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Addiction: Prevention and Replacing Stigma with Love and Care

Addiction is a rupture in the conditions that make human flourishing possible, and it touches nearly every family and community. People become dependent on substances and behaviors when the ordinary sources of meaning, belonging, and relief are unavailable or insufficient, and the stigma that surrounds addiction compounds the damage. We’re interested in ventures that respond with love and creative care instead of judgment. We want to support those who are building the community structures that make recovery possible, leveraging technology to help people recognize and interrupt harmful patterns before they become entrenched, and addressing the systemic conditions that make certain populations especially vulnerable.

Child Well-Being: Lasting Solutions for Vulnerable Children and Families

The child welfare system was designed to protect children but too often perpetuates the very harm it was built to prevent, cycling vulnerable families toward separation and vulnerable youth toward further institutionalization. True child well-being requires expanding the circle of care. The most powerful intervention would prevent the system from being invoked at all: restoring parents to their role before removal and equipping kin, neighbors, and churches to wrap around families before they fracture. The most redemptive thing we can do for a child is nearly always the most redemptive thing we can do for the adults in their lives. We want to support ventures that build the conditions where fewer children enter the system — and more of those who do emerge into permanent networks of people who will not let them go unseen.

Disability: Reframing Difference as a Gift to Society

Disability is a prophetic witness to our common humanity. In a culture built on independence, self-determination, and productivity, people with disabilities are functionally exiled from full participation. But belonging is different: it is relational and reciprocal, simultaneously needful and needed. People with disabilities embody this truth with unusual clarity, and since a typically abled person is only a temporarily abled person, designing for belonging is not charity but wisdom. We are interested in ventures that build for this vision: inter-ability employment organized around vulnerability and interdependence, and the integration of people with disabilities into church and civic life as image-bearers who are a valuable gift to society.

Family: Enriching the Formation and Life of the Household

The family is the most fundamental unit of human formation, and its health or fragility shapes nearly everything downstream. Across its entire arc, the household is under unusual stress. Much of that stress is structural: technology has reorganized intimacy, economics have scattered extended families, and a culture that prizes autonomy has left people forming and sustaining families with less support than any previous generation. We are interested in ventures that enrich the full life of the household — strengthening the bonds that form it, deepening connections across generations, and building the practices and communities that allow families to bear difficulty and flourish together.

Mental Health: Reversing the Crisis through Creative Care

Mental health challenges exist on a continuum, not as discrete conditions that separate the sick from the well. While medical progress for mental health has reduced stigma and expanded access to care, it has also obscured what many people most need: ordinary friendship, community structures, and the practices of honest grief and lament that help human beings bear difficulty together. Loneliness and despair resolve through belonging. We are interested in ventures addressing the full continuum — from clinical care and accessible therapy to the communities and institutions that form the relational fabric people need to truly heal, including faith communities that practice the ancient disciplines genuine human health requires.

Racial Justice: Creative Approaches to Restoration and Reconciliation

The history of racial injustice is an ongoing moral, relational, and economic wound. Christians have particular reasons to take this seriously: our theological commitments, our heritage of activism, and the culpability of the church all call us toward repair. We want to support founders who take both the relational and structural dimensions of racial justice seriously, those creating cross-cultural journeys of honest reckoning and learning, and those pursuing tangible restoration through capital access, business ownership pathways, real estate, and broader economic opportunity.

The Church: Revitalizing Evangelism, Discipleship, and Mission

Spiritual renewal is upstream of cultural renewal. The Western church, for example, is navigating a genuine crisis of trust: political captivity, leadership failures, and a generation walking away from institutional containers. But there remain significant opportunities for us to bear witness to the gospel through new communities, deep disciples, and sacrificial mission. We’re interested in ventures that bring new vitality to the church: thick communities whose shared life is their evangelism, creative pathways for formative discipleship, and the structures that connect institutions and movements in mutual service of a unified mission.

