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hello my name is janai morehead with foundation consultants and today's video is tips on obtaining property so a lot of nonprofits ask me you know can we obtain property can we obtain buildings and i never say no because i'm standing here in a project that i helped to start uh some 27 years ago and we're going strong so i'll give you some tips and where you can go initially but what i have to tell you the most important thing i have to tell you is to be diligent and please do not give up so the first thing i have to tell you with my notes is seek out your local state and federal sources of announcement so before this video i looked at the general services administration and saw that they had surplus property and that's one of the go-to places that we used to go to and we used to obtain um equipment we used to obtain office furniture and even we had uh the use of some cars that were donated to us by the general services administration now i'm sure that things have changed quite a bit but in order to do that you have to sign up and when i say local state and federal your city or county also may have the surplus programs and for nonprofits of course and you have to sign up for them and also you have to meet the guidelines to uh be able to use certain things so if if your nonprofit needs office furniture then of course you're going to tell the government agency that you're getting from that that office furniture is going to go into your offices and they do have the right to come by and see if it's there and so please be prepared to be monitored when you do all these things so tip number one is seek out your local state and federal sources of announcements and then if the gsa does not meet your need then of course make sure that you sign up for surplus property programs through through your city and county and also your state so the second thing is um when you access these programs a surplus property you need to have a team in place because the requirements often require a team of people working together to achieve a goal and so in my experience we needed a building and i kept looking for a building and looking for a building many years ago and i signed up under a program called the underutilized property program where they were closing the bases and so when i signed up for that they sent me out a piece of paper and i began to fill out that paper and it was pretty much a grant but it required a lot of moving pieces it required a lot of reports it required me to talk to a lot of people it required me to also let our congressmen and city officials know what we were doing what we were planning to do and so uh get your team in place you need to have a team and that leads me to another thing is you should have a program up and running so these surplus property programs do not depend on you planning to do something um they want to see you in action so a lot of people they they say well you know we're writing they write a grant and they say we plan to do something and so i always um tell my clients that i'd like to see them test out their ideas and i'd like to see their ideas uh being tested in the neighborhood in real life and so the thing that i asked him to is give me something to write about and so i can't write about planning because that's that's a planning document okay but i'd like to say in my grants what you actually have done and so that's something that i want you to consider as one of your points and then find out what the cost is i know that a lot of these programs uh with the state and the federal government and city they give you stuff for free but it's free really free no no it requires maintenance so for one county uh federal surplus program we needed printers and so we went in to the building specifically looking for printers and we found some printers and they were great and so um we put them up and you know we dusted them off and put them up and they worked and actually um i don't know how long they were sitting in the county offices but for us they actually lasted a good 10 years and printed very well and so but again those printers required maintenance so the cost really wasn't free it it required us to buy certain parts for it and the parts were very inexpensive but we had to maintain it to keep it another surplus property program many years ago we actually purchased uh cars and uh for our staff and so our staff ran around in them for a while and then um we had a program where uh we were helping families in our housing and for housing video uh go to my videos and look that look at that one but in our housing and so these families needed a temporary vehicles and so for that little story i went to the chevrolet um dealer and asked them to teach me how to lease a car and so they gave me their lease program they actually taught me and um and props to the people who teach you okay and then we were able to do a temporary uh lease program with our little cars so that's some some of the ideas that we came up with with the surplus property um and then of course our clients had to have insurance and gas and we needed to know where the car was at all times and they only had it temporarily and then they turned it in so that's just some of the things that i want you to remember and then also get ready for opposition because when people see you starting to get things that increase your capacity to help people uh sometimes they um just get you know all twisted up you know and so uh keep it on the down low until you can see your way through and um put the equipment in your office or get what you need to serve your clients all right you know you don't have to be braggadocious about this stuff all right and then also get ready for a lot of work get ready for a lot of work because as i said with the buildings that we acquired many years ago there is a lot of maintenance there is a lot of maintenance and it has served its purpose it's doing we're doing well okay um however we do have to keep the buildings up um and then there's contracts that we have to uh sign we had to sign and um these programs that we said we would run where's that money coming from the federal government doesn't give us that money okay we have to raise that money on our own and so there's a lot of things that you need to think about when you are thinking about asking the federal government for donations of real property and assets and then sometimes the federal government will not donate those things to you they will they have a real estate department and they will sell them to you and so you have to meet those guidelines too so those are just a few tips that i'm giving you um for the acquisition of federal property i'm not going to go into the details because every federal department every state department city and county have their own applications and their own guidelines but these are the things that i want you to to pay attention to and i'm just going to repeat them real quick seek out your local state and federal sources of announcements and i mentioned the general services administration is just one of them okay find out what the cost is a free is not free and have your program running and in place get ready for opposition and get ready for work so this is janai morehead with foundation consultants and one of the things that i want you to think about is all this takes planning and i have a business planning a non-profit course that would be great for you and so i want you to click the link below and check it out it is in a concert with live plan and so i want you to check out all of the resources and i'm in there with you and planning and the people who are taking it are having a ball they're saying they're enjoying it because i don't think that planning should be boring i think it should be exciting because it opens up the possibilities of what you can do before you do it okay so again for this video i'd love for you to subscribe to my channel and i'd love for you to 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