Spotlight on Community Champions: Kim Sanchez and the Impact of McKinney Little Free Pantry and Collin County NeighborHUB

In this episode of The NonProfit Nook, host Wendy Kidd welcomes Kim Sanchez, a philanthropist and founder of McKinney Little Free Pantry and Collin County NeighborHUB. Kim shares her journey from starting her businesses in 2005 to creating impactful community initiatives that aim to serve neighbors in need. Learn about the inspiration behind these projects, the challenges they face, and the unique solutions they offer, such as the anonymous food pantries and a future social services advocacy center. This episode delves into the importance of dignity and human interaction in social services, and highlights how Kim blends professional expertise with a passion for service to create real change in Collin County.

Links:

https://www.ccneighborhubmck.org/

https://www.mckinneylfp.org/

https://www.instagram.com/mckinneylittlefreepantry/

https://www.facebook.com/CCNeighborHub

https://thesanchezgroup.biz/sanchez-charities-llc/

https://www.bosslevelengaged.com/services-for-nonprofits-nonprofitnook

https://thenonprofitnook.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@BossLevelEngaged

00:00 Introduction to The NonProfit Nook

01:02 Meet Kim Sanchez: A Multifaceted Philanthropist

02:23 The Birth of McKinney Little Free Pantry

04:36 Expanding the Pantry Network

06:38 The Concept of Collin County NeighborHUB

13:19 Building the NeighborHUB: Partnerships and Progress

17:55 Challenges and Rewards in Nonprofit Work

22:18 How to Get Involved

23:37 Conclusion and Farewell

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What do you wish people understood about your organization

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or the people that you serve?

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Kim Sanchez: I wish people understood that

the NeighborHUB is not a homeless center.

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Wendy Kidd: Welcome to The NonProfit

Nook, the podcast for nonprofit

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leaders, board members, and community

change makers who want to build

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stronger, smarter organizations.

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I'm your host, Wendy Kidd, a longtime

business owner and nonprofit leader,

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and I'm here to bring you real talk,

real tools and real stories to help

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you thrive in the nonprofit world.

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I'll be talking with local nonprofit

leaders, community change makers

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and experts in everything from board

development to fundraising and digital

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tools, sharing real stories and

simple strategies you can actually use

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because running a nonprofit is hard,

but you don't have to do it alone.

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Let's get started.

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Welcome everyone.

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I'm so glad to have you here

again for the podcast Today.

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I am excited to welcome Kim

Sanchez to The NonProfit Nook.

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Kim is someone who wears many hats.

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She is an Episcopalian, a wife, a

mom, an engineer, a commercial real

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estate agent, a land developer and

asset manager, and a philanthropist.

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It's a lot.

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She serves as the CFO of Sanchez

Charities and is the founder of

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both the McKinney Little Free Pantry

and the Collin County NeighborHUB.

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Two initiatives dedicated to helping

neighbors in need and building a

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stronger, more connected community.

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Kim has a gift for blending her

professional expertise with her

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passion for service, creating

real change here in Collin County.

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She is definitely one of

our community champions.

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Welcome Kim.

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Kim Sanchez: Yay.

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I feel so good after

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all that.

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Wendy Kidd: I was excited

to write your little intro.

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Kim Sanchez: I love it.

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I love it.

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You make me sound good.

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You just need to go

with me everywhere I go.

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Wendy Kidd: I'm, I've been sending

these little bios out to people.

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Some of my friends are really benefiting.

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So Kim, you have a lot on your plate.

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And today I just wanna focus on

the charities that you have started

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and talk a little bit more about

them because this is part of our

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spotlights of north Texas nonprofits.

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So tell us a little bit about

your different charities

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and how they got started.

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Kim Sanchez: First

thank you for having me.

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I appreciate you of just even sitting

with me and talking to me about

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what the things are that we do.

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My husband and I started

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And we've been here in McKinney the whole

time, and since we've been going through

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this, people would ask us for donations

or for galas or what have you, and we

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just learned that we were just throwing

philanthropic money at anybody who asked.

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And so my husband and I decided we needed

to be more intentional with our giving and

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really decide what is it that what were

things that we wanted to be involved in

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to make a difference in, in our community.

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At the same time we had little children

and I when I was a kid, me and my dad, we

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would go feed the homeless in Austin and

that was really impactful time for me.

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It was an impactful time.

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It solidified a lot between me and

my dad's relationship and really

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let me see homeless differently.

