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We realized early on that we needed to find a funding source. In order to be successful
both fund and friend raising folks that are going to help the program we needed to leverage
our student veterans. So what we started doing is pairing up student veterans that I thought
could be particularly powerful at a different event and just told their story and it is
genuine and it is from the heart and there is, you know, nothing hidden behind it. It
is just a young vet coming out, telling this is what I have spent my last 2 or 3 years
of my life doing. And it’s, it’s brought us a huge amount of support.
We are able to reach out for other funding, reach out for scholarship development and
things like that. Again by showing our donors, by showing our alumni, by showing the administration
what’s happening in our office through growth and, and some of our outcomes. And so it,
it again attracts more outside funding for our office.
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