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June 1, 2016

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How to be a confident nonprofit solicitor Part two of a two-part series Fear of heights. Fear of snakes. Fear of asking someone to give to a nonprofit organization. While we can’t help with the first two, we can provide suggestions for overcoming fear of soliciting.

who have the capacity to make a major gift often expect to be asked. “We would have given more, but we were never asked,” is something we have heard from more than a few donors and funders over the years. People want to be asked, and it is an honor to make the ask. That is the solicitor’s responsibility.

Personally asking someone to make a gift to a nonprofit you believe in is one of the “People want to most valuable things you be asked, and If you haven’t personally can do. For some this is done with comfort, it is an honor to solicited a gift before, here ease and joy. For others are a few non-technical make the ask.” things to contemplate before there is a twinge of fear, or maybe a silent doing so. scream of terror. Our words of advice: don’t let your fear 1. How do you feel about money in hold you back. You can become one general? Is it the root of all evil? of the previously reluctant solicitors A medium of exchange? A way of who now rejoice after a successful expressing your values? solicitation. It is truly a great feeling to know you are helping others give to a 2. How do you feel when people ask cause that you and they believe in. you for money?

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Every June, Americans are reminded to reach out to the father figures in their lives and thank them for all that they do.

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The month gives healthcare providers, public policy makers, the media and individuals an opportunity to encourage men and boys to seek regular medical advice and early treatment for disease and injury.

Men should make their health a top priority and take daily steps to be healthier and stronger. There are many easy things that can be done every day to create a healthy lifestyle.

Men die at higher rates than women from the top 10 causes of death, and are the victims of over 92 percent of workplace deaths.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers these tips for men on leading a healthy life: • Eat healthy. Nutritious foods give you

• Be smoke-free. Smoking is linked to many of the leading causes of death, including cancer, lung disease, and stroke.

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• Avoid heavy drinking. Heavy drinking can lead to many problems, including high blood pressure, various cancers, psychological problems, and accidents. For men 65 and younger, drinking in moderation means no more than two drinks per day. Men older than 65 should have no more than one drink a day.

• Manage stress. Balancing work and family obligations can be challenging. But it’s important to protect your mental and physical health.

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What is the “New Normal” in political discourse?

Tensions rise, as does the tone and pitch of the voices in the room. There is no listening, only shouting. There is no dialogue, only debate.

The shrieking and shoving escalates to battle lines drawn and what was once a democratic process of discourse and decorum becomes a raucous room full of rowdy constituents pushing, shoving and throwing chairs. Has this become the “new normal” in political discourse? It seems bullying, name-calling and vitriolic hate speech will continue to be a part of our lives for the next 6 months (at least), as we have crossed over into a land that used to be called “off limits.” The sexual conduct and/or misconduct of our public figures were not fodder for discussion in public. At least it didn’t used to be. It wasn’t condoned as polite, mature or common knowledge to be placed at the center of the public debate. My, my, my how things have changed.

where they’ve been cannot know where they’re going. How can those people lead us to where we’re supposed to be going? There is a crisis of leadership and the spewing of lies all around keep the under-educated mis-informed, and make the educated complicit in their own demise. The folks who don’t want to be on one side or the other will be run over by the riotous and the raucous shouts for Change. Change for whom?-- Change to what? Change that has no intention of including everybody is really no Change at all. All Change is not “good” Change, especially when it’s only for the sake of Change itself.

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Politics have always been a dirty business, no question about that. However, the types of displays we are now being You will not have to worry about a dove in your exposed to on a regular basis, including classic forms of bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in racism, race baiting, misogyny, xenophobia, nationalism your toilet bowl. and absolute hate have crossed lines and opened up The revolution will not go better with Coke. historic animosities that we as a nation have so fervently attempted to move beyond that we didn’t notice we weren’t The revolution will not fight the germs that may moving at all. Even so-called progressives have begun to cause bad breath. eat their young. We are going backwards not forward and The revolution will put you in the driver’s seat. with mantras like “make America great again” or “we want The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised, our country back”, it is clear that the progress we thought we had made was halfhearted at best and merely empty will not be televised, will not be televised. platitudes or wishful thinking at worst. It is time we come The revolution will be no re-run brothers; to the recognition that we have not really come all that far The revolution will be live. as a nation. If America is supposed to be the light on the hill, watch out, ‘cuz This is NOT the revolution! folks in this country This is an election, and it will Tawnya Pettiford-Wates, Ph.D. have lost their righteous profoundly affect us all. You Founder and Artistic Director minds. better get involved!

