ABOUT US ::
Our Mission
Solvent Impact’s mission is to build and provide affordable tech-driven empowerment tools, products and services for the incarcerated System Impacted, for accelerated and elevated success and redemption before release.
Our Vision
Solvent Impact’s vision is to be the premier brand, platform, and obvious solution for incarcerated System Impacted individuals to achieve rehabilitation, reform, and redemption prior to being and once released.
As a for-profit but for-purpose company, we look for our tools, products, and services to over-perform for our members on our social impact initiative, positively effecting the following pain points and problems the incarcerated System Impacted face, that keep locked in a negative psychological cycle of recidivism, and from achieving positive and successful reentry:
Mass Incarceration
Recidivism
Systemic Barriers (Institutional/Systemic Racism & Social Injustice)
Financial Exclusion
Poverty
Wealth Gap
#EmpowerYOU #EmpowerUS
Our Why?
Solvent Impact was ideated and built out of our CEO and Founder’s own personal pain point and problem of coming from the cycle of pain and poverty and lacking the right knowledge to empower and optimize his life. Instead, by 13 years old he succumbed to his impoverished conditions and negative environment, turning to the streets and drug dealing to provide for himself and his family, subsequently leading to a lengthy incarceration in federal prison while still a teenager. After his release, for decades he found himself caught in a negative psychological cycle of recidivism. He not only saw this as a problem for himself, but many others who came from his similar background.
Further, while incarcerated, he recognized the power of education, especially entrepreneurship, as vital tool necessary to becoming financially empowered and build wealth, but lacked formal entrepreneurship education. This gave him a determined idea to transform his life, become a legitimate entrepreneur, and build something that served a transformative purpose for others who needed and wanted it, while still being community- and social impact-driven and positioned to be profitable. He said to himself, “This is my why, so why not?” and Solvent Impact was born.
