Giving Back - We Genuinely Care
10% of CTFP profits goes to local community charities and food banks
As CTFP's commercial cleaning mastermind's highest value is to Fight poverty and we believe in giving back to the community and in helping those less fortunate by providing 10% of our profits to support various charities, food banks, and local causes that are important to the communities that we are in.
We believe Inclusion is as much an economic argument as a moral one. Think about what we lose when groups of people are unintentionally or universally forgotten from fully and equally participating in the business world.
We believe that everyone should have food security and should have the financial resources to support themselves and their family members. It’s long past time to unbuckle the “bootstraps” narrative arguing that people experiencing poverty simply need to work harder or make better personal choices. In fact its policies and laws that perpetuate poverty and racial inequity.
CTFP also invest 50 % of its profit back into the business to help more low-income families. We focus not only to serve the community but to build each other and strengthening low-income families therefore they lift themselves from financial challenges.
By finding commercial cleaning contracts to low-income families, we are giving them a monthly income this can dramatically reduce poverty and improve families long-term well-being.
Financial stability also gives families resilience in the face of financially stressful life events such as unemployment, divorce, disability, or health problems. The COVID-19 pandemic showed how many Americans are close to the brink and lack sufficient resources to weather emergencies.
At the federal level CTFP is advocating to make temporary tax credits that help low-wage families permanent a policy position shared by the government. CTFP strongly supports policies and programs that provide a monthly income floor for the lowest income people.
We believe that monthly income offers the best hope to provide people with resources to make important life choices that everyone wants the ability to make—where to live, how to invest in a better future through education, starting a business, and how to best support children.
CTFP wants Enterprise from low-income families and underserved communities to bring their stories to life, giving you an inside look at the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of America’s business community.
Fast Facts
Why entrepreneurs from low-income families fail in cleaning industry?
50% Lack of funds to afford cleaning products and equipment
60% Lack of business opportunities and support to sustain the competitive advantage
90% Large commercial cleaning franchisors monopolize the market
In most States Small Medium Cleaning Enterprises (SMCEs) are usually seen as minor businesses and their socio-economic importance is often ignored. This negligence has given way to a judicial framework that is less specific concerning SMCEs and their businesses, small franchisee due to the fact that many Franchisors are more powerful and well recognized instead of small franchisees who are actually doing all the work, the Franchisors have little impact on the lives of the poor.
Across the country, pilot programs offering a guaranteed income to local residents from low-income families have measurably improved participants’ financial stability. Participants in these programs are using funds in ways that benefit their families’ long-term economic health—by paying for rent in a better school district, taking a community college course to improve job skills, saving to cover the expenses of starting a small business, or eliminating old debts that would otherwise trap a family in perpetual poverty.
For example, California 125 residents living at or below median income were given a $500 monthly stipend with no strings attached for 24 months. Not only did recipients’ quality of life improve, but researchers found that their participation in full-time employment jumped from 28 to 40 percent.
In the state of Illinois several guaranteed income initiatives and pilot programs are underway. At the local level Chicago Alderman Gilbert Villegas has proposed a pilot program to provide $500 per month for a year to 5,000 low-income residents of the city to be funded with $30 million of the city’s $1.9 billion in American Rescue Plan funds.
Other pilot programs supported by private philanthropy are also underway. Cook County plans to build on a successful initiative that gave direct payments to families facing financial hardship during the pandemic with a similar program in 2021. And at the state level a broad coalition of community-based and grass roots organizations is working together to study the results of the Illinois pilot programs, educate legislators, and ultimately advocate for legislation to establish a statewide guaranteed income program.
The statistics shows that cleaners are integral to the entrepreneurial system and have significant power to transform society if organized properly. The research argues that the key to ending poverty of is through the collective transformation of society.
CTFP model is very much needed now than ever as it will provide monthly income to those enterprises and increase job opportunities. We believe that entrepreneurs from low-income families are willing to help solve some of the world’s greatest challenges and contribute to economic growth.