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Interviewer: John as I am listening to you talk now, I could see
some people having questions related to funding. How do you pay for
this kind of networking, because it does not seem like it fits nicely
into any kind of funding niche?
John Luna: It does not, right off the bat. You could either work
twenty hours trying to get into the door of a business or by networking
you could get in for five. It is one of building trust. It does not
fit into a nice little niche of the payment system at all, but it
is either simply, pay me now pay me later, like the old commercial
that used to be on TV. If you do not do networking, your job is going
to be much, much harder.
Networking whether it would be the director or whether it would be
the manager, but someone in the organization has to do that. It has
to be a commitment to not only networking but also having the skills
to be able to talk the employer about hiring people with disabilities,
and not from a social service mentality. You are not asking for dollars
out there, you are asking for potential employees. Because what you
are doing is that once you have placed somebody in that job, they
become a taxpayer. They also assist in buying things locally, which
increases the tax base. In essence, all the dollars that the CRP is
getting, comes from the taxpayers. So what you are doing, basically,
is providing more taxpayers. In the long run, you are helping yourself.
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