June 11, 2025 • 42 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, and welcome to the Roy West Radio Show on
AM five sixty klv I. I am your guest host,
Debbie Bridgeman, and we have a packed show for today.
We'll be talking to Alicia Bean with the Lula Foundation,
so we'll find out a little bit about what they
have going on. Also, we'll talk with Andy McCall. He's
over at the Letcher Theater and they have a packed
(00:23):
fall and spring with tons of performances coming up. And
also Kayla White, she's the executive director with the Southeast
Texas Nonprofit Development Center and she'll tell you a little
bit about what they got going on and some upcoming events.
So a full show, but we are kicking it off today.
We're talking nature, We're talking the outdoors, We're talking fun.
Rebecca Woodland is joining us. Good morning, Hi, how are
(00:47):
you doing good? So you are the Nature Center manager
at the Terrell Park Nature and Visitor Center. So for
anybody that doesn't know what you got going on, I
know you guys have been open for now two years.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, we renovated it right after COVID and we opened
up in May of nineteen twenty nineteen twenty two, twenty
twenty two. The building has a historic and was built
during the late thirties by the Sabine Conservation Corps. So
we've salvaged the historic building, done an adaptive reuse, and
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we have exhibits, We have craft stations that are all
nature based learned by doing activities, as well as a
little historic exhibit here in one of our wings. And
then our gift shop is here. And so first when
I walked in in May of twenty twenty two, which
is me and the building, and we slowly added the
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exhibits and craft stations or what I call discovery stations
because they rotate based upon what topics we're doing. And
there'll be some sort of science experiments, some sort of craft,
some sort of coloring station, make and take, and I
rotate that around. So if you come quarterly, there should
(02:07):
be something different than what you saw three months earlier
or so well.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I had the pleasure of being there and getting to
see everything that you have going on. It is very clean,
it's very nice, and you do have a very big
space to have many kids come in and do the
arts and crafts and stuff like that. So I know
that you have your Saturday Nature Explorers going on now.
It is the fifteenth, So coming up next weekend June
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twenty first, you've got something going.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
On, that's right, and I do those sort of quarterly.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I've adjust it based upon what else is going on
and that kind of thing. And I chose the June
twenty first because the summer solstice is actually that Friday,
which is the longest summer actually begins. It's the longest
day of the year. Since we're doing that Saturday morning
from ten to one. Everything we're going to have to
do is related to seasons, sun, weather, that kind.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Of thing, and we're gonna make sun dials.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
The kids are going to make sun dials and then
we'll go outside if it's.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Not raining and see if they work.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
If they're if it's raining, they can take them home
and wait for a sunny day. We'll also have a
solar eclipse chart activity because even though it's not a
solar eclipse, those things come and go, and so we'll
have a station to kind of talk about the solar eclipse.
And then uh, we're doing a season's art craft where
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they get to draw and color in a tree and
they do you know, winter, spring, summer, fall kind of activity,
and uh, we have story time to talk about summer
Solstice and why it's the longest day of the year
and that kind of thing. So that's most families. It's
a come and go u You do not have to register.
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Most families take about forty five minutes to an hour.
I have volunteers that sort of self paced, and I
do story time, so you know, don't come and think
you're going to run through it in ten minutes. You
want everybody to have time. And I will say that
the Young Kids is designed predominantly for elementary, but all
ages are welcome, and sometimes even the adult grandparents or
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chaperones or parents they want to color and do a
craft too. That's perfectly okay, but come earlier so you
have plenty of time.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
And we wrote they.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Don't have to be done in any particular order, so as
people come in, we kind of rote them around so
it's you don't feel like it's a rushed experience and
you're all crowded around one table all at the same time,
so we kind of move them throughout the building and
then make intake. So that will be the next one
coming up next week in June twenty first, from ten
am to one come earlier so you have plenty of
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time to do all the experiments and activities.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Nice and so then you guys also have some something
coming up in August that's going to be in the
evening times.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
We tried that last year and partnered up with the
National Park the Big Thicket because they have the telescopes
and I will say Ranger Scott and his cohorts rangers.
He is an astronomical genius and it was so successful
that we redid it again this year.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
We've actually picked.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Dates that we could see some cool things in the sky.
So the August fifteenth, that's the Friday evening seven thirty
to ten. It will get dust, so we'll get to
see a setting sun and then we'll get to see
the Mars will be lowering and Saturn will be rising,
so if you come for the whole thing, you'll get
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to see both of them.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
They'll throw the scopes up to that inside.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Besides partnering with the National Park the Big Thicket, we
partnered with the state park with the Village Creek State Park,
and Ranger Alex is coming and he's another planetarium astronomical
goo and he'll have his scopes up and the scopes
will be outside in the front parking lot, so the
visitors will need.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
To park on the side of our building. There's a
side parking lot.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Bring their own lawn chairs, picnic blankets, whatever, bring your
bone bug spray, and then all the scopes will be outside.
L T has a scope, so they're coming and so
they'll get to look at that. Then inside we partnered
with the Beaumont Shildren's Museum and they're in one of
our exhibit wings. They'll have more space, technology, crafts and activities.
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And then we've also partnered again with the Texas Master
Naturalists to talk about night pollinators and they have an
insect rubbing and.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Things like that.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But the cool thing is in our back courtyard.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
They once the dust comes down, they.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Will have set up pre set up, but it looks
like you're hanging your sheets to wash, you know, drying
out in the lines. But they've got frames that they
set up white sheets and then put on low blue
lights and for whatever reason and Master Nationals will be
able to explain that in much better detail to you.
The bugs are attracted in land to onto the white
sheets and so you can get up close with a
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magnifying glass and take a picture and they don't fly around.
You know, usually we see bugs flying around the night lights,
you know, at your back door, but they never land. Well,
they'll land on the sheets. And then last year we
saw a ghost them off and some sort of stained
glass butterfly looking the night thing. And they have a
chart that will help you identify all of that, the crickets, everything.
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And because we have new pollinator gardens that have been
planted this spring, we are expecting more of those pollinator
night pollinators, and so there will be lots of indoor
outdoor activity. Our gift shop will also be opened, so
we don't take cash, but plastic debit or credit and
so h So that's what we encourage. Bring your lawnchair
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so you can sit outside, Bring some you know water,
you know, if you want a water bottle or something
like that, and then you can look at scopes. And
some people come for just part of it, some people
stay for the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
If it's.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You know, if it's cloudy, we'll still do it. It's
just you can't see through the scopes outside. But we
still set up the scopes because it's interesting to see
how the scopes work and what you can see and
dress for the weather. Now, if it's flash flood, thunderstorm,
you know that stuff will cancel at the last minute.
But because we have indoor activities as well, UH, we
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try very hard not to cancel it, even if the
clouds are blocking some of the planets and stars. But
we're we're praying for good weather by August.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Well, and you mentioned the pollinator gardens, and I know
that was a joint project with the Rotary Club of
Beaumont and also Spindletop Rotary Club. How is that going.
I actually was out at cattel Marsh last weekend and
drove by and I can see there's a lot of
growth going on in those gardens.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So in addition to that, we do the Nature Explores
on the weekends.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
UH.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I do programming that is available to homeschool.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Groups, to UH school groups UH for the from the
any school district BIS DVID or Hampshire for NET whatever.
You just have to call me in advance because I'm
the one woman's shop over here. I do education programming.
I do guiding tours of the and talk about the
historic building and the Sabine Conservation Corps during the Great Depression,
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So you get a little American history and architectural history.
But I also have some preset programs. I have a
program that I.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Do on owls.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I have a program about birds, structure to sculpture. I
have a bear program that has an interactive activity game.
They're all all these presentations. It's interactive. There's some sort
of worksheet or art project or craft activity or a
game that's related to the activity. And I try to
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teach to all the learning styles. So there's audio, there's visual,
and there's kinetic learning going on and in the group
could come here and I can set up and we
can do a group thirty is my maximum.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Or I can go off.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Site and go to the schools or to a church
group or whatever and do those kind of things. You
just have to call me in advance, and the sooner
you call, the better. So this fall is a good
time to call for spring or vice versa.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
And I have.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Homeschool groups that periodically will schedule their homeschool group and
do different programs. So we're doing trying to reach out.
