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Ep 17 - From Stroke to Startup: Dan Fitzgerald’s Journey with Rosi Giving

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What if a single life-changing moment inspired a platform that could revolutionize charitable giving? In this episode, we sit down with Dan Fitzgerald, the founder of Rosi Giving, to explore how his personal story led to a groundbreaking solution for local, transparent, and community-driven philanthropy.

After suffering a stroke in 2011, Dan experienced an outpouring of support from his local community, which opened his eyes to the true power of giving at the grassroots level. This transformative experience led him to create Rosi Giving, an app designed to make nonprofit donations easier, more personal, and more impactful.

💡 In This Episode, We Cover:
✅ The pivotal moment that led Dan Fitzgerald to rethink philanthropy
✅ The problems with traditional giving (and how Rosi Giving solves them)
✅ Why millennials and Gen Z prefer local nonprofits over big charities
✅ The power of collaboration between businesses, donors, and nonprofits
✅ How small nonprofits can increase visibility and boost donations with Rosi Giving

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🎧 Listen now to learn how you can support the causes that matter most—on your terms!


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Chris Baker:

Chris Baker, and each week we'll explore incredible connections between nonprofits, businesses and the community. This is a space where we highlight inspiring partnerships, uncover strategies for creating meaningful impact and share stories that show how working together can make all the difference. Whether you're a nonprofit leader, a business owner or someone just passionate about building connections, this podcast is for you. Welcome back to Visual Eyes. Today I have Dan Fitzgerald from Rosi Giving. I would love to hear a little bit more about Rosi Giving, so can you tell me about that journey and what inspired you to make this company?

Dan Fitzgerald:

Yeah, I can actually remember to the day where my journey all started, and that was on June 19th 2011, when I had a terrible thing happen to me. I had a stroke, a very serious stroke, and it really started to inspire me, actually, because family prepared food, took care of the children and it really just came together in just a tremendous amount of support. I was shopping a grocery store and you know that typical shopping and they always ask you on the way out do you want to donate to charity? And the charity they wanted they were, you know, raising money for. Really, again, it's not a bad charity, by all means, but I had no, you know no affiliation. I had a devastating thing happen to me. It was the experience of being axed by a big corporation to give my dollar to another huge corporation that didn't have any ties to the local community and that just didn't sit right with me. Okay, right. So you know, to me it's like if you're going to give, you should have some connection back to the community or back to some a cause that means something for you If they're not in your backyard. If they're not in the backyard, yeah, and most instances where they're called POS donations, they don't really have any local nexus, it's usually like St Jude's and that sort of thing.

Dan Fitzgerald:

Again, beautiful charities. Other people have different needs and wants. So that started me down this rabbit hole. I don't like to call it that, but it really was like a rabbit hole because I had no idea what I was going to uncover. But I really started, and I started with POS and this concept started to, you know, evolve in my mind. So, yeah, so that was really how it got. It got got me inspired to do something, something that I can give back, because, again, my community was very, very, very instrumental in in my recovery. And then that whole ill feeling again you get, you felt almost bullied when you, when you, you know, when you, um, you know, are in that situation where they want you to give to a charity. Again, it's only a dollar, I get that, but still it's like doesn't really you should leave there feeling inspired, not like guilt-ridden, right?

Chris Baker:

if you're feeling guilt, guilt-ridden, that that doesn't feel good and it's not going to help you or the community. So that's fair statement to have. So, yeah, you do want to make sure that you feel comfortable. Um, and I would definitely say that I, I know when I'm giving back whether it's my time. You know an, an item, like a service, whatever we're giving back, if it's in my backyard and I can see the impact that they're having on the community, it's 10 100 times stronger.

Dan Fitzgerald:

It's so much different, all about yeah, yeah, Rosi was built mainly as a community building platform. I mean, it's it's, it's a platform I was going to go into, maybe in the next question just to kind of explain what Rosi is, because I'm sure your listeners have no idea what.

