Two Weeks. Two Selections. One Very Clear Signal!
MedCycle Network is accelerating!
In the span of seven days, two organizations reviewing applicants from across the country, and around the world, independently reached the same conclusion: MedCycle Network is ready to scale!
This is the story of what happened, what it means, and where we are headed.
MedCycle Network is the only California-based organization selected for each of these highly competitive programs.
First, the AbbVie Foundation and MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, announced the six organizations selected for the 2026 AbbVie Foundation Health Equity Accelerator.
MedCycle Network is excited to join five extraordinary organizations in the 2026 AbbVie Foundation Health Equity Accelerator cohort!
We were chosen from a highly competitive national applicant pool that was ultimately narrowed to six organizations advancing innovative solutions that expand access to care across communities in the United States.
The accelerator provides mentorship, exclusive resources, and tailored programming designed to strengthen our model, refine our strategy, and accelerate our impact. We will be joined by five other remarkable organizations! Black Heart Association, Grassroots Health, Health Justice Initiative, SPEAK and The Community Grocer, each doing extraordinary work to close gaps in care for the communities that need it most. To view the press release with more details, click here.
We are honored by this recognition and we are ready to get to work!
Then: Tech to the Rescue's AI Impact Scaling Program
Second, MedCycle Network was selected from a global applicant pool to join Tech to the Rescue's AI Impact Scaling Program! A 12-month program designed for organizations with proven social solutions that are ready to use AI to multiply their impact.
The AI Impact Scaling Program gives organizations with proven social solutions the ecosystem to scale with AI: pro-bono matching, scaling strategy guidance, cybersecurity, data and responsible AI support.
Equivalent services on the open market cost $150,000 to $330,000 per organization. MedCycle Network receives them at no cost. We will be matched with a company who will provide pro-bono expertise alongside our team to build, refine, and deploy our AI model at scale with our clinic partners.
This selection validates something we have believed from the beginning: the infrastructure to connect medical surplus with clinic requests does not just need to be built. It needs to be built with AI, so it can match supply to demand at scale, predict clinic needs before shortages occur, and replicate across geographies without proportional increases in cost or staff. This 12-month roadmap provides the technical and strategic support needed to multiply impact.
And in Between: A Conversation Worth Listening To
In the middle of all of this, MedCycle Network CEO Eric Talbert sat down with Shae on the Grow Healthy, Help People podcast — Episode 40 — for a conversation about how MedCycle Network came to exist, what the circular supply model actually looks like in practice, and what it means to build infrastructure for health equity in 2026.
Eric Talbert on Revolutionizing Resource Sharing in Healthcare: Unlock the transformative power of collaboration in the nonprofit world with Eric Talbert, CEO and co-founder of MedCycle Network. Discover how redistributing medical surplus from hospitals to clinics can create a ripple effect of impact, saving over $1.6 million in just their first year. Eric shares how strategic partnerships and innovative AI tools accelerate community health and sustainability.
What All of This Means
Two weeks. Two independent selections. One very clear signal.
The model works. The need is real. The moment to scale is now.
MedCycle Network enters the second half of 2026 with the AbbVie Foundation and MATTER's accelerator resources, Tech to the Rescue's pro-bono AI engineering support, and an expanding Southern California network of clinic partners, with more to come.
We are building on our San Francisco Bay Area successes towards becoming the statewide model we envisioned. California is becoming the leader for what this will look like nationwide.
To every hospital sustainability team that has donated medical surplus. To every clinic team member who submitted a request. To every donor and foundation partner who believed in this model when it was still an idea. To every volunteer who packed a box or assembled a hygiene kit or sorted supplies. We thank you!!!
This is what your support has made possible. We are just beginning to accelerate and scale
Join the Cycle
Want to be part of what comes next? Donate now to fuel our expansion and AI platform development. Become a partner, whether you are a hospital with medical surplus, a clinic with requests, or an organization that believes healthcare equity is worth fighting for.
Listen to Eric's conversation on the Grow Healthy, Help People podcast to hear the full story of how MedCycle Network came to be, and where we are going, together through collaborations.