Where did this vision come from?
So that's such a good question.
So the vision actually came from a person named Desh Nishmandu.
He is a philanthropist and through the Nishmandu Foundation is where we actually got the initial
capital to start E4ALL.
And this vision was a project that was launched through the Nishmandu Foundation and through
the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
So that's where the vision came from.
And the vision was really to help level out the playing field.
So Lowell is a city that is known as a gateway city, right?
It's a city that is very high in numbers of immigrants.
It's a city where a majority of the people living in the residence fall under the low
to moderate income bracket and so forth.
And so if you look at cities with that type of numbers and stats, the income level, the
home ownership, it's not equal, right?
Maybe in comparison to other communities and so forth.
So how do you help a community, a city like Lowell, for others to thrive?
You know, because research shows that if the majority of the people in the city are doing
well, the city is going to be that much better off, right?
And so that was the vision was to level out the playing field and really focusing on,
again, underrepresented communities, communities of color, low to moderate income families
and so forth.