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It let me understand that these

are people just like you and me and

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they're just in a tough situation.

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And my dad and I, he really taught

me how to talk to people with

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dignity, even in rough spots.

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And so it just gave me a

different viewpoint, I guess

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from that vantage point.

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I wanted my children to have servant

hands and servant hearts kind of

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the way that I was brought up.

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And so I tried to find places for them

to volunteer here in the McKinney area,

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and at the time they were very young.

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And there weren't a lot of volunteer

opportunities for them because, a

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lot of the 5 0 1 c threes wanted

people 18 and older for volunteers.

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And so we had come up with an idea

within my family that we could do

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this McKinney Little Free Pantry idea.

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It started September 2016.

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We got a cabinet from the re, I

call it the Restore Store, the

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Habitat for Humanity Restore,

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Facility.

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And we waterproofed it and we turned

it into a pantry and we put it outside

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w hat is the location for Hugs Cafe.

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And that was the first

location here in McKinney.

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And it was something I thought was gonna

be a weekend warrior project with them.

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And it turned out to be

a whole part-time job.

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And it, it made a lot of news.

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It made a lot of press.

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It made a lot for people.

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People could.

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Donate with their kids and they

could do it with their children and

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they could bring food, and they were

trying to be kind to their neighbors

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and maybe people who were ashamed

to get food could get food and not

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have to go through so many barriers

and obstacles in order to get food.

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And so it was just a

win-win for everybody.

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It wasn't long after there was

another pantry that had started

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that was called the Red Door Pantry.

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Terry Dale, I believe was her name

and she was a lovely lady and she

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created these smaller pantries

that you see in the downtown area.

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And over time she was unable

to keep maintenancing them for

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whatever her personal reasons were.

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And she had asked if I

would take those over.

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So I did with a group of people.

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And we took over all these little

pantries and put them together with

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the McKinney little free pantry.

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We over time had to move my pantry

to Trinity Presbyterian Church

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because it wasn't a good spot

for it in front of Hugs Cafe.

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And that was a great move.

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And so we consider our flagship

to be Trinity Presbyterian Church.

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That's the first of all the pantries and

that has been a wonderful home for us.

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They are so supportive and so loving

and so giving, not just to me and to

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our volunteers, but to everybody who

visits the pantry and they've just been

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a wonderful partner in this process.

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We current, they're good.

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People really enjoy that, really

are, I tell them I am Episcopalian,

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but I tell them all the time that

if that gig doesn't work out.

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I'll come to the Presbyterian church.

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There you go.

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Specifically with Reverend Malley Baum.

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She is, I love her.

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Amazing.

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Love her.

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Yes.

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That's how I got started.

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We have 13 of them.

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One of them is different.

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It's a pet pantry where we

just put pet products in it.

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'cause what we found is that people.

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Who maybe don't have enough money for

food, then they're not gonna have enough

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money for pet food either, of course.

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And we wanted to treat the donations

well with the intention of what

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they were given, which wasn't

for animals, it was for people.

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And quite honestly, some of the

food isn't good for animals.

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We work with The Shot Spot

and we put pet food in there.

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We also put, we get a plethora of

pumpkin and if it ain't Thanksgiving,

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I don't know what you do with pumpkin.

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And so we had, we have had the

problem of having lots of stored

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pumpkin and we learned not pumpkin,

like that's mixed with the milks and

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stuff, but just pure pumpkin animals

can eat it and it's good for them.

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Yes.

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So we, that's, we do put the pure

pumpkin in the animal pantry too.

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So that was the start of it

and that was really great.

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I'm probably answering way more than you

wanted, but I'll just, no, this is good.

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Keep going.

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What would happen is that I

would find the thing about the

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pantry, it makes us different.

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We have a number of great organizations

that give food in McKinney.

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Two of them being CLC and Community Food

Pantry, they're probably the largest.

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And they do a wonderful job getting

out a lot of food, but they get

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food from North Texas Food Bank,

which requires them, 'cause that's

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governmental food, it requires them

to have to collect certain data.

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So what makes us different, and the reason

I still exist is because we are anonymous.

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There's no data required.

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We're not asking anybody for anything.

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It's just take whatever you need.

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The reason that's important is

because if you're a child, you don't

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wanna get your parents in trouble.

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You're not gonna tell somebody,

my mom didn't feed me.

