know I was I was doing a little bit of digging um and noticed that in general nationwide that about two to three percent of philanthropic dollars are given to environmental organizations.
32:50
SPEAKER_02: And that was just kind of eye-opening when I when I saw that and you know I know I know I didn't have the time to actually look it up as far as you know what our donations go to and what our grants go to but I can assure you it's higher than that.
33:05
SPEAKER_02: Obviously we have a great partnership with Cleanwater partners you know where we're able to you know work with you to you know provide grants but we also have a Lancaster environmental fund.
33:15
SPEAKER_02: So every year we've been making grants to various organizations.
33:19
SPEAKER_02: One example might be the Lancaster Conservancy and we've supported some of their acquisitions that they've made over time with the the Money Rocks the the yeah I can't remember the um I think it's the Eastern Lancaster County Nature Preserve next to Money Rocks County Park.
33:36
SPEAKER_02: And then some other things like climbers run in supporting the work that they've done there.
33:41
SPEAKER_02: So that's a a grant that we've been able to make that's about thirty thousand dollars a year which admittedly in the grand scheme of things isn't a lot but you know every every bit helps and and definitely there's been a lot of projects uh that have been supported through this fund.
33:56
SPEAKER_02: And then yeah through extra give um you know some of the the organizations that pool in the most cash um from the actual extra give event have been environmental organizations and they've used that platform uh to to really solidify the donations are pooling in.
34:15
SPEAKER_02: We just spent some time with um their former CEO uh Phil Wanger um out at Climbers Run and he was telling us a little bit about their development strategy and um it was just really really cool to hear the way he talks about you know how they think about preservation um alongside of restoration and also with education those kind of being the three components of of you know where they put their dollars to work.
34:42
SPEAKER_02: And and how it's just yeah just thinking about how that's so important.
34:46
SPEAKER_02: You need all of that.
34:47
SPEAKER_02: You need first to preserve land in their case they're they're land you know they're a land trust uh you need to preserve the land you need to you need to restore it you you need to educate people so that people can continue to care and continue to give and and volunteer and you know they do so much with invasive plants and and that's not easy it's not easy work right I mean it's not something you don't just like spray a little solution and and that takes care of it.
35:15
SPEAKER_02: You got to go out there he was describing the process of you know clipping the plants and making making sure you get the right dose of of chemical you know it's as little chemical as possible so not to disrupt the environment.
35:28
SPEAKER_02: But it's it's something that's very time intensive and just involves so many people.
35:32
SPEAKER_02: But back to your original question yeah we've we've definitely seen an interest in in the environment we've made lots of grants to support it this year was our hundredth year and through our shaping tomorrow grants uh that we made we actually carved off more than a quarter million dollars to support environmental projects in Lancaster County so that's amazing things like um EDC and how they're doing a feasibility there it is I I was doing so well waiting for the economic I was going to hear it for a month if I was the only one who got it I let CEO go by twice.
36:13
SPEAKER_02: So it's like oh no no I I have I have to hear this now economic development company of Lancaster County and they are doing work with a feasibility study and business plan uh for the outdoor economy and how that can be enhanced in Lancaster.
36:31
SPEAKER_02: We have all these great natural resources we have you know just really great trails but like a lot of people don't have access to them or a lot of people don't even know they exist.
36:39
SPEAKER_02: So it's like how do how do you market that?
36:41
SPEAKER_02: How do you yeah how do you build an economy around that because we know they know that there's already a lot of economic activity uh related to outdoor recreation but how do we really put that on the map in Lancaster County?
36:55
SPEAKER_02: So that's what they're looking at.
36:56
SPEAKER_02: So that's one example of of something that we funded but yeah climbers run we're we're helping to um support the Conservancy with making that um an ADA accessible area and also you know Americans with Disabilities Act.
37:11
SPEAKER_02: Americans with Disabilities Act my I I feel like my world is just living in acronyms.
