Unleash Innovation to Solve Your Toughest Challenges
Finding Ideas & Funding Solutions
HOW IT WORKS
The best solutions to your most pressing problems are not necessarily the ones with the biggest marketing budgets or the best sales teams.
Particularly when it comes to addressing systemic barriers, the innovators with the greatest insights often face barriers to capital, market access, and connections that make them harder to find and slower to scale.
The Reconstruct Challenge is a reverse pitch that unearths innovations from around the country (or in your backyard) that best meet your needs. Then we help run paid pilots, grounded in community voice, academic research, and industry mentoring, to de-risk innovation for both innovators and partners.
By focusing on those with a deep understanding of the problem, most often those with lived experience, the innovations we surface often address barriers and issues unseen by those with resources and interest to address them.
Partnerships that Address Challenges
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Housing
Getting and keeping people in homes they could afford.
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Employment
Efforts to recover from the COVID pandemic barriers to employment.
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Healthcare
Accessing reliable, affordable and suitable transportation options to access healthcare
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Food Equity
Increase food access and decreasing food insecurity
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Maternal
Overcoming barriers faced by pregnant individuals and caregivers.
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Thriving Youth
Reimagining the Transition from Foster Care to Adulthood
Jonathan's Path is a Tennessee-based nonprofit that bridges critical gaps in foster care through rapid-access support services and a progressive housing model, moving teens from family-style living environments toward full independence while providing the consistent adult relationships and stability they need to truly thrive.
Elmington Elevates is the nonprofit arm of Elmington, a Tennessee-based real estate company, dedicated to expanding affordable housing and directly addressing the needs of young people aging out of foster care.
TN Voices is a statewide nonprofit dedicated to strengthening the mental health and wellbeing of children, families, and communities across all 95 Tennessee counties. Through counseling, peer support, family services, and advocacy, TN Voices empowers vulnerable people to thrive with resilience and autonomy.
Connect Our Kids is a technology nonprofit bringing modern tools to social workers so they can find families for kids in foster care. By searching over 300 data sources to uncover extended family members and natural support networks, Connect Our Kids helps child welfare professionals across 44 states make life-changing connections for children every year.
New Culture Project is a nonprofit ecosystem hyper-focused on the flourishing of youth aging out of foster care, providing stable housing, trauma-informed therapy, life skills training, mentorship, and workforce development to equip young people for a successful transition into adulthood.
Forward Steps empowers current and former foster youth to reach their full potential by providing financial assistance, one-on-one mentoring, career coaching, and wraparound supports as scholars enroll in and complete their postsecondary educations.
The Nori Project Inc. is the Food Equi-tech Company Monsooning America’s Food Deserts and beyond through the use of ultramodern vending machines. Nori will sell fresh produce and hot healthy meals on command in these weatherproof vending machines that will operate outside on sidewalks seemingly on every city block.
Kyndly Benefits is on a mission to hack health insurance. We help people and small businesses find and secure high-quality health care through the ACA exchange. Our Kynd Choice application helps people navigate the confusing healthcare marketplace, select the right plan, and access federal subsidies to make health insurance affordable.
Attane Health is a patient-driven, digital health platform providing personalized food selection and health coaching within a member’s cultural norms and preferences, while allowing patients, providers, and payers to measure specific health outcomes.
Feed Louisville is a food justice organization centered on the work of a team of professional chefs who cook meals daily for our houseless community using overproduced food from local restaurants, bakers, caterers and farmers.

