Born and raised in Portland, OR, to parents committed to community activism and educating underprivileged youth, Remi Sobomehin has always known that education was the field in which his life would be committed. After Stanford, Remi spent his career devoted to the community of East Palo Alto, as a school leader and director at the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula, until launching Ambition. Remi has two kids, Jaiye (5) and Kemi (3) with his wife Kendra. They live in East Palo Alto.

Too many Black and brown teens are not learning the skills needed to thrive in work and in life. Ambition Angels leverages a mobile app called the Ambition app to teach teens foundational life skills like financial literacy, managing mental health, and communication, and introduce teens to careers and workplace readiness skills. The Ambition app offers teens bite-sized development courses, like a Khan Academy but for skills needed to live thriving lives. Their model is unique: instead of paying adults to develop underserved teens, their Ambition App rewards teens for developing themselves‚ on their phones.

Organizational Needs: Ambition Angels is looking to identify their next city-wide rollout and the partners that can help facilitate the Ambition app being used by the Black and brown youth of their city.

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $1.7 M

Projected 2024 Earned Income: N/A

Scott Key is the CEO of Every Shelter, a human-centered design nonprofit focused on designing, making, and distributing better relief goods to refugees living in camp settings and low-resource urban environments. He holds a Masters of Architecture from Rice University where he founded Every Shelter with a co-founder while still students. Today, Every Shelter has reached thousands with their products and continually works to launch and scale new solutions to grave challenges. Scott was named an Emerging Design Leader from the Design Futures Council and was a Global Good Fund Fellow in 2018.

Every Shelter helps refugees create home. They do this by focusing on building localized shelter ecosystems that recenter refugees in their own recovery so they can better live self-determined lives while displaced.

Every Shelter designs Shelter Goods made in Shelter Workshops that can be purchased through Shelter Depots. Shelter Goods are innovative physical shelter and home good products. The Shelter Workshop is where many of these products are researched and manufactured, creating employment opportunities and skills training for refugees.

Shelter Depot is the team’s latest endeavor and fundamental to the Every Shelter ecosystem. The Shelter Depot is the brick and mortar—or in this case, a shipping container—and provides a way for refugees within a settlement or camp to choose what goods they want as opposed to what others tell them they need, increasing agency and decreasing dependency.

Organizational Needs: Every Shelter is partnered with a large implementing organization 100x their size and could use some help navigating these kinds of partnerships. Every Shelter does not want to become a huge NGO, but rather sees scaling their innovations through large, existing NGO's in their space.

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $1.5 M

Projected 2024 Earned Income: $400K

Oye Waddell is the Founder & Director of Hustle PHX, where he is fueled by his visionary style of leadership and the belief that all people have dignity. Oye’s long track record in urban education and entrepreneurship created a passion for him to see urban communities in North America transformed through business. In addition to Hustle PHX, Oye also serves as a pastor at his church and as a partner of the Hustle Real Estate Investment Fund, which is designed to serve as a pathway to homeownership for low-income individuals. Oye attended the University of Washington on a full athletic football scholarship. He later earned his MPA from the University of Southern California and MEd from Arizona State University. Oye, his wife Crys, and their four young children - Chariot, Clover, Crescent, and Oye II - currently reside in Phoenix, AZ.

Hustle USA encourages the creation of sustainable business ventures that affirm the dignity of people and lead to the flourishing of all communities in Phoenix. Hustle PHX was built on the belief that some of the best natural entrepreneurs in the United States are in underserved urban communities. They are called “hustlers” – visionary risk-takers who seize the opportunity to move product and turn a profit. They have the God-given skills, attributes, and talents of an entrepreneur, but they lack key resources needed to create sustainable businesses that benefit the broader community. Hustle PHX wants to let the hustlers hustle – for the common good.

Organizational Needs: Hustle USA primary organizational needs are Relationships. Relationships with Impact Investors, Community Builders, and folks that work within the Justice Systems throughout the US.

