If I could gather at least a hundred women who each wrote a check for a thousand dollars,

a thousand dollars is a stop and think gift. Now I was 38 years

old I myself had never written a check for a thousand dollars to a single charity I'd

never done it but I figured I could and I also knew the power of that

that if we could get a hundred women to write a check for $1,000.

100% of it would be pulled in a grant

and then offered right back to the local community

where these women lived, worked, and played.

In our very first year when this was just dreamt up,

a hundred and twenty-three women wrote a check,

and we gave away a single grant of a hundred and twenty three thousand

dollars.

Welcome to an Army of Normal folks, I'm Bill Courtney.

I'm a normal guy.

I'm a husband, a father, an entrepreneur,

and I've been a football coach in inner city Memphis.

And that last part, it unintentionally led to an Oscar for the film about our team.

It's called Undefeded.

I believe our country's problems will never be solved by a bunch of fancy people in nice suits talking big words that nobody really

understands on CNN and Fox, but rather an army of normal folks, us just you and me deciding hey I can help that's what Wendy still the voice we just

heard is done from this first grant from a hundred and twenty three women in

Cincinnati Wendy's idea that she called 123 women in Cincinnati.

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