37:17
SPEAKER_02: So is ours I totally thank you but yeah they're enhancing Climber's run to make it more accessible for folks.
37:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah so yeah just so many examples of things we've been able to do through shaping tomorrow and we know that you know there are so many people who are interested we just had an event out at the farm at Eagles Ridge where we announced all of the environmental grants that we made and so many people we had a couple hundred people show up more than any other of our events really yeah people were just really really really interested in hey what's happening what what's the community foundation doing to support the environment and it was just a really fun night of just people just really celebrating what Lancaster County has and and what we can continue to do to make the environment better here.
38:06
SPEAKER_03: Oh that's amazing and so important to party and celebrate because there is such progress.
38:10
SPEAKER_03: We have to acknowledge and celebrate those wins and those partners that are doing that work on the ground that I'm I'm glad to hear that you're seeing a growth in that I think we are too and a lot of has a lot of that has been about local progress.
38:23
SPEAKER_03: There are deadlines ahead of us but celebrating all throughout 2024 and then building into things like 2025 2040 and these other kind of milestones that we have for ourselves but such such wins.
38:35
SPEAKER_02: Yeah and you know I don't want to sugarcoat it you know we know that the problems are big.
38:39
SPEAKER_02: Sure we know that a lot of money is required way more than what we can provide.
38:46
SPEAKER_02: So really it's about you know eating that elephant one bite at a time you know acting locally you know finding the things you know like the for I think that conservancy example is a really good one.
38:58
SPEAKER_02: Let's let's get people onto the trails.
39:00
SPEAKER_02: Let's get them enjoying the nature.
39:02
SPEAKER_02: Let's let's give access and and make sure that that everybody at least can get out there and enjoy this and then we have a chance maybe of them becoming donors in the long term and it's getting people on board.
39:15
SPEAKER_02: Hey like oh yeah this let's learn about the fact that the bird population is dwindling let's learn about the fact that insects are going away that fireflies are going away lightning bugs I'm from Lexer County I know there's a debate about that.
39:30
SPEAKER_02: But yet let's talk about this stuff right and and then we have a chance of bringing more people in caring and ultimately donating so that we can eventually you know have the money to to really make a big impact.
39:44
SPEAKER_03: Well and you guys have been the home then for that way for people to take action the Clean Water Fund is the dollars to be able to give more people access to action project possibilities basically.
39:56
SPEAKER_03: So thank you for being that and allowing us to work with the Lancaster Conservancy as the kickoff team and many others that were part of a small group there to learn about the system that you have.
40:05
SPEAKER_03: So Kim your operations that you set up and made that possible for us to start the Clean Water Fund and then the kinds of awardees or the grants that were given out this year, they're just an amazing collection of the river connection stories or let's go one two three there's some really really great examples of the action related to exactly what you're saying of let's learn about it.
40:25
SPEAKER_03: I was at Water Week I saw this thing happen or I heard about this from an expert I want to do more.
40:31
SPEAKER_02: So thank you for making that possible yeah and that's that's one of the really cool things about the Shaving Tomorrow Awards was that we were able to impact a lot of different facets of the environment and in different areas and I'm glad you mentioned let's go one two three because they're doing work with urban greening and getting youth involved particularly in the city oftentimes programs are are geared more for the rural parts of Lancaster County and and that's great and needed but it's also very important that everybody is included and I feel like that is an organization that really gets that in addition to Sokka the Spanish American Civic Association they're doing really great work in in the southeast part of Lancaster and you know they're really their goal is to make the southeast part of Lancaster the cleanest greenest quadrant of the city.
41:23
SPEAKER_02: So they're doing all kinds of work with trash cleanup um but then also beautification you know it's tied to public art projects and things of that nature.
41:32
SPEAKER_03: So yeah I feel like they're really stepping up in a in a really profound way too they've added an option on their trail for a water trail through that area of Lancaster.
41:41
SPEAKER_03: I think it's through QR codes and you can do it as an individual like it's not a guided tour.