Chris Baker:

No, and then actually right now is a perfect segue. So, yes, take it on yes.

Dan Fitzgerald:

Rosi is a. It's a. It's an app based platform for the entire giving community your donors and your volunteers, your nonprofit organizations and also other organizations like companies or clubs or really just a collection of people that want to do some good, and so they all get together underneath this platform and they have equal weighting in the platform and it all comes together and it provides a very valuable tool for generally the smaller nonprofits, but it's a wonderful tool for donors and volunteers because they get everything organized in one place.

Chris Baker:

Explain how that works, can you?

Dan Fitzgerald:

Yeah, yeah, so we have this platform. It's in the app stores now. You can download it and everybody download it. So what you do is you have three portals, so we call them rosy givers. Rosy givers, again, like people like you and me. We download the app or we register online. Either one is fine, and then you get access to all these features. One of the features is access to the details of what we call featured nonprofits. They are featured because they've actually gone through the process of registering with us.

Dan Fitzgerald:

We actually perform some verification just to make sure they're who they say they are, to make sure their ratings that they submitted and that the mission that they've submitted is consistent to the information that's out there.

Chris Baker:

So they're completely vetted. Make sure they're a 501c3. 501c3.

Dan Fitzgerald:

We don't vet them. We verify the information. It's a higher level of threshold, because it's very difficult to actually vet an organization like that. Okay, so ver that.

Chris Baker:

Okay, so verifying.

Dan Fitzgerald:

Right. And the other one is the giving partners, so the other organizations, we call them giving partners. So rosy givers, nonprofits and giving partners. Those are our three ways that you can register.

Dan Fitzgerald:

Yeah, yeah, ways that you can register, yeah, yeah. Giving partners then can go out and solicit their members to become involved in Rosi Giving and then also everything that they're doing will roll under that giving partner, so it really gives them like an equal place in the platform. Right Right now we're focused more on nonprofits and the givers, but we also built the portal for the giving partners as well.

Chris Baker:

So if I'm hearing correctly and tell me if I'm wrong but the giving partner is more kind of like an affiliate.

Dan Fitzgerald:

Yeah, we call them like strategic partners, that sort of thing, and they can be sponsors, they can participate in a variety of different ways. Right, so they can do events. They can do events and sponsor events and promote those events in their community and their members. All the donations that they make to nonprofits would go underneath their giving partner. And then the giving partner can say, well, we're going to match donations or we're going to structure our giving program or something like that, just to make sure that they are treating their members with a lot of respect and honoring what they think is an important nonprofit, instead of going off on their own like a company that might go off on its own and raise money for a charity or two, but there's no connection back to their community.

Chris Baker:

Well, and actually, when you're talking about a company, obviously the decision makers are the ones that are choosing the nonprofit and, depending on the size of the company, in this way, you're getting all the employees to choose how they want to work with them yeah, it's like a democratization of charitable giving yeah, so it's a little bit more.

Chris Baker:

You get to choose where you feel the most comfortable, where you can see the most value going for you and your backyard and your community, versus the stakeholder or the decision makers in the company, just choosing the one or two.

Dan Fitzgerald:

I like that Basically, yeah, and some of the benefits for the rosy givers again the donors and volunteers is one you can donate to several different charities at once to make a donation. You can generally get away with making a smaller donation, like maybe it's like throwing 50 cents in a tin, right, that's really most people don't think twice about that, but you can't really do that on an everyday basis, right? So we're like say, well, that's fine, we got 10 tins in front of you, throw 50 cents in each, or a dollar in each, 10 bucks, and then you check out and then you're done and we handle the rest. And then bucks, and then you check out and then you're done and we handle the rest. And then also the way we structured it is there's a, we have an, we have a 501c3 that we work with, so you're actually making the donation to that 501c3.

