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Speaker 2: For me if the United Way is able to help families, then one thing I should look at, I'll say is graduation rate when it comes to high school. Just being honest, I'm still kind of, after all these years, I'm still trying to figure out how do they really measure that? Because my thing is, if a hundred kids entered in as ninth graders, I know some going to fall off, but just say none of them fall off, where a hundred percent of them graduated. That's just my simple math. But when you start to see more... And it's not just they're barely passing, but they've been helped to pass to where you can see some families that are, "Hey, we got some help and we're going to continue our education," you start to feel hope come back. Speaker 2: I know that's not a tangible thing, but you start to feel hope, you start to hear people talk about, "there's more hope in the community," and you have other people talk about, "all right, let's start actually, excuse me, pouring back in to people." So if the United Way is helping families, individuals and family, and you start to see that we're starting to have more kids graduating from high school instead of coming out of the alternative center. When you look at kids that can say, "Hey, I was touched by the Boys and Girls Club as well," they helped the kids, but United Way was able to find an organization that helped the family, the parents, and whatnot. And you start to hear more wholeness occurring within these families and slowly but surely, you'll start to see things changing in these neighborhoods to where being in a gang is not really what we want to do because I can be I can be whoever I want to be, but I don't have to be a hustler. Speaker 2: I don't have to work out the trap house. I don't have to break in the cars every night just to steal whatever you got so I can sell it and get some money to feed myself or whomever. More hope. You start hear more instances of hope coming back into the community.
Reggie: Yeah. Okay. Anyone else. Outcomes that you would see?
Speaker 4: I would have to say I have two. One is just the presence and stability throughout the community. And that it's an anchor if you will. So as it was said earlier, they're countless nonprofits and the need in this community continues to be very grave. But United Way continues to be that consistent presence. And so if I'm in need, I know know that's the one stop shop, if you will, that I can go to. The other piece that I thought of as it relates to impressive outcomes, and this is me having... I sat on the United Way Board and then I've also sat on the organization that's no longer an existence called Zen, but I do know that the accountability systems that are in place will either cause you to remain viable or no longer exist. And so that's one of the outcomes that I've always been impressed with. Reggie: That's awesome. Okay. Thank you. Got anything there, anybody? One last question. Kind of similar, but if you had to think about it as measures, think what measures you would look to for their success.
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