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Explore your benefits at associatedhairprofessionals.com 47 in 2017. I was doing haircuts for donations for toiletries, and I got a lot of donations. I thought, "I really want to do something for the community." When I was a single mom with my oldest, I worked three jobs when I was trying to build my clientele again. I was going through a divorce, filing bankruptcy— everything was just crazy. I remember trying to apply for assistance and I couldn't because I made "too much." But I barely was making it; my car was getting repossessed! I thought, "Even with school, there are a lot of people in that middle class where their parents can't pay for school, but according to their taxes or income they don't qualify for financial aid." I wanted to do a donation event to see if I could raise money to pay tuition for someone who's in that middle ground. e first "Cut-a-on" I did was in 2020, and it was super small. We raised over $2,000. [e second year], it tripled in size. I had a barber, stylist, 20 vendors, a DJ, food, the local news, podcasters. We raised $4,400 that year. Every year it's grown. I talked to a lawyer this year to start the process to be an actual nonprofit, so I'm super excited about that. at will mean we can get big sponsors and hopefully pay someone's full tuition, or more than one person's tuition. No one can take your education from you. My license and my skills? No one can take that from me. is license has taken care of me and my family in every situation I was in. Not all of us are equipped to go to college,