Most everything I'm doing is elementary, and then most of
my pros can graduate up.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
They have components that.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Are more in depth or more math or statistics if
you're trying to figure out how many bears can the
forest support. I'm not doing the toddlers per se, of course,
on my Saturday Nature Explorers, it's families of all ages,
but I try to be very transparent so that the
expectation of the level that we're teaching, even with homeschool groups,
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you know, it's the six seven year old's, first second
graders on up, you know, the little toddlers and the babies.
Our sister facility, cattel Marsh does a monthly Marsh Minions
for that group. And since we're in the same you know,
our focus is wetlands, birds and pollinators. We're doing the
same topics, but I try not to repeat any of that.
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And in addition, we opened up in May our new
poster exhibition from the Smithsonian. It's called Pollination Investigation. You
can see a little bit of that behind me. It
talks about who where, why, what is pollination?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
What is pollinators?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Why they're in poor and we wouldn't have food if
we didn't have pollinators. It's really when you think about it,
you think, oh, they're just pollinating the flowers, and you
think of bees and honey because we're a b city.
But actually, if you look at the full list, most
of the things that we eat that are nutritious and natural,
you know, bread, avocados, grapes, you know, they all require pollinators.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
All right, well we are out of time, Rebecca, thank
you so much for being part of the show, and
we'll make sure that we check out the big event
coming up June twenty. First, they're at the Terrell Park Nature.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
And cool and so go to our Facebook page.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
All right, thank you so much. We'll be right back
with the Roy West Radio Show on AM five sixty
klv I. And we're back with the Roy West Radio
Show on AM five sixty klv I. I am your
guest host, Debbie Bridgeman, and our next guest is the
director of Operations for the Lula Foundation. Please welcome, Alicia Bean.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Hey, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So, I guess the biggest question right now people are like,
what is the Lula Foundation? So tell us a little
bit about your role in about the foundation.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Okay, we are a nonprofit in Southeast Texas. We are
a newer non profit, so people are still learning about
us and we're just getting the word out that we
are here. Ready to serve our community. And our mission
is to promote safe and love and homes for children
through family recovery and refocus on substitutes and domestic violence,
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bridging the gap between the two. A lot of times
they come hand in hand, and so that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Okay. So you know, there are several foundations that kind
of do the same thing that you do. So what
makes Lula Foundation different?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
We are different because we use a peer model with
lived experience. We work alongside families with our recovery support
peer specialists. They have been through what other families are
going through and so they're able to have that hope.
But that says, you know, they've they've been here before
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and they are, you know, here to show families the
way out. And we focus on long term recovery, not
short term solutions. To where other organizations may have a
three month to cut off or six month cut off,
we ask people to stay with us a year to
eighteen months, even after they navigate their CPS case and
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their children come home. It takes one unpaid bill or
you know, one bad situation for that family for them
to spiral, and so we are prepared to stay with
them for a very long term, and we collaborate with courts, cps,
we go into the jails, we have local partners and
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just bridging the gap between organizations and so we have
a lot of really great things here, but maybe not
all of us are connected. And that's where LULA comes in,
not just serving families, serve in the community, but serve
in the other resources that we have here.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
So when a family, do you get a call from
somebody or a reference that somebody needs help, or do
they reach out to you or a little bit of both.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
It is a little bit of both. But we are
a person centered program and so we do get referrals
and we always tell them the same thing. Go to
our website it's Lulafoundation dot org and there's an application
and we will return a call. We'll call them back
within forty eight hours of filling out that application. But
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that is saying tell them. They tell us what their
goals are, what they're going through, and so it is
their choice whether they want to apply and start services
with us.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Okay, So of course, if you're helping so many people,
you need funds. So what do you guys do for
fundraising or do you have any events that are coming up.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
We do have a fundraiser coming up. Actually, one of
the great things about LULA is we don't have government grants,
so we don't have a lot of red tape that
we have to navigate. There's so many rules that come
along with grants, and so we are ran off of
fundraisers and donations. And we have our main fundraiser coming up.
(16:26):
It's called Sweet Summer Nights. It's going to be August
twenty eighth. We're going to have a mix and mingle
with authors, local authors from five to six showing the
really great things and people that come out of Southeast Texas.
And all proceeds will directly support local families in crisis.
(16:46):
And so you can found out more also on our
website more about events, I'm sorry, more about the events,
the time, and what our needs are. We're really looking
for auction items right now, sponsorships, and we can only
help people while we have the funds to do that,
So we really want to welcome the community to help
us with that.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
That's excellent. So Lula Foundation dot org is the website.
You know, besides the community supporting the event or maybe
even donating, do you have volunteers or this something, you know,
certain kinds of training and stuff like that for the
people that you guys are helping.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Oh, we have. Every one of our case managers are volunteers.
They are recovery support peer specialists. They are all state certified.
They go through the training, then they do it internship
and that allows them to not not just come to
LULA with their lived experience, but know how to use
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that experience to benefit other people. They already have their
own skill set, their own strengths, their own fights, they've
fought for their families, they've you know, fought to recover,
and then in the state certification training shows them how
to use that experience to turn around and help other people.
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And so it's a go ahead.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
No, I'm just gonna say, so, is there like if
somebody wants to get more involved, is there a training
or something that the people need to go through to
be able to help out.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
There's several trainings throughout the state. There's one of the
Willie Carter Center right now in Port author and LULA
Foundation just became a training entity as well with the
State of Texas and so we will start doing those
trainings also. And so not just for our case managers,
but other people out in the community that wants to
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use their own lived experience to help other people too.
There's recovery support, peer specialists and treatment centers and courts.
In Houston. There is even peer specialists in their hospitals
and their ambulance services, and so we're really hoping to
grow that community here.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
So so tell me, Alicia, like, how did you get
involved with LULA Foundation? And you know what, does it
have a special place in your heart?
Speaker 4 (19:08):
It absolutely does. I knew one of our board of
directors and I worked with him before at previous agencies,
and and he just knew I just really have a
heart for parents navigating the CPS system, and so he
told me about LULA and he just kind of connected us.
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And as soon, I mean during the first interview, the
very first time I found out about it, is like,
that is exactly where I belong. Everybody has just the
biggest hearts, the biggest goals, and I am just so
grateful to get to be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So you guys, so there's you and you have a
board and then you have your volunteers. Is there anybody
else that's involved with LULA.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
That's it. We have have an IT volunteer that pretty
much just are our case managers. We do have a
couple of people who are going into Jasper County Jail.
We call it inside out Recovery Initiative, and so not
just waiting people till they get out of jail to
try and to connect with them, going to where they are,
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let them know where recovery is when they get out.
And so those people are recovery advocates. They haven't made
it to the training yet to become recovery Support peer specialists,
but they will be in the next class.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
All right, sounds good. So what else do people need
to know about LULA Foundation. Do you have any big
success stories?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Well, it's so many to try to just give you one. LULA.
We are in so many different places. We are not
just we have families who are navigating domestic violence situations
that wanted to that we were able to help get
a plan of safety and the finances they need to
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get out, and then the long term support from substance hues.
When people go to treatment, then they're able to come
to LULA after And so by the time people come
to us, the majority of the time they've already have
they're already connected to another and another agency, and those
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services end, and so that's where we pick up. So
if you know about anything about Jold Protective Services, they
navigate their CPS case and they get their kids home
and every service ends, and then we we come in
to say, you know, you're not alone. We're here at
helping them navigate having their kids home now healthy parenting,
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you know, while they're in recovery. And we just we
love our parents so much, We love our families so much,
and the fact that we are able to stay with
them so long term, they are just all family. And
our success rate since I have been with Lula is really.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Amazing, fantastic. Well, we've got about thirty seconds left. Once again,
tell us the website and tell us about the event
August twenty eighth.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
It is Lulafoundation dot org. Please if you follow us
on Facebook, Instagram, you can find out more about the
event Sweet Summer Nights, all from our website. And then
if you want to volunteer donate, there's a section where
you can just reach out to us if you have
any questions. And so again, we are here not just
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to serve families, but to serve our community and if
there's any way that we can help, please reach out
to us.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
All right, Alicia Ban, thank you so much for being
a part of the show.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Sam, thank you for having us.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
And we'll be right back with the Roy West Radio
Show on AM five sixty KLVI. And we're back with
the Roy West Radio Show on AM five sixty klv I.
