A living directory
Local causes, organizations, people, and events — kept current through use, not another list that goes stale the week after launch.
Founding partners welcome
Austin's impact work, all on one map.
The causes, organizations, events, and campaigns already here — made discoverable, connected, and measurable. Built with the community, not just for it.
Founding cohort forming now — room at the table
Scattered across sites, newsletters, spreadsheets, private networks
Not a lack of care
Austin has no shortage of people trying to make things better.
A lack of connection
The work is scattered across sites, newsletters, spreadsheets, and private networks.
That has a cost
Visibility for nonprofits and small businesses. Momentum for residents. Clarity for funders.
What we're building
Impact infrastructure helps community energy move.
Roads help people move. Payment rails help money move. This is the layer that helps Austin's community energy move — and it starts with four pieces.
The long version: what we mean by infrastructure →
Clear pathways in
Most people don't need a civic engagement plan. They need one clear next step — where to show up, who to support, what's happening near them.
Active campaigns
Moments that move attention and dollars toward local work, so energy has somewhere to land instead of dissipating.
Public reporting
What's actually happening, where participation is growing, and where the gaps remain — visible to everyone, not just insiders.
The payoff
What a shared impact layer can unlock.
It doesn't solve every problem. But it changes the starting point.
Residents find their place
Anyone who wants to help can discover causes, organizations, events, and campaigns — without already knowing the right people.
Nonprofits and businesses get seen
Organizations doing important work can keep a profile, share updates, connect to campaigns, and be discovered by supporters.
Sponsors support with substance
Sponsors fund visible, measurable infrastructure instead of leaning on vague “community support” claims.
Funders see patterns
Foundations and civic partners get a clearer view of what's active, where participation is growing, and where gaps remain.
The city coordinates faster
When people, causes, organizations, and events are easy to find, collaboration becomes far more likely.
Start simple, grow through use
A credible directory, a clear story, a few founding partners, one driving campaign. Infrastructure gets valuable because people use it.
Where this actually stands
You've probably been pitched something like this before.
Maybe more than once. Maybe by a platform that doesn't exist anymore. That's a fair reason to be careful about a network that is still being built. So here is exactly where things stand today — not where we hope they'll be.
Founding sponsors
- R3SET
- tphan.studio
- Impact Hackers
- Reaction Foundry
- Blackshires
Steering committee
- Devin Shea
- Tram Phan
- Travis Backhaus
The launch campaign
Suthe Watersells a 12-pack
$2per pack
An Austin causegets funded
The first campaign on the network, and the shape of every one after it: a local business, a public mechanic, and a number anyone can check.
What's real right now
- Five founding sponsors are backing the build: R3SET, tphan.studio, Impact Hackers, Reaction Foundry, and Blackshires.
- A steering committee is already seated — Devin Shea, Tram Phan, and Travis Backhaus — so governance isn't a promise for later.
- Listings are free. Paid membership adds more; being findable never costs a nonprofit anything.
- The directory itself is still being built. Nobody is listed yet — that is what "founding" means here.
What we won't do
- We won't sell your data.
- We won't hold your visibility hostage — your listing links out to you, and you can leave with what you brought.
- We won't charge a nonprofit to be findable.
- We won't claim your audience as ours.
- And one we will do: the directory stays exportable. The public record of what Austin's doing belongs to Austin, not to us.
Build log
- Aug 2026 Three founding sponsors confirmed — tphan.studio, Impact Hackers, Reaction Foundry.
- Aug 2026 R3SET and Blackshires join as founding sponsors — the founding cohort reaches five.
- Aug 2026 Steering committee seated: Devin Shea, Tram Phan, Travis Backhaus.
- Aug 2026 Suthe Water signed on as launch campaign partner.
- Next Directory build, then the first listings — founding partners first.
This log moves when the work does. If it looks quiet, ask us why — devin@teamr3set.com.
What happens when you write
Your email goes straight to Devin — not a shared inbox. You'll hear back within two business days, and if it's useful from there, a 20-minute call to work out where you actually fit. No deck, no pitch.
Where you fit
Find where you plug in.
Austin doesn't need another disconnected initiative. It needs a shared layer that makes the work already here — the organizations doing it, nonprofits and businesses alike — easier to find and support.
The long version: why Austin needs this →
Residents
Use it to find your next step — your cause, your event, your way in. No need to already know the right people.
Tell us what you care about → NonprofitsUse it to help people discover your work, keep a profile, share updates, and connect to active campaigns. Listing is free.
Tell us about your work → Local businessesBe findable by the people already looking for you — neighbors, nonprofits, and buyers — without needing to already be in someone's network. You're listed as an organization alongside everyone else doing work here. Free.
Tell us about your business → SponsorsHelp fund the infrastructure that makes local impact visible — instead of one more logo on one more banner.
See sponsorship levels → FundersHelp turn scattered energy into a coordinated ecosystem, with a clearer view of what's active and where gaps remain.
Start a conversation → BuildersBuilding something for Austin? Help us map it — and help shape how the network works.
Tell us what you're building →
Who owns the infrastructure matters
Built with the community, not just for it.
The network is being built as a cooperative — owned by the people who use it, list on it, and build it, rather than by us. (The formal term is a multistakeholder co-op.) The legal structure will evolve; the operating principle starts now.
The long version: not another walled garden →
Community members
The residents who participate have a voice in what the network becomes — not just an account on it.
Nonprofits & causes
Visibility that belongs to the organization, portable and never held hostage by the platform.
Mission-aligned businesses
Support that funds shared rails, with transparent reporting on what it made possible.
Worker contributors
The people who build and maintain the network share in what they help create.
Now forming
Put your name in →
We're building an advisory board.
The steering committee runs the build. The advisory board keeps it honest — people who know Austin's nonprofit, funding, and civic landscape well enough to tell us when we're wrong. We're looking for nonprofit leaders, funders, community organizers, and people who have built networks before.
The commitment: roughly 90 minutes a quarter, plus the occasional email when we need a read on something. Advisory seats are not for sale and carry no financial obligation.
Who's building it
Austin needs a shared map, not someone else's marketplace.
Many platforms want to own the audience. This one is designed to make local impact discoverable across the whole ecosystem — linking out to organizations and events, helping partners tell their own stories, and giving nonprofits visibility without making them dependent on one channel.
Devin Shea · R3SET Agency
Founder · current legal steward & platform builder
There's room at the table
Devin Shea · Founder, R3SET · devin@teamr3set.com
The work is already here. Let's build the missing piece.
Founding partners help shape what ATX Impact Network becomes — the directory, the campaigns, the governance, all of it. Tell us where you fit.
I read every one of these myself — usually within two business days.Devin Shea · Founder, R3SET · devin@teamr3set.com