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You may be not an illegal citizen

and at the end of the day, you're

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still human, but you're afraid

to, that you might get in trouble.

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So where are you gonna

get food if you're hungry?

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We do have people who are maybe

homeless and they don't wanna carry

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a whole bunch of food with them.

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They just want a quick one

grab of a granola bar, and

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they're not looking for a lot.

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So they will come.

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And we also have what we call a

gap, which is people who, it's.

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Usually like a two income household

and something has happened to

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one or more of the incomes.

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It could be a death, it could be a

divorce, it could be a disability,

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it could be a loss of job.

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There's lots of things it could be,

but they've never accepted social

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services before and they're not quite

yet ready to put their name on the list.

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They're not quite ready to stand

in that line or to face that fact.

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And so they just kinda wanna

come in the cover of night.

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Get food and go home.

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And a lot of times divorce is a

real thing here in McKinney, we

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have a lot of two income homes.

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One income says you handle the house,

you handle the kids and the cars and the

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bills and all this stuff, I'm outta here.

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And then that person's left and they

don't have enough money to sustain it.

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So they're making sure that the kids have

what they need, but at the end of the

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day now they're not getting any food.

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And so we wanna make sure that

we help them just get to the

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next spot and within six months

they'll sell the house, they'll.

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Live in an environment that's more fitting

to their, to the amount of money that they

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have coming in every month, but it takes

a period of time for them to get there.

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So what we learned is that we would

have people that were waiting at these

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pantries to talk to us, and they would

want, they were waiting for a human

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because there's food in the pantry.

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They could go get it.

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They're waiting for us to get there.

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And when I get there, I ask

them, Hey, what's going on?

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Is everything okay?

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And they're like, yes.

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I just, I wanna tell

you about my situation.

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And then they tell me their very

long story about what happened in

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their life and why are they are in

the situation of they're in this need

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and they're unable to find services.

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It's usually, for some reason I lost

my job and now I'm about to be evicted.

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The utilities are getting turned off.

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My wife maybe needs medical healthcare

and I don't have insurance anymore and

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I can't get her to the bathtub or what.

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It's usually very sad stories, and

I'm standing there with a can of tuna.

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Yeah, that doesn't feel helpful.

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Wendy Kidd: Yeah.

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Kim Sanchez: And so I feel like what these

people have told me over and over again

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is I'm looking for some human interaction

and I'm looking for somebody to hold my

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hand and help me through this process.

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What we do in McKinney currently is we

have a list and we'll give you a list of

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here's a whole bunch of people you can go

contact and call and tell you, tell them

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your story and see if they can help you.

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And here's all the resources we have.

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Which at least it's on a piece

of paper and that's helpful.

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But what we're saying is I want you to

tell your story 50, 60, 70 times and hope

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that maybe three or four can help you out.

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And it's very kind of inhumane.

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It's not very dignified.

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It doesn't feel kind.

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And in my opinion, my aunt was

Jamie Cap is Jamie Caperton and

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she's the founder for Collin

County Children's Advocacy Center.

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And so I felt like that model, wrapping

that idea around what's the problem that

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I'm seeing at the pantry was the perfect

solution, which is let's have a one stop

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shop with advocacy wrapped around it.

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Let's have it where somebody can walk

in the door, tell their story one

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time to somebody they can get all the

information and get all the facts.

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And what they do is advocacy.

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They don't do anything else.

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They don't do housing, they don't do

counseling, they don't do food, they

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don't do any other kind of assistance.

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They do advocacy, and what

they do is their job is to

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know about in Collin County.

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What are all the different

agencies and what do they do

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and what are their requirements?

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And then they can help that person narrow

down, Hey, of these 70, you really only

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qualify for maybe for these five, let

me help you fill out some applications

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and let's make some calls together

and let's see where we can get you in.

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And then maybe even a follow

up call of, Hey, did that help?

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Are you getting what you need?

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Have we gotten to the next step?

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And that's what I mean by advocacy is just

more of that human to human interaction.

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I tell people all the time, social

services to McKinney is like when

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I call Verizon and I'm like, Hey,

I've got a question on my bill.

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I need to talk to somebody.

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And they're like, no problem.

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Let me transfer you to

the business department.

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And then they transferred me

to the business department.

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I wait for 20 minutes,

somebody picks up the phone.

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I have to tell my story, my question

all over again of, Hey, I've got

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a question on my bill and I need

somebody to answer my question.

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And they say, oh, we're not,

we are the North American.

