In New York, Tim Hoefer and Bridgette Herbst have secured sufficient seed funding for a January pilot launch of the American Public Servant’s Association (APSA). The Association offers an alternative for public-sector workers to the ineffective and often corrupt services provided by government unions. It provides a legal network, benefits and discounts on hundreds of things members routinely use, and guidance in forming local associations. The principals have completed thorough assumptions challenges; crafted remedies where they believe APSA will face formidable challenges; priced and modeled the program’s ancillary benefits; tested their target audience; and identified an executive with successful start-up experience to build, run, and test the operation.

Operating from their base at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Jonathan Small and Trent England are notching both offensive and defensive wins to protect the American Electoral College. They raised sufficient funds to hire development, execution, and legislative talent, then moved swiftly into prioritized states. They are positioning themselves to take advantage of the marketing opportunities provided by the presidential election: filming a documentary for release around major party national conventions; positioning  for success in the many state legislative fights expected in 2021; a fly-in summit for allies; and high-level media training for legislators. Save Our States continues to seek allies who can help open doors with funders and influential allies in state governments.

In Massachusetts, Texas, and Nebraska, the Affordable Health Care for Small Business has rolled out its pilot program, and 600 lives are now covered through their new model. The aim is 2,000 lives covered in the pilot by the end of the Q1 2020, and they are in the queue with enough business to likely reach that goal. To move their pilot into a thriving business, Tarren Bragdon and Joel Allumbaugh are resolving state-by-state compliance issues, assembling talent in sales, strategy and operations, and reviewing/testing scalability and customer needs. The leaders are taking full advantage recent regulatory changes and are plowing revenue back into the company for faster build-out.

Utah Innovates is hitting its marks for the three-year project. Connor Boyack and Michael Melendez have secured funding for a tech innovation specialist and have secured two legislative sponsors to pursue regulatory and insurance sandboxes. Most recently they have begun meeting with a variety of innovative companies that could potentially enter a Utah regulatory sandbox. Suggestions and introductions to companies they can approach for the insurance sandbox would be appreciated.

American Mettle has gone back to the drawing board to rethink the project intent and related outcomes.