41:47
SPEAKER_04: What's a QR code I'll assume Dave I have no idea what it stands for I might have known this at one point but uh yeah I don't uh we'll have to look that up Ken and I look alike and apparently his um it's on our research list.
42:12
SPEAKER_04: He's rubbing off on me here sorry about that quick response code I didn't know it doesn't sound familiar.
42:26
SPEAKER_02: No well you got me Dave man we're all guilty now right maybe 10 did you get a are you clear?
42:32
SPEAKER_04: No I think in this episode before I'm gonna find it there you go listeners go find where the episode on which I was buzzed do you have any recommendations for next steps for our partner organizations in engaging donors after the extra give oh absolutely yeah it's really all about stewardship.
42:56
SPEAKER_07: You hear that word a lot and it's basically what it sounds like it's stewarding or directing or caring for those donors after the event.
43:04
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
43:05
SPEAKER_07: And really with extra give the organizations have the tools to be able to contact those folks post event.
43:13
SPEAKER_07: As a donor you always have the option of donating anonymously and you know not letting anybody know you know flying below the radar.
43:21
SPEAKER_07: But a lot of folks do want to let people know who they are.
43:24
SPEAKER_07: They want information about the organization, their mission, their programs and what they're doing with the money they raise from Extra Give.
43:30
SPEAKER_07: So we just say, you know, call them, connect with them, celebrate and communicate with donors.
43:36
SPEAKER_07: That's the surest way to keep them on your donor list and understand what you're doing.
43:42
SPEAKER_07: A lot of organizations they'll call donors as they see the donations come in that day.
43:47
SPEAKER_07: They'll call donors and thank them which is nice and you know because you're always getting those calls like can you give more but it's really nice to get a call that says hey thank you for donating you know this really made an impact.
43:57
SPEAKER_07: You know some of the success stories from extra giving Of there's just so many, um, really in some overarching one.
44:03
SPEAKER_07: One of the largest overarching impacts is that organizations got to dip their toes into like online fundraising.
44:09
SPEAKER_07: So 10 years ago, there weren't as many organizations online fundraising, especially the smaller ones.
44:14
SPEAKER_07: They didn't know how to do it.
44:15
SPEAKER_07: So this gave them a tool to really learn how to do it and do it well over time and then steward those donors.
44:21
SPEAKER_07: You know, and then for many organizations, especially the smaller ones that are volunteer run, you think about the small historical societies, right?
44:29
SPEAKER_07: They're all over the place.
44:30
SPEAKER_07: And a lot of times they're volunteer-led.
44:32
SPEAKER_07: And this provided them with a revenue stream and a tool to really do things a little better and maybe do a membership drive through extra give.
44:40
SPEAKER_07: And there's also so many impacts regionally.
44:42
SPEAKER_07: Um, there's camps for kids with diabetes to teach them stress management and how to manage their disease.
44:48
SPEAKER_07: As Dave mentioned, you know, helping to create accessible hiking areas and bike paths, you know, feeders into the Chesapeake Bay, helping to clean that up, help uh creating new facilities even to rehab wildlife that are impacted in some ways.
45:03
SPEAKER_07: So there's so many ways that the extra give can uh help organizations and create new revenue streams and paths to fulfill their missions.
45:15
SPEAKER_02: I think Kim just um really gave a really good tip, though, about making sure the donors are acknowledged and and phone calls are just so important.
45:22
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
45:23
SPEAKER_02: I I I won't mention who, uh, but I know somebody who gave to a bunch of organizations one year and then noticed the ones that called and the ones that didn't, and the ones who didn't did not get donations the next year.
45:35
SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
45:35
SPEAKER_02: So um and I don't pay attention.
45:38
SPEAKER_02: I don't think this person is alone with that kind of thinking.
45:42
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, that's it's it's a very important thing.
45:44
SPEAKER_04: That is great advice.
45:46
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
45:48
SPEAKER_04: Well, we have come to my favorite part of the show.
