Dorscher Home | Application Preview
Dorscher Home is applying for government grants to enhance its operations and better serve foster youth. The funding will enable them to hire additional staff, acquire improved equipment, upgrade security, and cover personal expenses incurred since 2014.
The organization focuses on helping young adults, typically 18 and older, who have faced trauma in multiple foster care homes. They aim to expand their services to include younger individuals aged 12-17 to make a more significant impact in the community.
Dorscher Home has faced challenges in securing funding in the past, operating for nine years without grants while striving to support foster youth. They highlight their struggle to assist these children, often at personal financial sacrifice.
In terms of competition, they face established organizations like Faine House, The Villages, and Great Oaks Village. However, Dorscher Home differentiates itself by requiring participants in its program to be employed or engaged in work, and has created businesses (such as vending, box truck, and landscaping services) to provide job opportunities for foster youth, making this initiative relatively unique within the foster care landscape.
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General Information
Business Registration Number: 42-5393512
Location: Orlando, FL, United States
Length of Operation: 6-10
Number of Employees: 1-10 Employees
Annual Gross Income: Less than $100k
Annual Gross Expense: Less than $100k
Open to Loans: NO
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Funding Usage
With this Grant, we can hire more staff. With this Grant, we can get better equipment With this Grant, Dorscher Home can upgrade our security With this Grant we can actually pay ourselves a small amount for all the out of pocket expenses we have had to do since 2014
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Business Plan
We get our young adults at the age of 18 and usually they have already been in several foster care homes and has suffered too much trauma by then, we have an idea of opening an under 18 (12-17 year olds) to be exact and maybe reach them at a younger age to make a better impact on our community. We have been operating under the impression that we could not even get a grant, we have never requested for one. So struggling for 9 years trying to help our community rid the streets of our foster youth is very difficult especially when we have kids of our own and we take from our own to give to our foster youth. Which we have been doing since June 2014 when we opened.
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Self Identified Competition
Our competitors 1. Faine House (Granted and Heavily funded) 2. The Villages 3. Great oaks Village In order to stay in our program, you will need to be employed or working. Our young adults struggle with this matter and usually find themselves discharged from the program for this reason. After seeing this to often i decided to open BDFM and associates where we have a vending machine business box truck business Landscaping business All these are so i can employ the foster kids myself and keep them in our program. This is rare in the Foster care business i will be one of very few
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