I want to help govern
Founding board service, governance design, nonprofit counsel, fiscal sponsorship, or independent review.
A public initiative in formation
Help build Purpose Link
Purpose Link is being built with Houston to help residents and community-serving people move from fragmented need to trustworthy next action.
Purpose Link is a Houston-first public initiative in formation. It is for residents, social workers, teachers, churches, nonprofits, navigators, and community organizations. It is not currently a 501(c)(3), registered charity, emergency service, or tax-deductible donation recipient.
People and partners needed
Build it with the people who will use it
- Founding board, governance, and nonprofit counsel
- Fiscal sponsors and philanthropic partners
- Social workers, teachers, school support staff, and community navigators
- Churches, nonprofits, clinics, workforce organizations, and neighborhood groups
- Organizations that need a simple public Community Page
- Practical AI Workshop hosts and educators
- Data, translation, accessibility, engineering, and operations volunteers
- Funders and sponsors for a reviewed pilot
Choose a door
Where would you like to contribute?
Each choice opens the same honest, local-only interest form below.
I represent a community organization
Churches, nonprofits, clinics, workforce organizations, schools, and neighborhood groups—including those needing a simple public Community Page.
I can host a workshop
Host or teach a Practical AI Workshop for community-serving helpers using safe, source-backed methods.
I can help with data or accessibility
Contribute data review, translation, accessibility, engineering, operations, or community-navigation experience.
I can support the pilot
Explore a reviewed funding, sponsorship, or philanthropic partnership path. This is not a donation request.
I want to help build Career Continuity
Help shape participant-approved, truthful career reconstruction without forced disclosure or automatic applications.
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I want to help govern
This pilot does not send, receive, or store interest submissions. The button below only demonstrates the form state on this screen.
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Joshua Gustafson-Juarez
Founder and builder
Founder’s Note
A question about the right door
View Joshua’s LinkedIn“Purpose Link began with a question: why should someone under stress have to understand the system before the system can help them?
Some of the avenues this project is designed to connect are avenues I have had to traverse myself. I know what it means to move through unstable systems, to keep carrying responsibility when there is no clean handoff, and to search for the next right door without a map. I do not tell that story to place myself above the people this work serves. I tell it because it is why I understand this problem as operational, human, and real.
I’ve spent much of my life adapting to unstable systems. Now I’m intentionally building stable ones.
Purpose Link is my attempt to turn that experience into something useful in public: a Houston-first network that helps residents, teachers, social workers, churches, nonprofits, navigators, and community organizations find the next step and keep the path current.
A person under stress should not need to understand Houston’s service bureaucracy before Houston can help them.
Purpose Link does not promise that help exists when it does not. It promises to make the help that does exist easier to find, understand, reach, verify, and traverse—and to reveal where the network itself has gaps.
I am not building this as a replacement for the people already serving the community. I am building it so their work is easier to find, easier to continue, and easier to connect to. The next step is not for one person to finish this alone. It is for the right community, governance, provider, education, and funding partners to help make it real.”
Purpose Link does not guarantee program eligibility, create beneficiary profiles, or require an account to browse public resources. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911; for mental-health crisis support, call or text 988.