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You need this it more in the Texas region.

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Yeah.

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And so now they're gonna transfer

me to, by the third or fourth

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time they transfer me to down.

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I'm frustrated down.

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Yeah.

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It's a be down.

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That's what getting social

services and McKinney feels like.

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And

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that's what we're trying to work on.

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I think that there's a lot of people

with really great hearts that everybody

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has a little bit different idea or

a different spin on it or whatever.

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And I think everybody just wants to help.

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But in my opinion, this is

the best way to go about it.

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And I've been able to put some real

players at the table that can really

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make a big impact here in our community.

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And I think that's really exciting.

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And that's Collin County NeighborHUB,

Collin County NeighborHUB At McKinney.

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At McKinney, yes.

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Gotta say that.

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'cause MCD C's helping me

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on this.

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Wendy Kidd: I love it.

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I love it.

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I think it's a fabulous concept because.

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It's customer service 1 0 1, right?

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And these are humans.

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Yep.

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Just like you said, and we recognize how

much of a beat down it is for children

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to tell their story over and over.

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We need to recognize the trauma

that happens for adults when

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they're doing that as well.

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Yeah.

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And I think it's.

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I think what you're doing is amazing.

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That's why I had you on the show.

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'cause I'm loving that.

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Thank you.

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Of course I love the little free

pantries 'cause they're just cute.

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Kim Sanchez: Thank you.

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I just think it's so hard for

any human being to come to the

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table over and say, I'm a failure.

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I have failed myself.

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I have failed my family.

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Let me tell you all the ways I've failed.

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Yeah.

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Over and over.

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Which we know, and half the time

it's not their failure, it's a

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failure of the way our systems work.

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So and so

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many people are one paycheck away.

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Yeah.

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From

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being in a rough spot.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So is Collin County NeighborHub

actually in effect right now,

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or are you still building that?

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So where we are currently is that I'm

going, I'm actually going back to MCDC

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within hopefully the next 30 to 45 days.

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We have a grant currently, we

were awarded almost $520,000 in

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order to pay for infrastructure.

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So that's the stuff on

the ground and below.

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Not the building itself.

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And that was on a half acre for

a 10,000 square foot facility.

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We were able, with MCDC's support to

leverage that, and we were able to go and

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work with a group called Grace Presbytery,

which is, I call it a Diocese of the

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Presbyterian churches in this area.

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And they are the one who actually

owns First Presby in the land

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to the north of First Presby.

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And we are able to work with them because

they are very excited about what we're

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doing and they wanna be a part of it.

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And we've been able to work with

them to get a land contract on the

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property to the north of First Presby.

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So we're currently in contract with them.

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And there is a church that currently

worships inside First Presby called.

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Grace Community, Grace House

Community Church Pastor Gwen

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Lau, she is an amazing prayer.

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If you ever need a

prayer, she's your person.

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She's amazing.

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Good to know.

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Yes.

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So Pastor Gwen Lau is there and their

church is an outreach church and so they

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are very pumped about the NeighborHUB

and wanting to be part of this.

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I call it a movement.

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Be part of this movement as

well as Christ Presbytery.

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Then there is a clinic

that's over at, and I always.

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Get this name wrong, but it's the

hospital Medical City McKinney,

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the one right here at 121 and 75.

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Wendy Kidd: Oh, okay.

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The big medical, Medical City complex

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Kim Sanchez: over there.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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That one.

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So there is a free family health

clinic inside that complex.

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Oh, I didn't know that.

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Okay.

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And it's been around for a long time.

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There's two that are free in McKinney.

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Common Good and them.

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Yes.

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And then you have the one across the

street from the first Presbytery Church,

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which is a sliding scale clinic, right?

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So this is a free clinic, but what I

didn't know and I found out is that

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clinic is now managed, controlled,

owned by Catholic Charities of Dallas,

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and they needed new rent space.

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And I know they've been looking in

McKinney to put a new resource center,

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a, a new facility, a Catholic Charities

facility here because they're in Dallas

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and they serve all the way up to Oklahoma.

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So McKinney's, the natural middle point.

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So they've been looking for

a while to put a center here.

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So when I met with them, I told them

my job is to be the scaffolding.

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I'm not a social worker.

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I'm not.

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This is not what I do for a living.

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But you gotta ask yourself

like, these are the gifts and

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the talents that God gave me.

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Why are these the gifts

and talents that I have?

