2/28 Opportunity Village Hoops Hoopla Basketball Challenge

Joanna and Sean interview Opportunity Village about their upcoming Hoops Hoopla Basketball Challenge in March.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We love when guests join us in the studio.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's Joanna and Sean right here on Sunny one oh
six point five and one of our favorite charities to
support year round is Opportunity Village. So joining us in
the studio this morning is Taylor Palmer, director of Development
with Opportunity Village.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Welcome to the show. Thank you, thanks for having me.
We're excited to have you here.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
You that's a really cool thing going on the month
of March that Sean and I are going to be
participating in.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh, we're so excited.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
So March is a huge month for us, so it
is Developmental disability is awareness month a little bit of
a mouthful, but it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
We're super excited, very important to us.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Over an Opportunity Village obviously want to bring as much
awareness to developmental disabilities as we can, and so one
of the things that we're doing is a big March campaign.
We're trying to raise one hundred thousand dollars a couple
of different ways, but one of our favorite ways to.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Do it is through our hoops Hoop Law.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
NCAA bracket tournament, So you can sign up online and
you can pick your men's and your women's brackets.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
This year we've added the women's bracket.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yes, super excited, So fifty dollars for one or ninety
dollars to do both, okay, and then you get to
pick your teams and you know, brag to all your
friends about how your bracket's doing better than mine.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
That's so awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
You guys have been doing this for a little bit now,
and it is a really big fundraiser for you guys,
especially right headed into the springtime.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
One hundred thousand dollars. That's a huge goal.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Now, anybody who's not familiar with Opportunity Village, I'd be
surprised about. But let everybody know about what that money
goes towards helping here in our community.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Sure, so Opportunity Village.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'm sure so many of you have been to the
Magical Forest, but we like to say Opportunity Village is
magical even beyond the Magical Forest. So we provide services
to adults living with intellectual and developmental disabilities throughout our community.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
We're the biggest nonprofit that serves them.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
We serve about three thousand people a year and they
get full wrap round services. So anything from like dayhabilitation services.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Up to find and performing arts.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
We have a OVLVI group, our Traveling Elvis Tribute Group
el Elviving.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Oh, really cool. It is a site to behold. It's
so fun, so all that kind of fun stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
And then we actually have a residential community too for
people with disabilities, which is really special, so it runs
the whole gambit, but really we're wrap around services for
people with disabilities.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, so those funds are going towards amazing causes of
helping out so many people and their families too.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yes, absolutely, all the people that love them. So when
do people?

Speaker 4 (02:21):
When do can people start signing up for this and
start filling out their brackets?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Okay, so you can sign up to start the brackets
on March first. That runs through the twentieth, but you
can't pick your teams until the sixteenth, So you have
the sixteenth to the twentieth actually go in there and
pick your teams. Once they do the announcements of which
teams have made.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
It, yeah, oh yeah, they got to do the whole
selection day. And hopefully our UNLV run and rebels are
in there somewhere.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Fingers crossed.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
I'm a WNLV grad so I've got I've got my
fingers crossed, all.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Right, love, we love to see that.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
That's so awesome And yeah, like you said, it's it's
obviously for a great cause. It's all about the bragging rights.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
One hundred percent of the proceeds benefit Opportunity Village, which
is huge. And you know, of course, it's just it's
a fun thing to get you know, like Sean and
I are doing it. Like, get your office coworkers together
to do this, right, get your family, get your everybody
in your text group, chat right, get them to do
it together. Have a little friendly competition because you're helping
out such an amazing cause.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, and competing against us, I would love. I want
to see the trash talk. I want to see, Hey, hey,
guess what we're beating Joanna and Sean and then tag us.
So we'll put you on our social media.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
It's the best. And you can compete against Taylor as well.
The bar very low. It's to be successful there.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
But my family loves to remind me that my dad
and uncle have beat me in my bracket every year.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Hoops hooplah.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
That's a fun word to say. Coming up, you can
start getting in the mix with that. Where do people
go to sign up, get their bracket, donate all that
good stuff, So you're.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Just gonna go to supportov dot org and hoops Hoopla.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
The NCAA Basketball Bracket returns to support our friends An
Opportunity Village Taylor Palmer, thanks for stopping by, Thanks for
having me,