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    Capital Access Strategy

    For you if your organization needs more than one kind of money and a plan for the order to pursue it.

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    Capital Access Strategy

    01 · Who this is for

    Who this is for

    For you if your organization needs more than one kind of money and a plan for the order to pursue it.

    02 · The problem it solves

    The root, not the symptom

    Capital flows to systems that are familiar. Most organizations chase grants when other money fits better.

    03 · What people try instead

    What people try instead — and where it stalls

    Free blog guides and fill-in templatesSome sell for a few dollars. They give you a format, but not your numbers.
    General AI chat toolsThey draft fast, but they do not know your real costs or what a funder checks.
    Paying a consultant by the hourBefore you know what you need, the meter runs while the question is still being found.

    This maps which money fits which part of your need, in order.

    04 · What you walk away with

    What you walk away with

    • A capital map across grants, earned revenue and other sources
    • A sequence for pursuing them
    05 · What to have ready

    What to have ready

    • Your budget
    • Your current funding sources
    06 · Time it takes

    Time it takes

    Set in writing once scope is confirmed.

    07 · Price and credit

    Price, credit and your receipt line

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    Scope and fee confirmed in writing before any payment.

    Receipt line for a future grant budget: Capital access strategy — fee confirmed in writing

    08 · What this is not

    What this is not

    This is strategy, not a funder list.

    09 · Your next step

    Your next step

    Next: Fractional Development Office

    Next step
    10 · Questions

    Three short questions

    Why no price?
    Scope depends on your organization, so the fee is confirmed in writing first.
    Do you provide funder lists?
    No. DSG sells design intelligence, not databases.
    How fast do you respond?
    DSG replies to inquiries within one business day.

    Read with The Underneath™. Written Out Loud™.

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    Community Capital Architecture™. We work on the structure underneath the decision — with grassroots, small, identity-based, place-based and neighborhood organizations, and with Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) holders, venture capital moving into community health, and family and small foundations.

    Fredericka Wallace-Deena — Strategist. Community Capital Architect. Founder of Deena Strategic Group

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    Capital Signal™, Field Notes, and essays — intelligence on where capital moves and what it misses. We would like to know who is in the room.

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