I am your guest host, Debbie Bridgeman, and now we're
headed on over to the Lecher Theater. We got to
see what's going on. Andy McCall is joining us.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Hey, Andy, Hi, Debbie, thank you so much for having
me auditorium.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I see that, I see that never a dull time
at the Letcher Theater.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And I know you.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Guys have a packed fall and spring on the way,
so give us.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
The scoop, all right, Yes, I'll be happy to That's
our forty six season coming up. We just wrapped up
our forty fifth season and it was a huge hit
and we are ready to roll with our forty sixth.
We're in the process of renewing our season ticket holders
right now and then pretty soon thos will be going
on sale to the public. And then if your season
tickets aren't your thing, you can definitely join in on
the single tickets when they go on sale later this summer,
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and man, it's gonna be a great season. We kick
things off in the fall with Kevin Spencer. He's the
magic of Kevin Spencer. He's he's he's a magician who
actually used to tour around and do huge, big magic
shows like David Copperfield, but then he realized his calling
was more specifically, uh since ory inclusive magic shows and
so it's not the big, flashy magic shows that you expect.
(23:58):
This is a very simple it's audience participation, yes, but
it's focused. It's tailored to families with children with a
century inclusive like autism and things like that, and it's
just a sweet, really neat show. And he goes all
over the country and does that when he's not building
wells you gone and doing other incredible things all across
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the world. So we're honored to have him back. We
had him last year and we're honored to have him
back again. In mid October, and then we continued our
big performing art series. Actually kicks off with the Adams
Family Musical, which I'm really excited about because I remember
seeing that here.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Much good timing is good because Wednesday, season two is
going to be coming out.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
So that's.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
That's a great show.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
And there's there's it's not any the storylines not I mean,
it's the same family obviously, but it's not connected to
the Netflix show and the fact that it's like continuation
or anything in this show. I saw it here in
twenty thirteen and I expect to be fun can't be
like the TV show, And I knew it was going
to be funny, but man, I came here and I
was blown away.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
The show is amazing.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
The ensemble really carries the show because the dancing and
everything is just fascinating. It's basically follows Wenesday as a teenager,
like the Netflix show does too, but in this show,
she brings home a boyfriend and his parents to meet
her family, and of course his family is he and
his family are completely normal, and so at the hilarity
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ensues that you would expect us as they meet the
characters of the family and you know, the crazy, wacky
Kookie family that we all love. And that's in October.
And it's also good timing because it's right for Halloween, right,
so that'll kick off our official Broadway our performing Arts series.
And after that we have Brothers of the Heart, which
is they're a group of they're a quartet of guys
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that they're really known in the gospel country, bluegrass world,
the Gaither Homecoming tours and that kind of thing. Is
Jimmy Fortune, who was spent many years singing and writing
for the Statler Brothers, Bradley Walker, Ben Isaacs, who he
and his Isaac's family are you know, big in the
in the gospel world. And Mike Rogers who performed with
Fifty Skags for many years in his band, and they
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just have some of the best harmonies you'll ever hear.
And that's coming up in late October as well, October
twenty eighth. And then you can kick off your holiday
season here with one of my favorite musicals. And it's
actually early in the tour, so it's gonna be right
before Thanksgiving. It's a Christmas story, and I don't have
to say much about that one because everybody knows that story.
But yes, it's got the leg lamp, the pink pajamas,
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everything that you expect in the movie.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
It's very nostalgic and it's.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Fun and I'm gonna tell you the leg Lamp song
is a big number and it's a lot of fun.
They do a kick line with leg lamps, so it's
it's very creative and fun. And then and then December
we have Tina, the Tina Turner Musical. Now, this is
one of my favorite shows I've gotten to see. I
saw this in Houston a couple of seasons ago and
it was amazing. You're gonna be just you're gonna remind
(26:52):
yourself this is not real Teena Turner, but it's her
life story and it tells the story of her all
her obstacles that she had to overcome to become the
queen and to eventually become the Queen of.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Rock and roll.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
And it's a powerful, powerful, emotional show that's gonna be
really amazing. And that's in early December. And then Christmas
season wraps up around here with the Grand Old Christmas Show,
which is kind of a variety show type thing. It's
played like a radio show at the Grand Ole Opry,
and you're gonna hear all your favorite Christmas hits in that.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
And then we come back after the New Year with
what's right after.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
The New Year it's gonna be January, which is Mark
Oh Richard Thomas and Mark Twain Tonight. We of course
know him as John Boy and he's been in a
number of things recently Ozark for one thing, and he's
toured in other shows. Now this show Mark Twain Tonight.
It was initially done for decades by Hal Holbrook. It's
a one man play and it's basically he's Mark Twain
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doing dramatic interpretation of some of his best literary literary writings,
focusing mainly on the comical ones. So it's a great
one man play. Right after the New Year's on January,
and then we have one of our Lutcher and Light
Emerging Artists series, which is The Imagineers their Americana husband
wife duo. They do Americana music. And then uh, February.
(28:08):
I'm excited about this one. This was a late addition
to our season because we were waiting to nail this
one down. Jane Lynch and Kate flannering, uh you know
TV stars.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
They it's part comedy, part cabaret style. They sing a
lot of Broadway hits they called the show is called
The Trouble with Angels. It's gonna be a fun evening
with those two crazy, hilarious women. And that's in mid February.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
And then let's see Missus Fire, Missus Doubtfire. That's gonna
be That.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Show is actually supposed today be right around broad right
around the pandemic when everything shut Broadway down, and and
then it came back right after the pandemic and so
and it's a huge hit. And and I think it's
gonna make Robin Williams proud because it looks like a
lot of fun. I'm excited about that show. And then
March Step Africa. Now this blends African dancing, African step
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step dancing and stepping and everything. And uh, I remember
seeing a lot of fraternities and sororities doing this when
I was in college in the nineties when this was
first coming out in the mid nineties. And it's gonna
be a lot of fun and to get cultural experience there.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
That's in March.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
And then April, well, we have our second Luxury and
Light series, which is the Barefoot Movement. They're bluegrass, Americana
bluesy and yes they do sing blue they do do
perform barefoot and yeah, that's a very a very unique
sound to them.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
That'll be in April, mid April, and at the end
of April. This is a show that was very popular
when it's here a number of years ago. It's Kinky Boots.
I think it won like six Tony Kinky Boots. Yeah,
Kinky Boots. It's won six Tony Awards.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
This is a show about a couple of guys that
just figure out that you know, they're not there. You know,
two people who are different can can get along great.
And it's it's a it's a has a great message
and some great music. And that's in late April. And
then oh, here's another show I'm really excited about for
a couple of different reasons.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
One it's just a fun show.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
And two we get it right before it goes to Houston,
and so you get a chance to see it here
before it even goes to some.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
Of the big cities. It's clue, everybody's favorite who done it?
Speaker 5 (30:18):
And this is not a musical, this is a play,
and so this will be fun on stage here. This
is in mid May, and it's coming here about right
at a month before it goes to Houston. And we
like to say we were Houston without the hassle. You know,
our parking is free, our tickets are much more affordable.
It's the it's going to be the same cast going
from here to Houston, so might as well catch it
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here while you can't.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
You don't have to spend the gas money to go
to Houston and just just catch it here right in
her own backyard here.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
And then we and also in April we have oh
I right before Clue I did Barefoot right, So we
end our season in June. But the music Man, the
classical music Man, and this is going to be right
around the The big uh It's gonna be.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Me in junis right before the fourth of July.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
I think it's a big anniversary for our country to
two hundred and fiftieth or something like that, So it's
gonna be a big patriotic time to come see the
music Man.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
We Can't, which is always a fun show. I got
to see this one on Broadway with Hugh Jackman.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
And it was very in Sutton Foster and it was
the closing night show and so it was a big
party and it was unlike any experience I've ever had
in the theater. And it's not that cast, unfortunately, it's
not them coming, but it's still a great, classic, fun
show with some very memorable music. And so that's that's
our season. And you can find out more information on
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our season at Luxure dot org. And you can join
our waitlist right now at on the website to be
get the first crack at signing up for season tickets
if that interests you nice.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Well, you guys have an amazing schedule and with Clue
and Missus, Doubtfire and the Magic Man like, there's there's
too many to w from. So I guess it's we
just need to be season ticket holders.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
That's just weird. We got something for everybody.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
We've got the family shows, we got the shows that
are about famous people like Tina.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
We got something for everybody in this season for sure.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Fantastic. Well, once again, what's the website.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
It's Leucher dot org and the Lectri Theater for the
Performing Arts right here where you're home for Broadway, right
here in Southeast Texas.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Love it, Andy, Thank you so much for being a
part of the show.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
My pleasure. Debbie, thank you so much. It's great talking
to you again.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
You too. We'll be right back with the Roy West
Radio Show on AM five sixty klv I and we're
back with the Roy West Radio Show on AM five
sixty klv I. I am your guest host Debbie Bridgeman,
and now we are going over to the Southeast Texas
Nonprofit Development Center talking with the executive director, Kleb White.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
Welcome to the show, Hey, Debbie, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
So the Nonprofit Development Center is such a great resource
and tool for this area, and there's still some people
that don't know about it. So tell us a little
bit about like, you know, what counties do you cover.
