MISSION: POSSIBLE INVEST IN MOBILITY
Invest in What Communities Have Shown Is Possible.
Every day, people miss medical care, lose work, delay treatment, skip groceries, and become more isolated—not because they lack determination, but because they cannot reliably get where they need to go.
Catch a Ride Network helps communities build transportation security: practical, local systems that connect people to healthcare, work, education, food, family, and opportunity.
Your investment can help people get where they need to go today while building the coordination, technology, partnerships, data, and human support communities need for tomorrow.
For corporate partners, foundations, family philanthropists, major donors, and mission-aligned investors.
Transportation Security Is a Smart Investment in Health, Opportunity, and Independence.
Transportation is often treated as a simple logistical challenge. In reality, it affects whether someone can reach cancer treatment, keep a job, attend school, pick up medication, visit a child in the NICU, remain independent as they age, or access the services that help a family stay stable.
Catch a Ride works at the point where transportation, health, workforce opportunity, family wellbeing, and community systems meet.
We help communities use the transportation resources already around them—public transit, volunteer drivers, rideshare, accessible providers, local fleets, nonprofits, healthcare systems, employers, and community organizations—and connect those pieces into dependable support.
“Transportation security is not simply about getting from one place to another. It is about whether people can reach the care, opportunity, support, and connection that allow them to thrive.”
Catch a Ride’s strategic vision focuses on veterans, workforce and education, prenatal and infant health, older adults, and the shared infrastructure that allows local systems to grow with quality and accountability.
MISSION: POSSIBLE INVEST IN MOBILITY
Connecting People to Care, Work, and Opportunity.
Mission: Possible is Catch a Ride Network’s $6 million campaign to help more people reach what matters while strengthening the systems communities need to make transportation more dependable for the long term.
The campaign is built on a simple belief: communities do not need to start from zero. They already have transportation providers, healthcare teams, employers, nonprofits, volunteers, public agencies, local leaders, and neighbors who care.
What is often missing is coordination, flexible funding, trusted human support, shared technology, and data that helps communities learn what works.
$6 Million to Help Communities Build Transportation Security.
The Five Investment Priorities
Help Veterans Reach the Care, Work, and Community They Earned.
Veterans may need transportation to healthcare, behavioral-health services, benefits appointments, employment, groceries, recovery support, and community connection.
For veterans living with chronic illness, disability, rural distance, or limited transportation options, dependable access can make the difference between receiving care and going without it.
Investment Can Help Support
✔ Transportation to VA appointments, specialty care, behavioral-health services, and essential needs.
✔ Local veteran mobility partnerships with county offices, VA-connected organizations, and community providers.
✔ Data and learning that improve appointment access, cost avoidance, and local veteran support systems.
Help Older Adults Stay Connected to Care, Independence, and Community.
For many older adults, transportation is closely connected to whether they can remain healthy, independent, and engaged with the people and places that matter.
A reliable ride can mean reaching cancer treatment, dialysis, cardiac care, pulmonary care, rehabilitation, pharmacies, groceries, faith communities, and family.
Investment Can Help Support
✔ Treatment continuity for oncology, dialysis, cardiac, pulmonary, and rehabilitation care.
✔ Grocery, pharmacy, social-connection, and aging-in-place transportation.
✔ Caregiver support and local mobility systems that reduce stress and prevent isolation.
Help Parents Reach Care, Support, and a Stronger Beginning.
Transportation barriers can affect prenatal care, postpartum follow-up, pediatric appointments, counseling, food access, baby supplies, school events, and community resources that help families through one of life’s most important seasons.
No parent should have to choose between getting to care and caring for their family.
Investment Can Help Support
✔ Transportation to prenatal, postpartum, pediatric, and specialty-care appointments.
✔ Mobility Wallets and flexible support for food, counseling, family resources, and community-based care.
✔ Partnerships with hospitals, WIC programs, home-visiting programs, OB/GYN practices, and local family-serving organizations.
Help People Reach Jobs, Training, Education, and Financial Stability.
A broken-down vehicle, an early shift, limited rural transit, or a long commute can put employment and education at risk before someone even arrives.
Catch a Ride helps workers, students, job seekers, and trainees reach the opportunities that support long-term stability.
Investment Can Help Support
✔ Transportation to jobs, interviews, credential programs, training, school, and essential workforce supports.
✔ Employer-aligned transportation benefits and Mobility Wallet pilots.
✔ Data that helps employers, workforce agencies, and communities understand transportation-related absenteeism, retention, and completion barriers.
Build the Systems That Help Communities Serve More People.
