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.
Check out our previous Challenges or Schedule a conversation.
We believe in the power of innovation.
Traditional grant processes are engineered for those most familiar with the process — not those most familiar with the problem. Our process enables you to find and pilot feasible, enduring, and scalable solutions.
Since 2019, the Reconstruct Challenge winners have connected families with more than 20,000 families to access more than $50M in SNAP benefits, supported more than $1M in mortgages to first-time home-buyers, eliminated $30M in medical debt, helped formerly incarcerated people find jobs, and so much more. By focusing on sustainability, the impact has continued to grow long after the challenges ended.
On this episode of More Than Profit, Bryce talks with Scott Koloms, President and CEO of Facilities Management Services, the first b-corp certified janitorial company in the world and Founder of Canopy, a nonprofit working to create a more vibrant and relevant Kentucky economy that serves all folks and takes care of our beautiful landscape.
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