There we go. Okay, perfect. All right. So hello, everyone, for those of you that I have not met yet. My name is Katie McCown. And I am coming to you today from local first Arizona, I run our Arizona Economic Recovery Center Department. And as Steve mentioned, we are all about grants and helping small organizations access grants. So today, I'm going to tell you a little bit about who we are and what we do and how to connect with us, in hopes that we will be able to work together to further all of your grant funding needs, whether it's for Broadband, digital access, or really anything under the sun, we are here to help with that. So to start off, I'll just take you back a little bit to give you some context as to why we started this and what the purpose is. So the, the Recovery Center is a fairly new department for local first, we came out of COVID. We saw back in 2020, and early 2021, how there were lots of new grant opportunities coming through, which was wonderful, but for some reason, our organizations in Arizona were not getting access to those funds. And so we were we took a step back and thought, Okay, what is happening here? And what is the challenge? What is the gap there. So we went throughout the state, we talked to as many people as we could, and we came back with these three main challenges. People are overextended, you've got to wear five or six hats in an organization just to get jobs done. We've got budget constraints, you know, we're being asked to do more and more every year with less and less money. And then an interesting situation that happened was that because there were so many new grant opportunities coming about, it was great, but it also led to a more competitive landscape in Arizona with organizations competing against each other. So we took these challenges back, talked through what we could do, and came up with the idea for the Recovery Center as a way to fill the gap between the organizations that need the funding and the funders that are providing it. So the way that we can help is basically from A to Z, anything related to grants. On the front end of a grant application, say for example, your organization has never applied for a federal grant, or maybe never applied for any grant at all. As long as you have your entity established, we can work with you and we can make sure that you have all of your registrations complete any systems, you might need to be set up in all of that, so that you are ready to go when we find that right grant opportunity, you're ready to just apply for it, and you're good to go. So that's one way we can help. Another way we can help on the front end is by conducting research, we can conduct research on behalf of your organization. We will look at federal, state, local and foundation grant opportunities. We put together a curated list of everything that you qualify for whether or not it's open right now or projected to be open in the future. And we will send that over to you to take a look through with all the links and everything and help you make a decision on a grant or a couple of grants that you might want to move forward with. And this is only if you don't know a grant application you want to go after. If you already know of one, then that's wonderful. And we are happy to support that. Another way we can support on the front end of an application is putting together partners. And this may be of interest in your area of work as well. Some grant opportunities either require partners or they give more points to applications that include more than one organization. So if you ever find an opportunity like this that fits, but maybe you don't have the right partner to connect with that is something that we can help with as well. Then what we spend the majority of our time doing is working on actual grant applications. We have 30 different grant writers on contract. They all have different areas of expertise, when it comes to both the types of grants they like to write, and the types of content they like to write about. So once a grant opportunity or couple of opportunities is identified, we will pull that grant writer in who's the best fit for your organization, make an introduction between the two of you, then they will meet with you hold your hand through the whole process of getting everything written and submitted. And then we pay for their services out of our budget. And then the last way that we can support is on the back end of a grant win. And if we work with you on an application that is then chosen for award, we will not just leave you to be on your own. At that point, we will connect with you. And we can assist on the back end with anything like financial reporting, or narrative reporting, or even just getting organized to figure out what reporting is required from the funder that you have just received funding from. So we really are here to help you from A to Z, front end of an application during the application and after the application as well. This is something that I'm going to actually bring up here on our website to show you a little bit of an easier way to view this and I am sorry about my dogs, their basset hounds, but they're acting as if they are very serious dogs. Okay. Let me share. Okay, so couple things I wanted to share with you that are new since the last time I was here presenting. Okay, can you see my screen again? Okay, so this is something that we have developed, that we're calling our process for winning grant funding. This is something that we review with all of our clients during our first call with them. And it is something that is intended to be helpful to provide you with information on exactly what you can expect when you work with us. But it is not intended to be overwhelming. So I know this is a lot of information, I will send this to Steve so that you can all take a look at it after the fact. But it's resources and things that we have organized based on where you are in the funding process. So for example, phase one is when we meet with a client, we vet them to make sure they're ready for grant funding and get them scheduled for an introductory call. Then we would move into phase two, where we have our call with you, we conduct our grant research, complete the grant application. And then we all wait to hear if a decision is made or not. Depending on the type of funder sometimes it takes a few weeks, sometimes it takes a few months. But as you can see, as we go through the process, it shows you on the left hand side all of the steps and the amount of time it will take and the amount of time that we are requesting from you to complete the information. The middle section shows you everything we will provide to you as a client. And the right hand section is everything that we are asking for you to do at each stage in the process. Again, this is really just intended to help you keep on track and know what you can expect from us as we work together. Then the final phase of working with us is the post award phase. So if we get an award decision that was not funded, then that's okay, we just take you back up and we start back at phase two, again, if it was funded, then phase three is the time when we check in with you make sure you have everything you need. And make sure you're set up for success to execute on that grant that you've just won.