Dan Fitzgerald:

So now the benefit of that is you get one receipt and you can generate that receipt online. Push a couple buttons and the receipt comes up, you know. So you can take that, send it to your accountant or file it away for your own. Uh, you know knowledge and uh, so you know, I don't know about you, but whenever I give you know to a charity, I lose the receipts well, yeah, it's uh, depending on where you're donating or you're giving time um all of those receipts yeah donating or you're giving time, um all of those receipts, yeah, yeah, I remember.

Chris Baker:

Unless it can be digital, it's a little it can get lost. And then, yeah, you need it for tax purposes. It's not right you?

Dan Fitzgerald:

just want to. You know you just want to and for the information, for the knowledge that you gave that the information. So, so, yeah, we can do it for any date range or for the entire time on the platform. There's a lot of cool things like that. Also, giver has a dashboard, so there's a lot of different things on the dashboard. One overall, how much they've given over their life on the app, which is cool because most people don't know that, which is cool because most people don't know that. You know. And so if you want to evaluate your impact, you just look at oh, I gave a thousand dollars over the last two years. That's awesome, right? Um, also, you can set goals annual goals and weekly or monthly goals and if you hit those goals, you get a badge. And there's also a lot of other metrics like engagement metrics, like how many non-profits you supported, how many friends you can make rosy friends. It's kind of really, you know, it encompasses a lot of different things so it sounds kind of like a.

Chris Baker:

I mean, besides the actual giving piece of it, it's also like a community app as well, because if you're actually able to connect with other people in the app, you get to understand and find people that have the same values of like giving absolutely and I think that's, that's in the connection, uh, gift in itself and these can also a non-profit can set up multiple.

Dan Fitzgerald:

We call them communities. Community is throughout our offering. We're all about the community. For example, you're a mom or a dad or a grandparent or an uncle or whatever. You want to support your nieces, nephews, kids, whatever, and they have so much going on. They have soccer, dance, baseball schools, different schools because they're different ages. Because they're different ages, we thought, wow, wouldn't it be an awesome experience to go in the app and just pick all your 10 different nonprofits that you want to support PTAs, what have you, some health causes for your aging parent and just go on and once a month, 100 bucks, whatever, and you can allocate different amounts to different nonprofits. So that was really empowering for us because, like, that is just can't really get any easier than that, because most people they'll find is they'll say, yeah, I got to make that donation and then, like they don't do it.

Chris Baker:

A lot of the times it's. It's not that they don't want to. I feel like either a they're waiting for the big event or we get sidetracked.

Dan Fitzgerald:

Yeah, absolutely.

Chris Baker:

I mean right now. We are living in a very fast paced world and if you can do it in, you know, a minute or two, it's easy to get done, it's easy to get done If you wait 10 minutes to a half an hour.

Chris Baker:

You're probably thinking about something else and you've already moved on, so giving this an opportunity to go. Hey, you know what? I just walked by that sign. It reminded me of so-and-so organization that I really want to give to, and they aren't. You already have it in your app and you can give $10 at that minute. That does make sense and it is helpful. That's awesome.

Dan Fitzgerald:

So back to the. So in ROSA we have this concept of a ROSA community. So all nonprofits, they can set up one, two, five, whatever they, however they're organized, and so they can set up the community. If it's a volunteer-heavy nonprofit, they can set up a volunteer community that they can now engage with. You could say, all right, well, the event's in three days, here's the logistics, here's the information, here's what to wear, here's you know whatever.

Dan Fitzgerald:

You can actually send that out to your community and as long as the people have joined that community, they'll get the like a, it's like a news feed and they could send posts, they could send pictures and small short videos, like a little social media light. It's not heavy, it's not meant to be like get this person hooked, because we found that most, or if not all, social media these days has gotten so congested. It's got reels, it's got groups, it's got posts, it's got political nonsense, it's got everything. And if you're a non-profit, you're getting mixed up in all of this and chances are as much as you you're loved. They're just people are just going to go right by you. You, you know, right by you in many cases.

