Chris Whitford is the CEO and a Founding Member of Avail NYC, a non-profit which has served NYC and beyond for over 25 years. Chris was a 2021 Praxis Fellow, and a panelist at the 2022 Praxis Summit in Napa, CA. She’s been featured on several podcasts, and speaks frequently at events geared towards nonprofit and ministry leaders, including Lead.NYC’s Movement Day initiative. Chris recently contributed essays in The City for God, a collection honoring Tim Keller's work and in the fall 2022 issue of Comment Magazine. A graduate of Brown University, Chris has held leadership roles within Columbia University's Christian Union and Cru, and currently serves on the President’s Council for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Chris and her husband are residents of the Upper West Side and members of Redeemer Lincoln Square.

Avail believes that no one should face their unexpected pregnancy alone. Avail advocates for people facing a past or present unexpected pregnancy by providing compassionate support, resources and care plans to help each person face their future with confidence. All Avail’s services are accessible digitally, and people served come from all 50 U.S. states and over 200 countries around the world. Avail practices an approach that addresses the complex needs shaping people's choices during and after an unexpected pregnancy. People often feel trapped and alone, pressured by a politicized environment that promotes a false binary choice and pits woman and man against the child and each other. Avail recognizes the woman, man, and child at the heart of every decision about a pregnancy, and provides support and resources for the flourishing of all three persons.

Organizational Needs: Avail seeks: Board growth, Trusted partnerships for national expansion, and Growing funding streams

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $5.163 M

Projected 2024 Earned Income: $38K

Johnmark Oudersluys is passionate about creating large-scale platforms for people to positively impact communities. Leadership opportunities with volunteer organizations such as Give Back Cincinnati and New Orleans Rebuilding influenced his life. In 2010, Johnmark left corporate consulting to join CityLink as the sole staff of an organization chartered with creating a holistic path and hope for the one-third of Cincinnati's population living in poverty. Johnmark hails from Michigan where he attended Hope College and later pursued an M.B.A. from Florida Atlantic and a Masters of International Development from Thunderbird. Johnmark, his wife, two sons, and daughter call Cincinnati home, and attend Crossroads Church.

CityLink Center simplifies the path for individuals seeking to break generational poverty through co-locating and integrating social services while fueling those services with volunteer support. Launched on a 60,000 square foot campus in Cincinnati in 2013, CityLink Center offers a holistic approach where clients can enter one place, create one plan, and be surrounded by the functional expertise of leading agencies to support that plan. Clients work towards obtaining degrees, jobs, financial literacy, and other skills while hundreds of volunteers support every step along the way. CityLink is client-centered, faith-based, and data-driven.
In its next phase of growth, CityLink is supporting the adoption of its program model in other cities, adoption of a metrics and continuous improvement approach in other organizations, and testing innovative funding models. CityLink seeks to apply what we have learned in our first decade to improve our sector's operating environment to better serve our neighbors.

Organizational Needs: CityLink is looking for individuals to help us articulate, amplify, and enact our approach beyond our campus in Cincinnati. We are pursuing an ambitious goal of transforming our sector which requires prayer, discernment, expertise, and resourcing.

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $3 M

Projected 2024 Earned Income: $50K

Jason Janz is a social entrepreneur and pastor in Denver, CO. His church began a poverty abolition program that helps families exit poverty and become self-sufficient. Jason is the founder of Providence Bible Church and Co-Founder & CEO of CrossPurpose.

CrossPurpose is a Denver-based nonprofit walking neighbors from generational poverty to generational wealth. Launched in 2008, the founders realized they had to stop asking the question “How do we help someone in poverty?” and begin asking, “How do we get someone out of poverty?” Seeking to answer that second question, CrossPurpose has since developed a continuum of programs that help neighbors move from career readiness, to gaining a living wage job, to building wealth for their families.

To better serve their city, CrossPurpose is scaling from one location to four across high-poverty neighborhoods in Denver Metro. Additionally, they recently launched a national network to train other U.S. cities how to adopt the model for their own communities.

Organizational Needs: Our greatest organizational needs are scaling capital, strategic support for building an open-source national replication model, and talented, mission-aligned staff.

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $12 M

Projected 2024 Earned Income: $4 M

With a multi-faceted background across church ministry, running a digital design business, and tech consulting, Kevin is passionate to experience the beauty of convergence as people bring their faith, skills and passions together. He serves as the Director of Global Communities and Labs, creating a framework that activates passionate christians in tech through innovation projects that solve real-world problems. He lives in Guelph, Ontario, with his wife Ellie, and their two wonderful children.

