Programs
The operating partner behind your community commitments.
Health systems, foundations, companies, and universities hire Launch Point Labs to design and deliver community programs. We manage the work from the first plan to the final report, and your team keeps the decisions.
Community programs stall in the middle. That's where we work.
The funding is real and the commitment is public. What's often missing is a team to launch the program, support the people in it, and keep it moving until the results are in. Launch Point Labs is that team.
Who hires us
Companies
Brand, CSR, and community impact teams that want initiatives that are visible, useful, and grounded in real community needs.
Foundations
Funders ready to launch initiatives that support grantees, activate communities, and give the board clear evidence of progress.
Health systems and universities
Institutions coordinating partners, supporting participants, and managing the daily work behind a public commitment.
What we deliver
Accelerators and cohorts
Structured cohorts that help entrepreneurs move from early ideas toward stronger businesses, with curriculum, mentorship, coaching, and a public showcase.
Learn about accelerators and cohortsInnovation challenges
Open competitions that invite community members to develop solutions to a defined problem, with funding or pilot opportunities for selected ideas.
Learn about innovation challengesGrant and capacity-building programs
Practical support that helps grantees, nonprofits, and participating ventures strengthen their strategy, operations, communications, and financial footing.
Learn about grant and capacity-building programsWorkshop series
Focused sessions that bring stakeholders together to study a problem, develop practical responses, and identify ideas ready for further investment.
Learn about workshop seriesHow a program comes together
We manage the work at each stage while your team stays involved in the decisions that shape the program.
- 1
Discovery
We learn your goal and the community you want to reach.
- 2
Program design
Your goal becomes a program model with the right audience, milestones, partners, budget, and measures of success.
- 3
Build and launch
We recruit and select participants, line up mentors and partners, and prepare the curriculum and events.
- 4
Support and deliver
We manage the daily work, keep partners coordinated and budgets on track, and give participants hands-on support.
- 5
Report and grow
Results become reports, case studies, and participant stories your leadership, board, and partners can use.
Results
- Innovation challenge
Economy League of Greater Philadelphia
Fair City Challenge
Ran the Fair City Challenge from open call to pitch night, backing community-led ideas for economic opportunity.
- Innovation challenge
- Accelerator
Independence Blue Cross
Well City Challenge
Ran Well City Challenge 2.0 for Independence Blue Cross, from 100+ applications to 15 finalists and a pitch night.
- Innovation challenge
Jefferson Health
JeffSolves Summer Sprint
Designed and ran a summer innovation sprint with Jefferson's Health Design Lab to protect access to health coverage.
- Workshop series
- Accelerator
Penn State Brandywine
From first idea to first business
A 10-workshop founder series and startup workshops for more than 220 middle and high school students.
- Capacity building
Pete du Pont Freedom Foundation
Delaware entrepreneur support
Gives one-on-one technical assistance to Delaware entrepreneurs in the foundation's E3 program.
“When our partners are planning equity-focused community challenges and they wonder who might help them run it, I recommended Launch Point without hesitation.”
Jeff Hornstein
Executive Director, Economy League of Greater Philadelphia