Design the program and find who has a reason to pay for it — together.
Program architecture, evidence, health-system and public-health fit, partners, funding routes, and an implementation plan, in one build.
Food-as-health programs sit near one of the largest pools of money in American life, and reaching it is difficult.
The reason is structural. Health-care dollars move on evidence, attribution, and documented cost impact. Community food programs are built on relationships, trust, and reach. Both are real. They do not speak to each other without translation.
Designing the program and finding the payer can be treated as two separate projects. Done separately, the program gets built in a shape nobody can finance.
- Food and health organizations at the edge of the health-care dollar without a way in
- Groups running produce prescription, medically tailored meal, or nutrition-support work
- Organizations with a clinical or health-system partner and no financing structure
- Anyone designing a food-and-health program who does not want to build it twice
- What program design your community, partners, and evidence base support
- Which health systems, plans, public agencies, and payers near you have a documented reason to care
- What evidence and documentation each requires before it can move money
- What data you would need to collect from day one to stay financeable
- What the program costs to run at the size contemplated
- Where the fit is real and where it is being wished into existence
Where the evidence does not support a conclusion, you get that too — named, not filled in.
- A full program architecture built to be financed, not retrofitted later
- The evidence base and where its limits are
- Health-system and public-health fit for your specific geography — including a clear answer if the fit is not there
- Named partner and payer routes with what each requires
- A data and documentation plan that starts on day one
- An implementation plan and a real budget
Examples of the kinds of things that surface. Yours will be your own.
- A program designed around household distribution when the nearby health system's documented interest was in a specific patient population
- No baseline data collection planned, which would have made the program unfinanceable by any health payer after year one
- A clinical partner willing to refer but not to pay, with a public agency upstream that had promised a related result
- Build My Capital Case™from $1,500Program architecture, evidence, routes, and plan
- Get Me Ready for the Room™from $2,500Preparation for the health system or agency conversation
- DSG Studio™By conversationHuman-led work on multi-party or contracted arrangements
Lower price means narrower scope, not lower rigor.
- Do we need a clinical partner already?
- No. If you have one, the work uses it. If not, part of the work is determining who is realistically available to you.
- Will this get us reimbursed?
- It will tell you honestly what the reimbursement and contracting landscape looks like where you are, what would be required, and whether it is realistic. It will not promise you a payer.
- We already run the program. Is this only for new ones?
- No. Existing programs can need redesign to become financeable. That can be the more valuable version of this work.
Build My Food Pharmacy + Funding Plan™ · By conversation
What you leave with
Program architecture and the funding architecture built in the same process: design, evidence, partners, payer logic where it holds, and an implementation plan.
Covers: One program design in one place
The files you receive
- Accessible PDF program and funding plan
- Evidence table with sources and evidence class
- Editable implementation timeline and budget logic
Format
Accessible PDF plus editable timeline and budget logic
Your work
- Supply your numbers, partners, clinical or community agreements and approvals
- Make decision-makers available inside the agreed schedule
DSG's work
- Design the program and the financing together
- Assert health-system fit only where the evidence and the payer logic carry it
Timing
Agreed in writing before payment
Human-reviewed work begins when intake is complete, not when payment clears. If anything needed is missing, we ask for it and the clock starts when it arrives.
Check this schedule against your deadline before you pay. If your deadline does not fit, tell us first — we would rather turn the work down than miss it.
Corrections
Set in the written scope
What this is not
- No clinical, legal or reimbursement advice
- No health-system contract secured and no payer commitment obtained
- No federal route: federal work is not sold self-serve here
Money back
Because this is human work performed to order, it is not refundable once the work has started. If you are unsure whether it fits, contact DSG before you pay and a person will tell you plainly.
Federal opportunities
Federal opportunities are not sold self-serve anywhere on this site. If federal capital is the right route, DSG Studio evaluates it as a separate engagement, in a conversation, before anything is quoted.
DSG identified the payer routes and what each requires. The health-system conversation decides this, and it is unlike a funder meeting. Get Me Ready for the Room™ prepares you specifically for it.
Not sure this is the one?
Start with Know the Room™. Tell us who you are approaching or what you are trying to get done, and we will point you at the right work.
Know the Room™ · $175The self-directed tools are finished work in their own right. Use one, keep the output, and stop there if that is what you needed.