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Like how do I get to go to heaven

making rich people richer, right?

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That doesn't feel very holy.

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So God, why is this what I'm doing?

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And my answer to that, or what I

have, what I believe is that God's

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plan for me is that I am to help

people like the resource center, the

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NeighborHUB I am, to help them build

facilities for people to do the,

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for people to do God's work, right?

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Yeah.

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For people to do the work that

God has for us intended so.

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Catholic Charities of Dallas.

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I'm not supposed to, I'm not gonna

be the ultimate owner of this thing.

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I'm not gonna be the one who runs it

and manages it and does all the things.

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I will be onto my next projects.

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By the time that happens,

I'm the scaffolding.

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My job is to get this

project up and going.

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I'm to get it through the politics, the

planning and zoning, the engineering

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to get it financed, to get it built.

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And then my job is to give the keys

away to Catholic Charities of Dallas and

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walk away and let them run this thing.

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And that's what's happening.

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They already own lots

of facilities like St.

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Jude.

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They have a number of facilities,

so they're already asset managers.

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They're already in this business

and they know what they're doing.

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They have the contracts.

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They have the resume.

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And even better for everybody

involved, they can handle the

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financial burden of this facility.

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Sure.

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So they are the, they're the

rightful ones to do this.

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Yeah.

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So I'm working in partnership

with Catholic Charities of Dallas.

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They're financing and they've already

raised the monies for the building.

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So they will pay for the building.

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Wendy Kidd: So that's happening.

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So that's building's happening.

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Love it.

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Kim Sanchez: So we go

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to MCDC and the next 45 ish days.

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30, 30 to 45 ish days.

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And then we are currently

in the zoning process.

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And that'll probably happen more

towards the end of this year.

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Okay.

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And then we will go through

engineering and architecture,

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get the permits and plats.

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And I hope to be turning dirt in 2026.

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Wendy Kidd: Love it.

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Love it.

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Yeah.

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So a lot of work to do.

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Yes.

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But thank you for doing that work.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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I'm trying to do my part.

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I think you're doing good.

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Thanks.

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What's your favorite

part about what you do?

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Because you do so many things.

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What?

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What's one of the fun things

you get to do on a daily basis?

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Or what's your favorite thing?

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Kim Sanchez: I think for me is

when I see somebody who gets the

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need, the help that they need.

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That's so exciting for me.

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I have a lady that I know.

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That just got a job.

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She was homeless and she was living in

her car and she just got a apartment

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through Housing Forward and Trinity

Presbyterian Church wrapped their arms

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of love around her and furnished her

entire apartment and got her up and going.

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But she was still struggling

with finding employment.

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And it just wasn't working out.

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So she recently found a job and

she's been doing great at it.

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And I saw her the other day, and

she's a little older than me.

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But she was so excited and it brought

me to tears 'cause she brought her

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first comforter in her whole life.

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'cause she told me, a comforter.

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Yeah, it's not necessary.

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She said You can sleep with a blanket,

but a comforter is really nice.

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And so like it was dignified, right?

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She got a job, she earned her own money.

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She's put enough money in the bank

now that she feels some amount of

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comfort that she can make her bills.

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And she was able to go

and buy a comforter.

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That's cool.

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That was great.

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That feels good, right?

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Yeah, that was a happy day for me.

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Wendy Kidd: I love that.

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I love that.

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What do you wish people understood

about your organization or

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the people that you serve?

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Kim Sanchez: I wish people understood that

the NeighborHUB is not a homeless center.

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We have a homeless

problem in Collin County.

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We have a homeless problem

in McKinney, and I am glad to

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talk about that all day long.

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But the NeighborHUB is

not a homeless shelter.

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It's not a homeless day center.

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There's no homeless services.

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It is a social services advocacy center.

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Sure.

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It is for anybody and everybody

who needs social services.

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I at one point wanted to have

certain, services in the facility

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like showers or commercial laundry,

but understanding the neighbors and

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what the neighbors wanted, that was

really not what the neighbors wanted.

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And so I just want people to understand

that because people wanna talk to me

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about homelessness a lot, and this

has nothing to do with homelessness.

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Now we can talk about homelessness.

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Homelessness exists in McKinney

for a number of reasons.

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The county jail being a great source,

we have Life Path Systems, which is

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our mental health facility caregivers

by the county, and all of that brings

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homelessness right into McKinney.