What are some of the benefits of being a part
of the center.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
Yeah, so we actually it's funny because we have we
served so many different organizations in the community. We actually
serve Harden, Jefferson, Orange and Chambers County. So that's one
misconception that I think a lot of people have about
the center because we do also serve Chambers County. And
like I said, we have over one hundred and sixty
nonprofit members in our in our network, and so that's
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a really large number. And what the members ultimately get
from membership is just access to resources and education and
training that helped them be more successful and sustainable and
that's why the center was established, you know, over sixteen
years ago. We host monthly workshops and host we offer
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discounts on certain custom trainings. We also are we host
a conference every other year, which we'll talk more about.
But we offer grant reviews, We have board recruitment events.
We partner with funders to distribute grant opportunities to the community.
We also work with nonprofits on an individual basis if
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they need like a custom board retreat or training, especially
like new organizations. So yeah, we do a lot just
to help nonprofits be more successful, more effective, because we
need our nonprofit sector to be successful in our community
for our community to thrive definitely.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
And there's just so many benefits, like you were mentioning
some of them, I mean, even the notary services. Sometimes
you know, when you're a one person shop and you're
representing a nonprofit and you've got to do some of
these little things, you're like, where do I go? Do
I have it in my budget? You know, nonprofits, you
know there are they don't have these big enormate budgets,
(35:02):
you know, when they may need their fundraising, and sometimes
something as simple as a free notary service is very beneficial.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
Well, and that's been and that's a big part of
the offerings that we have because we do partner with
funders to distribute grant opportunities.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
In the community.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
And a lot of these grant opportunities require or they
will require assigned affidavit and a notarized affidavit in order
for you to submit your application. And so members that
are applying for these grants can come to us and
at no additional costs they can get those documents notarized
so that they can submit all of the required documentation
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so that they can potentially receive that funding.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
You know.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
But another big you know and talking about funders and
funding is you know, because that's usually the number one
need amongst nonprofits, is just that we offer a online
grant research library that they can access at the RC
Miller and that's a great way to find funding that
can help support mission the mission of nonprofits in the community.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
And there are so many, so many nonprofits, and I
think you just having the center, I think you know
other nonprofits and then being able maybe to see what
each other is doing and maybe support each other. I
think that's really important as well. So some more things
that you guys have going on. I know, is your job.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
Board, Yeah, we do. We have a job board. We honestly,
we do so much. We have a job board where
nonprofits can post jobs that they have. If you're a
member of our center, you can post unlimited jobs at
no cost. And again that's just a way to help
our nonprofit sector to be more successful by connecting them
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to people in the community that might be able to
also work at their organizations, because you know, some people
set out to work in the nonprofit sector and so
that is just it's we are a connector, you know,
we're a connector to help people find resources and staffing
and leadership is another one of those resources.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
And volunteers. Volunteers, Yes, they love their volunteers.
Speaker 7 (37:12):
Yeah, we have a lot of and we have a
lot of ways that we connect nonprofits with volunteers. We
have board you know, because nonprofit boards are volunteers as well,
and so we toast a lot of board recruitment events
and to help connect board members to or potential board
members to nonprofits, because that is a challenge that nonprofits face,
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is you know, getting board members when people roll off
or they're just not able to commit to the time
any longer. So we host these events to connect them.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
And now you guys have something that's going on right now,
just for the next like two weeks or so, your
Accelerator Program. Tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 7 (37:52):
Yes, So the Nonprofit Accelerator Program is a partnership with
Exonmobile and they are their fun this and they reached
out to the center. So now through June twenty fourth,
if you are someone in the community and you're looking
to start a nonprofit organization and you are going to
be serving your your mission is going to serve the
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South Park and our and or Charlton Pollard region, then
you can apply to participate in this program. It's going
to be a training series, but they are also offering
up to five thousand dollars in grant funding to help
you get started. And so the application is available now.
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For more information about that, just send me an email
at director at SETX nonprofit dot org or you can
access the link to the application on our through our
social media through our newsletter. But for any questions, you know,
anyone could just call definitely.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
So today is Sunday, June fifteenth. I know you guys
just did a nonprofit board just earlier this week. So
you guys always have something going on. But coming up
last week we talked with Energy Texas and we were
talking about Hurricane Tips. But you do have an event
coming up with Energy in the next week or so.
Speaker 7 (39:10):
Yes, we love partnering with Energy. We partner this will
be We partner with them several times for the Energy
Coffee Break and so that's going to be coming up
on June the twenty six and it's just a great
way for nonprofits to come here, you know, updates from Energy,
but to also give updates about what's going on in
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their world too. And so again we partner with Energy
to host that will be on June the twenty sixth
at the where our center is located inside the Foundation
for Southeast Texas at their auditorium.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Wonderful, We got about a minute left. So once again,
for any nonprofit that's out there that's wanting to get involved,
needing more information, where do they need to go?
Speaker 7 (39:53):
Yeah, they need to just visit set X nonprofit dot org.
We have a board recruitment event coming up in partnership
with the Southeast Texas YPO on October twenty third, and
we're really excited to on November fourth, be bringing back
the Southeast Texas Nonprofit Conference and that's an opportunity unlike
any other in the region. And so we have released
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information about our presenters, but more information about registration will
be coming soon.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
All right in the website once again.
Speaker 7 (40:23):
Set X Nonprofit dot org.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
All Right, Kayla White, thank you so much for being
a part of the show.
Speaker 7 (40:29):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
We'll be right back with the Roy West Radio Show
on AM five sixty KLVI. And we're back with the
Roy West Radio Show on AM five sixty KLVI. I
have been your guest host Debbie Bridgeman, and we had
a pac show. We kicked it off with Rebecca Woodland.
She is the Nature Center manager at the Terrell Park
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Nature and Visitor Center and you can go to Beaumont,
Texas dot gov search Nature Center and you can see
all the things that they have going on, including their
upcoming Saturday Nature Explorers, which is this coming Saturday, June
twenty first, from ten to one. It's a come and
go it's a great event something for the kiddos to do,
so definitely check that out. We also learned about the
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Lula Foundation with Alicia Bell. They have their Sweet Summer
Night's fundraiser coming up August twenty eighth. You can go
to Lulafoundation dot org to get more information about the
foundation and the event and how you can help. Andy McCall.
The Letcher Theater, they are going to have a great
season coming up. They have The Adams Family, A Christmas Story,
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the Tina Turner musical, Missus, Doubtfire, Clue, The Magicman, so
much more. If you like good musicals and plays and
you don't want to deal with driving to Houston, the
Lecture Theater in Orange is where you need to go.
Letcher dot org is where you can get ticket information,
so make sure you check that out. Also, we just
talked with Kayla White. She is the executive director for
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the Southeast Texas Nonprofit Development Center. So many great resources
if you are a nonprofit or even if you just
want to find out what nonprofits are in the area
so you can volunteer, you can serve on a board,
so much great information. Uh, check it out at se
txnonprofit dot org for all the details on the Nonprofit
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Development Center. So another great show, Thank you for being
a part of it, and we'll see you next Sunday.
At noon the Roy West Radio Show right here on
AM five sixty k LB. I hope you have a
great day.
Hello, and welcome to the Roy West Radio Show on
AM five sixty klv I. I am your guest host,
Debbie Bridgeman, and we have a packed show for today.