Chris Baker:

You brought up an excellent point, and that's something that we're struggling right now to you know make sure that nonprofits are actually visible, and the problem that we've noticed is there's not enough nonprofits using video right now, we've noticed is there's not enough nonprofits using video right now, and so to stand out in that entire ocean of videos that are constantly set out there, you have to start competing at a higher level, and that's not so easy in a nonprofit's budget. It's something that's extremely difficult. I do like this idea of having a space, a community space, that is geared more towards what are the nonprofits doing? You can showcase your story, yeah.

Dan Fitzgerald:

I mean, you have to figure this out. Now you have a place, an app right where you can pretty much do everything related to a nonprofit. You can donate, you can follow up with them, you can actually find out what events they have. There's a whole event module. So if you're having an event, you put that in your community and you can get that out into your community, and now you're sharing your event and it's all shareable. So I can just click a button and it gets shared to my Facebook or whatever. It's shared via a URL as opposed to a browser, not yet to the app itself, but eventually we'll get there. So yeah, everything is very shareable, very, very shareable. You can share your events, you can share your profiles to a nonprofit, you can share your communities. There's a ton of shareable information.

Chris Baker:

Cool, that's awesome. Yeah, so one of our major questions that we have on the show and specifically we want to talk about different collaborations what are one of your stories that you have on collaboration effort? That was a success from what you've done.

Dan Fitzgerald:

Yeah, I mean the way we approach this right, because we're a startup At the end of the day. We're not, you know, an established business, yet we're a startup. We struggle, there's a lot of.

Dan Fitzgerald:

There's actually a parallel between, like, a newer nonprofit and a startup. They're really the same thing. Right, you have a great idea or a mission. You know you have inspiration. You have a great idea or a mission, you know you have inspiration and have a need for funding to set your programs in motion. So for, for Rosi the, the first thing we did was we went out. Uh well, first of all, let me take a step back, right, because this is kind of a little bit of a funny story right, when I had this idea. I had this idea. It must have been about 10 years ago, but it wasn't this idea, it was like a related idea specific to the POS. Okay, right, and I was going through a lot of emotional things at that time. I was very secretive. I thought I had the greatest idea in the world and basically I didn't let. And I come from a finance background, so I'm like everybody has to sign an NDA, and so what happens was there was creativity was basically stifled.

Chris Baker:

Yep.

Dan Fitzgerald:

Right, progress was not made Right and roadblocks were up all over. I probably took that approach. I don't know for four or five years Years. Right, probably took that approach. I don't know, for four or five years years, right, yeah, it's a long time. And then, finally, I opened it up, I let other people in and we, we had, we got. I never forget this one conversation I had with an old friend of mine and I made him sign nda too at that point.

Dan Fitzgerald:

But, uh, you know, demonstrated to me like what it really truly means to collaborate, and so it was sort of like roll up your sleeves. It was at the beginning of COVID, and you know, we're on the phone on a conference call, video conference call, and we're just spitballing, we're just, you know. And we took what was, again, it was more of a transactional idea that I had had in the POS space. Again, it was more of a transactional idea that I had had in the POS space and it sort of morphed into this living, breathing. And so there's your first bit of collaboration.

Dan Fitzgerald:

But in order to take this through the cycle of basically a startup, you have to do some. You have to find out what are the pain points, right, and you know we some. You have to find out what are the pain points. Right, and you know we really didn't know where to start. We actually were in a couple of programs that we had applied for a startup program to incubators and accelerators and all that. The first part of the first incubator was you just got to get out there, you got to ask questions, you got to interview people, collaborate, right, and so what we did was well, we wanted to focus on the younger generations To find out what's in their mindset, more focused on, again, pos, because that was the original idea. But we had drafted our questionnaire to be broader than that and we found and I have them here. I'm just going to highlight some of the stuff. We interviewed about 50 people, generally Gen Z and millennial. They have a general distrust of large organizations.