James Kelly founded FaithTech in 2016 with 35 people in a coffee shop. Today, FaithTech is a global tech community for Christ with presence in over 25 cities worldwide. The work of FaithTech has been mentioned in The New York Times, Wired Magazine and Christianity Today. James comes with a unique background in church (MDiv & Church Planting) and business (BComm & Startups). James is married with two young children, lives in Waterloo, Canada, and enjoys a good game of Ultimate Frisbee.

Christians in tech startups and companies like Google, Apple, and Facebook feel isolated and underutilized. They might volunteer in their churches behind the scenes for audio/visual support. What if they united in a genuine community and put their gifts to work on gospel-aligned problems? FaithTech helps people in the tech ecosystem find local community and steward their skills. In over 38 cities worldwide, with a waiting list of over 160 cities hoping to launch their own local community, FaithTech has 100+ active labs teams building technology that helps the poor, serves local churches, or advances the name of Jesus.

Organizational Needs: FaithTech has the following needs and priorities:

-Creating a more diversified fundraising model.
-Flexible outsourced systems for key functions such as accounting and marketing.
-Guidance on effective localisation for resources and training for our globally-spread out communities.

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $1.2 M

Projected 2024 Earned Income: N/A

Allison Shigo received an Emmy Award for her work on A Walk to Beautiful, a documentary following the lives of women suffering from obstetric fistula in Ethiopia. In 2009, Allison co-founded Healing Hands of Joy (HHOJ), a non-profit working in Ethiopia to empower former fistula patients and eliminate fistula. Working with a team of Ethiopian advisors she developed the innovative Safe Motherhood Ambassador Training program to provide reintegration and rehabilitation services to fistula survivors. To date over 1,700 fistula survivors have graduated as Safe Motherhood Ambassadors, serving as advocates for safe delivery in their communities to prevent fistula. Healing Hands of Joy is a member of the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health’s Fistula Task Force that supported the Strategic Plan to Eliminate Obstetric Fistula in Ethiopia. In partnership with USAID & Pathfinder International, Healing Hands of Joy has expanded nationwide in Ethiopia.

Healing Hands of Joy (HHoJ) exists to eliminate obstetric fistula, a preventable childbirth injury by improving the maternal healthcare system and transforming the lives of women who have suffered. Caused by prolonged obstructed labor, obstetric fistula is a devastating childbirth injury often resulting in stillbirth, chronic incontinence, spousal abandonment, social stigma, and personal shame. It was eradicated in the United States in the 19th century and persists in developing countries due to lack of awareness and modern maternal healthcare.
In 12 years, HHoJ reduced the prevalence rate of obstetric fistula from 1.6% to 0.3%. However, there remains an estimated 35,000 women in Ethiopia with undiagnosed obstetric fistula. Left untreated, these women are often stigmatized, seen as cursed and rejected by their families and communities

Organizational Needs: Healing Hands of Joy is looking for strategic support to identify opportunities to scale our model throughout Ethiopia and into other countries where fistula prevention, patient identification and rehabilitation work is needed. We are looking for board members to help us reach our vision as well as fundraising goals.

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $1,692,193

Projected 2024 Earned Income: N/A

Thomas founded Many Hopes after visiting East Africa for the first time in 2007 and thinking “If my friends back home could see what I’ve just seen they would want to help. So I’m going to show them.” Born in Northern Ireland during “The Troubles,” he was educated at Queens University, Belfast, worked for one of the two Nobel prize-winning signatories of the Belfast Peace Agreement, and is a former columnist. His career has spanned the media, politics and for-purpose missions in the UK, USA, Africa and Latin America. His belief that seemingly intractable problems can be solved by bringing the right influences to bear on them stems from his Christian faith. He travels extensively speaking on issues of justice and has a very patient wife.

Many Hopes makes a bold promise: We won't solve the big problems of the world or defeat the great injustices hurting people...but we will raise the children who can. We believe in survivor-driven change. So we raise children from injustice to influence. We believe that children born into poverty are not a problem to be solved but a solution waiting to be unleashed. So we equip with them with the tools they need to be adults of influence, empowered to defeat the causes of injustices they survived. Many Hopes will have succeeded when outside charity is no longer necessary in any community we have worked because local survivors are fighting and defeating the causes of injustice where they are.

