The Business of Giving

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People live in the whole world addicted to the DRO everyone and welcome to the business of giving podcast. My name is Guy Dawson and I am the founder and executive director of the cause marketing Chamber of Commerce. And cause marketing Chamber of Commerce is an organization that brings businesses and nonprofit organizations together to create synergistic relationships that benefit the community. And this show the business of giving highlights, nonprofits and for profit businesses and we bring great entities together on a regular basis on the show. To learn more about what we do at the cause marketing Chamber of Commerce, we can be reached at cause marketing chamber.com. This valuable show was made possible through the generosity of our series sponsor, solar and energy solution and conservation company specializing in solar and battery storage systems, including solar panels to learn more about them sole up.com. And as I've announced the last couple of weeks sole up is going to be in the studio on December the third. And they will be bringing a nonprofit organization that they do a lot of work with Nevada Conservation League. So we're really looking forward to that broadcast, having both sold up. The title sponsor of the show, as well as Nevada Conservation League, an interesting nonprofit organization with a great message. You won't want to miss our broadcast on December the third. Maria Perez, the cause marketing coach is back in the studio. How are you Maria?

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I'm great. How are you doing today? Guy?

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I am great. It is so wonderful to have you back. Like I mentioned, do I? I don't know what to do when you're not here. I had to make it happen last. Yeah, you bring so much to the show. And we've got two interesting guests who are going to be with us today. We haven't done a two guests show in a little while. But we've got two great guys who are going to be sharing about what they do on the show today. First is Justin Parnell. He is the Business Development Officer with Stuart title. Welcome Justin to the business of giving show. Thanks for having me. And one of the reasons why we had Justin come as a representative of Stuart title company is they were a participant in a recent event that we just hosted businesses with heart our expo, it was a 10th Expo great opportunity to get together with wonderful people and great businesses like Stuart title. And we just so appreciated their support of our event. We wanted to have them come on to talk more about the things that they do over there at Stewart title.

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Thank you. Yeah, it was a great event.

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Yeah, Maria, do you have any questions for our guests today?

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Sure, absolutely. So you know, this show is all about causes and social issues, marketing, and the value that it brings to businesses in terms of communicating to their customers, that they walk the walk and talk the talk, can you can you tell us a little bit about some of your initiatives here in the community?

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Yeah, so the the biggest one that we like to do is rebuilding together. It's a great nonprofit that they basically they help people that are not able to afford maybe a new air conditioner or a new fridge. But they need the help. And so they supply those type of big expenses. And then they have volunteers, like me and my team and my company that come in and we basically fix up the outside of their house, you know, give them a new yard, give it a nice facelift with paint and just make it look better.

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So it's Rebuilding Together to the initiative of or is it a nonprofit?

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It's a nonprofit. Oh, cool. Yeah. It's a national nonprofit there. They're in all 50 states, I believe. I want to say they've been here in Vegas for like 15 years, I think.

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Wow. That's impressive.

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Yes, and this is this nonprofit that you're in alignment with how do you get the company to to engage in this one of the things that Maria and I when we're talking with a lot of guests, is that we talk a lot about the culture that leads to being the type of business that gives back to its community. How do you get the people within your company to engage in this? Is this a part of the culture of the company? Maybe you could share with us about that.

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So we actually, we've been operating with rebuilding in the Vegas market longer than Stewart title has actually been a partnership. So Stewart titles, really great company, they're international. They have this program that allows the employees to highlight different Nonprofits and Charities. And they do X amount of donations all across the US. So three, four years ago, I nominated rebuilding together as a team to get that donation. And Stuart title liked it so much that they decided to become a national partner. And so now we're doing we used to do one day, it was a rebuilding together day is April 22. But now, because we're a national partner, we're doing two days. So we actually have one coming up next week. It's called Make a Difference Day. And so Stewart title is sponsoring rebuilds in all these different markets across the US.

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Wow, that's, that's really amazing. Yeah. So you're, you're a national company. And basically, it's it's more than its volunteerism, and, and sort of a public private partnership. Right. All together.

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Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's, I say, it's more profit, because we are private, because we don't necessarily advertise that we're partnering with this. Nonprofit. But um, but yeah, it's company wide. And it's just because Stuart title cares about the communities that we're in. And we want to do our part to build them up.

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Yeah, it's interesting, because some companies, you know, really value the earnings media and letting their customers know. And some companies just do it, because it's the right thing to do.

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Yeah, exactly. That's our standpoint.

