Asheville's River Arts District after Helene. Photo: Bill McMannis · CC BY 2.0
Founding cohort application
Tell us your story.
Five minutes, no cost, no obligation. If it looks like a fit, a real person calls you back — and we take it from there together.
Who should apply
You run (or ran) a small business — a shop, boutique, gallery, bookstore, or maker business selling physical goods.
Disaster disrupted it — storm, fire, flood, or anything else. Whether it was last month or years ago, if you're still climbing back, you count.
You have inventory that survived — or product you can still make — and it deserves a bigger audience than a quiet main street.
What happens next
- We read every application personally.
- If it's a fit, we set up a call within a week.
- Founding-cohort terms are agreed one-on-one, in writing, before anything is sold or filmed.