Our Purpose
R3THINKEVERYTHING.
R3SET exists because the status quo is failing communities. We’re building something different — cooperatively owned, community driven, and designed to last.
Our Mission
Amplify people’s power to transform themselves, their communities, and the world.
Our Vision
We see a world where communities own their future — and have the tools, methods, and power to build it.
The Problem
They failed you.
Look at what we were handed:
- a medical system built to extract money, not heal people
- an education system leaving us over a trillion dollars in debt
- a government that spends more money on prisons than colleges
- companies that manipulate us and create an addiction for profit
- a political system designed to support corporate interests
- a consumer culture ruining the environment of the world
The numbers say the same thing.
65%
of people say decisions in their community are dominated by the same few voices.
National Civic League × ActiVote, 2025
9 in 10
don't receive public information about their community in time to act on it.
National Civic League × ActiVote, 2025
15/day
Lacking social connection raises the risk of premature death as much as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day.
U.S. Surgeon General advisory, 2023
1 in 2
American adults report measurable loneliness — a crisis of connection that erodes community fabric.
U.S. Surgeon General advisory, 2023
Our Belief
It’s easy to become prisoners of our beliefs, shackled by thoughts of scarcity. We’re told there isn’t enough to go around, and that the pie only has so many slices. But that was the old industrial age.
We got trapped by insecurity and fear, secretly thinking that to prosper meant stepping over each other on the way up. We let our passions pass us by, never acknowledging the question, ‘Is this it?’
We believe that those who thrive in the new, hyper-connected world will be those who unleash their creativity, follow their passions, and free themselves from our long-outdated systems and beliefs.
Most organizations serve communities. We’re owned by one.
We believe radical collaboration is the key to solving today’s biggest challenges.
R3THINK EVERYTHING.
Our Values
Six commitmentswe can be held to.
- 01
Cooperative Ownership
R3SET Agency is a multi-stakeholder cooperative. Workers, clients, and community members share ownership and governance. When R3SET succeeds, everyone benefits.
- 02
Open Innovation
We build tools and methods that empower communities to innovate on their own terms. Our technology is integrated, not siloed — and designed to be shared.
- 03
Community-Directed Investment
Resources should be directed by the people they serve. Our cooperative model ensures that profits are reinvested where communities need them most.
- 04
Data Sovereignty
Communities own their data. Full stop. We're building a cooperative data model where transparency and community control are foundational, not afterthoughts.
- 05
Celebration as Strategy
Joy isn't a byproduct — it's a tool. R3SET brings arts, music, storytelling, and celebration into every engagement because transformation should feel alive.
- 06
Radical Collaboration
Real change doesn't happen in isolation. We partner across sectors — nonprofits, government, business, arts, education — to build ecosystems greater than the sum of their parts.
The Meaning of 3
The 3 is not decoration.
- 01Self
- 02Communities
- 03World
Three levels of impact. Mind, body, spirit. People, planet, profit.
A tribute to operating as a B-Corp — business as a force for good, not just profit.
Then What
A belief you can’tact on is a slogan.
Everything above is the reason. The work itself — the platforms, the accelerator, the rooms we put people in — is on the rest of the site.