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Speaker 1: It's just it's it's hard to comprehend, you know. And

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Speaker 1: at something like youth sports and they say, oh, I

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Speaker 1: don't concern myself with that. I do high level thinking. Well,

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Speaker 1: I look, I grew up in New York man and

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Speaker 1: and little league soccer basketball, although I quickly stopped playing

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Speaker 1: basketball because I'm too too short, vertically challenged. How I

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Speaker 1: was to vertically vertically challenged. These were pillars of my childhood,

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Speaker 1: pillars of the community from my fondest member with friends

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Speaker 1: and my my parents, and then where I learned lessons

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Speaker 1: that are still of great importance and value to me today.

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Speaker 1: So it is this is not theoretically and it's not small.

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Speaker 1: Most of our youth sports. In fact, all of our

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Speaker 1: youth sports have been canceled for the springtime. Many of

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Speaker 1: them will not be able to occur in the summertime

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Speaker 1: most likely, although UM, I certainly think if that's possible, UM,

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Speaker 1: it should. And so many families have already paid their

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Speaker 1: dues though they paid them to the little leagues, and

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Speaker 1: they paid them. It's not just about sports. It's also

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Speaker 1: about other activities ballet, theater or whatever else it might be.

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Speaker 1: And many of those organizations have fixed costs. They got

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Speaker 1: to spend money on lights and personnel and all types

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Speaker 1: of things. They can't give one percent of the money back.

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Speaker 1: And so it is my opinion and we are have

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Speaker 1: put this into legislation that these dudes should equate to

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Speaker 1: tax credits UM, and that there should also be a

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Speaker 1: fund authorized to bail out many of these youth sports

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Speaker 1: and youth activities, maybe these organizations, because look, this is

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Speaker 1: a drop in the bucket. We're giving these businesses billions

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Speaker 1: of dollars and I I support that too, because we

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Speaker 1: got to bail out our workers and we've gotta save

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Speaker 1: this economy. Would save our youth sports too. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's good stuff. That's good stuff, all right, Congressman Max Rose,

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Speaker 1: Democrat from New York, I very much appreciate you taking

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Speaker 1: some time off from daddy hood to check in with

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Speaker 1: us on a Friday, happy Memorial Day weekend. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for your service to our country, and thank you for

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Speaker 1: checking in with Bloomberg Radio. Appreciate that, sir, man, much appreciated.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, And coming up on the program, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: stick with this discussion of youth sports with my friends

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Speaker 1: at DC Scores in America Scores Network, which they're going

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Speaker 1: to give us an update on how things are, what

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Speaker 1: they've been doing. Meanwhile, you can check out my special

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Speaker 1: report on Bloomberg Television tonight at nine pm Eastern UH

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Speaker 1: into America's employment crisis. That's at nine pm Eastern m

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Speaker 1: will be wherever you can stream Bloomberg as well UH

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Speaker 1: after it airs. I'm Kevin Sirelli. You're listening to Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Bloomberg. Sound On with Kevin Surile on

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg and one oh five point seven f M h

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Speaker 1: D two. I'm Kevin SURRELEI Chief Washington correspondent for Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Television and for Bloomberg Radio. I'm not leaving the city

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Speaker 1: this weekend, folks. I'm not you know, I'm staying put.

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Speaker 1: I'm staying put. You know, We've got a couple more

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Speaker 1: days until we go into the until we go into

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Speaker 1: the Phase one or whatever they're calling it, and stuff reopens.

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Speaker 1: But um, yeah, you know cargresson Max Rose was on

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Speaker 1: just a little bit ago, and he was telling us

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Speaker 1: about this new piece of legislation that he's introduced that

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Speaker 1: would allow for tax write offs for youth sports. And

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Speaker 1: I've got to be really candid here. I am so

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Speaker 1: excited to have my friends at DC Scores uh come

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Speaker 1: on this program, because I will be I will be very,

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Speaker 1: very honest. I'm a huge fan of them. I love them.

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Speaker 1: I've seen up close the work that they do, so

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Speaker 1: I'm biased and that I think that they do a

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Speaker 1: great job for the kids in our community, just for

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Speaker 1: both soccer programming and uh for literacy programs here in

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Speaker 1: the nation's capital. Bethany Ruben Henderson's on the line. She

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Speaker 1: is the chief executive officer of DC Scores and President

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Speaker 1: of the America Scores Network. Alright, Bethany, first of all,

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Speaker 1: thank you, my friend for coming on. Tell us what

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Speaker 1: America Scores and DC Scores does, and then we'll dive

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Speaker 1: into how what how you guys are adjusting. Absolutely, Thank you, Kevin.

