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Our Accelerators

Resiliency Studio Accelerators are Built to Catalyze Entities to Thrive

Each accelerator is designed to build industry knowledge, deepen capacity and increase outcome production.

We provide access to our workspaces for an entire year so teams can accelerate progress or work at their own pace. Either way, we are here to help get the work done!

Who We Serve

Leaders Creating Opportunities and Building Legacies

Resiliency Studio accelerators elevate the work of executive, management and frontline teams across the opportunity fields that shape resilient communities.

NonprofitSmall BusinessSocial EnterpriseSocial ServiceAffordable HousingReal EstateConstructionCommunity DevelopmentYouth & ChildcareCultural & Culinary ArtsCreative IndustriesMain Street Retail

Platform Capabilities

What's Included

Each accelerator is intricately built to leverage Urban Design Center’s decades of knowledge and implementation methodologies employed to facilitate its client projects and programs.

Well resourced workspaces enriched with industry specific “how to” insights, document, budget and timeline templates, fit test analysis and deliverable strategies.

Live Weekly Accelerator Work Sessions structured to share insights on upcoming opportunities and to provide technical assistance to build your team's capacity to effectively drive completion of tasks.

Our AI-enabled work spaces are designed to accelerate task and document production, track work efforts, facilitate team input and strategize on the best approach to pursue opportunities.

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Accelerator Centers

Choose Your Accelerator

Our Accelerators are clustered into three centers — Center for Community Excellence, Vision Builders, and Venture Up! Click on details below to sign-up for an Inside Resiliency Open Session to learn more about an accelerator of interest.

Center for Community Excellence

ExemptPath Accelerator

“How to Create and Sustain a Compliant Nonprofit 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt Organization”

For Emerging & Re-establishing Nonprofits

Step-by-step work sessions designed to expedite entity formation and application preparation for organizations seeking or working to reinstate their 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status with the IRS and to obtain tax exemption in the state in which they operate. Designed to move organizations through preparing their IRS 1023 tax exemption application within 3 weeks.

Includes full-year access to our proprietary AI-empowered ExemptPath accelerator workspace, and How To On-Demand sessions give organizations time to complete applications at their own pace.

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Center for Community Excellence

GrantCraft Accelerator

“The Art of the Ask: Small Grant and Individual Donor Appeals & Stewardship”

Initial Fund Development Launch

Team-based work sessions structured to guide the development of responses for foundation, corporate and government grant opportunities and the creation of individual donor giving campaigns. Full-year access to our proprietary AI-empowered GrantCraft accelerator workspace and How To On-Demand sessions.

Participants can use the embedded AI functionality to search for grant opportunities and prepare proposals, receive alerts for new grant opportunities of interest, and participate in our weekly work sessions focused on sharing insights on proposal preparation and individual donor prospecting.

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Vision Builders

LegacyImpact Accelerator

“Build Your Real Estate Legacy”

For Community, Family & Individual Investors

Powered by our Housing Impact Partners leadership team, a workspace for community, family and individual investors and their real estate teams to research, analyze and manage their 2 to 4 unit single family and 5 to 20 unit multifamily acquisitions. Participants have access to live weekly sessions with our real estate acquisitions and development team through our proprietary AI-empowered LegacyImpact accelerator workspace.

Plus How To On-Demand deep dives on: Site and Property Analysis; Zoning and Land-Use Assessment; Market and Demographic Analysis; Acquisition, Rehab and Investment Financial Modeling; Acquisition Strategies and Process; Financing and Soft Second Options; Collective Ownership Investment Models; Consultant Team Selection; Contractor Bidding and Selection; Sustainable Design Solutions; Renovation Project and Construction Management; Property Management Best Practices.

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Venture Up!

ProposalEdge Accelerator

“Beyond the Games: Leveraging Access and Opportunity to Scale.”

A workspace for small business retailers, manufacturers, distributors, consultants, contractors and social enterprises to strategically structure and collaborate on proposals for the LA28 Games, Super Bowl LXI and beyond.

Participants have access to live weekly sessions through our proprietary AI-empowered ProposalEdge accelerator workspace, plus How To On-Demand sessions providing deep-dive information, analytical insights and technical assistance.

AI Proposal Builder

Generates tailored proposal sections guided by a Strategy Assessment step that scores your fit and defines your narrative angle, strengths, gaps, and key messages before you draft.

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