45:51
SPEAKER_04: Ooh.
45:52
SPEAKER_04: It's trivia time.
45:53
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
45:54
SPEAKER_02: Let's go.
45:55
SPEAKER_04: All righty.
45:56
SPEAKER_04: I based these trivia questions on your bios from your website.
46:01
SPEAKER_04: Ah.
46:02
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
46:02
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
46:03
SPEAKER_04: So I learned a little bit about you, and these trivia questions are around a couple of those little things.
46:10
SPEAKER_04: For example, Dave, you're a guitar player.
46:12
SPEAKER_02: I do I play guitar.
46:14
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
46:14
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
46:14
SPEAKER_04: What's your favorite guitar?
46:15
SPEAKER_02: You mean like that I own, or just in general?
46:19
SPEAKER_02: Because there's a big difference.
46:21
unknown: How about both?
46:22
SPEAKER_02: How about both?
46:24
SPEAKER_02: Oh man.
46:25
SPEAKER_02: Um, my dream guitar is a uh probably a Gibson ES335.
46:30
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
46:31
SPEAKER_02: Um it's the it's a big guitar and it just like does all the things and it just sounds majestic.
46:37
SPEAKER_04: It's a hollow body, isn't it?
46:38
SPEAKER_02: That's a hollow body.
46:39
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
46:39
SPEAKER_02: And then but also I love Martin guitars, acoustic guitars.
46:43
SPEAKER_02: And um they're made in Pennsylvania.
46:46
SPEAKER_02: They are in Nazareth.
46:47
SPEAKER_02: And if you ever get a chance to tour the facility, it's it's a really cool tour.
46:52
SPEAKER_02: And uh, yeah, there's uh a D45.
46:55
SPEAKER_02: I mean, those things are like 10 grand.
46:56
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
46:56
SPEAKER_02: But I'll never have one.
46:59
SPEAKER_02: But uh yeah.
47:00
SPEAKER_02: And as far as what I own, I do own a lesser expensive Martin.
47:04
SPEAKER_02: Um and I have a guild 12 string that I love.
47:08
SPEAKER_02: Oh.
47:08
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
47:09
SPEAKER_02: So I don't know.
47:10
SPEAKER_04: That wasn't your trivia question.
47:12
SPEAKER_04: That was actually just kind of gearing.
47:14
SPEAKER_02: I could I could go on and on.
47:16
SPEAKER_03: You can just geek out about guitars over there.
47:19
SPEAKER_04: Oh, we will.
47:19
SPEAKER_03: I know.
47:21
SPEAKER_04: So you mentioned very expensive guitars.
47:23
SPEAKER_04: The most expensive guitar ever sold currently is a Martin 1959 D18 acoustic.
47:30
SPEAKER_04: It sold for six million dollars.
47:32
SPEAKER_04: Who previously owned that guitar that brought its value up like that?
47:36
SPEAKER_02: Oh my.
47:38
SPEAKER_02: I'm going to.
47:40
SPEAKER_02: I mean, Eric Clapton comes to mind.
47:43
SPEAKER_02: Um I don't think that's the right answer, though.
47:46
SPEAKER_02: But you have a you have a guess?
47:47
SPEAKER_07: I have a guess.
47:48
SPEAKER_07: I don't know if you see Jimmy Hendrix.
47:50
SPEAKER_02: Jimmy Hendricks.
47:51
SPEAKER_02: I don't think he played a Martin.
47:52
SPEAKER_07: Oh, okay.
47:53
SPEAKER_02: Um we'll see.
47:56
SPEAKER_04: This one kind of surprising.
47:57
SPEAKER_04: It was Kirk Cobain's guitar.
47:58
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
47:59
SPEAKER_04: I actually saw that guitar.
48:01
SPEAKER_02: I didn't realize it was worth that much.
48:03
SPEAKER_02: Oh, you didn't bet on it?
48:04
SPEAKER_02: They have it at the Martin factory.
