© 2025 by Ryan Glenn Curry

The Work
A Vision for Systems That Serve
The work of Last 1 isn’t just about solving isolated problems — it’s about rewiring entire systems to serve people with dignity, precision, and care. Across everything I’ve built — LastVet, the Veterans Coalition, Last 1 Nonprofit, Last 1 Capital, WIN, MATR, Last 1 Studio, and more — the throughline is a commitment to building the infrastructure for a flourishing future.
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Why We Exist
Billions are spent on healthcare, housing, and support — yet veterans fall through the cracks, communities remain fragmented, and data is siloed. We believe this isn’t a funding issue. It’s a systems issue.
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The Last 1 Ecosystem is my answer to that.
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It’s a full-spectrum solution: convening leaders, rebuilding trust, aligning incentives, and delivering tech that actually works for humans.
The Core Pillars
1. LastVet
The platform. Veteran-owned data. Predictive AI matching. A care system that starts with the veteran and scales across service providers.
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2. Veterans Coalition
The alliance. A national convening of organizations committed to collaboration, shared standards, and systemic accountability. Powered by trust and coordination.
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3. Last 1 Nonprofit
The movement engine. Fiscal sponsor, strategic convener, and steward of the mission to end fragmentation and foster flourishing.
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4. Last 1 Capital
The capital arm. Deploying catalytic, regenerative capital across for-profit and nonprofit efforts. Bridging philanthropy, venture, and systems change.
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5. Last 1 Studio
The storytelling force. Creating media that humanizes systemic issues, elevates lived experience, and spreads the mission through compelling narratives. Includes the flagship LastVet reality series: "Finding the Last Veteran", which documents real outreach efforts to reconnect the most isolated veterans and restore community, dignity, and care.
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Extensions of the Vision
WIN: Warriors In Need
An aviation workforce pipeline that gives veterans real career outcomes post-service. Backed by training, policy change, and industry partnerships.
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MATR: Meaningful, Aligned, Truthful Relationships
A platform for intentional conversations that build trust, break division, and restore connection — one relationship at a time.
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What Makes This Different
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Data owned by people, not platforms
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Tech that strengthens humanity, not replaces it
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Capital aligned with outcomes, not just returns
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Movements that are open-source, not controlled
This isn’t a startup. It’s a new kind of operating system — for care, for capital, for culture.
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Where We’re Headed
We’re building a post-GDP model of value:
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Measuring flourishing, purpose, trust, and outcomes
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Redefining how systems allocate resources and attention
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Creating platforms that scale impact without extracting from people
The goal is nothing short of systemic transformation — starting with veterans, and expanding to all who’ve been underserved by broken systems.
We’re not waiting for permission. We’re building what’s next.

Last 1 Ecosystem Map
​The Architecture of Integrated Change
The Last 1 Ecosystem is a multi-entity, multi-mission infrastructure designed to coordinate, catalyze, and transform systems that are currently siloed, extractive, or failing. This is not a single project or platform — it is a living system with shared values, interoperable data, aligned capital, and regenerative outcomes.
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How It Works
Each arm of the ecosystem feeds and strengthens the others:
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Last 1 Nonprofit
Movement engine and fiscal sponsor. Provides convening, credibility, and the container for ecosystem-wide collaboration. -
Veterans Coalition
Powered by Last 1 Nonprofit. Brings veteran-serving organizations together to share best practices, co-develop standards, and feed real-world insights into the platform. -
LastVet (Platform)
For-profit technology infrastructure. Houses veteran data, care records, and AI-driven health and purpose matching. Informed by the Coalition, deployed through provider networks. -
Last 1 Capital
The capital allocator. Integrates philanthropic, venture, and catalytic capital into the system. Funds the tech, the movement, and regenerative experiments. -
Last 1 Studio
The media and storytelling engine. Documents movement building, elevates truth, and tells the stories that fuel cultural shift and political will. -
MATR
Relationship intelligence infrastructure. Facilitates deep, structured conversations across difference. Used for healing, alignment, and onboarding into coalitions or care. -
WIN: Warriors In Need
Employment and policy innovation. Creates veteran employment pipelines (starting with aviation) and drives legislative change to align labor systems with service.
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The Flow of Value
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Veterans engage → via check-ins, purpose pathways, or care coordination
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Organizations join → through the Coalition and/or service delivery
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Data is collected + structured → interoperable, ethical, consent-driven
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Insights emerge → powered by AI + human design
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Capital is allocated → toward highest-leverage interventions
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Stories are shared → to spread, validate, and inspire
This flow repeats. The ecosystem becomes smarter, more coordinated, and more impactful over time.
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The Big Picture
The Last 1 Ecosystem is designed to:
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Make every veteran visible, valued, and supported
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Rebuild trust across fractured systems
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Move beyond GDP as the only metric of success
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Create regenerative, scalable infrastructure that centers dignity
We’re not here to fix the old system.
We’re here to build the new one.