It’s been a hard week. Greta Thunberg’s speech at the UN, full of dire predictions and calls to action has people thinking about what we might be facing in the future. The current drama playing out between the White House and Congress has everyone whipped up into a frenzy over how we are divided in […]

Up to this point, all of our efforts with $0$ have been with people we know personally: either old friends or people we have been working with in-house. And while these efforts have been important and have allowed us to get our feet wet, they haven’t really been good at getting us out to the […]

As I said before, despite the fact that I am disabled, I grew up relatively priviledged. I had a lot of advantages, and those advantages included parents to catch me when I fell and fund my recovery, and some absolutely amazing therapists who helped me find my way when I was in recovery. Because of […]

We are just getting started with $0$ as an organization. We have been planning for a long time, but we are just now starting to do things. We haven’t yet filed the paperwork to become an official entity yet, but we are working on that as quickly as possible. It’s one of the big things […]

Alan has talked about his reasons for creating and working on $0$. It’s time for me to talk about mine. Born an academic I’ve always been smart. For the first third of my life, my intelligence was the defining feature of my life. In SC, we had to take a standardized test every year in […]

We’ve talked a lot about what $0$ is. Now let’s talk about what $0$ isn’t. $0$ is not a charity While we here at $0$ do provide aid to those who need it, we do not consider ourselves a charity. We are a service provider. We enable people to help others and to help themselves. […]

There are two people primarily responsible for $0$, Alan Underwood and Tug Brice. I’m here today to tell you a little bit more about the co-founders of this project. Alan has been a designer for the better part of two decades. He started in marketing, and quickly discovered he had a gift for seeing things […]

The mission of $0$ is to help people. I said before that $0$ is user-focused, and what that means is that we look at the little picture. There are a lot of organizations that have big missions, that aim to help with disasters or solve community problems. That’s not what helping people means to us. […]

 Hello everyone, and welcome to the blog for $0$. My name is Elliott “Tug” Brice, and I am one of the co-founders of the project. My job is to be the public face on the charity side of things. I’ll mostly be the one writing these posts, and telling you the stories of the people […]