Communities need more than emergency rides. They need shared systems that make transportation easier to coordinate, easier to fund, easier to understand, and easier to improve.
Infrastructure investment helps local organizations move from reacting to transportation crises one person at a time to building systems people can depend on.
Investment Can Help Support
✔ Mobility Wallets, Transportation Support Accounts, and flexible transportation funds.
✔ Transportation case management, Mobility Support Center capacity, volunteer coordination, and provider networks.
✔ Shared technology, dashboards, reporting, local data, community planning, and policy learning.
A Different Kind of Transportation Investment.
Catch a Ride is not simply funding rides. We are helping communities build shared mobility infrastructure that creates more coordinated, human-centered, and measurable support.
Local Solutions Remain Local.
Community partners, healthcare providers, employers, public agencies, transit providers, volunteers, and local leaders understand their communities best. Catch a Ride strengthens their work rather than replacing it.
One Shared System Helps Resources Go Further.
Instead of every organization building a separate transportation process, Catch a Ride provides shared tools, coordinated providers, human support, reporting, and infrastructure.
Human Support Makes Technology Work.
Riders and partners can get help from real people who understand that transportation plans change, appointments run late, weather affects travel, and people may need support navigating options.
Data Helps Communities Improve.
Transportation data can help communities understand unmet needs, improve funding decisions, reduce duplication, strengthen outcomes, and shape future policy conversations.
Catch a Ride’s model combines community partnerships, human support, transportation-provider coordination, Mobility Wallet tools, data dashboards, and shared systems that allow local organizations to focus on their core missions
Choose the Level of Change You Want to Help Create.
Help Someone Reach What Matters Today.
Support direct transportation assistance for healthcare, work, education, food, family, and essential services.
Best For
Individual donors, employee-giving campaigns, local sponsors, community fundraisers, and family philanthropy.
Champion a Population or Issue You Care About.
Make a focused investment in veterans, older adults, maternal and infant health, workforce and education, or community infrastructure.
Best For
Corporate social-impact teams, family foundations, individual major donors, issue-focused funders, and national partners.
Help a Community Respond Where Gaps Are Greatest.
Create flexible transportation funding for a hospital, nonprofit coalition, county, employer network, community organization, or priority population.
Best For
Family foundations, corporate foundations, regional funders, healthcare systems, local employers, and place-based philanthropists.
Help Build What Communities Can Depend On for Years to Come.
Invest in the systems behind the service: technology, data, transportation coordination, volunteer infrastructure, provider partnerships, human support, and local learning.
Best For
Major donors, foundations, corporate funders, healthcare systems, public-private partnerships, and catalytic investors.
CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS & SPONSORSHIPS
Corporate Partners Can Help Communities Move Forward.
Corporate investment can connect business priorities with practical community outcomes.
A company can help people reach work, healthcare, education, food, family, and opportunity while strengthening the communities where employees, customers, and partners live.
Sponsor a Strategic Priority
Champion veterans, older adults, workforce mobility, maternal and infant health, or shared transportation infrastructure.
Support a Regional Mobility Fund
Help create or expand transportation support in a community, county, metro region, or rural service area connected to your business footprint.
Launch an Employee Giving or Matching Campaign
Invite employees to support transportation security through workplace giving, volunteerism, peer fundraising, or matching gifts.
Create a Branded Community Initiative
Partner with Catch a Ride on a visible community investment that aligns with your mission, audience, and regional priorities.
Sponsor Events and Community Convenings
Support transportation summits, resource fairs, Walk/Roll/Ride events, Local Flavor gatherings, transportation-access initiatives, and family-centered events.
Engage Employees Through Skills-Based Volunteering
Bring internal expertise in marketing, technology, data, financial services, logistics, mobility, communications, healthcare, legal, or workforce development.
Your Industry Can Help Solve a Different Part of the Problem.
Healthcare & Insurance
Help reduce missed appointments, improve continuity of care, support social drivers of health, and connect patients to treatment and recovery.
Banking & Financial Services
Help families reduce transportation-related financial strain, strengthen financial mobility, support vehicle-ownership readiness, and connect people to economic opportunity.
Technology & Logistics
Help communities improve data systems, coordination, route planning, service integration, customer support, and transportation innovation.
Automotive & Mobility
Support vehicle access, transportation education, mobility innovation, rural transportation, and practical pathways to long-term independence.
Employers & Workforce Leaders
Help workers reach jobs, training, credential programs, and early or late shifts while reducing transportation-related absenteeism and turnover.
Local Businesses
Strengthen the local workforce, support customers and families, and visibly invest in practical community wellbeing.