The Conciliation Project and Associate Professor There are people on TV Virginia Commonwealth University Up Next Week: The Papa and calling for a Revolution!

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Create your plan before the next Basic Preparedness Tips

Know where to go. If you are ordered to evacuate, know the local hurricane evacuation route(s) to take and have a plan for where you can stay. Contact your local emergency management agency for more information.

Put together a disaster supply kit, including a flashlight, batteries, cash, first aid supplies, and copies of your critical information if you need to evacuate.

If you are not in an area that is advised to evacuate and you decide to stay in your home, plan for adequate supplies in case you lose power and water for several days and you are not able to leave due to flooding or blocked roads.

Why Make A Plan

Your family may not be together if a disaster strikes, so it is important to think about the following situations and plan just in case. Consider the following questions when making a plan: How will my family/household get emergency alerts and warnings?

How will my family/household get to safe locations for relevant emergencies?

How will my family/household get in touch if cell phone, internet, or landline doesn’t work?

How will I let loved ones know I am safe?

How will family/household get to a meeting place after the emergency?

Preparing Your Home

Hurricane winds can cause trees and branches to fall, so before hurricane season, trim or remove damaged trees and limbs to keep you and your property safe.

Secure loose rain gutters and downspouts and clear any clogged areas of debris to prevent water damage to your property.

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Reduce property damage by retrofitting to secure and reinforce the roof, windows and doors, including the garage doors.

Stay Connected

Keep your contacts updated across all of your channels, including phone, email and social media. This will make it easy to reach out to the right people quickly to get information and supply updates. Consider creating a group list of your top contacts.

Learn how to send updates via text and internet from your mobile phone to your contacts and social channels in case voice communications are not available. Text messages and the internet often have the ability to work in the event of a phone service disruption.

Keep extra batteries for your phone in a safe place or purchase a solar-powered or hand crank charger. These chargers are good emergency tools to keep your laptop and other small electronics working in the event of a power outage.

If you own a car, purchase a car phone charger because you can charge your phone if you lose power at your home.

Program “In Case of Emergency” (ICE) contacts into your cell phone so emergency personnel can contact those people for you if you are unable to use your phone. Let your ICE contacts know that they are programmed into your phone and inform them of any medical issues or other special needs you may have.

If you have a traditional landline (non-broadband or VOIP) phone, keep at least one non-cordless receiver in your home because it will work even if you lose power.

If you are evacuated and have callforwarding on your home phone, forward your home phone number to your cell phone number.

If you do not have a cell phone, keep a

prepaid phone card to use, if needed, during or after a disaster.

Prepare a family contact sheet. This should include at least one out-of-town contact that may be better able to reach family members in an emergency.

The following are additional tips when making phone calls and using your smartphone during or after a disaster:

No one wants to hear the busy signal!

Keep all phone calls brief. If you need to use a phone, try to convey only vital information to emergency personnel and/or family.

If you are unsuccessful in completing a call using your cell phone, wait ten seconds before redialing to help reduce network congestion.

Conserve your cell phone battery by reducing the brightness of your screen, placing your phone in airplane

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HURRICANE SEASON AHEAD

mode, and closing apps you are not using that draw power, unless you need to use the phone.

If you lose power, you can charge your cell phone in your car. Just be sure your car is in a well-ventilated place (remove it from the garage) and do not go to your car until any danger has passed. You can also listen to your car radio for important news alerts.