We'll be talking to Alicia Bean with the Lula Foundation,
so we'll find out a little bit about what they
have going on. Also, we'll talk with Andy McCall. He's
over at the Letcher Theater and they have a packed
(00:23):
fall and spring with tons of performances coming up. And
also Kayla White, she's the executive director with the Southeast
Texas Nonprofit Development Center and she'll tell you a little
bit about what they got going on and some upcoming events.
So a full show, but we are kicking it off today.
We're talking nature, We're talking the outdoors, We're talking fun.
Rebecca Woodland is joining us. Good morning, Hi, how are
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you doing good? So you are the Nature Center manager
at the Terrell Park Nature and Visitor Center. So for
anybody that doesn't know what you got going on, I
know you guys have been open for now two years.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, we renovated it right after COVID and we opened
up in May of nineteen twenty nineteen twenty two, twenty
twenty two. The building has a historic and was built
during the late thirties by the Sabine Conservation Corps. So
we've salvaged the historic building, done an adaptive reuse, and
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we have exhibits, We have craft stations that are all
nature based learned by doing activities, as well as a
little historic exhibit here in one of our wings. And
then our gift shop is here. And so first when
I walked in in May of twenty twenty two, which
is me and the building, and we slowly added the
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exhibits and craft stations or what I call discovery stations
because they rotate based upon what topics we're doing. And
there'll be some sort of science experiments, some sort of craft,
some sort of coloring station, make and take, and I
rotate that around. So if you come quarterly, there should
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be something different than what you saw three months earlier
or so well.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I had the pleasure of being there and getting to
see everything that you have going on. It is very clean,
it's very nice, and you do have a very big
space to have many kids come in and do the
arts and crafts and stuff like that. So I know
that you have your Saturday Nature Explorers going on now.
It is the fifteenth, So coming up next weekend June
(02:34):
twenty first, you've got something going.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
On, that's right, and I do those sort of quarterly.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I've adjust it based upon what else is going on
and that kind of thing. And I chose the June
twenty first because the summer solstice is actually that Friday,
which is the longest summer actually begins. It's the longest
day of the year. Since we're doing that Saturday morning
from ten to one. Everything we're going to have to
do is related to seasons, sun, weather, that kind.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Of thing, and we're gonna make sun dials.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
The kids are going to make sun dials and then
we'll go outside if it's.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Not raining and see if they work.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
If they're if it's raining, they can take them home
and wait for a sunny day. We'll also have a
solar eclipse chart activity because even though it's not a
solar eclipse, those things come and go, and so we'll
have a station to kind of talk about the solar eclipse.
And then uh, we're doing a season's art craft where
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they get to draw and color in a tree and
they do you know, winter, spring, summer, fall kind of activity,
and uh, we have story time to talk about summer
Solstice and why it's the longest day of the year
and that kind of thing. So that's most families. It's
a come and go u You do not have to register.
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Most families take about forty five minutes to an hour.
I have volunteers that sort of self paced, and I
do story time, so you know, don't come and think
you're going to run through it in ten minutes. You
want everybody to have time. And I will say that
the Young Kids is designed predominantly for elementary, but all
ages are welcome, and sometimes even the adult grandparents or
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chaperones or parents they want to color and do a
craft too. That's perfectly okay, but come earlier so you
have plenty of time.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
And we wrote they.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Don't have to be done in any particular order, so as
people come in, we kind of rote them around so
it's you don't feel like it's a rushed experience and
you're all crowded around one table all at the same time,
so we kind of move them throughout the building and
then make intake. So that will be the next one
coming up next week in June twenty first, from ten
am to one come earlier so you have plenty of
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time to do all the experiments and activities.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Nice and so then you guys also have some something
coming up in August that's going to be in the
evening times.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
We tried that last year and partnered up with the
National Park the Big Thicket because they have the telescopes
and I will say Ranger Scott and his cohorts rangers.
He is an astronomical genius and it was so successful
that we redid it again this year.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
We've actually picked.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Dates that we could see some cool things in the sky.
So the August fifteenth, that's the Friday evening seven thirty
to ten. It will get dust, so we'll get to
see a setting sun and then we'll get to see
the Mars will be lowering and Saturn will be rising,
so if you come for the whole thing, you'll get
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to see both of them.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
They'll throw the scopes up to that inside.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Besides partnering with the National Park the Big Thicket, we
partnered with the state park with the Village Creek State Park,
and Ranger Alex is coming and he's another planetarium astronomical
goo and he'll have his scopes up and the scopes
will be outside in the front parking lot, so the
visitors will need.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
To park on the side of our building. There's a
side parking lot.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Bring their own lawn chairs, picnic blankets, whatever, bring your
bone bug spray, and then all the scopes will be outside.
L T has a scope, so they're coming and so
they'll get to look at that. Then inside we partnered
with the Beaumont Shildren's Museum and they're in one of
our exhibit wings. They'll have more space, technology, crafts and activities.
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And then we've also partnered again with the Texas Master
Naturalists to talk about night pollinators and they have an
insect rubbing and.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Things like that.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But the cool thing is in our back courtyard.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
They once the dust comes down, they.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Will have set up pre set up, but it looks
like you're hanging your sheets to wash, you know, drying
out in the lines. But they've got frames that they
set up white sheets and then put on low blue
lights and for whatever reason and Master Nationals will be
able to explain that in much better detail to you.
The bugs are attracted in land to onto the white
sheets and so you can get up close with a
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magnifying glass and take a picture and they don't fly around.
You know, usually we see bugs flying around the night lights,
you know, at your back door, but they never land. Well,
they'll land on the sheets. And then last year we
saw a ghost them off and some sort of stained
glass butterfly looking the night thing. And they have a
chart that will help you identify all of that, the crickets, everything.
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And because we have new pollinator gardens that have been
planted this spring, we are expecting more of those pollinator
night pollinators, and so there will be lots of indoor
outdoor activity. Our gift shop will also be opened, so
we don't take cash, but plastic debit or credit and
so h So that's what we encourage. Bring your lawnchair
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so you can sit outside, Bring some you know water,
you know, if you want a water bottle or something
like that, and then you can look at scopes. And
some people come for just part of it, some people
stay for the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
If it's.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You know, if it's cloudy, we'll still do it. It's
just you can't see through the scopes outside. But we
still set up the scopes because it's interesting to see
how the scopes work and what you can see and
dress for the weather. Now, if it's flash flood, thunderstorm,
you know that stuff will cancel at the last minute.
But because we have indoor activities as well, UH, we
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try very hard not to cancel it, even if the
clouds are blocking some of the planets and stars. But
we're we're praying for good weather by August.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Well, and you mentioned the pollinator gardens, and I know
that was a joint project with the Rotary Club of
Beaumont and also Spindletop Rotary Club. How is that going.
I actually was out at cattel Marsh last weekend and
drove by and I can see there's a lot of
growth going on in those gardens.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So in addition to that, we do the Nature Explores
on the weekends.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
UH.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I do programming that is available to homeschool.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Groups, to UH school groups UH for the from the
any school district BIS DVID or Hampshire for NET whatever.
You just have to call me in advance because I'm
the one woman's shop over here. I do education programming.
I do guiding tours of the and talk about the
historic building and the Sabine Conservation Corps during the Great Depression,
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So you get a little American history and architectural history.
But I also have some preset programs. I have a
program that I.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Do on owls.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I have a program about birds, structure to sculpture. I
have a bear program that has an interactive activity game.
They're all all these presentations. It's interactive. There's some sort
of worksheet or art project or craft activity or a
game that's related to the activity. And I try to
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teach to all the learning styles. So there's audio, there's visual,
and there's kinetic learning going on and in the group
could come here and I can set up and we
can do a group thirty is my maximum.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Or I can go off.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Site and go to the schools or to a church
group or whatever and do those kind of things. You
just have to call me in advance, and the sooner
you call, the better. So this fall is a good
time to call for spring or vice versa.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
And I have.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Homeschool groups that periodically will schedule their homeschool group and
do different programs. So we're doing trying to reach out.
Most everything I'm doing is elementary, and then most of
my pros can graduate up.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
They have components that.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Are more in depth or more math or statistics if
you're trying to figure out how many bears can the
forest support. I'm not doing the toddlers per se, of course,
on my Saturday Nature Explorers, it's families of all ages,
but I try to be very transparent so that the
expectation of the level that we're teaching, even with homeschool groups,
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you know, it's the six seven year old's, first second
graders on up, you know, the little toddlers and the babies.