FOUNDATIONS & FAMILY PHILANTHROPY
Help Build a Legacy of Access.
Family foundations and private philanthropists often look for solutions that are practical, measurable, rooted in dignity, and capable of creating change beyond one person or one grant cycle.
Catch a Ride offers opportunities to support immediate transportation access while helping communities create durable systems that improve health, independence, family stability, workforce opportunity, and local resilience.
Catalytic Pilot Grants
Help test a Mobility Wallet, Transportation Rx, volunteer transportation initiative, workforce-access partnership, or community transportation fund.
Multi-Year Community Investment
Help a local network grow with quality through sustained transportation access, staffing, shared technology, data, and partnership development.
Named Funds and Legacy Giving
Create a family or named fund that supports a priority population, region, mobility initiative, or community need.
Research, Data, and Systems Change
Fund evidence-building, outcomes measurement, policy learning, transportation-security research, and tools that help communities improve.
Regional or National Expansion
Help Catch a Ride bring proven mobility solutions to new communities while maintaining local partnership and operational quality.
Leadership Investment Can Help Communities Scale What Works.
Emerging Donor
$25,000+
Help establish or expand a focused transportation initiative for a priority population, local partner, health provider, workforce program, or community need.
Community Builder
$100,000+
Help launch or deepen coordinated transportation support across a community, including rider assistance, provider coordination, technology, local staffing, and shared reporting.
Transformational
$250,000+
Help build the systems, partnerships, data capacity, and flexible transportation resources needed to create durable local mobility infrastructure at scale.
Major investments can be structured as one-time gifts, multi-year commitments, family philanthropy, corporate investments, foundation grants, donor-advised fund grants, stock gifts, or collaborative funding partnerships.
Mission: Possible materials identify one- to two-year pledges, cash gifts, stock gifts, donor-advised fund gifts, corporate matches, payroll deduction, and monthly automatic bank drafts as giving pathways.
Investment opportunities are customized based on community need, timing, donor interests, available local partnerships, and program readiness.
Invest in a Model That Learns, Improves, and Grows.
In an independent evaluation of Catch a Ride participants, riders described transportation support as essential to reaching healthcare, food, and daily needs—and as connected to improvements in wellbeing.
180,000+ rides supported
1.7 million+ miles of mobility
Active community work across multiple states
Shared infrastructure designed to strengthen local organizations
56% avoided an emergency-room visit
Participants reported being able to reach clinics or primary-care settings instead of using the emergency room.
72% used transportation support to manage prescriptions and health needs
Participants used the wallet to reach pharmacies and manage chronic conditions, mental health needs, or pregnancy-related care.
72% used the wallet for school, GED, or job training
Transportation support helped participants reach education and training, while many reported avoiding missed classes or exams.
The Detroit Mobility Wallet pilot found strong links between flexible transportation support and healthcare access, prescription management, education, caregiving, and reduced transportation-related stress.
Recognition That Reflects Real Partnership.
Catch a Ride works with corporate and philanthropic partners to create recognition that is meaningful, mission-aligned, and appropriate to the scale and nature of an investment.
Recognition is never the purpose of the work. It is a way to celebrate the partners helping communities build more dependable paths forward.
Recognition May Include
✔ Logo placement on relevant program, campaign, event, or community initiative pages.
✔ Recognition in press releases, social media, newsletters, annual updates, and campaign storytelling.
✔ Visibility at community gatherings, transportation summits, local events, and funder briefings.
✔ Employee engagement opportunities, volunteer projects, site visits, and community-learning experiences.
✔ Thought-leadership opportunities tied to mobility, health equity, workforce access, aging, veterans, family wellbeing, or rural communities.
✔ Customized impact updates, rider stories, data summaries, and local community reports.
✔ Named or co-branded initiatives when appropriate and mutually agreed upon.
Trusted by Communities.
Built Through Partnership
Catch a Ride works alongside healthcare organizations, public agencies, transit providers, employers, nonprofits, foundations, corporate partners, and community leaders who believe transportation access is essential to community wellbeing.
Tell Us What You Hope to Make Possible.
Whether you are exploring a corporate partnership, considering a foundation grant, building a family philanthropy strategy, planning a regional investment, or looking for a mission-aligned sponsorship opportunity, we would be honored to learn what matters most to you.
Help Build What Communities Can Depend On.
A reliable ride can change one day. A strong transportation system can change what becomes possible for an entire community.
Your leadership can help people reach care, work, education, food, family, and independence today—and help communities build transportation security for the years ahead.