Danny Combs

It's fantastic.

And with that, it makes sustainable funding because every year when somebody wants to reissue their plate, get their little stickers for their license plate, they have to pay it again.

It's really creative and we get to advise.

That doesn't mean that, you know, we get the final say, but it's really neat to have a seat at the table and make sure that the voice of our community is heard.

And then we get to take that funding and provide grant opportunities for a whole bunch of groups throughout the state from for profits to nonprofits to state offices to municipalities of the fundings open to everybody, as long as there is at least a committee of folks with disabilities overseeing it, which we're really proud of to make sure there's like a nothing about us without us kind of mindset.

Yeah, it covers all disabilities, which is amazing.

And especially with the work that I've got to do in autism.

And I think that the governor asked me to do this because building TACT and the Colorado Neurodiversity Chamber of Commerce and those teams from ground up, this very much feels like a startup.

Sure, that makes sense.

With that startup kind of mindset, one of the things I'm excited to be starting in your neck of the woods in Tennessee is a new group called Buildable.

And it's kind of taking the idea that we've been working on with TACT for all these years and the fact that no one has copied this idea of using the skill trades as vessels to develop employment skills, just to get neurodivergent individuals.

And here in Colorado, at least, it has grown to be the most successful transition to employment program in the state.

Nice.

Over 1,000 students, it was 1,057 students went through it last year.

We regularly get folks that reach out and say we'd like to do this in our state.

Well, we're going to do it.

We're doing it under a different name because folks have advised us, the people that are smarter than me with the fancy law degrees advise us to do it this way.

It'll be a separate organization, but it's kind of taking the IP behind that.

And it's taking it, creating this platform and transition, educational transition, training and education program for autistic and neurodivergent individuals to get job skills and then hopefully to careers.

That's what we're trying to do.