ATX Impact Network is a city-scale platform connecting Austin businesses, nonprofits, and people around measurable local impact. We're raising launch capital now — and inviting founding sponsors into the origin story.
One place where local impact is visible, measurable, and shared.
ATX Impact Network is that platform — a directory and marketplace that links businesses, nonprofits, and residents around real outcomes. Built as a program of R3SET Enterprises (B-Corp) on multi-stakeholder cooperative principles, with a pre-committed path to community ownership.
Sponsors fund the build, the campaign, and the founding cohort. Every dollar comes in non-extractive, mission-locked, and built to last.
Every mission-aligned local business and nonprofit, gathered in one place.
Discover, support, and transact with businesses doing real good.
"What Would You Suthe?", anchored by Suthe Water — turning everyday choices into local impact.
A public, transparent measure of the impact we create together.
Built to be owned by the community it serves. Sponsor capital is structured to honor mission lock and member ownership — never an extractive equity grab.
ATX Impact Network is built to become a multi-stakeholder platform cooperative — owned and governed by the people who use it, not extracted from them.
Most platforms grow by capturing value and sending it elsewhere. This one is structured to do the opposite: the businesses, nonprofits, residents, and workers who make the network valuable are the ones who own it and steer it.
It launches as a program of R3SET Enterprises (B-Corp) and follows a pre-committed path to spin out into community ownership — with mission lock that can't be quietly undone.
Local enterprises listed in the directory and marketplace — a say in the rules they trade under.
Mission-driven orgs whose outcomes the network exists to make visible and fund.
Austinites who choose impact in everyday moments — members, not just users.
The team building and running the platform — co-owners of the work, not hired hands.
Governance is by membership, not by capital. The biggest check doesn't buy the loudest vote.
The purpose is written into the structure — protected from a future sale, pivot, or quiet extraction.
Surplus is reinvested in the community by member decision — it doesn't leave the city it was made in.
A pre-committed route from R3SET stewardship to full member ownership as the network matures.
A published methodology and a public dashboard. Members can see what the platform does and decides.
Founding sponsors earn an advisory voice now — and, at the Source tier, capital that converts to member equity at spin-out.
The network isn't one audience — it's a city of communities, each joining on its own terms and getting something real back.
A merchants' association or neighborhood group lists its local businesses together, runs shared "shop local" pushes, and shows the dollars that stayed in the district.
Mission-aligned orgs get discovered, accept support, and report outcomes in one place — so funders and residents can see exactly what their backing moved.
A school community rallies families and nearby businesses around a shared goal — turning everyday spending and volunteering into funding for classrooms and programs.
Communities organized around culture or shared identity build a visible directory of their businesses and causes — and keep more of their economic energy circulating among them.
Hypothetical, but exactly how it's meant to work. Follow one neighborhood from joining the network to a measurable, public outcome.
The East 6th merchants' association registers as a member group and lists its 40 local shops, cafes, and makers in the directory — one shared neighborhood page.
They vote to back a nearby nonprofit running after-school programs — a cause the whole block already cares about.
"What Would You Suthe?" QR codes go on tables and packaging. Every purchase on the block routes a small, visible share to the cause.
Austinites discover the block through the network, choose to spend there on purpose, and watch the neighborhood meter climb in real time.
The dashboard shows dollars kept local and kids served. The merchants are co-owners of the result — not a line item in someone else's report.
One slow season becomes a story the whole block owns — and a playbook the next neighborhood can run.
A city-wide invitation to choose impact in the small moments. Anchored by Suthe Water, the campaign turns a simple question into a movement — and gives every sponsor a visible role in it.
Your brand tied to real, measurable outcomes in your own city.
Early sponsors are remembered as the ones who made it real.
The campaign puts you in front of an engaged Austin community.
A public impact dashboard shows exactly what your support creates.
A published methodology and an honest scorecard. No spin.
Help build something Austin owns together — not just a transaction.
Being one of the first sponsors isn't just a transaction — it's a seat in the story of how Austin built something it owns together.
From the first small wave to the source it all flows from.
Small businesses & individuals who want in.
Local businesses ready to be seen.
Growing brands wanting real visibility.
Committed partners shaping the launch.
Category leaders seeking exclusivity.
The anchor brand of the launch.
Benefits stack as you move from Ripple to Source.
| Benefit | Ripple | Stream | Current | Spring | Headwaters | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsorship amount | $1K | $2.5K | $5K | $10K | $20K | $50K |
| Founding Supporter listing in the directory | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Logo on campaign supporters page + founding badge | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quarterly impact report | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Logo on campaign materials (web + print) + launch shout-out | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Launch event seats | — | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| Featured profile + co-branded social + named in press release | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Packaging / QR placement + quote in the launch story | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Featured on the public impact dashboard | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Community advisory circle seat (1 yr) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Category-exclusive recognition (one per sector) | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Premium logo placement + advisory vote at first Member Assembly | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Anchor billing + campaign co-funding credit | ✓ | |||||
| Founding capital that converts to member equity at spin-out | ✓ | |||||
| Permanent founding-anchor recognition in perpetuity | ✓ |
The full V1 directory and marketplace, ready at launch.
"What Would You Suthe?" creative, packaging, QR, and PR.
A small paid founding team plus community outreach.
Runway through launch, plus a buffer so we never run fragile.
Funds release against build, campaign, and member-onboarding milestones — so sponsors fund momentum, not promises. Built on the $300K Launch Capital Strategy.
Businesses listed, dollars moved locally, nonprofits supported.
An open charter for how we measure what counts.
Every sponsor sees the outcomes their support created.
What works in Austin becomes the playbook for city #2.
Pick the level that fits, and become a founding sponsor of a platform Austin will own together.
Choose your tier — anywhere from Ripple to Source.
We send a one-page sponsor agreement and benefits summary.
You're named in the founding cohort at launch.