Many groups in our nation need our support and financial support, unfortunately there are so many worthy causes that they all end up competing against each other. Sometimes the answer is to get a little creative and try something new. How so you ask?
Well let me tell you about just such a creative solution that I was involved once. You see in our company we set up mobile car wash franchises. And a program director came to me and said; we would like to set up one of your franchises to help fund our special kids group. So, this sounded like a good plan and I worked with the program director of the Special Kids Group on a plan to allow them to operate one of our franchises without paying the franchise initial fee or the on-going royalties, instead the royalties would be given back to the group. Basically it was free to help the Special Kids work and learn how to be self-sufficient.
To make all this work I had lined up a free truck to mount the mobile car wash equipment on from Ford Motor Co as well as some customers in the Corporate Office Parks in Trenton, luckily the group had also lined up some customers too. The project unfortunately got cancelled, but I learned a lot on how these things can work in the future, one day I will probably write down the entire plan in an eBook and put it online for everyone.
My point is sometimes you have to think out of the box, as there are always ways to solve mankind's problems through networking, free enterprise and cooperation with public agencies, unfortunately there is too much bureaucracy and often great programs, fully funded, which do not burden the taxpayer get lost in the shuffle. Perhaps this article will spur on your imagination to think outside your organizations funding needs box and come up with something which might work for you.
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