48:06
SPEAKER_02: They have a little museum there.
48:07
SPEAKER_02: And I think it's called Grandpa, if I'm not mistaken.
48:10
SPEAKER_02: Oh gosh.
48:12
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think that's the name of the guitar.
48:15
SPEAKER_02: And um it's it's got holes in it.
48:17
SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's a it's like, yeah.
48:18
SPEAKER_04: Well, Kim, it's your turn.
48:20
unknown: Okay.
48:21
SPEAKER_04: Ready to go.
48:22
SPEAKER_04: You have had a dog and a cat.
48:24
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
48:25
SPEAKER_04: So according to Forbes magazine, are there more pet dogs or more pet cats in the United States?
48:31
SPEAKER_07: I would say I might think this is a softball one there.
48:35
SPEAKER_07: I think it might be cats because of the feral cat palpitation.
48:40
SPEAKER_04: Sorry.
48:41
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, dogs are the most popular pet uh in the US.
48:46
SPEAKER_04: Number.
48:47
SPEAKER_04: Number.
48:47
SPEAKER_04: All right.
48:48
SPEAKER_04: Uh I'm just reading the answer as they put it.
48:50
SPEAKER_02: So this is gonna become a whole thing.
48:52
SPEAKER_02: I know her well enough.
48:54
SPEAKER_02: She's gonna go back and research this and come up with some really nuanced.
48:57
SPEAKER_02: By all means, please do.
48:59
SPEAKER_04: Uh 65.1 million U.S.
49:02
SPEAKER_04: households own a dog, followed by cats at 46.5 million, and freshwater fish at 11.1 million.
49:10
SPEAKER_03: You make clean water in in all places, can't you?
49:13
SPEAKER_02: You need clean water for the fish people.
49:16
SPEAKER_04: It's part of the name of the podcast.
49:19
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, just slightly in there this.
49:22
SPEAKER_02: Forget about the humans.
49:23
SPEAKER_02: You need it for the fish.
49:25
SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
49:25
SPEAKER_04: This one's gonna be a softball one for you, Dave.
49:27
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
49:28
SPEAKER_04: Uh, what famous American jazz country and blues guitarist, who's also a songwriter, is the namesake inspiration for a line of guitars by Gibson.
49:38
SPEAKER_02: Les Paul?
49:39
SPEAKER_02: It is you scared me for something.
49:43
SPEAKER_02: I know.
49:43
SPEAKER_02: I was just like, could it be that easy?
49:46
unknown: Yes.
49:52
SPEAKER_04: Kim, also according to Forbes, what is the annual cost of keeping a dog?
49:57
SPEAKER_04: If you're somewhere in the ballpark, I'll give it to you.
50:02
SPEAKER_07: $2,500 a year.
50:04
SPEAKER_04: That's ballpark.
50:06
SPEAKER_04: Okay, why not?
50:08
SPEAKER_04: It's$1,533 annually on average, yeah.
50:12
SPEAKER_04: All right, Dave, you are a fan of the Lancaster Stormers, formerly known as the Barn Stormers.
50:17
SPEAKER_04: I still say that all the time.
50:19
SPEAKER_04: But um how many Stormers have gone on to play for teams in Major League Baseball?
50:25
SPEAKER_02: Now, I I'll say that that's a nuanced question because you're saying the ones that go on to play, because there have been former Major League players who then come back and play with the Stormers on the back end of their career.
50:35
SPEAKER_02: So that would be a whole different number.
50:36
SPEAKER_02: But I'm gonna I'm just gonna take a wild guess and say uh 15.
50:41
SPEAKER_02: Yes, that is correct.
50:43
SPEAKER_02: All right, 15.
50:44
SPEAKER_02: I was wow, I did great with that.
50:46
SPEAKER_04: Now, Kim, you are a fan of the Fulton Theater.
50:48
SPEAKER_04: I am.