If you do not have a hands-free device in your car, stop driving or pull over to the side of the road before making a call. Do not text on a cell phone, talk, or “tweet” without a hands-free device while driving.

Immediately following a disaster, resist using your mobile device to watch streaming videos, download music or videos, or play video games, all of which can add to network congestion. Limiting use of these services can help potentially life-saving emergency calls get through to 9-1-1.

For non-emergency communications, use text messaging, e-mail, or social media instead of making voice calls on your cell phone to avoid tying up voice networks. Databased services like texts and emails are less likely to experience network congestion. You can also use social media to post your status to let family and friends know you are okay. In addition to Facebook and Twitter, you can use resources such as the American Red Cross’ Safe and Well program.

1 Understand how to receive emergency alerts and warnings. Make sure all household members are able to get alerts about an emergency from local officials. Check with your local emergency management agency to see what is available in your area, and learn more about alerts by visiting: www.ready.gov/alerts.

2 Discuss family/household plans for disasters that may affect your area and plan where to go. Plan together in advance so that everyone in the household understands where to go during a different type of disaster like a hurricane, tornado, or wildfire.

Basic Items:

Water, one gallon of water per person per day

Food, three day supply of nonperishable items Flashlight and extra batteries Battery powered AM/FM radio

3 Collect information. Create a paper copy of the contact information for your family that includes: • phone (work, cell, office) • email • social media • medical facilities, doctors, service providers • school

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4 Identify information and pick an emergency meeting place. Things to consider:

Cash, small denomination and coins

• Decide on safe, familiar places where your family can go for protection or to reunite.

• Make sure these locations are accessible for household members with disabilities or access and functional needs.

• If you have pets or service animals, think about animalfriendly locations.

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• In your neighborhood: A mailbox at the end of the driveway, or a neighbor’s house.

• Outside of your neighborhood: Library, community center, place of worship, or family friend’s home.

• Outside of your town or city: Home of a relative or family friend. Make sure everyone knows the address of the meeting place and discuss ways you would get there.

5 Share information. Make sure everyone carries a copy in his or her backpack, purse, or wallet. You should also post a copy in a central location in your home, such as your refrigerator or family bulletin board.

6 Practice your plan. Have regular household meetings to review your emergency plans, communication plans and meeting place after a disaster, and then practice, just like you would a fire drill.

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• Hurricane watch: Hurricane conditions are possible within the specified area.

• Tropical storm warning: Tropicalstorm conditions are expected within the specified area.

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The Deal

By Nathaniel Sillin

Welcome to the Workforce It’s time to roll up your sleeves and put that lifetime of education to work for you. Finding the right job isn’t easy—it takes motivation to go after the industry or company you want, effort to ace the application and interview process and a bit of luck to land the job. Read on for tips, advice and tools that will help ensure a successful search.

Resources Your school career center is an excellent place to start when looking for work. As a resource provided to students, the point of a career center is to find jobs that relate to specific fields of study. Check in with a career counselor for advice on resume building or to sign up for on-campus interviews. Recruiters often come to schools and universities looking for future prospects.

Many campuses hold job fairs and career events yearround. It’s a great way to get your foot in the door of an otherwise out-of-reach company.

The Internet has made job hunting more convenient.

Specifically, job search sites like Indeed, Career Builder and Monster allow you to apply for jobs and/or post your resume for potential employers to come find you.

Craigslist is another resource to find part-time or full-time positions. Submitting a cover letter and resume online is often the preferred method these days.

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you with a job, they can often provide valuable advice on where to look and who the best contacts might be. It’s also important to join online networking circles. Post a profile on LinkedIn and join groups to connect with relevant professionals.

good source for job leads. One of the major benefits of working with placement agencies is that they already have established relationships within the industries they service and know exactly who to put you in front of. The downside is that some may charge you a fee for their services or require a percentage of your pay from the company that has hired you.

Networking is a great way to get your foot in the door.