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Speaker 1: So glad to be here and get to spend this

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Speaker 1: time with you. America Scores and DC Scores are sports

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Speaker 1: based youth development organizations. What's that means is that we

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Speaker 1: work with low income intercity children around the country in

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Speaker 1: fact Canada as well, and provide free after school programming

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Speaker 1: and summer camp centered around soccer teams. But every kid

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Speaker 1: of our soccer teams also writes and performs original poetry

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Speaker 1: with their soccer team, and designs and carries out service

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Speaker 1: projects with their team. So it's a very mind, body,

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Speaker 1: soul experience and it's been around for like thirty some years. Right.

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Speaker 1: You're actually celebrating our twenty fifth anniversary this year. We

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Speaker 1: had a few events planned, but we're having a postpone

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Speaker 1: um a little bit. Thanks for the coronavirus, all right,

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Speaker 1: So tell me first of all just how the how

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Speaker 1: you guys have adjusted course throughout the throughout the pandemic. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: so our mission remains the same to keep kids feeling safe, supported,

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Speaker 1: connected and hopeful, right, and how do we do that

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Speaker 1: in environment when we work with kids who live on

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Speaker 1: the other side of the digital device, kids who do

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Speaker 1: not have a lot of access and kids who oftentimes

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Speaker 1: are actually now because of social distancing, because of stay

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Speaker 1: at home orders forcibly located in their less safe spaces.

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Speaker 1: Right they come to school, they often come to us.

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Speaker 1: We're a safe space. So what we're doing a slip

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Speaker 1: to virtual programming. What that means is we're offering programming

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Speaker 1: online programming kids can pull down and do on their

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Speaker 1: own or do with their coaches and interactive sessions. And

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Speaker 1: our coaches are continuing to reach out to our poet

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Speaker 1: athletes as we call them by phone, by tests, reaching

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Speaker 1: out and checking in are you okay? Can we help you?

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Speaker 1: Were making sure our kids and their families know what

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Speaker 1: the safety rules and precautions are and supporting them as

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Speaker 1: they try to access food and other things as well,

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Speaker 1: you know this is so important because I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's been really really heartwarming to see how um a

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Speaker 1: lot of youth sports programs have utilized tools like Zoom

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Speaker 1: to have you know, after school soccer programming for their

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Speaker 1: kids and whatnot. But America Scores and DC Scores there

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Speaker 1: they provide free after there are nonprofit. They provide free

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Speaker 1: after school programming for these poet athletes. And many of

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Speaker 1: these kids are not they don't have the technology resources available.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell talk to me, Bethany about some of

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Speaker 1: the technological challenges that that these students face. Absolutely, So

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Speaker 1: we're hearing from our families and our coaches. Is that

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Speaker 1: in many homes we work with little kids. I should say,

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Speaker 1: we worked primarily with kindergartens through race graders. So many

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Speaker 1: of these homes, three or four kids might be vying

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Speaker 1: to share a mom's phone to try and access their

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Speaker 1: school work. Think about that. I think about that because

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Speaker 1: think about that for our audience in particular. Think about

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Speaker 1: that three or four kids in one home are vying

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Speaker 1: for their mother's cell phone so they can kick a

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Speaker 1: ball around either indoors or outdoors. Go ahead, absolutely, so

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Speaker 1: they can connect with their school right, they can pull

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Speaker 1: their school work off UM and a lot of our homes,

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Speaker 1: a lot of our families, internet access is not consistent right.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes our middle schoolers especially, they might have devices, but

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Speaker 1: they're reliant on others WiFi. So in normal times they

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Speaker 1: can get WiFi at school, they can get WiFi, you know,

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Speaker 1: at the corner store, but that doesn't happen if they

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Speaker 1: can't go out in those communities. They might have a device,

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Speaker 1: but it may not be able to access anything because

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Speaker 1: WiFi is either consistent or two inconsistent or two expensive.

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Speaker 1: And so we're really operating in a world where some

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Speaker 1: of our kids do have digital access into different degrees,

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Speaker 1: and many do not. And how do we connect with

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Speaker 1: all of them during this time when they need us,

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Speaker 1: when they need their teams and their coaches, and knowing

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Speaker 1: that there's a support groupe behind them more than ever. So,

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Speaker 1: how so, how have you guys adopted us? So how

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Speaker 1: have you What are some of the things that you've

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Speaker 1: done to address some of those problems? Absolutely so, I

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Speaker 1: love how innovative our programs are. We operate in twelve

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Speaker 1: different communities, and every community has its own idiosyncrasies, and

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Speaker 1: so one community sent out postcards to every family here

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Speaker 1: in d C. We've had coaches calling the kids families. Um.

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Speaker 1: He said, Look, you know we pay our coaches. We

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Speaker 1: treat our coaches as a professional um service. Cor right.

