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I'm Ken Jockers, and I'm the

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executive director here at Hudson

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Guild.

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Hudson Guild is a settlement house.

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We operate 15 classrooms

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along the west side of Manhattan

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for children from poor and

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working poor families where they

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get a really excellent start

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to their education.

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We've been here for 121 years,

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and our goal is to do

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two things: fight poverty

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and build community.

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Sincerely, I don't think there's

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anything more important than what we

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do.

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Hudson Guild and Viking Global

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started to work together at a really

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important time for Hudson Guild.

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When we met them, we were just

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coming out of a pretty significant

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fiscal crisis in this organization.

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And our conversation

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with them about

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the finances of this organization

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is part of what helped

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sort of turn our ship

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and made us more successful.