Chris Baker:

I can see that. Yep, that makes sense Okay.

Dan Fitzgerald:

They are frustrated with the lack of transparency. That's back to the trust factor. They think that many cases that the money that they give whether it's 50 cents or a dollar that they give to Publix is going to go into a Publix pocket, not the nonprofit organization.

Chris Baker:

Not the ones that they're actually saying would you like to increase this to the nearest dollar, whatever it could be, anything?

Dan Fitzgerald:

right. Also, we kind of just discussed this a little bit earlier. So the preference to give is I'm sorry there's a preference to give where they can see the impact, like you were saying right. By that, though, I mean they'll be more inclined to give to a homeless person because they can see that they'll maybe, or their food or something like that, because they can see the impact, but they're not really so inclined to give to a homeless organization because, again, it's the organization side of the equation that is unknown to them. If I give a dollar and I can see him buying something to eat, then that makes me feel good, but if I give to a homeless shelter, I don't know what happens to anything. The huge desire to spread their contributions over time. So, instead of giving like 500 bucks every Christmas or around the holidays, they'd rather give 10 bucks, 15 bucks, 20 bucks a month and spread it out Generally for financial reasons. But the biggest surprise we got is this overwhelming desire to give to community-based nonprofit organizations, the ones in your backyard, in their backyard.

Chris Baker:

Yeah.

Dan Fitzgerald:

Because it's local, they can see it.

Chris Baker:

Yeah, nonprofit organizations, the ones in their backyard, because it's local, they can see it. Yeah, we can feel it and you can see it.

Dan Fitzgerald:

It's a beautiful thing Then. So we took all this information and we digested it and then we started talking to nonprofit organizations and generally the most consistent feedback we got was they're finding it very hard to reach out to the younger generations. So we're like we have all this knowledge about their sentiments and all that and how they view certain aspects of the giving space. And we've got nonprofits telling us they're eager to reach out to them. So we said, well, wait a second, why don't we build a tool, ie an app, that addresses all of these things? And that was our first real pivot from again that POS transactional model to something much bigger than that. And that's how we came up with. You know, partially and we have a ton of work to do as well on new features and stuff like that, but for the most part, that's what we've got. They can engage, they can communicate with, they can donate to, they can attend events All that under one app. They can get their employer involved as well.

Chris Baker:

Well, when you're a one to two-person nonprofit and you're grass-rooted and you're just getting it off the ground, it is all on you. It's all on you, yep, and it's a passion project. The goal really is to get it to a business model where you can start you know, seeing the way to build and grow and scale, so that you can add the extra money to have staff to help you get these other pieces done. I don't know exactly how much stuff you have to do in Rosi In.

Dan Fitzgerald:

Rosi, if you're a nonprofit, you get access to a dashboard, sure, and you manage everything from the dashboard whether you're communicating with your followers, whether you're establishing your communities, whether you're establishing your events. You have all the information on the transactions that are done. Another cool feature of Rosi is that when you set up your communities let's say, you set up five communities, donors and program whatever you can actually people can donate to that community. So it's almost like a little mini campaign. So you set up that campaign and then you go out, you get your donations to that campaign and then you shut it down and then move on to the next and it's a lot easier. So all the money goes to the same nonprofit. It's just earmarked for a particular reason.

Chris Baker:

Yeah, so I do see, like you were kind of mentioning, right now, the nonprofits are not utilizing it. I think that's a challenge because a lot of the times, especially for the smaller nonprofits, they're their own marketing team and if that's not their expertise, that's already another piece. That's going to be a challenge, because I mean, if they could obviously do it, you know they could do a little bit on Facebook or other places, but creating ads, managing ads or campaign, it's a lot of work. Managing ads or campaign, it's a lot of work. Hopefully Rosi a little bit more simple, simplified, so that hopefully this could be something that they can do in like an hour a week. Oh, for sure, versus, if you're running ads, you need to check this and that and everything, so there's more into that.

