As we enter 2024 we look to scale up and expand the number of mentorship communities that we give away our technology to. Partnerships with Homeboy Art Academy for gang and addiction disorder recovering youth; VA/VPAN for Veteran Peer Mentorship & Wellness; 1000 Mile Club & Televerde for the transitioning incarcerated; and Spartan CrossFit for addiction disorder recovery in the heartland of Appalachia. Even a new inter-faith/eccumencial mentorship community that will build deeper community relationships and positive spiritual outcomes for its members. These five communities could use your help.

How You Can Help.

Your gift allows HeroGive Foundation to give our technology away for free and provides skilled jobs in media and technology for those in the communities we serve. It also builds a broader and deeper sample set for us to develop better mentorship strategies and predictive models based on empirical data and feedback. This information is critical to our groundbreaking partnership with MIT Media Affective Computing Lab where for over a year we’ve been developing machine learning to build a better and more intuitive understanding of human development and affective behavior, so mentors can be more effective. These models will make the platforms we give away to nonprofits more effective and prepare them for the coming age of data driven philanthropy.

How We Use Your Gift

As a civic technology company we believe the measure of impact of giving should be transparent. Your gift allows the Hero Bridge to continue to research, develop and give away high quality mentorship technology to nonprofits for free. Forever. As we build for the future your gift will be used as follows:

1. 20% of your gift goes to our existing HeroBridge communities to subsidize, scale and support their incredible programs that provides hope and future for former foster youth in America through Stepping Forward, art therapy and kinship to Art Gang by Homeboy Art Academy Director Fabian Debora, HIT fitness recovery programs through Dale King’s Spartan Club, the Televerde Foundation for their jail-tojob training of incarcerated women and last but not least the 1000 Mile Running Club app for currently and formerly incarcerated runners. Scaling these programs through direct donation and media production creates more proven real world impact year to year.

2. 10% of your gift goes to the administrative overheads that keep the HeroBridge apps available to nonprofits for free on the Google Play and Apple Store. These costs include hosting fees for the app, the massive private media library that has doubled YTY and world class AWS encrypted security to keep our communities safe, private and free from outside noise.

3. 70% of your donation goes to assuring the platforms we develop for nonprofits remain cutting edge, relevant, useful and scalable. We allow the communities to guide our development, and as we add more communities we expect there to be unique features that we will need to build. Using Stepping Forward’s experience as a guide, developing virtual art galleries and learning-track-course guides were gamechangers in mentors’ ability to engage and motivate the communities. In 2024 we will spend on:

   1. Civic Technology Developers: Each iteration of the community requires our development team to engage. From our launch in 2019 with version 1.0 we are now on version 3.5 with two more development updates expected in 2024. Your donation could even sponsor a hackathon.

   2. Further investment in our relationship with MIT Media Labs and AI therapeutics that will result in powerful API’s that utilize the evidence of positive outcomes as a tool for machine learning to develop more effective ways and means of mentoring and resource building that we can release back to the nonprofits inside and outside our communities.

   3. Hire civic technology grant writers, marketers and business planners: With more foundations and grantors demanding “impact return on investment” evidence, we are poised to be the leader in the field and highly eligible for the growing number of technology grants that are time consuming to qualify and apply for. Our eligibility for these grants effectively doubles or triples the impact of your giving in this emerging field for which we are at the forefront. Further, our dedication to the rapid development of Fair Chance program integration into America’s workforce will require a seasoned sales team that can sell the program to employers and create economic security for training programs and our platform.

   4. Executive Special Teams Building: As we grow so too will our need for executive expertise. The need for specialists who understand the potential impact machine learning and artificial intelligence will have on philanthropy and nonprofits is something few are thinking about right now. Equipping ourselves for the future is a security blanket for nonprofits and foundations who are currently unprepared for a future where AI may be enhancing and using data to make decisions about philanthropy.

   5. Next Generation Reporting. If you’ve spent some time reading our site and articles we make reference to the future of giving and managing the expectations of philanthropists, foundations and institutional giving (CSR) in the age of big data. Expect to see the specific impact of your giving in the near future. It’ll make your rethink the return of investment on all your giving. Equipping nonprofits with powerful communication tools is included in your support.