Two Steps Up

Four pillars, each one a step up.

Progress is incremental by design. Every initiative we fund sits inside one of these four commitments, written into our bylaws and used to test every request that reaches us.

Personal empowerment and purposeful growth

  • Helping individuals engage with their true selves and meet their life purpose
  • Guiding incremental growth and emotional development through partner organizations and the Two Steps Up framework
  • Providing education, coaching, and action steps that create clarity and purpose

Accessibility and inclusivity

  • Making high impact integrative and multimodal technologies, hardware and software alike, reachable for the people who need them
  • Ensuring health care solutions reach everyone, especially underprivileged youth and communities
  • Partnering with schools, social services, homeless support, suicide prevention, and domestic abuse organizations to deliver resources effectively
  • Funding scholarships for services

Innovation and research

  • Funding and supporting research into effective integrative approaches and the technologies that deliver them
  • Investing in interdisciplinary and multimodal health care solutions
  • Supporting new ideas and ensuring quality through grants and investments
  • Setting standards for companies building groundbreaking products

Community and social impact

  • Redefining health care to include socially just capitalism
  • Supporting community health and reengaging people with true health
  • Creating work environments that support team members and foster belief in the mission

How we decide

Funding is not decided on need alone. We weigh genuine need against genuine impact, and we built the process to respect the dignity of every person who applies. Every request is read against three questions.

Is this the right kind of help?

We look at what the need actually is, and whether what we fund is a real answer to it. That means asking whether the problem is one the approaches and technologies we work with can viably support, rather than assuming it is. Plenty of needs are urgent, legitimate, and still outside what we can do well. When that happens we say so and point toward something better suited, because funding the wrong intervention helps no one and costs someone else their place.

Is the financial need genuine?

We look at whether cost is truly what stands in the way, and whether the other routes have been walked first. Insurance, employer benefits, provider payment plans, sliding scales, other funders. We are looking for the situation where access is otherwise closed, not merely expensive. This is where dignity matters most, so we ask what we need to make a fair decision and nothing more, and what is shared stays with the people reviewing it.

What does this make possible downstream?

We look past the individual. Capacity restored in one person rarely stops there. Someone who can think clearly again parents differently, works differently, and shows up differently for the people around them. So we ask how far the effect is likely to travel: into a household, a workplace, a classroom, a congregation, a community. The strongest requests are the ones where helping one person visibly changes that person's ability to help others.

These three are weighed together. A modest financial need paired with far-reaching downstream impact can be funded ahead of a larger request that stops with the person who made it.

Who we support

People we fund

  • Individuals and families for whom cost is the barrier to integrative or specialized care
  • Underprivileged youth and their families
  • First responders and community members carrying the effects of a disaster or crisis
  • People referred through partner schools, social services, and community organizations

What support looks like

  • A full scholarship covering the cost of care
  • Partial funding alongside a contribution you are able to make
  • A reduced or sliding scale rate negotiated with a partner provider
  • Access to equipment, technology, or educational programs

Recipients are asked to take part in outcome tracking so the community can see what its money did.

If cost is what stands in the way, tell us.

There is nothing to upload and nothing to prove. The application asks you to think rather than to produce paperwork.