Strengthening the Social Safety Net
Our mission is to make relevant information related to food, housing, healthcare, and other supportive services accessible and easy to find for the poor and unhoused, in major cities in America with populations greater than 200,000 people.
We will strengthen the social safety network by creating comprehensive digital maps and reviews of helpful resources in American cities. We believe that no one in crisis should have to navigate a fragmented, outdated patchwork of information to find essential support for food, housing, healthcare, and more.
By building and maintaining a living directory of these helpful resources, we empower individuals, caseworkers, and communities to connect people with help — faster and with dignity.
The core problem is straightforward: there is no single, maintained, community-verified source of truth for public social infrastructure in most American cities. We exist to build it.
Food banks, soup kitchens, meal programs
Shelters, transitional housing, support services
Clinics, mental health, substance abuse treatment
Legal aid, job training, case management
Transportation, education, community resources
Millions of Americans face hunger, homelessness, and lack of access to healthcare every year. Yet the information landscape they must navigate to find help is broken.
Resource directories scattered across dozens of agency websites, often outdated within weeks
People in crisis at 2 AM can't find help when they need it most
Service providers don't know what other organizations offer nearby
Cities make planning decisions without reliable data on resource gaps
The result is a safety net full of holes that the most vulnerable people fall through. Lacking trust in the safety net results in many problems that lead to poor social determinants of health and quality of life, specifically for homeless individuals who are on the street.
Max Goodman is an entrepreneur and cybersecurity professional at the intersection of technology and social impact. He founded Max Labs, Inc. and co-founded Spearbit Labs, Inc., raising over $1.5M in seed funding and drove $350K+ in web3 developer services through dOrg as lead sales engineer. He also secured a $50K NEAR ecosystem grant for an NFT-gated resources directory.
Pertinent to helpmetoday.net, Max has lived through the problem he is solving. He went from experiencing homelessness and living on less than a dollar a day — not as an experiment — to earning over $14,000 a week in crypto cybersecurity. He is deeply dedicated to helping others successfully navigate homelessness using technology.
To that end, Max was also the creator and co-founder of HostHome, a donor-powered platform to rapidly rehouse homeless individuals, selected for the Hopkins Social Innovation Lab Cohort. He has also spent several years building digital private maps of social services ecosystems.
He's a lifelong learner dedicated to building systems that empower individuals to move from instability to independence using technology.