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Reggie: Okay, great. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Reggie I want to expand on it just a little bit.
Reggie: Okay.
Marvin : In my opinion, the United Way, in these current time, in the midst of these current challenges that we're not only facing in Albany, but throughout the world, the United Southwest Georgia is perfectly posed to lead out on a community impact model, where we are identifying the major issues in the community and United Way can organize the resources and the partners around addressing these challenges, and can really enhance their visibility in the community as being the convener and setting up these metrics. Say, if it is adolescent literacy right now, that's the major community entity. You find all these serving organizations that are dealing with that. And you say, when you direct the public, you guys give us all the money. And I think part of the problem that the United Way has gotten into over the years, is that they have tried to spread their money, to give all their money, make sure everybody get a little something, rather than just really focusing your resources on those who do it very, very well. Marvin : But you tell the public, "give your money here." All the money comes here, and we are only going to give it to the three or five organizations that really address adolescent literacy very, very well. But these are metrics that we're going to hold them accountable to, to make sure that they are doing the work, and these are the results that the community can expect as a result, and constantly do that. Think about if we did that around teen pregnancy, the COVID slide, violence and prevention, financial literacy for adults, homelessness and all that. Marvin : You did that, the cream arrives to the top very quickly. It would be a greater use of community resources, and you would see a tremendous amount of impact in a short amount of time. And what that would do then... But you got to have one organization that is the lead on that. Although several organizations will be involved, but the United Way is perfectly posed to enhance... They've already doing that to some extent, but they can take it to another level and really enhance their visibility. I think it will enhance their impact and the impact that they have on the community. And that's my two pennies.
Reggie: I appreciate your two pennies. Thank you, sir. Very much.
Jay: And all the social justice issues are so intertwined. The single parent homes, the literacy, Michael people falling into the system through the cops and getting a record, and then not being able to get a job with George Power, because they've got an arrest on them, falling into the drug thing, not being able to pass
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