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    Foundation Grant Design + Writing Deposit

    For you if a foundation opportunity matters enough to design the grant with DSG before it is written.

    What you are choosing

    Foundation Grant Design + Writing Deposit

    01 · Who this is for

    Who this is for

    For you if a foundation opportunity matters enough to design the grant with DSG before it is written.

    02 · The problem it solves

    The root, not the symptom

    The grant is not the beginning. The design is. Most proposals are written before anyone decides what the funder must believe.

    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 designs the grant first, then writes it with you.

    04 · What you walk away with

    What you walk away with

    • A grant design agreed before writing starts
    • A written proposal built on that design
    05 · What to have ready

    What to have ready

    • The foundation and its guidelines
    • Your budget and program facts
    • Your deadline
    06 · Time it takes

    Time it takes

    Set in writing once scope is confirmed.

    07 · Price and credit

    Price, credit and your receipt line

    $500 deposit

    The deposit is credited toward the confirmed project fee.

    Receipt line for a future grant budget: Grant design and writing deposit — $500

    08 · What this is not

    What this is not

    This is not a promise of an award.

    09 · Your next step

    Your next step

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    Next step
    10 · Questions

    Three short questions

    What does the deposit hold?
    It holds your place once scope and the full fee are confirmed in writing.
    Is the full fee fixed?
    It is confirmed in writing before any work begins.
    Is the deposit refundable?
    Terms are stated in writing before you pay.

    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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