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Yeah, we appreciate you being bold enough to come on the air today to let us know about how you're giving back to the community. I mean, you're affecting a lot of people with that type of give back. And that's what this show and the cause marketing chamber is really about. It's about, the more that people know, what you do, the more apt they are to want to do business with you. Number one, but then also, you know, just ever respect for your company refer that type of thing. Yeah,

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I mean, I said that. The main reason why I wanted to come on this show is just to highlight the actual nonprofit. Because rebuilding Day, April 22, they do it every year, they pick like 30 to 45 houses around the community. And you know, your company can volunteer, get your own house, or you can team up with other companies. There's a bunch of companies that participated in every year.

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What is the URL for for the nonprofit justice? I believe people want to look,

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I believe it's just rebuilding together.org. Okay, yeah. Excellent.

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And before we came on the air today, Justin, we were talking about how this is an interesting real estate market that we're experiencing here in, in Las Vegas, as well as across the country. And how does the title company adapt? Not as many sales of homes, what are some of the things that you're able to do to provide more value so that you can continue to run out profitable business?

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Really, right now, it's just all about creating partnerships with other people within the real estate industry, you know, that's Realtors lenders, and nurturing those partnerships into relationships. So that when the market does pick up and get busier that, you know, they know that we're right there to help them out in any way we can. It's just kind of like preparing for the future, so to speak.

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Yeah, we're always talking about partnerships on here, right, Maria, in terms of that being such a significant thing for so many of these nonprofit organizations, and the correlation between traditional business and nonprofit is just so so similar. So yeah, the partnerships that people create in the nonprofit world for anyone to run a successful business. Your partnerships are so important.

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Yes, absolutely.

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Yeah. And I think I think it really demonstrates that, I mean, walking the walk and talking the talk, and it's almost a mentorship, relationship that you you seem to have with the organization, and the whole rebuild, you know, it's really, we've had a number of guests on, and they all talk about empowering the people that they support. And it seems like you're really doing that.

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Yeah. You know, I grew up here in Vegas, and I love the community and I like to support the community and not necessarily, like I said, for advertising purposes, but I want to give back to the community and build up the community and because I think the bigger the community is, the better it's gonna help us As a company?

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Yeah, I mean, it's impactful for sure.

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Yeah. Justin Parnell is the Business Development Officer with Stewart title company. And for those of our listeners who might be interested in retaining the services of your company, definitely a company that as Maria always mentions is walking the walk and talking the talk and for your needs in the title area. How can people reach you

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stewart.com backslash lost dash Vegas. Or you can just Google Stewart, we're pretty easy to find.

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All right. Any other questions for Justin Maria, before we let him go?

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No, I just want to commend his, you know, initiative to reach out to corporate and create a national initiative. It's pretty impressive.

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Thank you. Yeah, we're actually trying to do that with Rumery. Ducks.

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Oh, the nonprofit featured last businesses with heart event.

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Yeah, I just nominated it nailed it. I nominated them to get that benefit as well. So that's how it works out. Yeah.

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I love it when we make a love connection. That's what those events are all about. It really is about creating opportunities for people. So great. So glad to hear that it worked out and that you have another potential partner in the nonprofit sector hopefully soon. For those of you who are just tuning in, you're listening to the business of giving podcast at 91.5k You envy jazz and more soul up and its channel partners are providing complimentary solar to local charities supporting for Hope link transitional housing properties, solar to feed pets of the homeless Volunteers of America and opportunity village, their founder sits on the board of Nevada Conservation League. I also wanted to remind all of you that you can listen to this podcast, of course here at 91.5k u n v jazz and more, but also on Spotify, Google podcasts and Amazon music to listen to downloads of our podcast. You can check them out at giving business dot transistor dot F M. And Maria soya. We got a second guest in the studio for today. And he is a man who I have known for for several years. He's a part of an organization that I have been a part of for a long time, I'd say local 720 which is a stagehand union here in Las Vegas. I have been a stagehand personally for about 27 years, and I've been affiliated with iOttie for 19 years. So I know a lot about the topics that we're going to go over and Phil's just a great guy leading an organization that is also making a huge difference in the community. Welcome, Phil Jaynes, president of I IATSE local 722, the business of giving podcast,

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thank you for having me.

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And you are a union boss, president of the Union. I love when I get a chance to say that on the radio, I actually interviewed Jerry helmet years ago on another radio show, and I got to say union boss on the radio. So that's always really

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nice. Yeah, it's funny, because when I think of union boss, it's always in a cartoon in the newspaper. And we're usually underneath one light with cigar smoke, and it's dark. And and it's I don't think of myself as a union boss, per se. But But yes, it's a fun job to have

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any questions for Phil Maria.

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I'd be interested to hear you know, what type of outreach you do? Is it focused on your membership? Is it focused on the community? Is it a combination of all of the above tell us a little bit of that.

