Money that keeps working after it is spent.
Support a recovery nonprofit 100% operated by people with lived experience. Help make practical education, creative workforce skills, responsible AI learning, and useful community tools more accessible to people in recovery and reentry.
Every program has to produce something real, and the proof to go with it.
The Forge model is built to answer the questions funders already ask: What changed? Who benefited? Can it continue? What proof exists? What matching value was created?
The proof comes from the work
Agree on meaningful measures before the work begins: participation, completed learning projects, skills practiced, participant feedback, and access to equipment and support.
Programs that earn part of their keep
Professional training, consulting, community partnerships, and support for education can contribute to a sustainable recovery organization. Discuss how a specific contribution fits the work.
Clear expectations from the start
Agree on scope, budget, documentation, and reporting needs together. Support should connect to a defined purpose and a clear way to review progress.
Your dollars can buy different things. Pick one.
Different dollars can do different jobs. Some buy critical equipment. Some pay instructors. Some underwrite public access. Some create the compliance and data layer that makes everything else fundable.
How much of its own cost each program covers, and how that changes.
The honest story is not that every station is profitable on day one. The honest story is that every station has a path to cover consumables, earn revenue, train people, and produce proof. The dashboard should make that climb visible.
People who finished
Participation, skills practiced, projects completed, and feedback gathered with appropriate permission.
Money the program made
Products, services, contracts, documentation work, storefront sales, and station-level operating coverage.
What the community got
Useful projects, learning opportunities, community resources, and partnerships that strengthen recovery and reentry.
Steps toward opportunity
Participant-defined next steps and connections to opportunities, with outcomes reported only when documented.
Fund the station once, and it can keep teaching, producing, documenting, and earning long after the ribbon-cutting photo.
Tell us what your dollars have to prove, and we will show you where they fit.
We can show how dollars map to equipment, instruction, public access, technology infrastructure, compliance, and measurable community benefit.