Welcome to PSA Thursday, a special bonus weekly segment of the Affordable Care Podcast

in which we talk about how to handle life, money, and work in the middle of a pandemic.

My name is Paula Pat.

I am the host of the Affordable Care Podcast.

These weekly segments which come out Thursday-ish, otherwise sometimes known as Friday, are

short, stripped down, bare bones episodes.

There's no fancy intro music or outro music or sound effects.

We don't run ads.

We just do a focused episode where we deep dive into one particular topic and today

we're going to talk about giving because certainly the only way our society is going

to get through all of the struggles and the stresses that we currently face is if we

are good to each other.

At the end of the day, it comes down to that.

And so I'll kick off today's episode with a quote from Mr. Rogers, Fred Rogers, who

said, quote, when I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news.

My mother would say to me, look for the helpers.

You will always find people who are helping.

End quote.

And so today, let's talk about how we can be those helpers, how we can support our neighbors,

support our community, support people across the world, and support people in our own backyard.

But let's kick off by starting with a conversation around formal giving.

Now that's not the only thing we're going to talk about today.

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