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It's a combination of all of the above the outreach that we do, internally, we always want our people to learn more skills, learn different skills, we have a lot of different jobs that we cover. And so we're always hoping our membership will learn better skill or more skills. And so we can cover all of this work. We do outreach to the high schools that have the magical training, some of the magnet school or magnet schools. I'll go and I'll go and I'll speak at them and let them know that there is a, a pathway to a pretty exciting career, and a lot of opportunity. And they do live in the ER, we all live in the internet payment capital of the world. And if you're going to be a stagehand or if you're going to work behind the scenes and scenes and entertainment, this is a great place to be. So we'll reach out to the high schools, let them know that let them know what they need to learn, you know how to, you know, become a member or not become a member just to get into the system that hopefully they'll become a member later once they're in the system. And so we'll reach out to them and we also do a lot of work with other labor unions here in the valley. We do charitable stuff. Christmas time, we have a young workers committee, that they have a Christmas party. And they raised a lot of money for a couple of charities here in the Valley. And, but that's pretty much the our, you know, the extent of our outreach.

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Yeah, but it's fascinating, because I mean, you, as you point out in the entertainment capital of the world, you know, it's so important for our youth to be aware of their of these opportunities and the options that they have.

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Yeah, and they're great options. And I mean, you don't think, you know, to go say work on a film, you don't need to go to a four year college or a six year college or become a masters at something. You can learn skills in high school. And you can learn a lot of that you can take those basic skills that you learned in high school in theater, and you can transfer that into convention work or trade show or audio visual for hotels, or film, television. Even, you know, radio if you wanted to. We don't cover radio, but it a lot of those same skills do transfer over into radio, and people, especially kids, they just don't know how to get there. It's very simple, you can just come down to the hall and 3000 Valleyview. And he asked for me, President James and I can get you set up. It's not a it's not a quick process. But it's a it's a process that you if you stick with it, you can be making some pretty good money. If you've got the skills and the drive and the willingness to learn, you can do very well for yourself in a city.

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Yeah, I think so much of our youth do get stuck to and adults down the hole. So it's really wonderful that that you, you provide that resource. Very nice. Perfect. Yeah,

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it's such an exciting industry to I mean, you get to experience amazing things being a stage in being backstage for, for these major concerts. And I mean, I could just go list, on and on and on the types of events that I've been a part of through my years in this industry. And like Phil was saying, it's just a great opportunity for someone who wants a career that has a lot of potential, especially in a town like this, where it's, you know, we know, it's the entertainment capital, now it's becoming the sports capital of the world, as well. We've Formula One races, and we've got sports teams coming here, along with all this convention work. So yeah, there's a lot of people out there, I think, who could really change their lives in a positive way. By becoming a member of I'd say, local 720. I know it's been a great thing for me and my family. And, and actually even my ability to do this because as Phil mentioned, so many of the skills that you learn being in the industry are transferrable to the type of media like we're doing here, and that I do on a regular basis. So yes, it's just there's so many benefits to being a part of it local 720. But there was one thing I did want to touch on, Phil, that I had talked about was during COVID, I felt there was a great gift back that it was doing and that was operating a really, really solid food bank. Because we know so many people were really struggling during those couple of years. Could you could you talk more about the give back aspect of that.

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Yeah, the COVID hit, our industry was crushed. You know, we pretty much I think we had one wardrobe person working at Circus Circus where typically we'd have 3200 people working across the valley at any given day. And so we were crushed. So leadership of the Union, we decided, you know, what can we do? How can we help our members, we had had to have zoom meetings back then. And our membership stepped up and they allotted $600,000 to be spent on food. Yeah, big money to be spent on food and for food bank, and we essentially turned our union hall into a grocery store. And we created boxes, with help from Ulan United labor agency in Nevada. They helped us out a lot showed us how to do a food bank, how to set it up. And for over a year. Well, right out of here. We would have a day, every month where any member, any non member, any member of the community, we didn't turn anybody away members of other unions, whatever. We just opened our doors and we had boxes set up. And we just asked them how many people do you have in your family for people, we'd give them a box labeled for that, that food would feed them for for a week. I believe that about five days to seven days. And, you know, if you only had to, you know, we had a box set up for two and and it was very, very good for the membership. You know, it gave them a sense of ownership of you know, what it means to be part of a union and what positive things that your union can do for the internal community and the external community. We also at the same time, and this one I always forget about because the food bank was such huge thing. We have a lot of people that work in wardrobe. And a lot of people that work in wardrobe have sewing machines and have material and at the time of COVID, when it just started in the face mask, you know, the shortage on the face backs, we were making face masks and, and we call them the mask posse. And they cranked out 1000s and 1000s of masks that we gave to pretty much anybody who needed masks, we delivered them out the Nellis, we delivered them to some of the hospitals, some of the retirement communities any, any buddy who needed a mask, we cranked out a lot of masks until, until the supply chain caught up with a mask. And so yeah, we had those two big things that happened that we had never done before. But because of COVID, you have to adapt. And it also, it gave the people something to do, you know, because obviously, they weren't going and working behind the scenes at a show or convention or something like that. So they could volunteer their time, which had a lot of value to those individuals, and, you know, gave them purpose and gave them something to do. And it was it was quite successful. And it was very efficient. Also, we only think we only owe that 600 I think we only spent about 430,000. And it was it was a great experience.