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $850K

Projected 2024 Earned Income: $100K

Tyler is the Founder of Missional Labs, a venture network supporting ministry startups working on the future of the Church. He was previously Chief of Staff at Church of the City New York, and has worked for multiple leading organizations across church planting, leadership training, venture building, innovation, and global mission. He’s worked with leaders in over 50 countries, and was named a young leader for the Lausanne movement in 2016. He’s pursuing a Doctor of Missiology (in progress), with an MA in Theology from RTS, and BA in Economics and Humanities from Azusa Pacific University.

Missional Labs is a venture ecosystem for next-generation mission, supporting innovative leaders and ventures advancing the Gospel, making disciples, and renewing the Church.

Organizational Needs: Missional Labs is a growing community with offices in 3 countries. We need help with organizational development (board, systems, processes), strengthening our value prop for major givers (100k+), hyper-clarity in our brand story, and strategic wisdom in our roadmap to scale.

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $800K

Projected 2024 Earned Income: $100K

Stephen is a partner at Missional Labs. He has served as Executive Director at Bridgetown Church, and as Associate National Director at Alpha Canada.  He is a strategic leader, committed to empowering and developing individuals, teams and organizations to help them flourish. He draws from a wide range of global experiences, growing up in  South Africa and working in consulting in Dubai. Stephen holds an MA of Theology from Regent College.  He is passionate about leadership development, the local church, and entrepreneurship.  He’s married to Amy and lives in Vancouver, BC with their two daughters.

Missional Labs is a venture ecosystem for next-generation mission, supporting innovative leaders and ventures advancing the Gospel, making disciples, and renewing the Church.

Organizational Needs: Missional Labs is a growing community with offices in 3 countries. We need help with organizational development (board, systems, processes), strengthening our value prop for major givers (100k+), hyper-clarity in our brand story, and strategic wisdom in our roadmap to scale.

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $800K

Projected 2024 Earned Income: $100K

Kristen Hubbell is the CEO and Co-Founder of Prevention Now. She is passionate about creating impactful, long-term, sustainable change by leveraging data and bringing together diverse groups of people. Kristen spent nearly a decade of her career as an investigative analyst for the FBI, working on criminal investigations across the country and the world. After the FBI, she joined the global anti-trafficking organization, International Justice Mission, as a Senior Program Manager specializing in strategy, programs, and process development.

Prevention Now and their local partners stop human trafficking before it ever starts by leveraging artificial intelligence to uncover why human trafficking occurs in communities across the US. Prevention Now uses data as a connective tissue to build bridges within and across systems, developing integrated collaboration among partners and equipping local and state-level agencies to implement data-driven solutions preventing human trafficking in their communities. Together, we can end human trafficking once and for all.

Organizational Needs: Over the next year, Prevention Now is focused on testing and replicating its program model and technical tool in new geographies, while onboarding a new internal team.
Prevention Now is looking for how to most effectively build the internal foundation (culture, policies, rhythms) while simultaneously developing a data and partner pipeline to enable scale in the next 3 years.

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $750K

Projected 2024 Earned Income: $50K

Angela Weszely is the Co-Founder and CEO of ProGrace. Before this, Angela spent ten years as President of Caris Pregnancy Counseling Resources in Chicago. This role was her first experience in the pro-life/pro-choice space, and her journey awakened the passion and transformative content behind ProGrace. Angie is an accomplished speaker, teacher, and coach with a varied career background, including Dale Carnegie and CRU. She is married with two children and enjoys anything involving travel, good food, deep conversation, or BBC movies.

ProGrace creates content and community to advance a nonpolitical approach to abortion that demonstrates God’s grace and value for all people. We provide resources, curriculum, and a referral network to help Christians think, talk, and engage in a way that reflects the true nature of Jesus.

Organizational Needs: ProGrace is looking to connect with like-minded organizations and church networks to build strategic partnerships and potential Board members to represent our national scope.

