Our Approach
We’re charting the course from impossible to possible.
We unite and resource the people most likely to put a dent in our biggest problems.
Our 3-Step Process
Step 1
Identify a single problem
We identify a specific, unsolved issue we want to take on—like access to healthcare, affordable housing, or the future of work. We examine that problem with a geographic focus—local, national, or global.
Step 2
Build a group to tackle it
We find extraordinary people pioneering solutions to different aspects of this issue. We bring them together to build a collective movement attacking the problem from all sides.
Step 3
Run a program to solve it
We run 6-18 month long programs consisting of boot-camps that unites entrepreneurs, partners, mentors, funders, and corporations around a specific problem with the goal to drive measurable outcomes.
Drawing from our vast network, we build coordinated movements of people—ventures, companies, foundations, governments, policy makers, funders, and more—who are all positioned to make a dent in a problem. Below, you can see hypothetical examples of how we might pull in real members of our network around different issues.
Manager at Colorado Housing & Finance Authority
Co-Founder Billions Institute (helped over 100K homeless people into housing)
Director, Green for All (helped pass the US's first Green Jobs Act)
Leading $250M fund to serve low-income children
City of Denver’s Manager of Food Systems Development
CEO of Aunt Bertha (enabling 2 million+ marginalized people to access public assistance)
Co-founder at Rising Tide Car Wash (making autism a competitive employment advantage)
Helped lift over 20M people out of poverty
Founder & CEO, Coalition for Queens
CEO and Founder at Tala (giving access to credit to 330,000 people)
Senior Director at BRAC—bringing 100M out of poverty
President and CEO, Calvert Foundation
CEO and Co-founder at Peekapak
Increasing math scores of 20,000 low-income kids by 2.8x
Enhancing literacy training for over 850,000 kids
Providing 2 million+ Kenyan children with tutoring and materials via mobile phones
Board of Advisors, Guild Education
Leading $250M fund to serve low-income children
Led over $100M investments in education
Head of Sustainability for Chipotle Mexican Grill
Strategic Advisor at Eco-Cycle International (creating zero-waste cities)
Founder and Director, EcoPost Limited (saved 350 acres of trees)
Time Magazine's Hero of the Planet
Co-founder, Mosaic (largest home solar lender in the US)
Empowering communities dealing with environmental pollution
Cured over 2 million kids of severe acute malnutrition
Provided 150,000+ people in Ethiopia with clean water after natural disasters
Providing 450,000 people with iron reducing anemia by 50%
CEO of Possible, 500,000 patients treated in rural Nepal
Delivered clean water to over 4 million people
Former Strategic Planning Director at Medtronic
Speadheaded non-violent movement to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia
Escaped assassination attempts to pioneer a movement fighting honor killing in Pakistan
President, Change.org
Co-founder/CEO at Purpose
CEO at OurSay (Mobilized over 100K citizens to connect with political leaders)
Founder and CEO, Evoso (trained over 1M women in self-defense)
Co-Founder, Thread (improving graduation rates of at-risk students from 6% to 92%)
To give you a real-life example, take our Future Cities Accelerator:
1. We identified the need to serve poor and vulnerable populations in U.S. cities, and partnered with The Rockefeller Foundation
2. We built a cohort of 10 startups taking on different sides of urban poverty, including:
- CommonLit, providing literacy training to nearly 1 million low-income children
- mRelief, enabling over 100,000 families to gain access to SNAP Benefits (food stamps)
- Coalition for Queens, improving incomes of low-income adults 4x through programming training
3. We ran a program that resourced them with an army of support, ranging from $100,000 in grant funding to nine months of support from world-class mentors, fundraising coaches, leadership coaches, financial modelers, and access to hundreds of potential funders