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Connected innovation infrastructure

How PIN Moves Innovation to Impact

Solutions, talent, capital, and community priorities each exist on their own. What they usually lack is a shared pathway. PIN’s two pillars are built to provide it.

The gap

The challenge was never a shortage of ideas.

It was the gap between promising innovation and real-world adoption.

PIN closes that gap by connecting ventures with communities, emerging talent, capital, and implementation support to create lasting value.

The connected model

Two pillars reinforce one another.

01

Community Investment

Connects community priorities with the technology, expertise, and support needed to act on them.

Community Deployment

Engages communities and startups to test and shape promising technology in real-world settings.

PIN Studio

The PIN Studio provides hands-on management and implementation support that helps partners coordinate deployment, learn from real-world use, and move beyond an initial project.

PIN Fund

Provides long-term capital to help promising early-stage solutions move further. The Fund pairs that investment with the community relationships, implementation support, and talent already built into PIN’s model, helping the work continue beyond the pilot stage.

02

Emerging Innovators

Connects emerging talent to meaningful projects where their skills can make a difference.

Emerging Innovators connects PIN Interns and Fellows with applied work across sectors. PIN supports recruiting, matching, professional development, and program coordination, while partner organizations provide project supervision, mentorship, and meaningful work.

For participants

Paid applied experience, mentorship, professional networks, and clearer career paths.

For partner organizations

Skilled project support, access to emerging talent, and a lower-risk way to evaluate future employees.

How connection becomes impact.

When they connect

The Partnership for Innovation brings together community priorities, promising solutions, emerging talent, and long-term investment to build lasting community and economic value.

Community priorities

Connects community priorities with the technology, expertise, and support needed to act on them.

Promising solutions

Promising ideas create lasting value when they can move into real-world use and keep going.

Emerging talent

Connects emerging talent to meaningful projects where their skills can make a difference.

Long-term investment

Provides long-term capital to help promising early-stage solutions move further.

Lasting community and economic value

Together, they connect the people, expertise, and resources that turn innovation into impact.

The model in practice

Connected Impact

One project became an ongoing partnership

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