MISSION DIRECTED ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT

Identify and partner with entrepreneurs and mission-based organizations to create social ventures and impact ecosystems

 
A Social Purpose Holding Company
 
Key Strategic Group, LLC has created Key Impact Network, L3C a development, management and holding company for mission-first social enterprises. The low-profit limited liability company (L3C) is designed as a collaborative platform for non-profit organizations and social entrepreneurs to build equity generating mission-driven businesses and social enterprises.
 
Each social impact venture will be structured to operate as a profitable and sustainable business, as well as, deliver measurable social impact outcomes: sustainable job creation; recruitment, training and employment of community residents; models for employee ownership; wealth creation; and community equity.
 

• KIN operates as a ‘managing partner’ dedicated to develop, launch, manage, grow, and scale multiple mission-based business ventures, cooperatives and social impact enterprises that directly, or indirectly improve underlying social determinants of health, through market-based models.

 

• KIN offers a shared infrastructure for third sector organizations and community-embedded enterprises that prioritize employment, wealth-building, equity and justice.

 

• KIN builds value for social impact ventures at the nexus of academic, community, government and business.

 

• KIN works to access a blend of grants, contracts and private investments that are traditionally unaccessible to community-based micro-businesses and social impact ventures.

 

• KIN deploys specialized capital acquisition and investment alliances to attract private, social impact and community-centric investment to KIN partnerships.

 

• KIN teams with professional services providers to create an ecosystem to support mission-driven, market-based, revenue generating, sustainable social impact enterprises.

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INDUSTRY SECTORS CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT

Technology

​QWanalytix, LLC is KIN’s first social enterprise created in partnership with an academic technology transfer office, to commercialize an intellectual property, using a community-based social venture model. KIN is partnering with Saint Louis University and the Small Business Empowerment Center to commercialize an advanced micro-predictability weather forecasting technology for use in the electric energy transmission, agriculture, security and transportation industry sectors. QWanalytix is structured as a mission-first social enterprise with financial and social return on investment objectives to build a sustainable business model while maximizing community revenue sharing, recruitment, training and employment of community residents, as well as, equity ownership components.

Food/Wellness/Health

Propel Kitchens
Propel Kitchens is a not-for-profit collaborative of mission based community kitchens in St. Louis, using food service training, wellness and nutrition programming, to help people with barriers, gain the knowledge and skills that lead to healthy and productive lives. Propel Kitchens has contracted with Key Impact Network to develop, launch and manage Propel Kitchens and its new commercial kitchen hub in Pagedale, MO, as well as, launch two affiliated social enterprises.
 
Social Enterprise Subsidiary’s

• WiseChoice Meals ™️
  KIN is partnering with Propel Kitchens to launch a social enterprise to produce healthy meal packs for various express, take out and pick up outlets, vending stations, mini markets, institutional food service providers and corner markets. The meal packs are designed to be distributed through various community mission-based outlets, and qualified for SNAP and available to food insecure populations in retail locations. WISEChoice Meals will be piloted in the STL market and will explore national expansion by subcontracting production within Catalyst Kitchens member network.
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• Plant-based Artisan Network
  ​A social enterprise cooperative developed by Propel Kitchens and Key Impact Network that would be a shared space small batch processing and co-packing peer-to-peer accelerator for minority-owned plant-based food product entrepreneurs.