The House
@myself_wheniamreal (107)
United States
December 8, 2006 6:27pm CST
i'm going to school for urban development. basically, it's learning how to open and run a non-profit. i want to open a homeless shelter that changes the way people look at homeless shelters. i want it to be a place focused on life skills education and not one time handouts. i want it to be a place where people can come and live and call their home while learning how to make a resume, cook, budget money, keep a job, get an apartment, clean. i want to teach people the things most people take for granted knowing. i want it to become so popular and have it in every major city in america. i want to call it "the house." what do you guys think?
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@myself_wheniamreal (107)
• United States
25 Jan 07
well, what i'm beginning to see in learning about non-profits and that world is that if you can come up with a proposal that people believe in, you can do anything you want. If you can get the training, the license, the required materials, and write a really good proposal and send it to the right people, you can get grants and other funding then you can do what you want. My suggestion on getting government money, though is wait until Bush's term is up. It's pretty much clear that there will be a democratic president next (hopefully Obama, but that's another discussion...) and democrats tend to be a little more willing to support non-profits than republicans.
hope this helps!