Global Conflict: Preventing and Reversing the Consequences of War

There are few things more devastating to the long-term health of society than war. Entire cohorts of individuals are destroyed, whether literally (through genocide) or psychologically (in the case of veterans and child soldiers). And however much war may be national or international in scope, ultimately it is relational — between calculating politicians, enlisted soldiers, audience-building media, and engaged citizens. We’re interested in ventures preventing war through peacemaking and disarmament as well as working in war’s aftermath (trauma therapy, economic support). We’re also interested in conversations about the role that defense technologies and cyberwarfare will play in our collective future.

Global Development: Building Infrastructure for Flourishing Communities

Relief and development is a massive worldwide industry, with many actors navigating funding and organizational disruption. The greatest opportunities for social impact in developing economies may come from promoting true sustainability that moves away from legacy models of Global North and Global South power dynamics. Infrastructure that enables businesses to create jobs, local systems to provide a higher baseline of health care and education, and governments to root out corruption — at scale — remains a challenge. Much has been done through access to capital and microenterprise development, but more is possible. We’re looking to support entrepreneurs with a scalable view of infrastructure creation. There is growing opportunity as worldwide payment systems modernize, health care systems improve, and new models for locally-led sustainable development integrate.

Homelessness: Preventing Insecurity and Building Communities of Belonging

Homelessness is not simply a shortage of housing units. At its root, it is a loss of family and community, and an acute need for belonging that a shelter bed alone cannot meet. The visible crisis is the surface expression of deeper problems: broken family systems, untreated mental illness, addiction, and the disappearance of affordable housing in cities where wages haven’t kept pace with costs. We are interested in ventures that address these root conditions rather than managing their symptoms, including innovative housing models, approaches that activate the capacity of churches and faith communities (often sitting on underutilized property) to provide not just beds but genuine belonging, and the relationship infrastructure that allows people to rebuild stable lives.

Immigration & Refugees: Hospitable Resourcing and Resettlement

The debate around immigration and refugees has become one of the most polarized in modern political life. The polarization itself is part of the problem, reducing human beings to abstractions in an argument rather than neighbors in need of welcome. At its root, it is a crisis of fear: of the other, of scarcity, of change. This fear reveals borders as places of genuine wound — for those who cross them and for the communities on both sides absorbing the consequences of displacement. We are looking for people who change the narrative around immigration through story, build practical capacity for welcome and resettlement, and help refugees and immigrants arrive, adapt, and contribute without losing themselves. All of this is grounded in the conviction that the stranger is a neighbor to be received.

Neighborhood Renewal: Planning and Placemaking for Local Revitalization

Where we live remains one of the most powerful predictors of our trajectory. Neighborhoods shape people, and the escalator of economic mobility runs very differently depending on where you belong. The core challenge is alignment: grassroots community organizing generates the trust and local knowledge that institutions need, but without institutional investment and policy commitment, neighborhood-level work stalls. The most transformative renewal happens when bottom-up initiatives are matched by top-down commitment from businesses, civic institutions, and local government. We are looking for ventures that work in both directions simultaneously: building genuine community rootedness while catalyzing the economic development, housing access, and institutional partnership that make upward mobility real.

Public Life: Renewing Civic Engagement and Reversing Polarization

Public life is in genuine crisis across much of the democratic world. The social infrastructure of civic participation has eroded locally, and polarization has made it increasingly difficult for citizens to engage political life without losing themselves in partisan identity. We need a new generation of public actors who understand civic engagement as a vocation, not a performance, and who are willing to build across rather than exploit the divides that fracture our common life. We are interested in ventures that form and deploy civic leaders of genuine character, that use creative and technological tools to de-escalate partisan conflict, and that restore the local institutions through which democracy is actually practiced.

