Software, used intelligently, can change society for the better.
This philosophy has given us the freedom to work across a wide spectrum of ventures.
Tipping Point Partners (TPP) is a mission-driven public impact studio that uses software to solve problems that hinder government capacity to serve Americans, especially the most vulnerable. We operate as an "institutional co-founder" providing startup expertise and strategy, lightweight funding, and operational infrastructure to brilliant founders working on structural change toward equity.
Tipping Point's startups build bridges between new technology and human needs, with a particular focus on using new technologies to deliver needed services with speed and scale, always centered on end users and frontline workers. Our teams have designed, built and operated software-based start-ups for our own portfolio, and with partners who have included city and state governments, charitable foundations and labor unions:
NYC Votes and NYC Votes Contribute. NYC Votes is a public voter engagement program of the NYC Campaign Finance Board. NYC Votes is its namesake web and mobile app that provides voting information. NYC Votes Contribute is a mobile-first app that allows users to donate to candidates, while invisibly handling the necessary compliance behind the scenes. Created by a pro bono partnership led by Tipping Point Partners, with design consultancy Method and software consultancy Pivotal Labs. NYC Votes has been in continuous service since 2012. Read blog post.
Casebook is the first and only web-, cloud-, and open-source based SACWIS system for state child welfare. TPP partnered with the Annie E. Casey Foundation to develop concept, working prototype, pilot in foster care, then build a team to implement the platform in Indiana. TPP subsequently spun out Casebook into Casebook, a public benefit corporation, which has continue to develop the Casebook system. Casebook has been in continuous service since 2012. Read blog post.
Carina provides an effective, easy-to-use, and trustworthy platform for homecare workers and homecare seekers to connect for good jobs and quality care. TPP was the advisor to SEIU 775 to spin out its existing traditional services to a technology based nonprofit, Carina. TPP helped SEIU 775 assess its operations and financials, develop a plan, and hire its founding technology team. Carina has been in continuous service since 2017. Read blog post. Read PHI Report.
Tipping Point Partners’s Founder, Art Chang, has been a pioneer in many lasting transformations from the Queens waterfront to streaming music to legal knowledge management and the NYC tech and civic tech ecosystems.
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