Restored. Refreshed. Revived.
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Restored. Refreshed. Revived.

The Well offers co-working space paired with on-site childcare for infants and toddlers, so parents can work while their kids are cared for next door. Their membership profits fund scholarships and partnerships that support women transitioning out of crises like domestic violence or homelessness.

Through the Well Communities children's program, Little Wellies™, children participate in an environment that utilizes the play-based, virtues-and-values curriculum Follow the Karavan™. The curriculum immerses them in stories, imaginative play, creativity, and relationships that help cultivate curiosity, kindness, resilience, and belonging.

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Purnaa: Safe, Ethical and Sustainable
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Purnaa: Safe, Ethical and Sustainable

Purnaa is a World Fair Trade-guaranteed social enterprise based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Purnaa strives to stop exploitation, be ethical and fair, and deliver high-quality products and services. 

Purnaa produces sustainable clothing that not only has safe manufacturing and dying processes but also includes the safe sourcing of fabric fibers and intentionally sources their materials so that they are produced with the least environmental impact.

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Protecting Lives through Preventative Intelligence
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Protecting Lives through Preventative Intelligence

Dark Watch, a global risk intelligence and security company, is building an AI-powered risk intelligence system that protects communities by helping businesses identify potentially dangerous or high-risk individuals.

Dark Watch's Pre-Arrival Intelligence™ platform analyzes signals from more than 1,400 intelligence sources and 450 million global profiles in real time, helping operators identify elevated-risk patterns before incidents occur.

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Edovo: Providing Hope and Transformative Opportunity
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Edovo: Providing Hope and Transformative Opportunity

Edovo is a nonprofit organization that provides free educational, vocational, and rehabilitative programming to incarcerated individuals through secure tablet networks.

Operating in over 1,250 correctional facilities nationwide, it offers learners access to more than 25,000 hours of coursework, podcasts, and treatment resources to help lower recidivism and support successful re-entry into society.

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Renew Capital: Building Africa’s Financial Future
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Renew Capital: Building Africa’s Financial Future

Renew Capital is a pan-African investment firm. They are focused on supporting entrepreneurs and platforms that help build the next generation of financial infrastructure in Africa.

By connecting technology, data, and capital, these businesses can expand access to credit, savings, payments, and other financial products that help businesses grow.

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Changing Lives Through Housing
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Changing Lives Through Housing

Lumen Flats Knoxville, an Elmington development, is dedicated to providing stable housing and wraparound support services for young adults aging out of the foster care system in Tennessee.

They recently celebrated the opening of their first development for these young adults with the Knoxville community.

The project is a landmark collaboration that solves a significant problem and offers a brighter future for fostered youth.

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NeighborHealth Center: When Partnership Becomes A Lifeline
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NeighborHealth Center: When Partnership Becomes A Lifeline

NeighborHealth Center, Raleigh, NC, is dedicated to caring for the whole person—body, mind, and spirit—through excellent, patient-centered healthcare. When the gap between care delivered and dollars received was too wide for sustainability, survival required a fundamental operational adjustment, short-term financial intervention, and prayerful decision-making.

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Forte: Strengthening Workplace Culture with Mental Fitness
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Forte: Strengthening Workplace Culture with Mental Fitness

Forte is a proactive mental fitness service strengthening workplace culture through human connection, interactive resources, and actionable data.

They provide more than a typical wellness solution; they act as a partner who understands the values and complexity of mission-focused work.

Learn more about Forte’s approach to mental fitness and their success story with Hope International.

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Invest Credit: Improving Lives Through Accessible Financial Services
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Invest Credit: Improving Lives Through Accessible Financial Services

A guest post from Invest Credit, one of Impact Foundation’s Portfolio Companies.

Invest Credit’s mission is to build trustworthy relationships with their clients by providing excellent financial services that empower them to realize their dreams for their businesses and families. Their vision is to spur social, financial, and spiritual transformation.

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Transformational Prayer: A Personal Journey
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Transformational Prayer: A Personal Journey

PRAYR is more than just a faith tool—it's an avenue for building strong Christ-centered communities. Ministries are excited to use PRAYR to rally their members, coordinate efforts, and provide consistent peer-to-peer support where you know you are being lifted in prayer. It streamlines communication and facilitates groups, ensuring that prayers remain prominent and those who are in need are never forgotten.

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Connecting the Dots on the Other Global Pandemic
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Connecting the Dots on the Other Global Pandemic

Girls First Finance (GFF) supports young women's education and professional development worldwide, starting in Africa, through student loans and personal empowerment tools. Girls can apply for affordable higher education loans through the GFF mobile app. The eligibility criteria ensure that vulnerable girls are not excluded from consideration due to poverty. The pilot phase of the app launched in Kenya in 2022 and will expand to other African countries and regions after 2023.

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Building Bridges of Opportunity
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Building Bridges of Opportunity

“We decided that day that we were going to take back everything the earthquake had stolen,” Julie says. They built a job-training center out of a tarp and plywood they’d found in the streets. They began cutting up rubber with razor blades. They went to work, every day, and others joined them. After 10 months, they’d created a prototype.

Ten years later, it’s a real company.

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