Real Estate: Designing and Developing the Built Environment

Every built environment encodes assumptions about who matters and what community is for. The current real estate market is optimized for those with the capital to participate in ownership, while the majority pay rent that builds no equity and no stake in the places where they live. We’re interested in ventures that reimagine how property is owned, developed, and shared: micro-ownership structures that allow broader participation and the activation of underutilized assets for genuine community benefit, including dual-use development that integrates affordable and market-rate housing in a single project. The goal is built environments that generate belonging, sustain community across income levels, and create pathways to ownership for people who have historically been locked out.

Arts & Entertainment: Good, True, and Beautiful Storytelling

Artists are upstream witnesses, making stories that shape our world. Today’s narratives are embedded in music, literature, TV, video games, media, advertising, and film — and the worlds they portray are often strikingly empty of hope. We’re looking for ventures that are actively “re-presenting” the good, true, and beautiful in the world, making an artful and intelligent case for what a good life really looks like, reshaping desire. In this time of considerable innovation in the business models, production methods, and distribution of content, we see opportunities across media, from film and gaming studios to subscription services to news agencies and more. We’re particularly interested in ventures that innovate beyond “Christian content” to advance nuanced stories that challenge all people to consider the deepest questions and mysteries of life.

Consumer Brands: Building Virtue-Driven Narratives and Communities

In today’s commercially driven world, people are more likely to be seen and referred to as “consumers” than anything else. Instead of being met with resistance, this shift has often meant that individuals have formed their identity through a composite of brands, and product purchasing can be guided more by the desire to make a statement about one’s identity and values than strict utility. As a result, the lines between social movement, capitalism, and community are increasingly blurry (see: Nike, Whole Foods, and Patagonia). Given this reality, we’d like to support entrepreneurs with a vision for building brands with a counter-culturally virtuous and optimistic view of the world, spreading hope and beauty, eliminating stigma, and most fundamentally, redirecting our identity away from materialistic consumption and toward lasting contentment.

Fashion: Weaving Dignity into Brand, Design, and Production

Ethical fashion has made real progress — sustainable sourcing, fair wage advocacy, and growing disdain for fast fashion are genuine cultural wins. But moving from the ethical to the redemptive requires a bigger vision: one that addresses not only how clothes are made but how fashion forms identity. In a world where aesthetic self-presentation shapes how people understand themselves and relate to those around them, fashion is not merely a product category. The human story of who makes our clothes, how we are connected to what their lives are like, and how the act of purchasing might connect us to them has barely begun to be told at meaningful scale. We’re interested in ventures that weave dignity into the full arc of fashion — from production and design all the way to consumer behavior — in ways that can shape cultural norms. We want to support founders who have a creative vision for fashion and its role in forming identity.

Finance: Purposeful Investing and New Models for Capital Deployment

Capital is a tool, but we have increasingly treated it as an end. Financial return has become the default measure of what matters, crowding out other forms of value. The pressure this creates is significant: founders overstate impact, investors optimize for liquidity over longevity, and the flourishing of workers, communities, and the earth gets classified as a trade-off rather than a return. We are interested in new models for capital deployment that hold financial rigor and broader accountability together by developing better measures of what capital actually does in the world. We are drawn to structures that deploy from a spirit of generosity rather than extraction: patient capital, shared ownership, and investment frameworks that treat the flourishing of workers and communities as part of the return.

Good Jobs: Dignifying Labor Models amid Industrial Transformation

Joy and contentment at work are hard to find. The gig economy has been a boon for those looking for flexibility, though it seems also to have limited opportunity for those looking for stability. Indeed, stability, dignity of work, work/life balance, and social mobility are among the highest priorities for workers in roles from the trades to the executive suite. We’re looking to support founders who have the ideal of good work as their core mission — supporting the underemployed, offering group benefits for the gig worker, offering living wages in markets that don’t demand them, and providing training and internal opportunity for those lacking external credentials.