Dan Fitzgerald:

But that was one of the administrative tasks where it just kills them and it just takes them away from their mission Because all the donations we collect for them we hold on to them. So we'll collect the money and then we'll agree with the nonprofit on when we pay it out. Is it a time every month or when they need the money, Because we don't want to be paying them small amounts because that adds to the cost?

Chris Baker:

Well, it's also a lot more difficult for billing purposes, because now I've got $1 here and I've got $10 here and I've got $100 here. It might make more sense, can you give it to me quarterly or when you know.

Chris Baker:

When it hits five hundred dollars exactly, let me you know, release the funds to us, and then we can use it, and that's very, uh, very valuable, because now they're not having to worry about all of this coming through. There's not additional, you know, merchant fees that are going to be associated right on top of that. So that makes sense. I like that.

Dan Fitzgerald:

Yeah, we just tried to be super. You know smart about things. Make. Make it's like, it's like a non-profit in a box, right? I hate to use that term because it's like very old school and everything else. But okay, you, it really is. You know, and the nice thing about it is we're not saying all your donations need to be run through. You know, Rosi, right, if you've got big donors out there that write you monster checks, yeah, don't come. Yeah, come online, you know, but when the bigger donations you, just you know that's more.

Dan Fitzgerald:

You've worked harder for that huge donation. You don't want to subject it to.

Chris Baker:

Where I see the real value can technically be for Rosi is the everyday person that, like you said, the millennials, the Gen Zs. They have $5 to give a month. They can't write, they don't want to write the 500 at christmas, but you know, if it's 5, 10, 15, 20 a month and they can just easily throw it through the app. This is a community app like it's, allowing that space for them to still continue to give, but at the right, at the way that they need it. Um, but honestly, if you think about it, if you have a thousand people in your community, all backyard that's giving to organizations, those add up. $5 adds up. Now you're looking at 5,000. Every one of those, that's $5.

Dan Fitzgerald:

We do a $10 minimum, okay, okay, so you have a ten dollar minimum, but still even even a ten dollar minimum.

Chris Baker:

you know ten dollars adds up and it adds up fast, very fast, and if you have enough users and you have the non-profits ready to be in the app and they're ready to receive, I think there's some value in looking at that long right now, because we're going through different changes, with the government freezing funds and we don't know what that means for future, where you know it's kind of one of those pieces where we're still trying to navigate that piece. The strongest thing that we can do right now is tell your nonprofit story to the community. Some of those, the funds that need to be raised is going to come from them, and this is an opportunity. This is an app that can do that on the scale that it needs to be, and I think that that's exactly something that's very important. So I'm glad that you're bringing this out into the world.

Dan Fitzgerald:

Yeah, yeah, me too. I just simply love this app. It takes a lot to get it out in the market, you know. But on the point of collaboration, so there were a number of different nonprofits that we had met that said well, when someone gives us a donation, we like to send a personal note. So we like to do that via email. So this is a really terrible thing. Not so much, but they weren't a big buyer, they weren't fully behind it right away. Right, and so I said it's interesting.

Dan Fitzgerald:

So we took that feedback, we gave it to our developers and we said we want to develop something where the nonprofit at their option sends a note to the donor. So they said okay. So we put that functionality in so when they get their donation they can just click a button and they can write whatever they want, or they can just write a little emoji. I love that because that's how nowadays I tell my kids I've had kids. Oh yeah, emojis are everything everything right and I've told them.

Dan Fitzgerald:

I'm like, historically, you know, you would write these official looking letters and put them in the mail and all that. Then it went to email, but still the same thing, just emailed to people, and slowly but surely it got down to basically emoji, emoji, right. So now nonprofits that want to appeal to and save loads of time right, because it's a lot easier to just hit an emoji goes into an app and then they'll remember that. Right, more than an email, an impersonal email, because emails are just not very personal, they're just like. I would agree with that. Yeah, I mean.

