Greater Sum supports early-stage, innovative nonprofits. wo0e help founders build the nonprofit infrastructure to support their innovation.
Once a year, incubator graduates are invited to present their work in our annual pitch competition. The process begins with a fast pitch round focusing on mission, early impact, and opportunities for involvement. Top applicants advance to the finalist round, submitting comprehensive pitch decks and financial disclosures for in-depth review.
2026 Greater Sum Pitch Competition Winners
First Place: Birth Culture ($10,000 Award)
Mission & Impact: Birth Culture addresses systemic maternal health disparities by training youth aged 16 to 24 from impacted communities to become professional doulas. The program, based in Gainesville, Florida, creates meaningful career pathways while ensuring expecting mothers receive compassionate, dedicated support.
Future Vision: The $10,000 grand prize will fund team development to support licensing the Birth Culture youth-doula training model to partner organizations.
Second Place (Co-Winner): Plane Wellness
Mission & Impact: Plane Wellness utilizes woodworking as an avenue for mental health recovery, providing free virtual and in-person courses to veterans and adults living with physical disabilities or mental health diagnoses.
Future Vision: Plane Wellness plans to establish in-person teaching locations across all 50 states, develop a residential woodworking retreat featuring mini-cabins and community gathering spaces, launch a local maker space, and build a dedicated woodworking museum and library.
Second Place (Co-Winner): MyCapitol
Mission & Impact: MyCapitol offers a policy intelligence platform that translates complex legislative data into accessible insights, empowering citizens to track congressional activity and participate directly in policy advocacy.
Future Vision: The team is rolling out platform updates featuring representatives' personal financial disclosures—including stock and asset tracking—and launching civic education webinars in partnership with other civic organizations.
The Greater Sum Program Pathway
The virtual incubator is the gateway to ongoing programming and support from Greater Sum’s network:
The Virtual Incubator: Founders complete a six-week self-paced curriculum alongside weekly peer learning sessions to strengthen organizational strategy and financial governance.
Pitch Competition: Incubator graduates are eligible to enter the annual competition and finalists submit full pitch decks, financials, deliver their pitches, and participate in Q&A.
Post-Competition Support: Alumni receive ongoing advisory support and strategic capacity-building resources.
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