Operators who moved real money, real payrolls and real supply chains toward people — insurance, energy, manufacturing, tech, banking, retail.
Yvon Chouinard
Founder · Patagonia
Purpose over profitWhat they did: Transferred ownership of the company into a trust and nonprofit dedicated to the climate crisis — "Earth is our only shareholder."
Why it matters here: It proves an enterprise can be structurally pointed at a mission instead of an exit. That is the model we want for a platform that must stay free forever.
Our ask: Guidance on the perpetual-purpose trust structure so free services can never be sold out from under the people who depend on them.
First door: Patagonia corporate / Holdfast Collective contact channel
What they did: Advocates federal privacy legislation and supply-chain ethics, and uses an openly gay trillion-dollar-company platform to press human rights globally.
Why it matters here: Privacy is life-or-death for survivors and for people in active court matters. Our whole encryption posture assumes what he argues for publicly.
Our ask: Privacy-by-default review of a survivor platform, plus device access for families who cannot afford the hardware that runs the safety tools.
First door: Apple executive relations / public policy team
The Haier Rendanheyi leadership
Executive team · Haier
Distributed authority and trustWhat they did: Dismantled middle management and turned a 75,000-person corporation into 4,000+ self-managing micro-enterprises, with employees sharing the profit they generate.
Why it matters here: A micro-enterprise per neighborhood is exactly how care should be delivered: local people, local decisions, no approval chain between a family and help.
Our ask: Rendanheyi guidance for care delivery — how to license the model for nonprofit, community-level micro-teams.
First door: Haier Model Institute / Rendanheyi research center
Distributed authority and trust What they did: Rebuilt AMD into a semiconductor leader through partnership and supply-chain strategy rather than micromanagement — supportive leadership under real pressure.
Why it matters here: Everything we run is compute. Access to hardware and inference capacity is the difference between a demo and a platform that answers at 3 a.m.
Our ask: Compute and hardware access for free public-benefit AI, plus an engineering mentor for our small build team.
First door: AMD corporate social responsibility / partnerships
Beth Ford
CEO · Land O'Lakes
Equity and radical inclusionWhat they did: Drove cultural change in a traditionally conservative agricultural sector, embedding diversity through cooperative operations and supplier networks.
Why it matters here: Rural families are the ones furthest from treatment, transport and counsel. A cooperative network is the fastest rural distribution channel that exists.
Our ask: Route our free rural intake and transport help through cooperative and supplier networks.
First door: Land O'Lakes corporate communications
Julia Hoggett
CEO · London Stock Exchange plc
Equity and radical inclusionWhat they did: Sponsors pride initiatives and serves on the LGBTQ+ Board Alliance, using financial-sector influence to reshape inclusion standards.
Why it matters here: Our international rollout needs UK and EU footing, and LGBTQ+ survivors are among the least served by existing recovery systems.
Our ask: UK and EU introductions for a free survivor platform, and inclusion standards we can adopt as written.
First door: LSEG corporate affairs
Sander van 't Noordende
CEO · Randstad
Equity and radical inclusionWhat they did: Institutionalized inclusive hiring and equity policy across a global HR business operating in very different legal markets.
Why it matters here: Recovery ends in a job or it does not end. Fair hiring for people with records and gaps is the single biggest missing piece of our ladder.
Our ask: A second-chance hiring pipeline for people leaving treatment, incarceration or a false accusation.
First door: Randstad global communications / ESG team
Dan Schulman
Former CEO · PayPal
Economic justice inside the workforceWhat they did: Audited his own workforce, found 60% of hourly employees could not cover their bills, then raised wages and cut their healthcare cost by roughly 60%.
Why it matters here: That audit is the honest version of pay equity, and it is exactly the doctrine we published: measure what people actually live on, then fix it upward.
Our ask: Review our published pay bands and the upward-only correction rule, and tell us where the math still fails a household.
First door: Public speaking / board office channel
Dr. Tom Leighton
Co-founder · Akamai Technologies
Economic justice inside the workforceWhat they did: Implemented unlimited paid time off and 18 weeks of paid parental leave on the premise that security and balance come before innovation.
Why it matters here: Family-and-work balance is the whole reason the platform exists. He already ran the experiment at scale and it worked.
Our ask: Leave and balance policy we can hand to partner facilities as a ready-made standard.
