>> I really love hearing yes.
You don't hear it all the time in nonprofits, and that can be kind of a downer,
but you can't let that get you down.
You know, whether you're asking for in-kind donations or monetary donations or you're trying
to make this connection to get, you know, certain people into the hospitals for the kids,
you do hear no a lot, but if you hear no ten times
and that one time you hear the yes, it really makes it worth it.
It's just so exciting.
Especially, when you actually get to go and, say, deliver the tickets to the football game
to the child life specialist in the hospitals to give the kids
and just seeing how happy they are, there's certainly a lot of reward in that.
It can be heartbreaking seeing these kids in a wheelchair hooked up to an IV.
Or, you know, if they're going through chemotherapy without any hair.
But the fact that you know that whether it was a ticket to a soccer game that they got to go
to with their family and get a day pass to leave the hospital or just giving them a book or a toy
with this big funny mascot we have.
Just something that isn't a doctor or a test or a procedure.
It is really great to be able to give them that.