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $550K

Projected 2024 Earned Income: $10K

Willie Mpasuka is a development practitioner and the Co-Founder of Rays of Hope, a faith-based educational nonprofit providing equitable access to quality education in seven out of 34 education districts in Malawi. The organization works with over 5,000 teachers in 262 primary schools. He is a 2008 - 2009 Urban Promise International Fellow, the 2017 African Visionary Fellow and the 2018 Praxis Fellow. He received the 2018 Rising Star Award from the Segal Family Foundation. He graduated from the African Bible College with a degree in Education and has a Master of Arts Degree in International Development from Eastern University - Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Rays of Hope integrates faith in educating children and training teachers in under-resourced communities in Malawi. It has grown from serving 40 students to reaching over 250,000 students in six education districts in Malawi. It runs the biggest teacher network for in-service teachers. It just signed an MoU with the Ministry of Education to use Teaching at the Right Level in 172 schools potentially benefiting hundreds of thousands of students in foundational literacy and numeracy.

Organizational Needs:

- Rays of Hope seeks to hire a 'number 2' employee to support the Executive Director
- Rays of Hope plans to transition two board members whose terms of office expired
- Replace three funders whose grants expired

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $1.675 M

Projected 2024 Earned Income: $9K

Shelley Milligan oversees TCP’s development and operations. Prior to joining TCP, she served as Assistant Head of School for Advancement at Westminster Christian Academy. She has also served as Associate Provost at Washington University, preceded by roles as Assistant Dean of Arts and Sciences and Associate Director of Development in Arts and Sciences. Shelley holds a BA from Washington and Lee, an MA in higher education advancement from Vanderbilt, and an EdD in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania.

The Carver Project (TCP) empowers Christian faculty and students to serve and connect university, church, and society. TCP's core values are uncommon community, creative dialogue, and focused engagement, and it longs for faculty and students transformed, churches engaged, and society enriched. Rooted locally at Washington University in St. Louis but reaching nationally, TCP builds on the natural networks of Christian faculty in non-Christian higher education. TCP faculty fellows partner with students, alumni, pastors, and ministry leaders to provide reading and discussion groups in their spheres of influence, to connect students with area professionals in mentoring relationships, and to host public events that bridge the divide between church and university.

Organizational Needs: As we look to our next phase of ministry life, TCP seeks to stabilize three areas of our operations: our staffing structure (faculty and administrative), our board size and function, and our finances. Our initial start-up season seems to be ending and as we look toward long-term sustainability, we're aware that how we are led, governed, and funded are of utmost importance.

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $357K

Projected 2024 Earned Income: $3K

Michael Wear is the Founder, President and CEO of the Center for Christianity and Public Life, a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution based in the nation's capital with the mission to contend for the credibility of Christian resources in public life, for the public good. For well over a decade, he has served as a trusted resource and advisor for a range of civic leaders on matters of faith and public life, including as a White House and presidential campaign staffer. Michael is a leading voice on building a healthy civic pluralism in twenty-first century America. He has argued that the spiritual health and civic character of individuals is deeply tied to the state of our politics and public affairs. Michael previously led Public Square Strategies, a consulting firm he founded that helps religious organizations, political organizations, businesses and others effectively navigate the rapidly changing American religious and political landscape.

The Center for Christianity and Public Life (CCPL) is a nonprofit organization with the mission to contend for the credibility of Christian resources in public life, for the public good. CCPL advances its mission through programs that develop Christian Civic Formation and Public Imagination, including their flagship Public Life Fellowship and their annual summit, "For the Good of the Public." The organization is grounded in the conviction that spiritual formation is central to civic renewal.

Organizational Needs: The Center for Christianity and Public Life (CCPL) is interested in finding partners and forums for educating and equipping Christians for faithfulness in public life, including sharing the resources and frameworks offered in their President and CEO's new book, "The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life."

CCPL will soon be looking to hire a Research Director, who will oversee their Public Imagination work and research think tank.

