TwiddleU Inc | Application Preview
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General Information
Business Registration Number: 85-0925658
Location: SMYRNA, GA, United States
Length of Operation: 1-5
Number of Employees: 1-10 Employees
Annual Gross Income: $100k to $250k
Annual Gross Expense: Less than $100k
Open to Loans: NO
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Funding Usage
In order to serve more members in our community, our programs will need to be able to accommodate double the amount of participants we have now. This will require use to hire additional staff. Since most of our students and families are low-income, we aim to keep our programs at minimal or no cost to families in need.
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Business Plan
With approximately 1 in 44 U.S. children living with autism and 1 in 6 children with neurodivergence, there is an extremely high demand for diverse learning options with limited or inadequate choices for parents, not only in our community, but nationwide. This is a growing dilemma for parents who have run out of options to provide the education and services their children need while also maintaining a career. TwiddleU is expanding to accommodate our ever-growing community by creating new special education programs to include year- round programming, private educational resources and co-working space for parents. Due to our organization being transformational and the sustainability of our programs, we have had a lot of interest from families outside of our geographic area, so our goal is to open 3 new schools in 3 different counties in the metro Atlanta area where the need is the greatest in the next 2 years. We have plans over the next 5 years to expand our programs to other states. We are also wanting to become RDI certified which is family-based, behavioral therapy that teaches parents how to work with their children at home and beyond the classroom to ensures continuous success. The leaders of the organization have successfully run a business for the past 9 years. TwiddleU started because, during COVID-19, public schools had a hard time accommodating students with special needs. The students within our program were told that the public school they are assigned to did not have the capacity to teach them, so they would have to transfer them out to different schools. Therefore, special needs students found themselves without a school option close to home for the school year. The school system has admitted this is an issue that they are not able to solve within the next school year. As the parent of a 6-year-old daughter with level 1 autism, the CEO has experienced these challenges firsthand. Our nonprofit was able to supplement that program. Several parents came together and voiced their concerns for their neurodiverse and Autistic children who were falling behind in school. In addition, they were unable to obtain after school or summer care for their children due to the specific requirements of care they would need. Several parents were intending to have their children repeat the same grade since they were not able to keep up with students at their grade level. We implemented a summer program, and, by the end of summer, 100% of the parents saw an increase in their children’s educational understanding including literacy & reading, math and science. 100% of the program participants felt that their children were ready to continue to the next grade level. This led to a continuation of programs offered throughout the year to families. In addition, we provide parents with a co-working space as well as career training and guidance in order to combat poverty and unemployment. We are very passionate about our mission, and the parents in our community rely on us. As business owners, the ability to provide for our children while also maintaining our careers is very important. When someone invests in our business, we make sure to stretch those funds are far as they can go in order to benefit as many families in our program as possible.
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Self Identified Competition
Since we have a unique business model, there are no competitors who offer similar programs we offer. If we had to list potential competitors, our top 3 competitors would be the Marcus Autism Center, private schools, and state funded after school programs. No other educational program offers a co-working space for parents while also providing programs for Autistic and neurodiverse children at minimal or no cost to families in need. The Marcus Autism Center has an extensive waiting list, but they focus on diagnosis, not educational solutions. Private schools are costly, and they require you to organize your own therapists to come to school. This is also an additional. out-of-pocket expense. Where we are located, state funded after school programs stop at elementary school which means there are no programs in place for middle and high school- aged Autistic and neurodiverse children.
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