Our sister facility, cattel Marsh does a monthly Marsh Minions
for that group. And since we're in the same you know,
our focus is wetlands, birds and pollinators. We're doing the
same topics, but I try not to repeat any of that.
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And in addition, we opened up in May our new
poster exhibition from the Smithsonian. It's called Pollination Investigation. You
can see a little bit of that behind me. It
talks about who where, why, what is pollination?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
What is pollinators?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Why they're in poor and we wouldn't have food if
we didn't have pollinators. It's really when you think about it,
you think, oh, they're just pollinating the flowers, and you
think of bees and honey because we're a b city.
But actually, if you look at the full list, most
of the things that we eat that are nutritious and natural,
you know, bread, avocados, grapes, you know, they all require pollinators.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
All right, well we are out of time, Rebecca, thank
you so much for being part of the show, and
we'll make sure that we check out the big event
coming up June twenty. First, they're at the Terrell Park Nature.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
And cool and so go to our Facebook page.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
All right, thank you so much. We'll be right back
with the Roy West Radio Show on AM five sixty
klv I. And we're back with the Roy West Radio
Show on AM five sixty klv I. I am your
guest host, Debbie Bridgeman, and our next guest is the
director of Operations for the Lula Foundation. Please welcome, Alicia Bean.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Hey, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So, I guess the biggest question right now people are like,
what is the Lula Foundation? So tell us a little
bit about your role in about the foundation.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Okay, we are a nonprofit in Southeast Texas. We are
a newer non profit, so people are still learning about
us and we're just getting the word out that we
are here. Ready to serve our community. And our mission
is to promote safe and love and homes for children
through family recovery and refocus on substitutes and domestic violence,
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bridging the gap between the two. A lot of times
they come hand in hand, and so that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Okay. So you know, there are several foundations that kind
of do the same thing that you do. So what
makes Lula Foundation different?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
We are different because we use a peer model with
lived experience. We work alongside families with our recovery support
peer specialists. They have been through what other families are
going through and so they're able to have that hope.
But that says, you know, they've they've been here before
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and they are, you know, here to show families the
way out. And we focus on long term recovery, not
short term solutions. To where other organizations may have a
three month to cut off or six month cut off,
we ask people to stay with us a year to
eighteen months, even after they navigate their CPS case and
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their children come home. It takes one unpaid bill or
you know, one bad situation for that family for them
to spiral, and so we are prepared to stay with
them for a very long term, and we collaborate with courts, cps,
we go into the jails, we have local partners and
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just bridging the gap between organizations and so we have
a lot of really great things here, but maybe not
all of us are connected. And that's where LULA comes in,
not just serving families, serve in the community, but serve
in the other resources that we have here.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
So when a family, do you get a call from
somebody or a reference that somebody needs help, or do
they reach out to you or a little bit of both.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
It is a little bit of both. But we are
a person centered program and so we do get referrals
and we always tell them the same thing. Go to
our website it's Lulafoundation dot org and there's an application
and we will return a call. We'll call them back
within forty eight hours of filling out that application. But
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that is saying tell them. They tell us what their
goals are, what they're going through, and so it is
their choice whether they want to apply and start services
with us.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Okay, So of course, if you're helping so many people,
you need funds. So what do you guys do for
fundraising or do you have any events that are coming up.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
We do have a fundraiser coming up. Actually, one of
the great things about LULA is we don't have government grants,
so we don't have a lot of red tape that
we have to navigate. There's so many rules that come
along with grants, and so we are ran off of
fundraisers and donations. And we have our main fundraiser coming up.
(16:26):
It's called Sweet Summer Nights. It's going to be August
twenty eighth. We're going to have a mix and mingle
with authors, local authors from five to six showing the
really great things and people that come out of Southeast Texas.
And all proceeds will directly support local families in crisis.
(16:46):
And so you can found out more also on our
website more about events, I'm sorry, more about the events,
the time, and what our needs are. We're really looking
for auction items right now, sponsorships, and we can only
help people while we have the funds to do that,
So we really want to welcome the community to help
us with that.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
That's excellent. So Lula Foundation dot org is the website.
You know, besides the community supporting the event or maybe
even donating, do you have volunteers or this something, you know,
certain kinds of training and stuff like that for the
people that you guys are helping.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Oh, we have. Every one of our case managers are volunteers.
They are recovery support peer specialists. They are all state certified.
They go through the training, then they do it internship
and that allows them to not not just come to
LULA with their lived experience, but know how to use
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that experience to benefit other people. They already have their
own skill set, their own strengths, their own fights, they've
fought for their families, they've you know, fought to recover,
and then in the state certification training shows them how
to use that experience to turn around and help other people.
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And so it's a go ahead.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
No, I'm just gonna say, so, is there like if
somebody wants to get more involved, is there a training
or something that the people need to go through to
be able to help out.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
There's several trainings throughout the state. There's one of the
Willie Carter Center right now in Port author and LULA
Foundation just became a training entity as well with the
State of Texas and so we will start doing those
trainings also. And so not just for our case managers,
but other people out in the community that wants to
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use their own lived experience to help other people too.
There's recovery support, peer specialists and treatment centers and courts.
In Houston. There is even peer specialists in their hospitals
and their ambulance services, and so we're really hoping to
grow that community here.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
So so tell me, Alicia, like, how did you get
involved with LULA Foundation? And you know what, does it
have a special place in your heart?
Speaker 4 (19:08):
It absolutely does. I knew one of our board of
directors and I worked with him before at previous agencies,
and and he just knew I just really have a
heart for parents navigating the CPS system, and so he
told me about LULA and he just kind of connected us.
(19:29):
And as soon, I mean during the first interview, the
very first time I found out about it, is like,
that is exactly where I belong. Everybody has just the
biggest hearts, the biggest goals, and I am just so
grateful to get to be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So you guys, so there's you and you have a
board and then you have your volunteers. Is there anybody
else that's involved with LULA.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
That's it. We have have an IT volunteer that pretty
much just are our case managers. We do have a
couple of people who are going into Jasper County Jail.
We call it inside out Recovery Initiative, and so not
just waiting people till they get out of jail to
try and to connect with them, going to where they are,
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let them know where recovery is when they get out.
And so those people are recovery advocates. They haven't made
it to the training yet to become recovery Support peer specialists,
but they will be in the next class.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
All right, sounds good. So what else do people need
to know about LULA Foundation. Do you have any big
success stories?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Well, it's so many to try to just give you one. LULA.
We are in so many different places. We are not
just we have families who are navigating domestic violence situations
that wanted to that we were able to help get
a plan of safety and the finances they need to
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get out, and then the long term support from substance hues.
When people go to treatment, then they're able to come
to LULA after And so by the time people come
to us, the majority of the time they've already have
they're already connected to another and another agency, and those
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services end, and so that's where we pick up. So
if you know about anything about Jold Protective Services, they
navigate their CPS case and they get their kids home
and every service ends, and then we we come in
to say, you know, you're not alone. We're here at
helping them navigate having their kids home now healthy parenting,
(21:41):
you know, while they're in recovery. And we just we
love our parents so much, We love our families so much,
and the fact that we are able to stay with
them so long term, they are just all family. And
our success rate since I have been with Lula is really.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Amazing, fantastic. Well, we've got about thirty seconds left. Once again,
tell us the website and tell us about the event
August twenty eighth.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
It is Lulafoundation dot org. Please if you follow us
on Facebook, Instagram, you can find out more about the
event Sweet Summer Nights, all from our website. And then
if you want to volunteer donate, there's a section where
you can just reach out to us if you have
any questions. And so again, we are here not just
(22:26):
to serve families, but to serve our community and if
there's any way that we can help, please reach out
to us.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
All right, Alicia Ban, thank you so much for being
a part of the show.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Sam, thank you for having us.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
And we'll be right back with the Roy West Radio
Show on AM five sixty KLVI. And we're back with
the Roy West Radio Show on AM five sixty klv I.