CCPL is interested in identifying office space in Washington, D.C.

CCPL is looking for new financial partners who are committed to, and excited about, the whole of their mission: contending for the credibility of Christian resources through both spiritual formation (the kind of people we are) and public imagination (advancing Christian resources as a gift and offering to the public).

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $1,200,000

Projected 2024 Earned Income: $80,000

Kelly Lyndgaard is the Founder and CEO of Unshattered - a 501c3 nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to end the addiction relapse cycle through ethical, sustainable fashion. A physicist and engineer by training, Kelly is now a thought leader in the arena of post-addiction employment models.

Previously a Fortune 20 executive, Kelly left the corporate world to begin Unshattered. The organization provides job skills training and employment for women in recovery to help them build pathways toward economic stability and sustained sobriety. In 8 years of employing women in recovery, Unshattered has achieved a 96% long-term sobriety rate for their employees.  

Unshattered is a 501c3 nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to end the addiction relapse cycle. Our USA-based organization employs women in recovery to make premium handbags out of upcycled materials, including retired military uniforms, industry scrap, and leather upcycled from the seat backs of Southwest Airlines' planes.

We are a healing-centered, long-term employment community where women can build confidence, social capital, and success. Through a combination of community, employment, and personal development, Unshattered helps women continue their journey beyond sobriety toward healing and growth. Our women are rebuilding families, becoming leaders, and paving the way for more women to come behind them.

In nearly 8 years of employing women in recovery, Unshattered has had only a single relapse for their employees.

Organizational Needs: Unshattered is quickly scaling to offer our services to even more women in recovery. We know our model works - it has been recognized by the White House as an incredibly effective model for ending the Opioid crisis.

1) We moved into a larger facility in May of 2023 with plans to fully renovate and expand our work. We are doing a silent raise behind the scenes and working to launch a capital campaign to fund our renovations to provide a space for more women to experience a healing-centered employment community where they can thrive on the other side of addiction. We are in need of coaching on how to structure a phased campaign with realistic goals without losing momentum.

2) Building out marketing support that includes top-level strategy, brand voice, website refresh, Google ads, etc. Historically, we have broken out the pieces of work but are considering how we move to the next level of prestige and polish on how our brand is presented externally. How do we build our marketing strategy in the most cost effective way. We have HUGE brand support, active customers and a lot of ""admiration"" of the brand that we need to convert into sales.

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $1,000,000

Projected 2024 Earned Income: $350,000

Stuart Sheehan has served as President of WHMI since 2011 and was the founding Director of WHMI’s Bible Institute. For over a decade he has worked as a mission strategist, focusing on the global lack of access to theological education. Before serving full time with WHMI, he served in the local church more than 30 years and has frequently served as an adjunct seminary professor. He earned doctorates in both Divinity (PhD, University of Aberdeen, Scotland) and music (DMA, University of Texas at Austin). He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Evangelical Missiological Society. He has also served as a Praxis Scale Fellow. He is to married Amy, his best friend. They have three grown children, two of whom are married and are blessed to be grandparents. He enjoys hunting and good BBQ.

World Hope Ministries International (WHMI) is working to make theological education globally accessible. Currently, only about 15% of pastors outside the U.S. have any formal theological training, leaving millions of pastors and those they serve significantly disadvantaged. WHMI has pioneered a scalable approach that equips and empowers nationals to replicate training to others. Those who already have training deliver theological training to those who lack training. WHMI identifies qualified students who can become instructors, assisting them to open new locations where others are trained. This empowers them to be the voice of theology in their context, leading healthier churches that can engage in community transformation. This enhances the value of all other Kingdom investments. Healthy replication has expanded WHMI's reach to over 225 locations in 52 nations.

Organizational Needs: WHMI is seeking additional partners who serve those who need training. Additionally, WHMI is looking to add new Board members who have a passion for the health of the global church.

Projected 2024 Donor Revenue: $1,857,000

Projected 2024 Earned Income: N/A