Organizational Needs: Many Hopes has limited experience seeking and securing corporate funding/corporate partners and would benefit from expertise or guidance on that. Many Hopes has made a short 18-min documentary and because of paid advertising on Facebook it has been our most successful campaign ever (recruiting 3100 new monthly donors in the first 6-months. We seek other ways/partnerships beyond paid ads to share that film since it has proved it sparks generosity from strangers

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $3.5 M

Projected 2024 Earned Income: N/A

Jesse Rudy is the Founder and CEO of Redeem International. After six years as a lawyer in Washington DC, Jesse joined International Justice Mission to serve and defend the vulnerable. While at IJM, Jesse led teams in Sri Lanka, Uganda, and the Philippines combating violence, exploitation, and abuse. He also served on IJM’s Global Leadership Team as IJM’s Vice President of Strategy of Execution, Vice President of Global Business Solutions, and Chief Financial Officer. In 2020, with IJM’s blessing and support, Jesse founded Redeem International to leverage his wide-rangingglobal experience on behalf of vulnerable widows and orphans across the developing world. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife Amy and their three children.

Redeem International’s mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation. In rural Uganda, land is life. A widow’s land is her primary source of food, shelter, income, security, and social standing. Unfortunately, her land is also a coveted asset that attracts the attention of violent criminals. Absent intervention, one in three of these families will be torn from the homes they live in and the land they depend on for survival. Redeem exists to answer the biblical call to “care for widows and orphans in their distress.” Partnering with local law enforcement authorities, our teams of local justice professionals intervene in individual land theft cases - restoring families to their land, prosecuting land thieves for their crimes, and ultimately creating a powerful deterrent impact that provides much-needed safety and security to all of the widows and orphans in the community.

Organizational Needs: Redeem is planning to expand into a second country of need in 2025 and needs advice on making the programmatic, operational, and financial jump to deliver programming in multiple countries.

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $4.3 M

Projected 2024 Earned Income: $80K

Curt was raised on a farm in Idaho. He started his first international development NGO at 18 and moved to Central America full time at 21, where he founded Semilla Nueva.

Malnutrition is the biggest cause of childhood death and one of the world’s biggest barriers to eradicating poverty. Globally, the number of malnourished children is decreasing, except for 1.2 billion people who eat corn three times a day in Africa and Latin America. Semilla Nueva naturally develops corn seeds (non-GMO!) that combine higher levels of missing nutrients (protein, iron, and zinc) and higher yields and climate resilience to help farmers increase their income. Semilla Nueva subsidizes local seed companies to sell these seeds at prices the poorest can afford and supports governments to take over the subsidy programs. In 2023, 24,000 families planted our seeds, improving the nutrition of over 800,000 people. By 2026, we plan to help 60,000 farmers feed nearly 3M people, with two governments making the program sustainable.

Organizational Needs: Semilla Nueva is looking for partners to help scale their model to El Salvador, Honduras, and East Africa, as well as scientists who can provide technical knowledge in cutting-edge seed development.

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $4.8 M

Projected 2024 Earned Income: $200K

Jeremiah Kuria is the Co-Founder and Executive Director for Ubuntu Life Foundation in Kenya. He has served his community as a Pastor and Director of an orphanage for nine years where he met Zane. During Jeremiah's time in ministry, he was moved by people's love and commitment to God but also realized their struggle to make ends meet. Recognizing that poverty and hardship were a great barrier to the furtherance of the gospel, Jeremiah joined with Zane to create CTC International, which eventually turned into Ubuntu and Ubuntu Life Foundation to create opportunities for the community of Maai Mahiu, Kenya. God has been faithful since and Jeremiah is excited to learn ways of improving these services.

Ubuntu Life Foundation is a children's wellness center whose main core mission is to provide essential care to children with neurodiverse conditions, ensuring they receive comprehensive support tailored to their unique requirements; through a holistic approach that integrates medical expertise, education, and family-centered care. Ubuntu provides a holistic approach and continuous care to children with neuro diverse conditions through: Subsidized neuro healthcare. Consistent and diverse rehabilitative therapy. Subsidized specialized education. Family centered care. The dream of having a children’s wellness center came into fruition after the conversation from the founders Mr Jeremiah Kuria and Zane Wilemon’s whose life stories took a different turn. Now their commitment is to these little ones who needs to feel God's love.

Organizational Needs:

1. Ubuntu need to cover the budget deficit for 2024
2. Maternal health program equipment to support expectant mothers
3. Rehabilitative therapy expansion
4. Vocational training center to train those who are needing to move to the next stage
5. Assisted living facilities for those who are dependent on parents who are aging

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $807,745

Projected 2024 Earned Income: $30K