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Cook’s Nook
2023
Cook’s Nook
2023

Cook’s Nook Under the banner of Cultura Cuisine, The Cook's Nook provides "food as medicine" solutions to organizations addressing the health needs of the millions of Americans who suffer from diet-related disease but lack the means and access to healthy food that would help them change course. Our diverse menu of nutritious, culturally relevant prepared meals is designed to cost-effectively improve patient health—and save payors millions of dollars in avoided medical expenses.

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2023
Every Mother’s Advocate
2023
Every Mother’s Advocate
2023

Every Mother’s Advocate (ĒMA) envisions a world where mothers are no longer separated from their children due to preventable causes, but are equipped and empowered to raise their children in stable and nurturing homes.

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2023
Granny’s Birth Initiative
2023
Granny’s Birth Initiative
2023

Granny's Birth Initiative strives to carry on the legacy of The Granny Midwives, ensuring black and brown birthing people have a safe birthing space as we fight the Black Infant and maternal Health Crisis and the challenges of transitioning through the penal, child welfare, and transitional housing systems.

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2023
Navigate Maternity
2023
Navigate Maternity
2023

Navigate Maternity is a cutting-edge medical device company that is revolutionizing maternal health outcomes. Our remote patient monitoring system, which includes a user-friendly mobile app and FDA-cleared Bluetooth-connected blood pressure cuff and scale, captures and transmits key biometric data from the first prenatal appointment through twelve months postpartum.

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2023
Melanated Healthcare
2023
Melanated Healthcare
2023

Melanated Healthcare is a digital health platform and medical practice that helps connect Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) to health professionals that share similar racial or cultural backgrounds. Our mission is to decrease health disparities by increasing access to non-discriminatory, exceptional care.

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2023
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Food Access

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Nori Project
2023
Nori Project
2023

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.

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2023
Attane Health
2023, 2025
Attane Health
2023, 2025

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.

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2023, 2025
Feed Louisville
2023, 2025
Feed Louisville
2023, 2025

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.

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2023, 2025
Journey Foods
2023
Journey Foods
2023

Journey Foods builds AI-driven supply chain software to enhance packaged food nutrition, cost, and sustainability. We’ve built the world’s most actionable database, providing product development, portfolio management, and supply chain insights.

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2023
Change Today, Change Tomorrow
2023
Change Today, Change Tomorrow
2023

Change Today, Change Tomorrow is a Black woman-led non-profit organization in Louisville, KY. Through our pillars of service, Food Justice, Community Engagement, and Public Health, we provide for the most marginalized communities in Louisville, because when you show up for the most marginalized, you show up for everyone.

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2023
mRelief
2019
mRelief
2019

mRelief is revolutionizing the way eligible families access food assistance. As a dynamic, female-led organization, mRelief simplifies the application process for SNAP benefits, ensuring that help is just a few clicks away.

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2019
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Healthcare Access

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Zenyor Healthcare
2023
Zenyor Healthcare
2023

The Zenyor Healthcare App and Webapp is designed to upcycle phones/tablets into at-homehealthcare kiosks that are always powered on for A) care communication, B) care and transportation scheduling/reminding, and C) prompted health. Please visit Zenyorhealthcare.com for more information.

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2023
Kyndly Benefits
2023
Kyndly Benefits
2023

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.

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2023
Malama Health
2023
Malama Health
2023

Malama Health improves pregnancy-related outcomes through a 24/7 digital coach for pregnancy and postpartum. Developed in partnership with Stanford maternal fetal medicine providers, Malama's gestational diabetes care management solution has reduced c-section rates by 50% and NICU admissions by 38% compared to U.S. averages.

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2023
Maro
2023
Maro
2023

Maro’s mission is to eliminate the 11-year gap between first symptom and first intervention when it comes to youth mental health. Our digital “medical neighborhood” operates across home, school and clinic to support early intervention & risk detection starting with school-based mental health screening and triaged interventions.

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2023
Kare Mobile
2023
Kare Mobile
2023

Kare Mobile is a Dental Service Organization focused on innovation using a hybrid brick and mortar and mobile van oral care delivery model. Kare’s technology and systems were designed to eradicate dental deserts and establish a more equitable oral healthcare model for the world.

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2023
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Employment

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Honest Jobs
2022
Honest Jobs
2022

Honest Jobs is the nation’s leading fair-chance employment platform, helping people with criminal records find better jobs faster.

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2022
Leap Fund
2022
Leap Fund
2022

Leap Fund has built benefits cliff coaching program, which includes predicting individualized cliffs, and employers tools, to better understand the scope of a problem, and actually help employees avoid benefits cliffs altogether.

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2022
finEQUITY
2022
finEQUITY
2022

finEQUITY advances the financial futures of those impacted by long-term incarceration. It offers no-cost financial tools, such as credit building opportunities, to justice-impacted community members in order to ease access to employment, affordable housing, utilities, phone plans and more.

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2022
Dollar For
2022
Dollar For
2022

Dollar For eliminates medical debt by advocating for patients and enforcing hospital charity care policies.

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2022
FMS
2022
FMS
2022

Facilities Management Services employs 600 custodians in Metro Louisville. The biggest challenge applicants face to work at FMS is lack of accessible, affordable transportation. Working Your Way to Wheels is a multi-stakeholder strategy that aims to assist custodial workers with owning and maintaining their own vehicle.

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2022
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Housing Affordability

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Working Your Way Home
2019
Working Your Way Home
2019

Working Your Way Home helps close the housing gap by increasing the availability of down payment assistance through employer contributions.

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2019
Urban Institute
2019
Urban Institute
2019

Urban Institute created a micro-mortgage marketplace for affordable home purchases and renovation, harnessing the existing affordable housing stock in Louisville and Southern Indiana to close the housing gap.

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2019
Padsplit
2019
Padsplit
2019

Through thinking creatively about how to use space, Padsplit has created a unique approach to adding more affordable housing units without waiting for new construction.

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2019
Nesterly
2019
Nesterly
2019

Nesterly is a platform that links empty nesters or retirees that have spare bedrooms and want to age in place with trusted renters looking for affordable housing.

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2019
Haven Connect
2019
Haven Connect
2019

Haven Connect revolutionizes the way individuals access affordable housing by simplifying and streamlining the application process.

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2019
mRelief
2019
mRelief
2019

mRelief is revolutionizing the way eligible families access food assistance. As a dynamic, female-led organization, mRelief simplifies the application process for SNAP benefits, ensuring that help is just a few clicks away.

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2019
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Foster Youth

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Jonathan’s Path
2025
Jonathan’s Path
2025

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.

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2025
Elmington Elevates
2025
Elmington Elevates
2025

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.

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2025
TN Voices
2025
TN Voices
2025

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.

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2025
Connect Our Kids
2025
Connect Our Kids
2025

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.

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2025
New Culture Project
2025
New Culture Project
2025

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.

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2025
Forward Steps
2025
Forward Steps
2025

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.

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2025
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