Community gathered around a table
SproutWorks
rebuilding lives through the dignity of work.
see the model
belonging · safety · renewal

phase onebread & vine

01/03
A hand offering fresh bread to a man on the street

not a program — a table. a monthly gathering at portland's white house and weekly touchpoints with mentors and community families, where each person is known, valued, and welcomed into a family.

marked by:
belonging
safety
community
looks like:
a shared meal
weekly check-ins
real friendship
identity · healing · purpose

phase twogood soil

02/03
A counselor taking notes during a one-on-one session

healing and preparation for what's next — counseling, spiritual direction, life coaching, and entrepreneurship training that strengthen the whole person before work takes root.

marked by:
identity
healing
purpose
looks like:
counseling
coaching
skills training
work · skills · equity

phase threedo good industries

03/03
A welder's gloved hands joining metal at a workbench

real jobs, apprenticeship, and ownership through a growing ecosystem of mission-aligned businesses — starting with portland's white house, then catering, cleaning, landscaping, and more.

marked by:
work
skills
equity
looks like:
a paycheck
a trade
a path to ownership
why sproutworks?

every year thousands finish recoveryready to work — then hit the same walls: no opportunity, no belonging,no hope.

dignified work

real jobs with real wages — not charity, not a placement quota.

genuine belonging

a table and a community that stays — long before and after the job.

margin that returns

profitable businesses that reinvest every margin back into hope.

Portland

a city restored

we're proving a model where business is both profitable and redemptive — restoring people to purpose, one good job at a time, then replicating it city by city.

the vision
the gap we're closing

housing without work doesn't hold.

help us close it
84%

of people exiting homelessness don't regain stable work in their first year.

homeless strategic initiatives, 2023
50%

drop in job retention within six months without ongoing support.

our goal: double employment retention and halve return-to-homelessness within 24 months.

sproutworks model target
survival → sustainability
100

graduates in sustainable jobs within five years.

9

do good industries businesses launched by 2030.

our answer

the path of hope

belonging, then healing, then work — we close all three gaps in order, and a growing family of businesses pays for it.

the right amount of good.

profitable businesses that reinvest every margin into restored lives.

every seed matters

help us grow

be a builder in a redemptive economy — where work restores, businesses give back, and every investment plants seeds of lasting transformation.

invest with us

back real businesses secured by a real asset.

partner your church

bring your community to the table.

hire our graduates

give a fresh start a place to land.

★★★★★

redemptive work and genuine belonging can restore what was lost. everything we build stays rooted in the real work of restoration.

felix sanchezco-laborer (shepherd) · cityteam graduate