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So our various couple of things on one of the University of Pennsylvania, where I graduated in 2018 under Grant, does offer pretty prestigious grand opportunity where they provides sheer groups creating a so a nonprofit social enterprise $100,000 um, to start a nonprofit. And so we applied for that. I worked my entire senior year with local Chicago, um, social service agencies to put it all together and and we want. So that's kind of that's kind of how since then, you know, we've never lost out hunger. I've never lost our desire to improve, you know, fundamentally, from where I come from, my parents always insulted me that everyone deserves an opportunity. And that is where my desire t create change. Positive change at that comes from and why I'm interested in on profits. I do, you know, in terms of banking and other things. You know, um, I joke that I'm still a banker. I'm just not a financial banker. I do find this work, you know, equally, if not more rewarding, creating societal good instead of just, um, positives and some of its balance sheet
Uh, yeah. So the first couple of weeks, it was just my shelf of my two partners. We collect donated furniture from all over, and we store and display it. And as people transition from homelessness and shelters on apartment housing, they come in and get everything they need for $50. So our first weeks, or is a combination of us hitting the road in a rental truck, uh, picking up donated furniture from all over And then to also cold calling agencies alerting to them, you know? Hey, we're new in town. We have a giant warehouse were collecting furniture. Um, for that, your that your client will be able to get for free and then also just stand. You know, developing a website, developing a caseworkers guide policies, procedures, displacing it. There's a There's a lot, a lot of work that goes into creating regardless of the idea, regardless of its for profit or nonprofit. You know, before you're able to take your ideas and and tell someone about it, you have to create materials. You have to have bonnet about it. It is very evident if someone asked you a question and you've never thought of it before, but it is very telling in terms of your preparedness and experience. Um, how you answer these questions?
it was very so I'll answer the team first and then some. Some other things, definitely the team, you know, it's myself into. Withers wrote in my Partner, Griffin and ER, and there are four partner James MacPhail. We kind of each had three different, very strengths. I'm very, very personal. Uh, I speak a lot. I am a networker. And do that. I, uh, did and still built out our nonprofit relationships. So we so client were not open to the public partner. Agencies have to prefer a client, so I created are 300 plus partnerships and that's and I take care of everything and getting the furniture out. Let's get it all in and get it out. Griffin and er, uh, who actually came up with it with the original idea and and strung us along? Um, he's He has always been the furniture. Procure. Um, she's brazen. He has that charisma. People call you on a dime and it to talking. And once you get in the talk, you can't shut him up. Uh, and so he was the one getting us the furniture from from all different sources, corporate or residential. And then James also very, um, you know, high CQ is, well, relationship building volunteer as well was really, um he was, ah, consultant. So we had experienced creating documentations, filing documents, putting together the materials that we need to distribute because at the end of the day, um, the people we work with are very, very, very busy. They don't They can't just read, you know, books on books and stuff. They have 80 80 clients. So, you know, making those deliverables, making the liberals for our fundraising, all of that. So it kind of we each had our separate strengths, and it kind of just it came together.