Two · The point of itWhat the work is meant to pay for
Two initiatives, both at the very beginning. Neither is an incorporated charity. Neither is accepting money, and nothing here is tax-deductible. What follows is a statement of intent and a way to be told when it stops being one. I would rather put it on the record early and be held to it than announce it once it is safe.
Stage — not yet formedScholarships to Massive Masters
Massive Masters teaches how capital and businesses actually work. It is the material nobody hands you at seventeen and everybody assumes you have by thirty.
The intent is simple: fund seats for young people who would take the training if somebody else paid for it. Not a discount, not a payment plan — a paid seat, and somebody checking in on whether they finished.
There is real work between here and there: forming the entity, applying for exempt status, and the safeguarding that comes with running anything for people under eighteen. None of that is done. When it is, this section will name the entity and say who registered it.
Where the money will come from: the businesses listed above, and donors. Never from an investment fund, and never from a deal. The education side and the investment side do not touch, and a charity I control is not an exception to that.
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Stage — planned, nothing openRestore Americana
An automotive shop that restores old American cars, staffed by people rebuilding their lives — including people in recovery from addiction and alcoholism.
The work is real work: bodywork, paint, upholstery, wiring, mechanical. A trade you can carry to any other shop in the country, a paycheck on Friday, and at the end of it a finished car sitting in the light that somebody put their hands on.
The shop is the first business, not the only one. A restoration shop needs machining, upholstery, parts sourcing, transport and photography anyway. Each of those is a job, and each is a candidate to become its own small business growing inside the first one.
What this is not: not treatment, not counselling, not a recovery program, and not a substitute for any of them. It is a job in a shop. Nobody's recovery is anybody's business but their own, and nobody will ever appear on this website as an example.
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And after those two
A way for other people to start one of these
Standing these two up from nothing is teaching me how much of the work is paperwork, and how much of that paperwork is the same every time. If it turns out to be repeatable, the tooling becomes its own thing. Nothing is built and nothing is scheduled. It is written here so it is on the record, not so it counts as an announcement.