The Troy Resilience Project and CATCH Grants!

So how does one start a nonprofit? Well, essentially, there are multiple components to it.

The main thing you have to do is determine what your mission is.

So you need a mission and you need a board.

You need bylaws and articles of incorporation.

So there's some paperwork things that you need.

And then you start filing things with the Secretary of State's office.

So there is a process.

And so with the nonprofit status, that does open up doors to things like grants.

And so there is a fair amount of logistical requirements that you need to meet so that The people who are granting you money can feel assured that you're, you know, that you're a good business and agency to carry out what you're trying to execute with the grant funds.

So there is a fair amount of kind of paperwork from the beginning.

But then after that, it really becomes a small business.

And so that was kind of one of the surprising things for me.

I wanted to go out and help kids and make sure they were resilient and educate people in the community.

I really didn't go into it, setting out to start a small business.

As you heard, we have multiple service levels and multiple service lines, that is, and numerous employees.

And so it does definitely become a business.

And so you get to learn quickly, trial by fire, how to run a business as well.

So

speaking of business, how do you...

What services are like billable or how do you do the billable portion?

So our main billable service is our therapy.

And so, so we have to, um, just like a doctor's office or a regular therapy center would have.

So say you were a licensed psychologist, you would have, or less licensed practical counselor, someone doing counseling.

You would get an NDC number for you and for your, for your location, you know, make sure you meet all the licensing requirements, apply to Medicaid to bill.

So we had to do all that process for, for Medicaid billing.