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RASCW Member Charlie Wills Wins NAR Good Neighbor Award

October 22, 2024

Charlie speaks about how and why his organization 100 Men of Dane County was created.


Video Transcript


The simplicity of the group was really key when we created it. So, in order to give away $100,000, we had to make it simple. So, again, just being guys, we were sitting around the table and I said, oh, 100,000 divided by 100, that's $1000 a guy, that seems pretty doable every quarter.

The reason we focused on children is that we believe if we can help those generations, that was then gonna make generational change forward, right? So every group of kids, now we've got seven years later, we were helping 10, 11, 12 year-olds. Well, they're now out, right? They're in the workforce, they're in college, they're wherever they are, and now the next generation is now being impacted for the next seven years. So, if we can infect multiple generations with this kind of impact over and over and over again, I, I can only think that this city in 10, 15, 20 years is gonna look so much different, um, than where it is today. And that, that's the hope, it's like, plant the seed for that tree, that tree is gonna grow, and I just gotta wait 20, 30 years to see the fruit, and, and uh I think the fruit's gonna be really beautiful.



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