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As you may have realized by now, answers to these 4 questions often overlap, and collectively can provide the underpinnings of a business plan. A business plan, whether informal or professionally done, helps you focus on the essentials of your business. It is required if you will approach a traditional loan source, such as a bank, for financing. And it may be necessary for types of creative financing, such as venture capital, whether from an established fund or through crowd-funding. The following resources are both based in the Chicago area. Life’s Plan Inc. Pooled Trust Services can help with financing for individuals who meet their criteria. Perk Center Café can serve as an example or inspiration for folks looking to start their own micro-enterprise. Life’s Plan Inc. Pooled Trust Services - website Life’s Plan Inc. Pooled Trust Services periodically offers Micro-industry grants of up to $2,000 for adults with disabilities or mental illness who meet Social Security’s disability eligibility criteria under the Supplemental Security Income. This is a one-time award for individuals or partnerships (less than 4 people). Details about proposal requirements can be found at Life’s Plan’s website and questions/inquiries can be emailed to Scott Nixon. Local (Chicago Area) Micro-Enterprise The Perk Center Cafe is a not-for-profit business enterprise created through Great Potentials, Inc. and by four parents and one sibling of an individual with intellectual/developmental disabilities. It is a collaboration with the Glenview Park District, who donates the space for the Cafe. The Perk Center Cafe’s goals are four-fold: to provide employment, volunteer, and vocational training opportunities to individuals with developmental disabilities; to offer good quality food to customers; to build positive relationships in the community; and to serve as model to others who might wish to create businesses for the purpose of employment of people with disabilities. Feel free to visit the website. Contact Gail Metrick by email. M 21
Having our Baby! The road to parenthood, symbolically speaking, defies basic arithmetic as the only time one plus one equals three. It is considered one of the major milestones of any given person’s adult life. While not all people choose to have children; and some have medical issues that make having a biological child risky or impossible; most everyone intent on having and/or raising a child finds a way to do so. And, generally speaking, that process moves forward for individuals and couples without interference from outsiders, other than those involved in the process of adoption. That is not always the case for adults with disabilities. <strong>Issue</strong>s for them range from having to adapt how they provide care for their child due to the disability to dealing with child welfare authorities concerned that the disability affects their fitness as parents. The first issue is easier to find solutions for; parents can get very creative about this. My mother-in-law told my husband a story about a woman she knew with no arms who gave her baby baths using her feet. 22
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