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So

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Wendy Kidd: being the county seat

makes us the home for a lot of things,

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including the problems of the county.

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Kim Sanchez: So if people

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are in camping or if people are

trespassing and get arrested.

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They come to McKinney.

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Yeah.

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It's just the way it is.

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And we don't have any

services for homelessness.

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There, there's nowhere to take

someone who's homeless other than

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Life Path Systems or the jail.

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And

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Wendy Kidd: And that's

a whole nother podcast.

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'cause we could sit here and talk about

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the solutions

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we need for that.

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True.

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Kim Sanchez: And it is

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so hard.

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So I would tell you the

NeighborHUB, what I tell people is.

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The NeighborHUB is a space for us to try

to avoid homelessness, to try to help

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people before they fall into homelessness.

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Yeah.

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It's homelessness prevention.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Wendy Kidd: Which is what is needed.

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Super.

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What do you wish people understood

more about nonprofits in general?

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Kim Sanchez: It is hard business,

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really hard business.

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We, there's not a lot of resources, man.

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There's not a lot of money for it and it's

hard, and we're all fighting for dollars.

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In order to pay people and to

pay people is really expensive.

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You know what else is

really expensive is rent.

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Rent is really expensive.

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And that's one of the great things

about the NeighborHUB is that we're

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trying to offer rent at $15 triple net.

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And that's gonna be no property taxes.

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'cause it'll be owned by

Catholic Charities of Dallas.

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Wendy Kidd: Yeah.

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Kim Sanchez: $15.

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That's not even today what you can get

in the industrial district in McKinney.

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Wendy Kidd: No, you can't

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get that anywhere.

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Kim Sanchez: It's really great

rental opportunities for 5

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0 1 C3 to try to help 'em.

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But I will tell you, the people who

are in the social services in this

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community, God bless them, they

work so hard for so little pay.

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It is all about their hearts.

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That is true.

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Have they have a big

crown of jewels in heaven?

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Wendy Kidd: That's why we are

spotlighting them here on The NonProfit.

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Amen.

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Because I want people to understand

how many community champions we have

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that are out there doing this work.

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Day to day, it is so hard.

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And everybody knows them in the nonprofit

sector, but I want everybody to know

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about them, and I want everybody to know

about what's going on in our community.

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Kim Sanchez: And we got some

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amazing people in

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this community.

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Wendy Kidd: We really do.

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We really do.

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I'm gonna have podcasts for years.

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You'll, this could be really easy.

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So how can others get involved

with either neighborhood or with

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McKinney Little Free Pantry?

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Kim Sanchez: So with the NeighborHUB we

have social media, we have a website,

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same with the McKinney Little Free

Pantry of social media and website.

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With the pantry, we are looking

currently for managers to help me.

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That's a three hour shift.

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Once a week.

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I have a number of three

hour shifts available.

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That would be super helpful.

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These are my, my core key volunteers.

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If you're a lady that likes to

play Mahjong, we're about to

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start playing, having after hour

mahjong for the core of volunteers.

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Wendy Kidd: I need to

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learn Mahjong, that's for sure.

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I've wanted to learn it

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so bad.

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Kim Sanchez: Anyways but, so

I'm definitely looking for some

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key volunteers that are really

wanting to make a big difference.

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And if you've got three hours, if you've

got one hour we have a volunteer page.

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We're all over the internet.

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You can find me.

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Contact me, we'll hook you up.

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Wendy Kidd: What's your

main website address?

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Kim Sanchez: So you can go

to www.thesanchezgroup.biz.

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That's for all of my businesses.

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The pantry is www.mckinneylfp.org

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and the NeighborHUB is

ccneighborhubmck.org.

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I believe We will make

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sure to list all of those in the show

notes so everyone can go check them out.

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Yes.

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The NeighborHUB one I might be a little

shaky on 'cause that's a new one.

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Wendy Kidd: We'll double check that.

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We'll make sure that's

correct in the show notes.

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Not a problem.

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Perfect.

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Ms.

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Kim, thank you so much for

coming and hanging out with me

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today and telling me thanks for

having me all about this project.

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I'm so excited about NeighborHUB.

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I just can't wait to

see it come to fruition.

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Thank you.

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And I love the work that you do with

the little Free pantry and all the other

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things that you do, so thank you so

much for coming in on the show today.

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Kim Sanchez: Absolutely.

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Thanks

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for

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having me.

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Wendy Kidd: All right.

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