I understand. Unfortunately, I can’t help you with this. We have no funding to provide training, even to those with similar worthy goals. My business underwrites all of ABQFI’s expenses and I’m willing to continue to do that but for two things:
Cost effectiveness. As my business pays for everything, the financial sacrifice of my family is minimized by training many people at once. It takes as much time to train one person as it does to train 10 people. Moreover, those 10 people will then create product that ABQFI donates -each person is not creating product (even with their own materials) that they then distribute as they see fit.
You are asking for something I cannot provide. I cannot cease business operations to set aside the time to train one person on the use of my intellectual property, in order for them to use my machines, my utilities and overhead to say nothing of liability -and in this environment of coronavirus, we have very strict conditions under which we would allow someone in the factory. If we should become a training center in the future, and you signed up for a class during a designated time, we could train you on whatever project the class would include (as opposed to one of your choosing). Surely you can see that yours is a big ask; I cannot provide training ad hoc to someone for free, at a time they prefer and on a project of their choice, using my intellectual property. In fact, I don’t know of an organization in existence that will do what you are expecting of me. I hope you find that.
]]>No, my only purpose is so that I sew just a handful of covers for a specific rescuer and I bought the fabric for it. It is the same fabric you have used. I asked if you were still offering the free training as described in your blog above so that I can just make these covers for now.
]]>Hi Juanita
We provide training to people who will make trap covers here in the factory, using our precut materials. We then donate the covers to rescue organizations. I’m thinking you had something else in mind. I do offer training here in my factory, not as part of the incubator but as my business. It is designed/intended for commercial parties so it costs quite a bit more than home sewing classes. Maybe you will have the chance to participate in one of our boot camps?