Technology keeps getting built far away, by people who will never meet the person on the other end of it, and then sold into towns like ours. We do the opposite. We develop solutions to local problems, connect the organizations that serve our neighbors, protect privacy and liberty by design, and train people here to build it with us.
Find treatment, housing, food and coverage near you, see what a raise does to your benefits, or train for real work. Free, and no account needed.
For community members → Helping organizationsAgencies, nonprofits, churches, and local businesses. One intake instead of five, referrals you can track, a free workspace, and people trained to hire.
For organizations → Helping local governmentsConnect the providers you already fund, get a county picture without surveilling anyone, and host your coalitions and committees free.
For public agencies → FundersMoney that keeps working after it is spent: equipment that trains the next cohort, software the county keeps, and people who now have a trade.
For funders →We are not a software company that discovered a cause, and we are not a charity that bought some software. We are neighbors who build the things our county needed and nobody was going to build for us.
Every tool we have started as something a case manager, a pantry, or a person in recovery could not get done. Not a market opportunity, a Tuesday afternoon problem. Then we build it, give it away, and keep fixing it.
Treatment, housing, reentry, courts, pantries, and employers each hold one piece of someone's path. We connect the pieces, so a person tells their story once instead of six times, and coalitions get a real workspace instead of a shared inbox.
No mass facial recognition, no automated enforcement, no selling anyone's story, no AI deciding a person's fate. Consent before every share, the minimum data we can get away with, and a small accountable team with oversight.
We are building cohorts that train people in recovery and reentry on real equipment producing real work: robotics, food, fabrication, and digital production. The first one has not started. The goal is a county that can build and run its own technology, staffed by its own people.
No login, no cost, and they ask for as little about you as they possibly can.
Search 2,600+ Ohio services: treatment, recovery housing, crisis lines, and community support.
See what a raise does to your SNAP, Medicaid, child care help, and rent before you decide.
A real workspace for community coalitions: meetings, minutes that file themselves, and a public activity page.
The people we serve have already been watched plenty: by courts, by systems, by databases that never forget. They do not need more monitoring. They need doors that open. So the limits came first, before the products did, and they hold for every tool on this site.
A case manager posts a need with no names attached. A man in recovery reads the board and knows his class meets next to a commercial 3D printer. He books shop time, designs the frame, and prints it in filament recycled from litter our own crews collected. A neighbor delivers it. The kid gets a bed, and the builder never learns the family's name.
The litter on the road last month is the bed frame this month. That is not a metaphor. That is the supply chain.
A person leaving treatment might touch six organizations in a year. Today each one starts from zero. We build the connective tissue between them, and the person holds the keys.
A person's profile travels with them between connected agencies, so intake number four takes minutes instead of another hour of retelling the worst year of their life.
Every share between agencies needs the person's specific, written permission, and they can take it back. Connection never means surveillance.
"Call this number" becomes a tracked referral with a visible status: received, screening, waitlist, accepted. Everyone can see where it stands, including the person.
IDs, certificates, and completed forms follow the person instead of being photocopied at every door. Agencies request only what they are missing.
Check-ins, training hours, and completions keep their receipts automatically, ready for funders, audits, and renewals.
Each organization runs its own tools and owns its own records. Connecting does not mean merging, so joining costs nothing but a decision.
Short cohorts where you learn by producing real work, with people who have been where you are. No experience needed, nothing to pay, and recovery is not a disqualifier here. It is the point. Not open for enrollment yet. The first cohort has no start date, and the waitlist is the honest version of a sign-up button.
Robots, PLCs, and sensors. A pathway into technician work.
Hydroponic systems and fresh food for neighbors.
3D printing, screen printing, and products that sell.
Podcasts, video, ads, and AI on real campaigns.
Recovery providers, reentry programs, courts, churches, and employers use GrowthWorks software and partner with our training programs.
Our programs produce credentials, products, services, and documented outcomes, so your dollars build capacity, not just activity.
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Bring it to us anyway. The first conversation is free, and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.