Philanthropy: Activating Sacrificial Generosity and a Spirit of Abundance

Philanthropy means love of humanity. But giving culture has largely drifted from that relational core toward a transactional logic: efficient giving, optimized impact, maximum scale. The instinct to remove friction from giving is understandable, but some friction may in fact be good — the friction of knowing who you’re giving to, of personal sacrifice, of ongoing relationship with a cause. A gift that is not personal risks becoming merely a financial transaction, which is precisely what makes giving transformative for both giver and recipient. We want to support people who are reimagining the philanthropic relationship, making giving more personal, sacrificial, and connected to genuine love of the people being served.

Criminal Justice: Preventing the Cycle of Incarceration

Across much of the world, criminal justice systems are built more around punishment and containment than rehabilitation and restoration. Incarceration has become one of the most reliable predictors of future incarceration, a vicious circle. We’re interested in ventures building new paths forward: restorative justice models, reentry support, alternatives to incarceration, and organizations working to disrupt the social conditions that feed the pipeline in the first place.

Education: Forming, Equipping, and Credentialing Society

From primary school through university, educational systems are under structural stress. There are considerable learning gaps, a shortage of qualified and engaged teachers, and the traditional credentials for students seem to cost more and mean less. Employers can no longer rely on the completion of a degree at many institutions to signal notable proficiency, let alone character; nor can students expect that a degree will lead to a good job. Amid all this, exploitative entrepreneurs have entered the fray to profit from what is effectively predatory educational lending: expensive tuition covered by student debt from people who struggle to complete their degree or find careers. We’re interested in ventures building alternative services for learning and degree completion, as well as new “stamps” that certify skill development, character, reliability, and attitude — not just selectivity. Such new offerings could help create pathways to social opportunity, alleviate debt and social pressure, and reward responsibility and creativity.

Environmental Stewardship: Transforming Resources to Care for Creation

While the debate about the appropriate policy response to human-induced climate change has become increasingly polarized, there is ample room for innovations that care for the earth God created, protect against environmental risk, and bet on the human capacity for ingenuity and risk to solve great problems. We’re interested in ventures thinking creatively and optimistically about large-scale ways to shape our use of natural resources — to find breakthroughs in land and water use as well as wind, solar, and nuclear power that can open up possibilities for our collective future. We see outsized value in high-risk exploratory endeavors at the scientific edge, as well as the important creative continuity of conservation.

Food & Agriculture: Cultivating Sustainability and Nourishment

Since the industrial revolution, food and agriculture systems have created an unprecedented abundance of options in prosperous markets. The interconnected nature of global supply chain production and transportation is a nearly incomprehensible feat, mostly invisible to daily consumers, who expect that all of our favorite foods will be abundantly available year-round at stable prices. However, we occasionally see the vulnerability of these systems, particularly their dependence on geopolitical stability and safety in the supply chain. And these systems often exact a huge if well-concealed toll on global health, particularly in human labor practices, animal treatment, land use, and the impact of processed food and its packaging and marketing. We’re interested in ventures looking at pragmatic, systematic changes in the way the world eats.

Health Care: Advancing Access and Repairing Broken Systems

Few industries in the world are as complex and entrenched as health care. Even its most well-meaning actors are caught in an exploitative system of misaligned incentives that prioritize financial returns over patient health. We are looking for organizations working in places all along the spectrum of system-level disruption of healthcare. Opportunities include uses of technology to greatly reduce administrative expenses (a primary driver of overall expenditures), organizations that protect the poor and marginalized from being crushed by life-disrupting medical expenses, new types of clinics and processes that help make health care more accessible, and innovative ways of thinking about the root causes of disease and health.

