Making sure that it had worldclass management. As well as, taking the very important messages we have from the Heritage Foundation to new audiences. Largely we were focused on washington, d. C. , and speaking to legislators, and people within the administration. We really felt like our conservative message needed a voice. With some demographics that we were not active in. We needed to talk to women. We needed to talk to minorities. We needed to talk to the youth of this country. Our conservative values are so important that we cannot ignore those constituencies with a message, we have to win them. On your website you talk about how 70 of your funding which is about how much . 90 million . Mrs. James you could say in that range. 70 comes from a most hundred thousand individuals. It sounds like youre getting out of washington. Mrs. James we are, but we need to do more. One of the strength of the Heritage Foundation is that we are not associated with the university. We dont have that pres
Cspan 2. Susan kay coles james, after many years, first as a scholar scholar and later as the trustee. You took over the reins in december of 2017, almost two years. What were your primary goals when you took the position . Mrs. James i have been given very specific instructions by our board. They were very interested in settling the organization down. Making sure that it had worldclass management. As well as taking the very important messages that we have from the Heritage Foundation to new audiences. Focused onhad been washington, d. C. And speaking to legislators and people within the administration. But we really felt like our conservative message needed a voice with some demographics that we had not been particularly active in. We needed to talk to women. We needed to talk to minorities. We needed to talk to the youth of this country. Our conservative values are so important that we cannot ignore those constituencies with our message we have to win them. Susan on your website, you
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Had an opportunity to i do not see him, but i right now he said he was running a little bit late, i wanted to, Public Comment this evening. Public comment on all items will be heard under section e. Public comment. This includes Public Comment for agenda and non agenda items. A speaker card must be turned in to staff in order to speak. Please write. If youre a student, please write student at the top of the card. Child care will be provided from 6 to 9 for childrens ages three through ten, and it is available just across the hall. And the Enrollment Center, for general information, an accessibility information Translation Services and the information to observe the meeting and participate virtually can all be found online for Public Comment. We have new protocols that are linked on our board of education web page at sfusd and provide more detail about Public Comment. Lets see. Already noticed that commissioner alexander or Vice President alexander will be participating remotely. And at
Was the suicide room, and when i mentioned that to the publisher she said, that is just a terrific title, and then she said, are you trying to put us out of business . And i said, id read that book, and she said, thats really not the right title for this book, and we sat and batted it around and there is something about this phrase. I was worried because it would it would come across as judgmental in some way or people would see it as almost bitterly ironic, and that wasnt the intention. Its a much simpler meaning which comes down to and this is what i got comfortable with finally. If you read the book and if you get to know these people inside the book and hear their stories, youll have a better sense. If you say this ubiquitous phrase, thank you for your service youll have a much clearer idea of who we are thanking and what youre thanking them for. And so that seemed to be a good title at that point. Brian how many of the people youre writing about in this book were in the first book