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Speaker 1: They are working hard, and we're paying our coaches to

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Speaker 1: actually just reach out and call every kid on their

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Speaker 1: team to check in with them, let them know about

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Speaker 1: the resources we have online. We're delivering our soccer ball.

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Speaker 1: So he's old coaches, who know what you have inventory

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Speaker 1: that you were going to use the spring for our seasons.

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Speaker 1: Give the soccer ball so the kids will replace them

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Speaker 1: for you later on. Get the equipment into the kid's

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Speaker 1: hands so that they have what they need. And I

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Speaker 1: think this this is important. And folks, if you're if

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Speaker 1: you're just joining us, Bethany Ruben Henderson's on the line

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Speaker 1: and she's the uh the head of America Score and

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Speaker 1: of DC Scores, which provides uh uh for poet athletes

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Speaker 1: and it's literacy and soccer program. But you know, we

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Speaker 1: we talk about what your your nonprofits doing, Bethany, but

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Speaker 1: just broadening out, I mean, these are challenges across the

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Speaker 1: country that nonprofits, that youth nonprofits are really truly facing.

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Speaker 1: And at a time when you know, quite honestly, many

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Speaker 1: of your donors are are being affected economically. What are

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Speaker 1: some of the economic challenges from a business standpoint that

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Speaker 1: you now face from a business model? Uh that that

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Speaker 1: because of this pandemic. Absolutely so, DC Scores America Scores,

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Speaker 1: like many other youth serving nonprofits around this country, rely

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Speaker 1: on big fundraisers to bring in money to support our kids,

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Speaker 1: particularly those of us of offer programming for free so

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Speaker 1: it's accessible to all children. And a lot of our

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Speaker 1: big fundraisers have been postponed indefinitely because of the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: Right events that bring people together, we can't hold those

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Speaker 1: the same way. And virtual fundraisers are great and we've

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Speaker 1: had some, but they just don't bring in the volume

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Speaker 1: of money. That's the short term pain. The bigger problem

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Speaker 1: that I see coming down the pike is that the

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Speaker 1: belonging which is really the core product of what we

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Speaker 1: do right giving kids, these kids who are still developing

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Speaker 1: their mental resiliency skills, who have massive trauma in their

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Speaker 1: lives and need help processing it and staying on track,

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Speaker 1: they need to belong to a team, They need to

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Speaker 1: belong to something, and creating belonging as our core products

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Speaker 1: there are going the kids we already serve are in

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Speaker 1: experiencing more trauma now right, it's trauma compounded. There are

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Speaker 1: more kids too once we come out of this, are

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Speaker 1: not going to be able to access pay to play programs.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna need programs like ours to be able to

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Speaker 1: access sports at all because the economic impact on their

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Speaker 1: families from the pandemic. And so we're looking down the

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Speaker 1: pike our entire sector at increased demands for what we

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Speaker 1: do in the short term, increased costs for what we

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Speaker 1: do in the short term because reaching out to every

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Speaker 1: kid in this virtual environment is in a digital divide,

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Speaker 1: is very human intensive, and increase demand in the long

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Speaker 1: term at the same time as the economy of drinking

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Speaker 1: philanthropic dollar. As we're looking down the pike worried about

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Speaker 1: what will happen. You know, twelve months from now of

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Speaker 1: those fellers will still be there, and government dolars that

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Speaker 1: provide support for a lot of these programs are also

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Speaker 1: going to be shrinking. Because that's why the legislation from

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Speaker 1: Congress and Max Rose, Democrat from New York is so interesting.

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Speaker 1: Right now, all right, in thirty seconds, give me one

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Speaker 1: hopeful message from one of your players, from one of

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Speaker 1: your poet athletes, that inspired you to take us into

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Speaker 1: this holiday weekend. I can I'm not sure I can

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Speaker 1: boil it down to just one um. For me, the

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Speaker 1: most hopeful thing is seeing the kid's faces. The fact

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Speaker 1: that the kids show up, that they want to actually write,

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Speaker 1: and that connecting with their team matters them, matters with them.

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Speaker 1: And there's nothing better than seeing a young soccer player

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Speaker 1: stands up and say I like poetry even more than

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Speaker 1: soccer because it makes me feel powerful. Beth Henderson, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much. Check it out DC Scores, All Caps

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Speaker 1: DC Scores, and if you've got time this weekend, google

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Speaker 1: Soccer in the City. It's a feature length documentary film

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Speaker 1: on DC scores and what it does, and it's a

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Speaker 1: it's a really good mindset to take us in. Check

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Speaker 1: out our special report on Bloomberg Television tonight as well

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Speaker 1: at nine pm Eastern, into America's employment crisis. I'm Kevin Cirelli,

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Speaker 1: Chief Washington correspondent for Bloomberg Television and for Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Have a great, safe, enjoyable three day weekend, Washington. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening to Bloomberg