Human Trafficking: Disrupting Exploitative Incentives and Networks

Human trafficking persists not because solutions are unknown but because enforcement capacity is overwhelmed and the incentive structures reward exploitation. The financial rewards far outweigh the risks, and the response has historically been skewed toward downstream intervention rather than upstream disruption. Moving upstream means targeting the economic conditions, supply chains, and social vulnerabilities that traffickers exploit before exploitation begins: reshaping the risk/reward calculus rather than simply prosecuting the few who get caught. We want to support ventures that expand enforcement capacity and build better tools for detection and prosecution, but above all that disrupt the upstream conditions that make trafficking possible — economic precarity, migration crises, and the consumer demand that sustains the trade.

Poverty: Creating Pathways for Upward Mobility

Poverty is more than a lack of resources. It is the condition of individuals lacking meaningful opportunity to tap into their God-given gifts and talents due to circumstance or unjust systems. While entrepreneurship can be a powerful vehicle for wealth creation and upward mobility, addressing poverty at scale requires a broader frame: one that includes access to employment, financial tools, education, and the social capital networks that most middle-class families inherit without fully realizing it. We are interested in ventures expanding access to the full range of economic mobility pathways — not only entrepreneurship but dignifying labor models, savings and investment tools, and the community structures that allow people who have been systematically excluded to participate in and benefit from the economy.

AI: Designing to Develop Human Capacities and Enrich Relationships

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing, and changing our world. Its long-term impact may be as transformative as the internet, perhaps even as foundational as electricity or agriculture. Each of these technologies expanded human potential but also caused unforeseen harm when guided by pride and greed. AI will likely follow this pattern, offering both great promise and significant risk. We’re interested in ventures building technology that informs but does not replace human agency, respects and advances human embodiment, serves personal relationships rather than replacing them, and benefits the global majority rather than enriching and entrenching a narrow minority.

Biotechnology: Designing Life at the Cellular Level

Biotechnology is giving humanity unprecedented power to design life at its most fundamental level, writing and rewriting the instruction codes of DNA and RNA. This remarkable power will inevitably be deployed according to some vision of what human beings are and what they are for. We’re looking for founders, scientists, and investors working from a richer account of human dignity, one that resists the temptation to define flourishing as the elimination of difference, and sees the image of God in every person regardless of capacity or condition.

Blockchain: Developing New Social and Economic Possibilities

The promise of blockchain technology was that it could redistribute economic power by decentralizing and enabling ownership and exchange that had previously required expensive intermediaries. In practice, cryptocurrencies became largely speculative instruments, concentrating gains among those already positioned to benefit. The deeper opportunity remains: we are moving toward an economy where non-transactional, cash-flow-generating assets are increasingly prevalent. The question is whether access to those assets will be broadly shared or captured by the few who get there first. We’re interested in ventures that take the original vision seriously: using new social and economic infrastructure to expand genuine ownership, portability, and participation in the systems that shape people’s lives.

Deep Tech: Innovations in Science and Engineering for Human Flourishing

At the frontier of human discovery — in quantum computing, space exploration, robotics, and the scientific edges we cannot yet name — hyper-specialization constrains what should be a shared inheritance. Access to these fields is too narrow: demographically homogeneous, credentially constrained, and financially captured by those positioned to get there first. The theological frame for this work is the creation mandate, the original calling to fill and cultivate the earth, not as private owners but as stewards of a common inheritance. We are interested in ventures that broaden who enters frontier fields, how knowledge moves across them, and who ultimately benefits, driven by the conviction that more generative discoveries follow when more humans participate in making them.

Technology in Life: Recalibrating the Digital Realm’s Influence on Society

Nearly all personal technology involves trading depth and focus for the “superpowers” that tech delivers to us. Widespread adoption of these tools of communication has not only left us “alone together,” it has weakened the social infrastructure required for a common life and left us in a world of “influencers” and “followers” instead. In the attention economy, we have given away one of our most valuable assets — the ability to think and act deeply and wisely. We’re interested in technology applications that are “instruments rather than devices,” enriching and enhancing our personal capacities rather than substituting for them. We want ventures creating new products that enhance rather than deplete the shared life of families, neighborhoods, schools, organizations, and society.