Chris Baker:

I would say most people at this point are texting is kind of like where we're at. I mean, even phone calls are less common, but yeah, okay.

Dan Fitzgerald:

So we have that functionality, then the nonprofits can send a nice thank you, you note, and that goes into their app and on their sort of messaging module of the app.

Chris Baker:

it's, it's right there and then it's still look, it's still like set up and formatted, like it's coming from them yeah, it'll put that little icon on there and then it'll be like whatever it'll say, whatever they awesome yeah, and it happens instantaneously, so it's not like there's no delay.

Dan Fitzgerald:

What?

Chris Baker:

I like what I like from what I'm hearing from you right now. A lot is you're listening to the non-profits, and that is so valuable because a lot of the times, a lot of for-profit companies come in. They want to help the, the nonprofit, but they're not listening to oh, this is what I need or this is how it would be better. And what I'm hearing is you're taking that advice, you're taking that time to go. Okay, if we can make this one change with the developers and give them what they need, it's an extra win-win and everybody is happy One. You're going to have that potential giver longer because they got a thank you note from the nonprofit and the nonprofit is actually going oh, I have this quick ability to leave that note instantaneous.

Dan Fitzgerald:

Or you know when a certain time comes, because one of the things historically, especially for smaller nonprofits, is you go to their website and it says join our community you know, and that means sign up for a mailing list and we'll reach out to you when we see fit, right, which is not a really great way to be, I mean, you know, kind of at their whim, right, and they'll reach out to you when they have an event and I get all that. But we've taken that and we said, well, let's internalize it right, let's give them the ability to set up that community. As I mentioned before, one of the communities could be volunteers and all the messaging is in place for a volunteer versus a program participant. So it gives them more dynamics in the, you know, join my community, you know, so it's another way to you know, engage with your communities.

Chris Baker:

So for people that are looking at this either as a giver, as a nonprofit, or as a community partner Because a giving partner Giving partner when can they download the app and how do they download the app?

Dan Fitzgerald:

Yeah, so just go on to one of the app stores you know Apple or Google Play and just search for Rosi Giving R-O-S-I no E, no Z, it's R-O-S-I Rosi Giving. No Z is R-O-S-I Rosi Giving. Download it, or you could just go onto your browser and you can sign up for it there as well, perfect. Yeah.

Chris Baker:

What's the website so they can get more information? Rosi.

Dan Fitzgerald:

Rosi and if you go on their homepage it kind of gives you instructions about like if you're a Rosi Gver, if you're a nonprofit and if you're a giving partner, and it'll send you to the right registration page.

Chris Baker:

Perfect, perfect. So, as we wrap up, there's one final question. I ask everybody that is on the show what is the legacy you want to leave for future generations?

Dan Fitzgerald:

What is the legacy you want to leave for future generations? Well, we have so much Like the features, the benefits right now. They are what they are right and, as I said before, a startup is like a nonprofit, where you need funding for adding different features and programs and all that. So there is just so much there that we are very confident that we'll be able to get funding for the act of giving makes you feel good.

Dan Fitzgerald:

Like it really does make you feel good. I'm in the Rotary and I mean we just give a lot. It's what we do and the volunteer events we have so much fun. It's like I'm at a volunteer event and I'm having fun.

Chris Baker:

I'm not supposed to be working.

Dan Fitzgerald:

No, because it really does have a positive impact on your life. So that's the legacy we really want is cultivating and being involved in every stage of a giver's life.

Chris Baker:

I love that. That's a really good. It's a really beautiful way. I really. I love that. That's that's a really good, it's a really beautiful way to stand, so I love that. Oh, dan, thank you so much for being on the show today. I really appreciate it. Check out Rosi giving and again, thank you.

Dan Fitzgerald:

Thank you.

Chris Baker:

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