I am your guest host, Debbie Bridgeman, and now we're
headed on over to the Lecher Theater. We got to
see what's going on. Andy McCall is joining us.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Hey, Andy, Hi, Debbie, thank you so much for having
me auditorium.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I see that, I see that never a dull time
at the Letcher Theater.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And I know you.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Guys have a packed fall and spring on the way,
so give us.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
The scoop, all right, Yes, I'll be happy to That's
our forty six season coming up. We just wrapped up
our forty fifth season and it was a huge hit
and we are ready to roll with our forty sixth.
We're in the process of renewing our season ticket holders
right now and then pretty soon thos will be going
on sale to the public. And then if your season
tickets aren't your thing, you can definitely join in on
the single tickets when they go on sale later this summer,
(23:34):
and man, it's gonna be a great season. We kick
things off in the fall with Kevin Spencer. He's the
magic of Kevin Spencer. He's he's he's a magician who
actually used to tour around and do huge, big magic
shows like David Copperfield, but then he realized his calling
was more specifically, uh since ory inclusive magic shows and
so it's not the big, flashy magic shows that you expect.
(23:58):
This is a very simple it's audience participation, yes, but
it's focused. It's tailored to families with children with a
century inclusive like autism and things like that, and it's
just a sweet, really neat show. And he goes all
over the country and does that when he's not building
wells you gone and doing other incredible things all across
(24:21):
the world. So we're honored to have him back. We
had him last year and we're honored to have him
back again. In mid October, and then we continued our
big performing art series. Actually kicks off with the Adams
Family Musical, which I'm really excited about because I remember
seeing that here.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Much good timing is good because Wednesday, season two is
going to be coming out.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
So that's.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
That's a great show.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
And there's there's it's not any the storylines not I mean,
it's the same family obviously, but it's not connected to
the Netflix show and the fact that it's like continuation
or anything in this show. I saw it here in
twenty thirteen and I expect to be fun can't be
like the TV show, And I knew it was going
to be funny, but man, I came here and I
was blown away.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
The show is amazing.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
The ensemble really carries the show because the dancing and
everything is just fascinating. It's basically follows Wenesday as a teenager,
like the Netflix show does too, but in this show,
she brings home a boyfriend and his parents to meet
her family, and of course his family is he and
his family are completely normal, and so at the hilarity
(25:23):
ensues that you would expect us as they meet the
characters of the family and you know, the crazy, wacky
Kookie family that we all love. And that's in October.
And it's also good timing because it's right for Halloween, right,
so that'll kick off our official Broadway our performing Arts series.
And after that we have Brothers of the Heart, which
is they're a group of they're a quartet of guys
(25:45):
that they're really known in the gospel country, bluegrass world,
the Gaither Homecoming tours and that kind of thing. Is
Jimmy Fortune, who was spent many years singing and writing
for the Statler Brothers, Bradley Walker, Ben Isaacs, who he
and his Isaac's family are you know, big in the
in the gospel world. And Mike Rogers who performed with
Fifty Skags for many years in his band, and they
(26:06):
just have some of the best harmonies you'll ever hear.
And that's coming up in late October as well, October
twenty eighth. And then you can kick off your holiday
season here with one of my favorite musicals. And it's
actually early in the tour, so it's gonna be right
before Thanksgiving. It's a Christmas story, and I don't have
to say much about that one because everybody knows that story.
But yes, it's got the leg lamp, the pink pajamas,
(26:27):
everything that you expect in the movie.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
It's very nostalgic and it's.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Fun and I'm gonna tell you the leg Lamp song
is a big number and it's a lot of fun.
They do a kick line with leg lamps, so it's
it's very creative and fun. And then and then December
we have Tina, the Tina Turner Musical. Now, this is
one of my favorite shows I've gotten to see. I
saw this in Houston a couple of seasons ago and
it was amazing. You're gonna be just you're gonna remind
(26:52):
yourself this is not real Teena Turner, but it's her
life story and it tells the story of her all
her obstacles that she had to overcome to become the
queen and to eventually become the Queen of.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Rock and roll.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
And it's a powerful, powerful, emotional show that's gonna be
really amazing. And that's in early December. And then Christmas
season wraps up around here with the Grand Old Christmas Show,
which is kind of a variety show type thing. It's
played like a radio show at the Grand Ole Opry,
and you're gonna hear all your favorite Christmas hits in that.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
And then we come back after the New Year with
what's right after.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
The New Year it's gonna be January, which is Mark
Oh Richard Thomas and Mark Twain Tonight. We of course
know him as John Boy and he's been in a
number of things recently Ozark for one thing, and he's
toured in other shows. Now this show Mark Twain Tonight.
It was initially done for decades by Hal Holbrook. It's
a one man play and it's basically he's Mark Twain
(27:47):
doing dramatic interpretation of some of his best literary literary writings,
focusing mainly on the comical ones. So it's a great
one man play. Right after the New Year's on January,
and then we have one of our Lutcher and Light
Emerging Artists series, which is The Imagineers their Americana husband
wife duo. They do Americana music. And then uh, February.
(28:08):
I'm excited about this one. This was a late addition
to our season because we were waiting to nail this
one down. Jane Lynch and Kate flannering, uh you know
TV stars.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
They it's part comedy, part cabaret style. They sing a
lot of Broadway hits they called the show is called
The Trouble with Angels. It's gonna be a fun evening
with those two crazy, hilarious women. And that's in mid February.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
And then let's see Missus Fire, Missus Doubtfire. That's gonna
be That.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Show is actually supposed today be right around broad right
around the pandemic when everything shut Broadway down, and and
then it came back right after the pandemic and so
and it's a huge hit. And and I think it's
gonna make Robin Williams proud because it looks like a
lot of fun. I'm excited about that show. And then
March Step Africa. Now this blends African dancing, African step
(29:02):
step dancing and stepping and everything. And uh, I remember
seeing a lot of fraternities and sororities doing this when
I was in college in the nineties when this was
first coming out in the mid nineties. And it's gonna
be a lot of fun and to get cultural experience there.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
That's in March.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
And then April, well, we have our second Luxury and
Light series, which is the Barefoot Movement. They're bluegrass, Americana
bluesy and yes they do sing blue they do do
perform barefoot and yeah, that's a very a very unique
sound to them.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
That'll be in April, mid April, and at the end
of April. This is a show that was very popular
when it's here a number of years ago. It's Kinky Boots.
I think it won like six Tony Kinky Boots. Yeah,
Kinky Boots. It's won six Tony Awards.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
This is a show about a couple of guys that
just figure out that you know, they're not there. You know,
two people who are different can can get along great.
And it's it's a it's a has a great message
and some great music. And that's in late April. And
then oh, here's another show I'm really excited about for
a couple of different reasons.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
One it's just a fun show.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
And two we get it right before it goes to Houston,
and so you get a chance to see it here
before it even goes to some.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
Of the big cities. It's clue, everybody's favorite who done it?
Speaker 5 (30:18):
And this is not a musical, this is a play,
and so this will be fun on stage here. This
is in mid May, and it's coming here about right
at a month before it goes to Houston. And we
like to say we were Houston without the hassle. You know,
our parking is free, our tickets are much more affordable.
It's the it's going to be the same cast going
from here to Houston, so might as well catch it
(30:40):
here while you can't.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
You don't have to spend the gas money to go
to Houston and just just catch it here right in
her own backyard here.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
And then we and also in April we have oh
I right before Clue I did Barefoot right, So we
end our season in June. But the music Man, the
classical music Man, and this is going to be right
around the The big uh It's gonna be.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Me in junis right before the fourth of July.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
I think it's a big anniversary for our country to
two hundred and fiftieth or something like that, So it's
gonna be a big patriotic time to come see the
music Man.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
We Can't, which is always a fun show. I got
to see this one on Broadway with Hugh Jackman.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
And it was very in Sutton Foster and it was
the closing night show and so it was a big
party and it was unlike any experience I've ever had
in the theater. And it's not that cast, unfortunately, it's
not them coming, but it's still a great, classic, fun
show with some very memorable music. And so that's that's
our season. And you can find out more information on
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our season at Luxure dot org. And you can join
our waitlist right now at on the website to be
get the first crack at signing up for season tickets
if that interests you nice.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Well, you guys have an amazing schedule and with Clue
and Missus, Doubtfire and the Magic Man like, there's there's
too many to w from. So I guess it's we
just need to be season ticket holders.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
That's just weird. We got something for everybody.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
We've got the family shows, we got the shows that
are about famous people like Tina.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
We got something for everybody in this season for sure.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Fantastic. Well, once again, what's the website.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
It's Leucher dot org and the Lectri Theater for the
Performing Arts right here where you're home for Broadway, right
here in Southeast Texas.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Love it, Andy, Thank you so much for being a
part of the show.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
My pleasure. Debbie, thank you so much. It's great talking
to you again.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
You too. We'll be right back with the Roy West
Radio Show on AM five sixty klv I and we're
back with the Roy West Radio Show on AM five
sixty klv I. I am your guest host Debbie Bridgeman,
and now we are going over to the Southeast Texas
Nonprofit Development Center talking with the executive director, Kleb White.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
Welcome to the show, Hey, Debbie, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
So the Nonprofit Development Center is such a great resource
and tool for this area, and there's still some people
that don't know about it. So tell us a little
bit about like, you know, what counties do you cover.
