New Found Hope!!!

A few days ago a met an architect at school who's thinking of building the same thing for Chinquapin, a SENIOR LOUNGE!. So that's quite a coincidence and good one too. So as of right now I'm trying to contact her so she could hopefully be in my panel and help me.
So there's an architect, Emily, who decided teach an architecture class at my school. It's called the design team. So two good things popped up than can definitely help me on my project. We just had our first class and was really interesting and fun. A class I definitely look forward too. Emily let us know that we would be working on a project of our choosing. That's not all, the winning idea and design would be actually constructed at our school. This is the best news I've heard!, well relating to my project. So far things are going well and opportunities are showing up left and right when I least expected it.

What Now?

So the Dyrdek Foundation which I probably put too much hope in, told me they weren't able to fund my project. I knew that there was a chance they wouldn't, since most of the stuff they got involved with was skaters, but I didn't let that keep me down. I contacted them and they told me they only funded projects that had to do with  building skate plazas around the city. Though, they did wish me luck. I'm still on the search to find someway to fund this senior lounge.
I do realize there's still several ways to find somebody to fund my project. Another program I've been looking into is the National Endowment for the Arts. They allow you to apply for grants, but I'm a bit hesitant to try and do so. I've been hearing about a couple of other great opportunities and people who can help me out, but I'll fill you in as soon as I find out.