EL Easley Labs × Rent-A-Theme Proposal · 60-sec version
For Tonya Milligan · May 2026

From event rental to Colorado's most fundable play company.

A clearer story. A signature program. A rebuilt website. A grant pipeline that pays for the rebuild. Below is the gist. The full proposal is one click away.

Four moves

This is the entire strategy.

01

Stop selling rentals. Start selling outcomes.

Three audiences (schools, senior communities, corporate brands). Built around what the room produces, not what gets unloaded from the truck.

02

Make Grandfriends Play Days the signature.

Students visit a senior community for 2 hours of facilitated play. Five accessible stations. The only intergenerational program in Colorado. Funders fund this exact thing.

03

Run one pilot. Get two case studies.

One senior community + one school + one sponsor. Five hundred dollars out of pocket. Photos, named quotes, mood-lift data, and a sponsor packet within 10 business days.

04

Shift the website cost from your pocket to a grant.

22 ranked targets. Top 5 drafts already written. Amber Grant, Comcast RISE, Hello Alice, plus warm sponsor pitches to Toyota and Kaiser. We help you submit.

2 hrs
on-site pilot
5
accessible stations
22
ranked grant + sponsor targets
$40-80K
first 90 days, probability-weighted
!

Quick legal status note

You are an S-Corp, not a 501(c)(3). The whole pipeline is built around small business / BIPOC / woman-owned / DBE grants and corporate sponsors. No 501c3-only foundations pursued directly. Eisner and AARP-tier grants get unlocked in year two via a fiscal sponsor partnership (we have a draft outreach to Bessie's Hope ready).

Where to next

Pick one.