What are some of the benefits of being a part
of the center.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
Yeah, so we actually it's funny because we have we
served so many different organizations in the community. We actually
serve Harden, Jefferson, Orange and Chambers County. So that's one
misconception that I think a lot of people have about
the center because we do also serve Chambers County. And
like I said, we have over one hundred and sixty
nonprofit members in our in our network, and so that's
(33:39):
a really large number. And what the members ultimately get
from membership is just access to resources and education and
training that helped them be more successful and sustainable and
that's why the center was established, you know, over sixteen
years ago. We host monthly workshops and host we offer
(34:01):
discounts on certain custom trainings. We also are we host
a conference every other year, which we'll talk more about.
But we offer grant reviews, We have board recruitment events.
We partner with funders to distribute grant opportunities to the community.
We also work with nonprofits on an individual basis if
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they need like a custom board retreat or training, especially
like new organizations. So yeah, we do a lot just
to help nonprofits be more successful, more effective, because we
need our nonprofit sector to be successful in our community
for our community to thrive definitely.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
And there's just so many benefits, like you were mentioning
some of them, I mean, even the notary services. Sometimes
you know, when you're a one person shop and you're
representing a nonprofit and you've got to do some of
these little things, you're like, where do I go? Do
I have it in my budget? You know, nonprofits, you
know there are they don't have these big enormate budgets,
(35:02):
you know, when they may need their fundraising, and sometimes
something as simple as a free notary service is very beneficial.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
Well, and that's been and that's a big part of
the offerings that we have because we do partner with
funders to distribute grant opportunities.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
In the community.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
And a lot of these grant opportunities require or they
will require assigned affidavit and a notarized affidavit in order
for you to submit your application. And so members that
are applying for these grants can come to us and
at no additional costs they can get those documents notarized
so that they can submit all of the required documentation
(35:40):
so that they can potentially receive that funding.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
You know.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
But another big you know and talking about funders and
funding is you know, because that's usually the number one
need amongst nonprofits, is just that we offer a online
grant research library that they can access at the RC
Miller and that's a great way to find funding that
can help support mission the mission of nonprofits in the community.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
And there are so many, so many nonprofits, and I
think you just having the center, I think you know
other nonprofits and then being able maybe to see what
each other is doing and maybe support each other. I
think that's really important as well. So some more things
that you guys have going on. I know, is your job.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
Board, Yeah, we do. We have a job board. We honestly,
we do so much. We have a job board where
nonprofits can post jobs that they have. If you're a
member of our center, you can post unlimited jobs at
no cost. And again that's just a way to help
our nonprofit sector to be more successful by connecting them
(36:47):
to people in the community that might be able to
also work at their organizations, because you know, some people
set out to work in the nonprofit sector and so
that is just it's we are a connector, you know,
we're a connector to help people find resources and staffing
and leadership is another one of those resources.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
And volunteers. Volunteers, Yes, they love their volunteers.
Speaker 7 (37:12):
Yeah, we have a lot of and we have a
lot of ways that we connect nonprofits with volunteers. We
have board you know, because nonprofit boards are volunteers as well,
and so we toast a lot of board recruitment events
and to help connect board members to or potential board
members to nonprofits, because that is a challenge that nonprofits face,
(37:34):
is you know, getting board members when people roll off
or they're just not able to commit to the time
any longer. So we host these events to connect them.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
And now you guys have something that's going on right now,
just for the next like two weeks or so, your
Accelerator Program. Tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 7 (37:52):
Yes, So the Nonprofit Accelerator Program is a partnership with
Exonmobile and they are their fun this and they reached
out to the center. So now through June twenty fourth,
if you are someone in the community and you're looking
to start a nonprofit organization and you are going to
be serving your your mission is going to serve the
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South Park and our and or Charlton Pollard region, then
you can apply to participate in this program. It's going
to be a training series, but they are also offering
up to five thousand dollars in grant funding to help
you get started. And so the application is available now.
(38:34):
For more information about that, just send me an email
at director at SETX nonprofit dot org or you can
access the link to the application on our through our
social media through our newsletter. But for any questions, you know,
anyone could just call definitely.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
So today is Sunday, June fifteenth. I know you guys
just did a nonprofit board just earlier this week. So
you guys always have something going on. But coming up
last week we talked with Energy Texas and we were
talking about Hurricane Tips. But you do have an event
coming up with Energy in the next week or so.
Speaker 7 (39:10):
Yes, we love partnering with Energy. We partner this will
be We partner with them several times for the Energy
Coffee Break and so that's going to be coming up
on June the twenty six and it's just a great
way for nonprofits to come here, you know, updates from Energy,
but to also give updates about what's going on in
(39:30):
their world too. And so again we partner with Energy
to host that will be on June the twenty sixth
at the where our center is located inside the Foundation
for Southeast Texas at their auditorium.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Wonderful, We got about a minute left. So once again,
for any nonprofit that's out there that's wanting to get involved,
needing more information, where do they need to go?
Speaker 7 (39:53):
Yeah, they need to just visit set X nonprofit dot org.
We have a board recruitment event coming up in partnership
with the Southeast Texas YPO on October twenty third, and
we're really excited to on November fourth, be bringing back
the Southeast Texas Nonprofit Conference and that's an opportunity unlike
any other in the region. And so we have released
(40:14):
information about our presenters, but more information about registration will
be coming soon.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
All right in the website once again.
Speaker 7 (40:23):
Set X Nonprofit dot org.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
All Right, Kayla White, thank you so much for being
a part of the show.
Speaker 7 (40:29):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
We'll be right back with the Roy West Radio Show
on AM five sixty KLVI. And we're back with the
Roy West Radio Show on AM five sixty KLVI. I
have been your guest host Debbie Bridgeman, and we had
a pac show. We kicked it off with Rebecca Woodland.
She is the Nature Center manager at the Terrell Park
(40:52):
Nature and Visitor Center and you can go to Beaumont,
Texas dot gov search Nature Center and you can see
all the things that they have going on, including their
upcoming Saturday Nature Explorers, which is this coming Saturday, June
twenty first, from ten to one. It's a come and
go it's a great event something for the kiddos to do,
so definitely check that out. We also learned about the
(41:14):
Lula Foundation with Alicia Bell. They have their Sweet Summer
Night's fundraiser coming up August twenty eighth. You can go
to Lulafoundation dot org to get more information about the
foundation and the event and how you can help. Andy McCall.
The Letcher Theater, they are going to have a great
season coming up. They have The Adams Family, A Christmas Story,
(41:35):
the Tina Turner musical, Missus, Doubtfire, Clue, The Magicman, so
much more. If you like good musicals and plays and
you don't want to deal with driving to Houston, the
Lecture Theater in Orange is where you need to go.
Letcher dot org is where you can get ticket information,
so make sure you check that out. Also, we just
talked with Kayla White. She is the executive director for
(41:58):
the Southeast Texas Nonprofit Development Center. So many great resources
if you are a nonprofit or even if you just
want to find out what nonprofits are in the area
so you can volunteer, you can serve on a board,
so much great information. Uh, check it out at se
txnonprofit dot org for all the details on the Nonprofit
(42:19):
Development Center. So another great show, Thank you for being
a part of it, and we'll see you next Sunday.
At noon the Roy West Radio Show right here on
AM five sixty k LB. I hope you have a
great day.
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