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Yeah, that's really it's very impactful. And it's again, it's a stellar example of, you know, an organization having an impact on a social issue, that during a devastating time. So it's really remarkable what you were able to accomplish. Thank you.

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Yeah, me knowing members. I mean, they're my friends. And so of the impact that that had on a lot of members was enormous. It really was because of just it being such an unstable time and so much uncertainty, but just for so many of the members that I've talked to, since then, just knowing that that food was there, and that point that you mentioned before, Phil about the volunteerism opportunity, and the way that that gave people that sense of purpose, I've talked to people who have said that, just being able to go down there and volunteer and do something during a time like that got them out of their own heads, they weren't so much thinking about all of the challenges that we were having in the world at that time. So yeah, I thought that was just a really impactful Initiative, a great, great move for it. 720 in the community,

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thank you all goes to our membership. They're the ones who, you know, I couldn't do it. They're the ones who volunteer their time. And they're the ones that voted and to spend their money for that. So kudos to them.

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One last question for Phil. Maria, before we wrap up today.

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I just I'm interested to know. Do you love your job? I imagine you do. I do. Love that. You want to tell us why?

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It's funny, because I get the members will ask me all the time. Are you happy? You stepped up the run for this position? And I say absolutely. I love this job. And they're shocked. Because it's not an easy job. It's not a job that's that everybody can do. You can't please everybody every time and members of any local are very vocal if they're not pleased. But I just love it. It's it's what I it's, it's it fits me to a tee. I can't explain it any better than that you get to help a lot of people. You can't help everybody, but you can give them the tools to help themselves. If they follow through, they follow through if they don't, you know you you feel bad, but but you do get the opportunity to help in touch a lot of people and by a lot. I mean, every day. We're helping people and by, you know, getting their paycheck by getting them to work, just calling them up and saying, Hey, we got a job out here. And can you come out here and work and giving them that opportunity? It's but to me, it just literally it fits my personality. And I really do enjoy it.

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And union advocacy is so so prominent in the community right now. Right, Maria? I mean, it's, it's it's, it's in headlines pretty much every day.

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Well, I mean, it's almost as though they are, you know, a charity in that they are so supportive of their membership, those they serve. I mean, it's it's really, it's really a wonderful, it's wonderful to have you on and to hear that everything you do is endemic to what we do here in Las Vegas. And you're very supportive of all the folks that that you serve. Thank you.

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Phil Jaynes is the president of I'd say local 720. The stagehands union here in Las Vegas and thanks again for stopping by Phil How can you be reached for more information about IRC local 720

Unknown Speaker 24:56
Probably the best way to reach me to go online IRC set 120 dotnet that will get you to our website and or you can just swing by 3000. South Valley View. If you've got any questions, ask for me. We have professionals who work the front desk area, they can help you out if you want to get into the system or if you want to just ask questions just come on down.

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And again, with unions being so prominent in the news right now, and there just seems to be a trend in this country over the last couple of years, I was actually reading something about millennials, or people under 40 years old. And there were a statistic and it said something like 85% of the people under the age of 40 would categorize themselves as extremely supportive of labor unions. It was a real shock when I when I heard that. So yes, the wet I I'd say local 720 represents that's going to be the future. And again, I can endorse this union because I've been a part of it for a long time and just nothing but continued success in your role as president of I'd say, Phil, and Maria, there's lots of causes out there that need help, how can they reach out to you or in businesses as well for help some some coaching and cause marketing.

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If you want to discuss cause or social issues, marketing strategy, I'm always available, and you can reach me, cause coach Maria at Maria at cause marketing consultant.com.

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And to learn more about what we do at the cause marketing Chamber of Commerce, we can be reached at cause marketing chamber.com Also wanted to announce an event an online event that we're going to be hosting on November the 21st. It's called the cause and business education series. It's a great thing that we do online that highlights a successful entrepreneur or nonprofit organization. We are in the process of bringing in an entrepreneur, I'll make an announcement next week of who that person is going to be. But they do a really solid half hour to 45 minute talk about their expertise in business or in the nonprofit sector. We have a q&a period it is a great, very, very fulfilling event that you want to be a part of. Again, you can go to our website, cause marketing chamber.com For information about that event that is coming up. Of course we always err every Sunday at 7:30am et que un v 91.5. FM. The business of giving podcast was brought to you by soul UPS underwriting of our series and as I always ask at the end of these broadcasts are requests that you give and do business for good. See you soon.

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