First door: Akamai Foundation / corporate responsibility
Marianne Lake
CEO, Consumer & Community Banking · JPMorgan Chase
The rising generationWhat they did: Leads consumer banking for roughly 85 million Americans while pushing financial inclusion and digital transformation.
Why it matters here: Families in crisis lose their footing at the bank first: no ID, frozen accounts, no credit, predatory fees. Inclusion here is immediate relief.
Our ask: Low-friction accounts and fee relief for households in documented crisis, plus financial-footing curriculum we can give away.
First door: JPMorgan Chase corporate responsibility
Scott Guthrie
EVP, Cloud + AI · Microsoft
The rising generationWhat they did: Sits at the center of Microsoft AI and cloud strategy, shaping the ethical deployment of technology that touches billions of people.
Why it matters here: Our entire care-coordination layer is AI-orchestrated. Ethical deployment for vulnerable users is not theoretical for us — it is Tuesday.
Our ask: Cloud and AI credits for free public-benefit use, plus a safety review of AI used with people in crisis.
First door: Microsoft Philanthropies / AI for Good
Tricia Griffith
CEO · Progressive Corporation
Economic justice inside the workforceWhat they did: Took the company past State Farm in market share while filling roughly 80% of non-entry-level jobs internally, promoting Lori Niederst and Heather Day from within in 2026.
Why it matters here: Internal mobility is the ladder our people need. Someone leaving treatment or a wrongful accusation needs an employer who promotes rather than screens them out.
Our ask: An internal-mobility playbook we can hand to partner employers, and an entry lane for people rebuilding after crisis.
First door: Progressive corporate communications / talent office
Tim Latimer
CEO · Fervo Energy
Green economic populismWhat they did: Adapted horizontal drilling to geothermal and led the largest clean energy IPO on record in May 2026, raising about $1.9 billion for 24/7 carbon-free power.
Why it matters here: Round-the-clock clean power is what makes our Niagara green hydrogen and free-utility work real instead of seasonal.
Our ask: Technical read on our Niagara Falls hydrogen and firm-power pilot, and a route for clean power that lowers a household bill.
First door: Fervo Energy corporate / policy team
Sara Correa
CMO · Bridgestone Americas
Verifiable impact, not statementsWhat they did: Built the corporate philanthropy function and impact campaigns that carried Bridgestone to #20 on the 2026 Forbes Best Brands for Social Impact list.
Why it matters here: Transportation is the single most common reason a family misses treatment, court or work. Tires and mobility are literal access.
Our ask: Tires, mobility support and safe-vehicle help for households in documented crisis through our free vehicle-access desk.
First door: Bridgestone Americas corporate philanthropy
Jeffrey D. Stewart
Founder · Enharmonic Encounters
Verifiable impact, not statementsWhat they did: Certified among the first nine companies under B Lab’s stringent 2025 standards, proving a small Black-owned interpretation business can meet the highest benchmarks.
Why it matters here: Interpretation is access. Deaf and non-English-speaking families are routinely locked out of court, intake and medical rooms we operate in.
Our ask: Interpretation capacity for free intake and court support, and mentorship on certifying a small mission enterprise.
First door: Enharmonic Encounters public contact channel
The South Mountain Company partners
Worker-owners · South Mountain Company
Distributed authority and trustWhat they did: Runs a worker-owned architecture, engineering and renewable-energy cooperative that scored 189.4/200 on B Corp assessment in 2026 while strengthening local resilience.
Why it matters here: Economic democracy is the shape we want for care delivery — the people doing the work own the work.
Our ask: Show us how to stand up worker-owned local care and build crews so communities own their own recovery infrastructure.
First door: South Mountain Company general inquiries
The H-E-B leadership
Executive team · H-E-B
Verifiable impact, not statementsWhat they did: Ranked #1 on the 2026 Forbes Best Brands for Social Impact, leading grocery-sector trust through consistent disaster response and community support.
Why it matters here: Food is the first thing that disappears in a household crisis, and the grocer is the most trusted institution left in many towns.
Our ask: A no-questions food lane for families in documented crisis, run through stores instead of an application process.
First door: H-E-B community affairs
The Subaru Love Promise team
Corporate impact team · Subaru of America
Verifiable impact, not statementsWhat they did: Ranked #3 for social impact in 2026, sustaining a retailer-level giving model that funds local causes through dealerships rather than headquarters alone.