Many of the best jobs out there are never advertised. The key to landing them is a lucky combination of being in the right place at the right time and talking to the right person. Don’t be afraid to go to social events and advertise yourself or talk about your goals. Or share your plans with friends and family. If they can’t immediately connect

Know What You’re Looking For Think about the big picture and not just the job you want now. Beyond earning a paycheck, what skills and experiences do you want to take away from your new job? Look to the next step of your career and think about which job will get you closer to that goal. Also, look at the associated benefits. A high-paying job with no benefits may not be as advantageous as a lower-paying position with a complete benefits package.

Consider cost of living and your expenses before you relocate for a job. Every city is different, so a starting salary in one area may not be enough to support you in a new location. Moving costs are another factor to take into consideration. If your prospective employer isn’t going to pay your moving costs, make sure the salary will make up for these costs in the long run, or that you have additional funds to cover the expenses.

Nathaniel Sillin directs Visa’s financial education programs.

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Scholar of the Week

By Janeal Downs

With a mother who liked to travel a lot, the love for traveling was easily passed down to Willie-LeeTriania Young. “I have done a lot in the time I have been on this earth: travelled to the West Coast and dipped my toes in the frigid November waters, been to the Canadian border, and dabbled with foreign languages,” Willie-LeeTriania stated in an essay. While she enjoys traveling domestically, her passion influences her to want to travel outside of the United States, as well. Her future goals and plans not only include continuing her education after high school, but also visiting other countries.

Willie-Lee Triania Young of Armstrong High School

GPA: 3.75 College of Interest: University of Virginia Major Community Service: ROTC, Young Adult Police Commission program Strong Interests: French, traveling Favorite Activities: Traveling

others while at school. She is most looking forward to the college experience, the exposure to this new setting and seeing how what she learns will prepare her for her future career.

While she is still at Armstrong, with a cumulative GPA of 3.75 and an overall GPA of 4.37, Willie-LeeTriania will graduate at the top of her class as the valedictorian. Not only is she the senior class president, but also the president of the Armstrong Leadership Program and the public relations personnel of the Young Adult Police Commission program. With the Young Adult Police Commission program, This fall, Willie-LeeTriania will start she and the other members’ mission is to school at the University of Virginia in help bridge the gap between the community Charlottesville. Originally, her top three and law enforcement. They often go to visit college choices included UVA, the University underprivileged parts of the city to support of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth their mission. Willie-LeeTriania also gives ™ University. Because they accepted and offered back to the community as a member of k e of the We her the most money, she chose to attend her school’s JROTC. With the JROTC, she UVA. Along with these reasons, after first and others will usher elderly people at the visiting the campus, the campus’ appearance upcoming Elderly Ball and they will also and the school’s Black Student Alliance also attracted her to the usher at the Night of Elegance event. university. As of now, she is not sure what she will major in yet, but during her 2017 summer vacation, she plans to travel to Paris. Willie-LeeTriania believes that a man or a woman without a plan is destined to fail; therefore, she hopes to carry out her plans to “It’s just beautiful, I’ve seen pictures of it and it’s just really pretty, travel, get her degree and also work toward change. She plans so I just want to have that experience,” Willie-LeeTriania said. “I to encourage change by becoming more involved with finding know a little bit of French because I’ve taken it for the last three years so I guess I would see how much I knew.” One lesson she will solutions for causes such as racism. “I enjoy helping people, but I prefer to be behind the scenes most of the time as opposed to take with her from high school to college is that “everyone does being on the front side of things,” she said. not have good intentions towards you” and to be cautious with

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Here are three technical things to remember. First, before you can ask anyone else to give, you need to make your own gift. If you are soliciting a major gift, you need to have made a major gift. Second, take the time to participate in a gift solicitation that someone else is coordinating. Be prepared to play a secondary role, and observe how the more experienced solicitor makes the ask. Third, ask the development staff person to coordinate a role-playing session so that you and others can experience asking and being asked. Role playing can help you become comfortable and help prepare you for the unexpected. Remember, fundraising is part of life so it is rare that things go exactly as planned!

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