Like all business owners these days, our Someones 2 Know have been dealing with evaporating revenue, employee layoffs and - an uncertain future.

So, the husband and wife team at Branded Screen Printing in Reno, decided to keep their presses moving in an effort to help other businesses.

Meet Ben and Sara Miller...

We meet at their shop on a very slow day for the textile presses at Branded. Because of the shutdown - there are just a few items being created.

"We're doing a lot of masks for people,” explains Ben. “And then we're doing a lot of scrubs and things for some nursing homes where people are still working.”

It’s a fraction of what the business usually produces. Owners Ben and Sara Miller have been creating screen printed, embroidered and promotional items since 2009.

Sara describes busier days; "We do casinos, some of the larger manufacturing warehouses, some utilities."

And with Nevada’s normally busy event season essentially scrapped, so were their orders.

"So with all of those being canceled, we didn't have a lot going on right now,” regrets Sara.

Then they saw something screen printers in other states are doing - called #HereForGood.

"Here For Good Nevada is a fundraiser for businesses that are struggling with the closure,” Sara tells us.

This is how it works. Branded Screen Printing creates t-shirts and other items with the “Here For Good Nevada” design and places them for sale - on a dedicated website for anyone to buy.

"When they check out,” details Ben, “There's a little drop-down and they select their favorite company, whoever they wanna support and at the end of the week we send them however much money they earned."

All items sell for $20.00, half of it goes back to the business chosen. The other half pays for the product, Branded isn't making a profit.They would like to expand the program to help others.

"The more companies that we can bring online so then they can advertise online to their clients, the more we think it can get out there,” Ben shares.

"It's open to any business that wants to join, just contact us on the website,” explains Sara.

As for their company, Ben is optimistic;

"We should hopefully be back up to full staff in hopefully a month or two. I think we'll be just fine."

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Right now there are about a dozen companies participating in #HereForGoodNevada. There are t-shirts, tanks, masks and tote bags available, and it's open to as many businesses as would like to join.

For more details click the link below;

https://www.hereforgoodnevada.com/here_for_good_nv/shop/home