Why it matters here: A safe, reliable vehicle ends more crises than almost anything else we can hand a parent.
Our ask: Vehicle access, safety recalls handled free, and dealer-level partnership for families rebuilding transportation.
First door: Subaru of America Love Promise / corporate impact
The Elsevier inclusion leadership
Executive team · Elsevier
Equity and radical inclusionWhat they did: Held the #1 spot for Best Companies for Diversity in 2026 as judged by employees of color.
Why it matters here: Research access decides which treatment a family gets. Paywalled evidence is a health inequity.
Our ask: Open research access for frontline recovery and trauma programs, and the inclusion standard we can adopt verbatim.
First door: Elsevier corporate responsibility
The ADP leadership
Executive team · ADP
Economic justice inside the workforceWhat they did: Ranked top three for diversity and #1 for Best Companies for Women in 2026 while running payroll for a large share of the workforce.
Why it matters here: Payroll is where wage discrimination is either visible or hidden. Our pay-equity doctrine needs data honesty at that layer.
Our ask: Anonymized pay-gap methodology partner employers can run, plus payroll footing for tiny community employers.
First door: ADP corporate social responsibility
The Adobe inclusion leadership
Executive team · Adobe
Equity and radical inclusionWhat they did: Sustained a top-five diversity ranking in 2026 alongside genuine flexibility policy rather than an announced one.
Why it matters here: Flexible work is the difference between keeping a job and losing custody for a parent in treatment.
Our ask: Creative tools free for survivors telling their own story, and a flexibility standard for our partner employers.
First door: Adobe corporate social responsibility
The NVIDIA social impact leadership
Executive team · NVIDIA
The rising generationWhat they did: Rated AAA by MSCI among top ESG stocks for 2026, powering efficient supercomputing and applying it to social problems.
Why it matters here: Our care coordination runs on inference. Compute access is the difference between answering at 3 a.m. and not answering.
Our ask: Compute grants for a free public-benefit care platform, and review of our models used with people in crisis.
First door: NVIDIA Foundation / AI for Social Good
The Intuit leadership
Executive team · Intuit
Economic justice inside the workforceWhat they did: Rated AAA on ESG for 2026 while building financial tools for households and the smallest businesses.
Why it matters here: Families in crisis lose their paperwork first: taxes, benefits, proof of income for court.
Our ask: Free tax and benefits help for households in documented crisis, and records tooling for court-ready income proof.
First door: Intuit for Good / corporate responsibility
The Salesforce ESG leadership
Executive team · Salesforce
Verifiable impact, not statementsWhat they did: Ties executive compensation to ESG goals, making stated commitments cost something at the top.
Why it matters here: Accountability that touches pay is the only accountability that lasts. We want that mechanism written into our own charter.
Our ask: The compensation-linked accountability mechanism in writing, plus nonprofit tooling for our free desks.
First door: Salesforce.org / Office of Ethical and Humane Use
The Walmart workforce leadership
Executive team · Walmart
Economic justice inside the workforceWhat they did: Combines large-scale internal mobility with sustained representation of women and Black associates across a workforce of millions.
Why it matters here: Walmart is the largest employer in many of the towns we serve. Internal mobility there changes household income at population scale.
Our ask: A hiring lane and internal-mobility path for people leaving treatment, incarceration or a false accusation.
First door: Walmart corporate affairs / Walmart Foundation
The WEX leadership
Executive team · WEX
Economic justice inside the workforceWhat they did: Ranked #78 on the 2026 Forbes culture list and #1 in Maine, with employee AI accelerators and family-care benefits covering fertility and pets.
Why it matters here: Family-care benefits that include fertility and pets are the honest definition of a household. That is the standard we push to partner employers.
Our ask: Their family-care benefit design as a template we can publish free for small employers.
First door: WEX corporate communications
The American Water leadership
Executive team · American Water
Green economic populismWhat they did: Recognized two years running for company culture in a utility sector where that is rare.
Why it matters here: Water shutoffs and arrears are a quiet driver of family separation. A utility that cares about its own people is a utility that will talk about shutoff policy.
Our ask: Shutoff protection and arrears relief for households in documented crisis, and a model tariff other utilities can copy.
First door: American Water corporate responsibility