Launchpad Development Company

Launchpad Development Company is a not-for-profit real estate development company, organized as a 509(a)(3) support corporation of Rocketship Education, and provides the full suite of real estate development services. As a progressive leader in the charter school and community development worlds, Launchpad can provide facilities and real estate planning services in some capacity to all high performing charter schools. Launchpad Development Company’s mission is to develop real estate projects for high performing charter school operators in low income communities and communities where the local public schools are underperforming. Launchpad will accomplish this mission through a series of interrelated activities that include;* Creating close working relationships with local and state governmental agencies, as well as local area real estate and development industry leaders,* Working with other not for profit organizations to identify complementary community development, investment or repurposing opportunities,* Being a driver for the charter school financing market by creating opportunities for debt and equity investors to make investments in projects developed under a model that is financially sustainable and scalable.