Staying competitive can be expensive. Your gift makes HeroBridge possible. One of the the three pillars of the HeroGive Foundation is to give HeroBridge’s cutting-edge technology to nonprofits for free. Forever. This decision was based on the reality that most community service organizations (CSO) are unable to invest in the kind of technology we offer, even though they know the impact it would have on their ability to be more visible, effective, efficient, organized and scalable.

As a donor advised fund, HeroGive Foundation is able to provide an instant charitable contribution letter to donors, and then use these contributions to provide grants to nonprofits to underwrite their ability to afford mentorship technology, R&D and staffing required to scale and replicate better outcomes for more populations and the organizations that serve them. Many of these investments result in valuable IP that can be licensed to industry, education and governance providing sustainability to the HeroGive DAF and your support.

2024 was a textbook example of how we used your R&D donations to create a broader range of human-centered products to market. As we enter 2025 we look to scale up these products and expand the number of mentorship communities that we can impact, with a focus on America’s Future of Work. Partnerships with Google AI & Homeboy Art Academy for gang and addiction disorder recovering youth; VA/VPAN for Veteran Peer Mentorship in association with Val Kilmer’s SparkRise; jails-to-job transitioning programs for formerly incarcerated youth; and a new nonprofit that helps employers and employees create healthy workplace cultures in the age of AI. Even a new inter-faith/eccumencial mentorship community “CALLED” that will build deeper community relationships and help us better understand the path to deeper spiritual outcomes for its members.

Your gift allows HeroGive Foundation to provide grants to mentorship nonprofits allowing us to give our technology away for free. It also allows us to provide skilled jobs in media and technology for those in the communities we serve. These grants help us scale and build a broader and deeper sample set for us to develop better human-centered mentorship strategies and predictive models based on empirical data and feedback. The DAF becomes the owner of valuable IP that is used to develop 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

1. 70% of your gift goes to fund grants for existing HeroBridge nonprofit 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 addiction recovery programs through Dale King’s Spartan Club, the Televerde Foundation for their jail-to job training of incarcerated women and last but not least the 1000 Mile Running Club app for currently and formerly incarcerated runners. Sunday to Sunday Productions for faith mentorship communities and Veterans Peer Access Network for returning combat veteran mentorship. Scaling these programs through direct donation and media production creates more proven real world impact year to year.

2. 15% of your gift goes to the administrative overheads of the Foundation 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 HIPPA encrypted security to keep our communities safe, private and free from outside noise.

3. 15% of your donation goes to new nonprofit R&D IP that assures we are scaling 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. In 2025 we will spend on:

   1. Agentic Edge Mentorship Technology : Each iteration of the community keeps climbing the ladder of predictive analytrics and efficacy that has broad market value as an IP. Thanks to your 2024 support, you donation allows us to use anonymized data to train agentic AI to support nonprofit mentorship with predictive models that can aid and assist the human mentor.

   2. Further investment in our relationship with MIT Media Labs and Community Affective Technology 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 Tools for Nonprofits and Foundations. 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.

      Keep in mind as a donor advised fund you can select how you want your donation to be allocated. Just add in the notes of the donation portal or call us for assistance at 310-210-1515.

Hero Bridge is an engine of purpose made possible through the HeroGive Foundation.

Organizations find the populations they serve in one place, making their subscription pay for itself through greater access and awareness. Add to this the support of donors and corporate social responsibility participants and Hero Bridge becomes an ecosystem of supportive services that grows and built for long term sustainability and relevance. A win. win. win.

Hero Give makes Hero Bridge transparent.

Donors get evidence of lives touched. Coming soon, each month you will receive a transcript of how your donation was used including the data proving your impact. You can even customize your donation to direct your dollars to impact, ie. “for LA girl STEM learning programs and courses”.

Hero Bridge is an economy.

Because Hero Bridge is built on a skill-based technology, those who create and manage the apps are the populations served. Similar to the supportive economies that Homeboy Industries, Not Impossible Labs, Televerde and ConCreates provide to their populations, Hero Bridge and Stepping Forward LA currently support a paid internship program that employs former foster youth at Opportunity House.

Hero Bridge is constantly innovative.

HeroBridge Foundation is structured as a brother-sister with Hero Bridge Technologies LLC enabling it to engage in cutting edge research and development of supportive technology and media that improves Hero Bridge’s impact. This efficiency makes it so corporate “cause” and CSR supporters can be certain that HeroBridge remains an industry leader, able to produce brand sponsored high quality content that is aligned with our communities (the XChange) as well as develop increasingly effective technology for our participating organizations. This relationship gives us the ability to remain sustainable and efficient into perpetuity. As we build capacity, 80% of your donation goes to producing topical content and program R&D.