The Futures Fund helps to build joint-venture pilots with external entrepreneurs and affiliates to test new market solutions that address service gaps, improve operational efficiency, and better support staff and clients. These partnerships help affiliates overcome capacity constraints while advancing innovation across the network.
The Futures Fund deploys funds through several ways:
- Feasibility Grants: Capacity-building support for costs associated with ideation, feasibility studies, testing, and piloting of new business development opportunities.
- Piloting Grants: Direct support for joint ventures between Affiliates and companies to enhance services for clients.
- Catalytic Investments: Strategic pre-seed capital into ventures that have demonstrated pilot success with VOA Affiliates.
2025
EIS: Early Intervention Systems
Healthcare & Older Adults | Incubator Venture
Web-app based communication platform designed to streamline shift-to-shift handoffs in senior living communities and healthcare settings.
ONSCREEN
Older Adults | Incubator Venture
Senior care and accessibility technology company that transforms TVs into an easy-to-use platform for video communication, telehealth, wellness check-ins, and AI companionship.
PingCares
Older Adults | Incubator Venture
A senior-centric intuitive interface wearables that improve safety, wellness, and social connection for older adults.
Vivo
Older Adults | Incubator Venture
Virtual strength training programs for older adults geared toward a full body workout to improve strength, mobility, and balance adaptable to any level of mobility and fitness.
VOA Michigan
Older Adults & Housing | Incubator Venture
VOA Michigan’s newest service model, Housing Hub, will address dual eligible individuals aged 65+ and/or who are living with disabilities and require intensive Complex Care Coordination focused on accessing healthcare and maintaining safe, stable housing.
WellMiss
Women| Incubator Venture
A trauma-informed digital clinic addressing the profound need for holistic trauma care among the 1 in 2 women in the U.S. who experience at least one or multiple traumatic events in their lifetime.
VOA Upstate New York
Healthcare | Feasibility Grant
VOA Upstate New York has added consulting services to explore becoming a single-source model of care for clients, to increase continuity of care and reduce fragmentation in their system.
2024
Care Options Network
Senior Care | Incubator Venture
Connects members to senior care resources through their published GuideBook to encourage relationship building to help community older adults.
Giving Credit
Financial Tech | Incubator Venture & Investment
Web-based social credit network that amplifies community finance by bringing transparency to peer lending. In 2015, the Futures Fund provided an investment of $100k to support the data collection of users to report information to credit reporting agencies to prove the user’s credit worthiness.
LunaJoy
Maternal Health | Incubator Venture
Works to elevate the overall quality of mental health care available to women through digital mental health care clinic for women through the lifespan and complexity of pregnancy.
TapRoot Ella
Senior Care | Incubator Venture
The first dementia caregiving app utilizing AI brought directly into homes to guide caregivers of those with dementia symptoms.
Transition
Workforce Development | Incubator Venture
Comprehensive workforce platform bridging the gap between healthcare training and employment to increase talent pipelines for the next generation of healthcare professionals.
Wolomi
Maternal Health | Incubator Venture
Mobile app and digital platform that provides culturally relevant community and trusted experts and guidance for pregnant women of color through their evidenced based interventions.
VOA Northern California & Northern Nevada
Healthcare | Feasibility Grant
Expansion of behavioral health program to integrate services into current programs and to expand current services to new funding opportunities.
2023
bEHR
Healthcare | Incubator Venture
Medical, lifestyle, and social solutions for the healthy aging of Black people.
Malama Health
Healthcare | Incubator Venture
Tech-enabled care to improve pregnancy-related outcomes.
Samaritan
Housing Stability | Incubator Venture
A support platform that empowers people without a stable home to reach life goals.
The Cook’s Nook
Food Security
Provides “food as medicine” solutions to organizations addressing the health needs of Americans who suffer from diet-related disease.
TrainingGround
Early Childhood Development | Incubator Venture
Learning labs for parents and developmental play spaces for infants and toddlers.
Welfie
Youth Health | Incubator Venture
Delivering education and care coordination to families on Medicaid.
VOA Alaska
Youth Development | Feasibility Grant
Continuum Enhancement Project to develop new service lines in the system of care for youth whole person development.
VOA Texas
Economic Security | Feasibility Grant
Let’s Get Set Pilot program partnership with the Community Health Incubator founder, to help staff and clients gain access to tax credits.
2022
Hamilton Health Box
Healthcare | Incubator Venture
Integrated small footprint, primary and tele-health for rural populations.
Let’s Get Set / The Beans
Economic Stability | Incubator Venture & Investment
The formerly tax prep platform for low-income families and mothers was acquired by The Beans in 2024. The Futures Fund investment of $150k into Let’s Get Set will continue into The Beans to support their work to provide financial wellness for caring professionals.
Lifting Up
Youth Health | Incubator Venture
Tech connecting first responders & schools when a student is impacted by trauma.
VOA Southeast Louisiana
Healthcare | Incubator Venture
Medical respite for those experiencing homelessness.
The Farm / VOA Upstate New York
Food Security | Incubator Venture
Hydroponic container farming for fresh food and job training.
VOA Eastern Washington & Northern Idaho
Healthcare | Feasibility Grant
Hydroponic farm feasibility study to address the city’s food desert problem, provide jobs and training opportunities, and serve as an educational/life sciences lab for programs.
2021
VOA Ohio & Indiana
E-Commerce | Feasibility Grant
Worked to increase purchases and donations to thrift stores by expanding to a larger audience through e-commerce.
VOA Upstate New York
Food Security | Feasibility Grant
Hydroponic farm feasibility study to address the city’s food desert problem, provide jobs and training opportunities, and serve as an educational/life sciences lab for programs – became The Farm in 2022.
VOA Los Angeles
Workforce Development | Feasibility Grant
Guided and trained participatants to convert mobile homes into permanent, affixed homes, as well as homeless people in need of housing who may be the end users of the mobile home. Known as Construction Careers: The Mobile Home Module.
2020
VOA Greater New York
Workforce Development | Feasibility Grant
Viability exploration of a self-sustaining social enterprise that trains VOA GNY clientele in building maintenance, as part of workforce development strategy.
VOA Oregon
Healthcare | Feasibility Grant
Exploration and development of a health center or primary care partnerships, as part of health center feasibility.
VOA Texas
Workforce Development | Feasibility Grant
IDD Vocational Services Training Program – a pay for success model with Texas Workforce and Rehabilitation Commission.
Survive and Thrive (COVID-19 Grant)
COVID-19 Response
In response to the pandemic, VOA supported activities at 16 affiliates that are associated with the adaptation of service models in order to re-establish sustainability and growth potential for the organization, totaling $400,000.
2019
VOA Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho
Healthcare | Feasibility Grant
Medicaid services implementation through the launch of housing support services billable to Medicaid.
VOA Mid-States
Recovery Care | Feasibility Grant
New business development in re-installing addiction recovery programming in high-priority areas of West Virginia, as part of West VA addicition recovery expansion project.
VOA Northern New England
Healthcare | Feasibility Grant
Feasibility assessment and site visit for a community health navigator.
2018
VOA Greater New York
Healthcare | Feasibility Grant
Medicaid expansion study of VOA network.
VOA Los Angeles
Healthcare | Feasibility Grant
Medicaid expansion study of VOA network.
VOA South Central Louisiana
Youth Development | Investment
School behavioral health expansion program into Bossier Parish.
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