50:49
SPEAKER_04: The seating sections of the theater are the orchestra, the parquet, the mezzanine, and what?
50:57
SPEAKER_04: That would be the gallery.
50:59
SPEAKER_04: It is the gallery.
51:01
SPEAKER_04: Woohoo! And just a fun little side note, it is called the gallery because there literally used to be an indoor shooting range up there.
51:09
SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah.
51:10
SPEAKER_02: Interesting.
51:11
SPEAKER_04: Wow.
51:12
SPEAKER_04: I never knew that.
51:13
SPEAKER_04: I can't imagine that.
51:15
SPEAKER_04: Dave, back to back to the Stormers.
51:17
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
51:17
SPEAKER_04: What major change did the Stormers organization make to the stadium in 2024?
51:26
SPEAKER_02: I I actually didn't get to the stadium in 2024.
51:28
SPEAKER_02: I'm a little embarrassed to say that.
51:30
SPEAKER_02: There's a big difference.
51:31
SPEAKER_03: Notice a difference on the field.
51:33
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
51:34
SPEAKER_02: On the field.
51:35
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so I think where you're going with this might be that it's an artificial surface now.
51:40
SPEAKER_04: It is an artificial surface now.
51:42
SPEAKER_04: So, Kim, this is gonna be a tough one.
51:45
SPEAKER_04: I'll try to help you through it.
51:46
SPEAKER_04: What was the first theatrical performance at the Fulton?
51:50
SPEAKER_07: Oh my goodness.
51:52
SPEAKER_07: Um, I don't know this, but I remember like there's lots of posters at the Fulton, like from days gone by.
52:03
SPEAKER_07: Yep.
52:03
SPEAKER_07: And I certainly remember like a lot of reviews came there, like individuals singing and doing like one, but I can't, I can't tell you.
52:13
SPEAKER_07: Sorry.
52:14
SPEAKER_04: And that's not even one you can even guess at, to be honest with you.
52:17
SPEAKER_04: I mean, you can, but it was the grand opening on October 2nd, 1873.
52:22
SPEAKER_04: They put on a performance of Othello benefiting the widows and orphans of the Civil War.
52:28
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
52:28
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
52:29
SPEAKER_04: Interesting stuff.
52:30
SPEAKER_04: Othello.
52:31
SPEAKER_04: So this last question is for both of you.
52:33
SPEAKER_04: All right.
52:34
SPEAKER_04: When is the extra give?
52:35
SPEAKER_04: And where can listeners get more information about it?
52:38
SPEAKER_02: November 22nd.
52:39
SPEAKER_07: And they can get more information at extragive.org.
52:44
SPEAKER_04: You are absolutely correct.
52:46
SPEAKER_04: All right.
52:47
SPEAKER_04: We'll have that information on the on the episode notes.
52:50
SPEAKER_04: Dave and Kim, thank you so much for coming in.
52:52
SPEAKER_04: Tell us about ExtraGive.
52:54
SPEAKER_04: And and wow, it it's gonna be a big day.
52:57
SPEAKER_04: And yeah.
52:58
SPEAKER_03: Thank you for all that you do, ways you support Lancaster.
53:00
SPEAKER_03: You give us all opportunities and help tell the stories and help get support.
53:04
SPEAKER_03: Thank you, thank you.
53:05
SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Clean Water Fund and Clean Water Partners and Lancaster County Conservation District and all of the entities.
53:12
SPEAKER_04: We could be here for a while.
53:14
unknown: Yeah, yeah.
53:15
SPEAKER_02: And uh just all the organizations in our community.
53:18
SPEAKER_02: There's so many that do such great work for the environment, and we're so so happy for the work that you do.
53:24
SPEAKER_04: Well, thank you.
53:26
SPEAKER_04: Well, that is our show.
53:27
SPEAKER_04: We will be back in just a couple of weeks.
53:30
SPEAKER_04: Until then, take care.
53:32
unknown: Bye.
53:37
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53:41
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53:48
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