Early-Stage Fund (7)

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2024 Goal $2,000,000
Mental Health & Well-Being | Youth & Young Adult Focus
Exposure & Funding
Prospectus
This fund is made up of those nonprofits that have less than 3 years of operation, a sound strategic mission, strong leadership, early impact, and a vision that is desperately needed in our world today.
The fund is distributed equally to all nonprofits in the fund. As the fund grows so too does the number of nonprofits included in the fund. Note: Innergiving can help you create custom curated pools.
Filters: Including Region, Female Founder, Underserved Founder(s), Industry/NTEE, Keywords, Org Name, Revenue, Geo, Focus, Ratings, and More...
Community Fund

Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Mission: To expand access to quality, evidence-based youth mental health care as quickly as possible.
Vision: CCAMH exists to expand access to quality, evidence-based youth mental health care as quickly as possible. To us, it’s about access.

Foundation for Social Connection

Mission: To engage in education, increase public awareness, promote innovative research, and spur the development and implementation of evidence-based models that address social isolation, loneliness, and social connection.
Vision: For all Americans to have the opportunities and evidence-based supports necessary to be socially engaged in society.

Healthy Gamer Foundation

Mission: Promotes the mental health needs of the digital generation.
Vision: We find mental health interventions that work for young people and add fuel through funding, policy, and targeted research to drive action.

Mothers Against Media Addiction (MAMA)

A movement for parents, founded by parents.
MAMA was founded by Julie Scelfo, a former New York Times staff writer, media ecologist, and mother of three. Julie was quickly joined by hundreds of other parents across the country who saw the effects social media and other addictive technologies were having on their children.
Mothers Against Media Addiction is a grassroots movement of parents fighting back against media addiction and creating a world in which real-life experiences and interactions remain at the heart of a healthy childhood.

Promly

Promly is a social networking platform for teens, with accessible mental health support, that builds connectedness through shared interests. Our goal is to decrease the rising suicide rate among teens, decrease mass shootings among youth, and help adolescents create more genuine connections with one another by putting resources in their world instead of hoping they reach out for help independently.

The Good Life Movement

Mission: To end the mental health crisis and give all Americans a fair shot at the pursuit of happiness.
Vision: Heal the Nation. Rebuild Our Communities. Put People First. We are building a big tent vision that will address mental health for all people and populations in America. Together we’ll beat the crisis and create a world that makes us happy, not sick.

The Mental Health Literacy Collaborative

Mission: To make evidence-based mental health literacy a foundational part of PK-12 education and communities.
The Problem & How We Are Solving It: The mental health education landscape is complex. This is a system issue. We help state-level implementation professionals (people and organizations) navigate the system and empower the schools they work with through our three core initiatives listed below.
Criteria:
-Youth mental health impact directly or indirectly
-Youth advisory backing nonprofit services/solutions
-Revenue <$1M (with exceptions)
-Registered 501c3
-Clear vision & mission
-Service alignment with vision/mission
-Less than 3 years in operation - early stage
-U.S. based charitable organization
-Culture that values diversity, equity & inclusion
-Culture that values personal & professional development
Criteria (continued):
-Impact Reports(s) - ability to measure impact
-Financial Statement(s) - stable and transparent
-Open to leadership interviews
-Serve youth or young adult (0-18, 18-30)
-Minimum 3 board members
-Leadership - minimum experience of 3 years
-Leadership has clear vision, empowers people, collaborates with partners, innovative
-Organization is fully transparent
-Sufficient reserves
-Funding diversity. Reasonable distribution of grants, donations, events, fees, investments
-Ratings on GuideStar (Candid) & Charity Navigator
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