This week’s 1 Million Cups at the Kauffman Foundation featured a company pitching an enterprise business collaboration platform and a nonprofit startup dedicated to helping urban-core neighborhoods grow their own healthy produce.

Chris Pantaenius, owner and CEO of Onspring Technologies, said that he could help companies of all types and sizes to manage their data with a business operation platform that delivered improved flexibility and performance.

“Virtually any product or service can be tracked within the Onspring platform …” Pantaenius said. “We are focused a little more on the larger organizations,” but “you can get started with just one user if that’s all you need.”

Regardless of the data to be gathered and shared within a team, Pantaenius said, the Onspring dashboard system is all point-and-click and drag-and-drop with no coding required.

“Everything is just one or two clicks away,” he said.

The Onspring approach addresses a company’s total data-tracking needs in an integrated software package, making available a variety of preconfigured templates or giving businesses a “blank canvas” to create their own.

“If you can think it, we probably have a starting point for you,” Pantaenius said.

The next speaker was Rob Reiman, director of the nonprofit group the Giving Grove. The organization’s goal, he said, is to create a sustainable food system for the 250,000 people in Kansas City who are “food insecure” by inspiring and empowering urban communities to grow their own fruits, berries and nuts.

One in five children in Kansas lives with food insecurity, Reiman said, and the number is worse in Missouri. “My colleagues and I are not happy about that,” he said.

In Giving Grove’s first 13 months of operation, it has planted 38 micro-orchards in Kansas City, including one adjacent to the Kauffman Foundation. The harvest from those orchards—each of which requires two stewards who pledge to maintain it—will be distributed to low-income families in the urban core that may not have access to grocery stores offering healthy food.

Reiman explained that just one semi-dwarf apple tree producing 300 to 500 pounds of food a year can live for 25 years to produce a total of 7,500 to 12,500 pounds of food. Giving Grove’s five-year plan, once its 2,790 trees reach maturity, is to annually produce 835,000 pounds of produce for neighborhoods in need.

“That’s a lot of healthy food,” Reiman said.