A year after the Bugatti morning, I established the Eamon Soryn Foundation for custodial staff, maintenance apprentices, and skilled-trade scholarships in Harborpoint. We funded tool grants, emergency rent relief, certification programs, and one thing Helena called the most radical line item in the whole budget: quiet dignity stipends. Small, fast grants for workers who suddenly needed car repairs, medication, childcare, or a week off without losing everything. No essays about worthiness. No gala. No emotional strip-mining in exchange for help. Just assistance. Because I knew too well what it meant to be one snapped alternator away from humiliation.
Helena joined the board. Vivienne rolled her eyes at our naming conventions and still did the legal work at reduced rates because, in her words, “I’ve become emotionally compromised by all this blue-collar nobility and I hate that for my brand.”
I stayed involved at Intrepid too.