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Tell me about your vision. Sure. So I own Innovant

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consulting. We're a non-profit consulting firm.

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We're not a non-profit. We consult for non-profits

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and work with a variety of organizations to help them with their

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grant writing and development needs primarily in the grant space.

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I started the company in 2016 really because I had a vision of

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being able to support local non-profits at that time. It's

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really where it started with their grant writing needs because I

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could see such a huge gap in the need for having funding to be

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able to do programs in our community and help our community

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and the ability to just have the time to write those grants and like to get the

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applications and to get that funding. So my vision was to be able to support

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them and kind of be that missing staff member that just came in,

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sent the grant application in and was out without being a burden on their

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salary or their operating expenses. So that was the initial vision.

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My vision has grown since then obviously years later now

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to be really a non-profit, like no wrong door

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approach type of organization. So any non-profit, any stage of development can

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come to us and get something to support their goals and

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their needs. So we do low ticket items,

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everything from like digital downloads and templates to hire,

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you know, we do all of their grant writing and grant management. We like to

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take over at their grant department. So that's really the vision is to just

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have this, like in one sentence, a no wrong door

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approach for non-profits. I love that idea and it's important that

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you say that you are a consulting firm that works with

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non-profits, not a non-profit consulting firm.

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Right, yeah. Very different. We are not a non-profit, but we work

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exclusively with non-profits.