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LGT Venture Philanthropy and the art of staying
A Liechtenstein-backed foundation borrows the discipline of venture capital and gives it a longer clock. Its real investment is in the organisations that make good ideas survive.
GroundGame.Health makes the referral only the beginning
A ride, a meal, a working phone: small interventions can decide whether healthcare happens at all. GroundGame.Health connects the people who need help, the neighbors who deliver it, and the institutions that pay.
Cuyuna Regional Medical Center makes the waiting count
In Minnesota lake country, a community-built hospital brings specialty surgery closer to home. Its most revealing innovation happens months before anyone enters the operating room.
The Health Plan That Asked the Neighbors to Help
Wider Circle sells health plans an old-fashioned intervention: people who live near one another, meet regularly, and help each other get care. The machinery behind that simple scene is far more deliberate than a potluck.
The Mental-Health Company Betting That Belonging Is Medicine
Vanna Health starts where the clinic usually stops: at home, on the bus, inside a clubhouse, and in the slow work of earning trust. Its wager is that the most useful mental-health technology may be the one that helps another human keep showing up.
Mixte Communications knows when to hand over the microphone
The social justice agency sells a scarce commodity: communications capacity. Its work shows why the person delivering a message can matter as much as the message itself.
GK Foundation Waited 14 Years for One Graduation Day - Here’s the Playbook Behind the Patience
A family-funded corporate foundation turned public schools bilingual one grade at a time, then waited from kindergarten to graduation to see whether the bet held. Its method is patient, place-based and unusually difficult to fake.
NuvemRx Is Turning Pharmacy Paperwork Into a Safety-Net Growth Engine
The 340B business is a maze of claims, referrals and audit trails. NuvemRx wants community health providers to stop treating that maze as back-office paperwork - and start treating pharmacy as infrastructure for care.
Meridian Built a $2.5 Billion Medicaid Machine - Here’s the Local Playbook Health-Tech Founders Can Steal
A Detroit physician and his family turned a small Medicaid plan into a $2.5 billion acquisition. Inside Meridian’s enduring formula: win the public contract, build the provider plumbing, and treat food, housing and transportation as part of the product.
The Healthcare Holding Company Building a Front Door That Opens at Home
True Ventures Group is assembling home care, remote monitoring and virtual medicine under one roof - a practical bet that the hardest part of healthcare is often what happens between appointments.
Grapevine Health
Grapevine Health is a Washington, DC-based digital health media company founded by physician and epidemiologist Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick. It creates culturally relevant, plain-language health content and delivers it through trusted messengers, street-level conversations, and an SMS platform called HealthText to raise health literacy and build trust among Medicaid enrollees and other underserved communities.
Red Rabbit
Red Rabbit is the largest Black-owned K-12 school food management company in the United States. Founded in 2005 by former Wall Street trader and MIT graduate Rhys Powell, the company runs full-service cafeteria programs that cook made-from-scratch, culturally relevant meals for students in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania - treating good, diverse food for children as an act of social justice.
Untold
Untold, formerly CARE for AIDS, is an Atlanta-based faith-driven nonprofit that runs a nine-month, church-based program helping HIV-positive men and women across East and Southern Africa build a life beyond AIDS. Working through local churches with indigenous staff, its integrated model addresses physical, spiritual, emotional, and economic health at once - producing 97% viral suppression among clients and more than 50,000 program graduates.
CommuniCare+OLE
CommuniCare+OLE is a nonprofit network of federally qualified health centers serving Napa, Solano, and Yolo counties in Northern California. Formed in 2023 by the merger of OLE Health and CommuniCare Health Centers - two organizations that both opened their doors in 1972 - it delivers comprehensive medical, dental, behavioral health, substance use, nutrition, optometry, and pharmacy care to more than 70,000 patients across 17 sites, regardless of insurance status, immigration status, or ability to pay.
El Camino Health
El Camino Health is a not-for-profit healthcare system that has served Silicon Valley and the South Bay for more than 60 years. Born from a 1950s community vote and a tax that residents levied on themselves, it runs two acute care hospitals in Mountain View and Los Gatos plus roughly two dozen care locations across Santa Clara County. With 471 beds, about 4,480 employees and 1,585 physicians, it blends a community-rooted mission with the technology-forward instincts of the valley it sits in.