Public Benefit Report

The specific purpose of EmpathED is “to raise awareness and inform perspective to impact understanding about disability, neurodiversity and mental health, creating more empathetic and effective communications and environments for the public and within organizations.”

1. EmpathED’s objectives to promote public benefit or public benefits and interests are the following: 

• Educate families, educators and students regarding disability, other health impairments, neurodiversity and mental health diagnoses. 

• Share the perspective of and give voice to people with diagnoses. 

• Foster empathy in individuals, organizations, and institutions. 

2. The standards the board of directors has adopted to measure the Company’s progress in promoting such public benefit or public benefits and interests are the following: 

• Attend events where there are people with disabilities, neurodiversity or mental health diagnoses. 

• Create and host events to educate the public

• Be a thought leader - speak in public forum (conference, podcast, etc.)

3. Th following are objective factual information based on the standards listed above regarding the Company’s success in meeting the objectives for promoting such public benefit or public health benefits and interests:

EmpathED adopted practices to promote awareness and education regarding disabilities, neurodiversity and mental health diagnosis in 2024. The following events, activities and endeavors that have taken place to serve our mission: 

• Attended the Pennsylvania PASA Conference with an informational and sales booth with demonstrations of our platform. 

• Attended the PaTTAN Conference with an informational and sales booth with demonstrations of our platform. 

• Attended the national AASA Conference with an informational and sales booth with demonstrations of our platform. 

• Presented to a collection of K-12 Administrators/Superintendents (Superintendents and Assistant Superintendents) at a quarterly meeting PASA Conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania regarding what EmpathED does to educate educators and families. 

• Presented at a Central Bucks School District Board meeting to talk about EmpathED, and how it can create impact in their district. Also gave a demonstration of the platform. 

• Hosted a booth at the Central Bucks School District Health Fair. 

• Applied for a Phase 1A IES/SBIR grant entitled “Innovating teacher disability education utilizing a short-form virtual reality platform to increase teacher awareness and empathy.”

• Created a new sign on system to give EmpathED the ability to bring on thousands of users at a time, an improvement from our manual system sign up. 

• Automated and formalized our certificate issuing ability through Sertifier for users after they complete each one of our courses. 

• Demonstrated EmpathED platform and engaged with educators at the Central Bucks School District -Districtwide Professional Development Day. 

• Demonstrated EmpathED platform and engaged with professors and staff at the University-wide Professional Development Data at Holy Family University. 

• EmpathED put on a 2Day Conference in Gravette, Arkansas to educate teachers and staff about their students with learning disabilities, neurodiversity, other health impairments and mental health diagnoses. 

4. An assessment of the Company’s success in meeting the objectives and promoting such public benefits or public benefits and interests. 

• EmpathED has served is purpose to educate and distribute information about our company and the landscape of disability, neurodiversity and mental health. Our in-person events and our immersive platform have been successful in reaching audiences. 

• Our goal for next year is to further expand our footprint in the education world and additional industries.