Priced for one thing. Producing several.
A portfolio of defensible capital propositions already inside your program. We surface what the evidence carries, and we tell you where it runs out.
DSG investigates the capital stories supported by the program information, community intelligence, evidence, and context you provide. Where something cannot yet be supported, we name the gap rather than invent the story.
“Youth development” is a category that can cost an organization money.
It can route you toward one pool of youth funders, competing against everyone else in the same category, for the same modest checks.
Meanwhile the same program may legitimately be a workforce story, an education story, a family-navigation story, a safety story, an employer story. Those are different funders, different budgets, different orders of magnitude.
This is not spin. Either the evidence supports the claim or it does not. Programs can carry more than one true claim they have never counted.
- Youth organizations whose full economic, workforce, education, health, or community value is not yet visible in how the program is financed
- Programs that keep hearing “we already fund youth work”
- Organizations doing workforce, education, or safety work under a youth-program heading
- Anyone whose funding is capped by the category rather than the work
- What your program actually produces, resolved from activity into outcome
- Which capital propositions the evidence genuinely supports
- Who finances each of those propositions in your geography
- What your existing data proves and where it stops short
- What additional evidence would move a plausible claim toward a fundable one
- Which claims to drop, because they will not hold
Where the evidence does not support a conclusion, you get that too — named, not filled in.
- A portfolio of defensible capital propositions, each with its evidence
- The funder, agency, employer, or institutional type behind each
- What each is worth pursuing relative to the effort it takes
- The claims that will not hold, and why
- What to collect going forward to strengthen the strongest ones
- A sequence for pursuing them
Examples of the kinds of things that surface. Yours will be your own.
- Employer partners who interview and hire program participants, documented nowhere
- Attendance data showing sustained multi-day participation, reported only as a total headcount
- A family-navigation function staff perform constantly, on no list of programs and in no budget
- Find Who Can Pay™from $795The portfolio and who finances each proposition
- Build My Capital Case™from $1,500Evidence and materials for the strongest ones
- Get Me Ready for the Room™from $2,500Preparation for the specific institution or employer
Lower price means narrower scope, not lower rigor.
- Is this making our program sound like something it is not?
- No, and that distinction is the whole product. We detect propositions from what is actually happening. Anything the evidence does not carry gets cut, and we tell you it got cut.
- Our data is a mess.
- Common, and not disqualifying. Part of the work is determining what your existing data can support and what you should start collecting.
- Will you find all of them?
- We find what the evidence carries and we tell you where it runs out. Some propositions will be visible only after you collect something you do not have yet — and we name those too.
Show Me Every Capital Story in My Youth Program™ · From $795, scoped
What you leave with
A portfolio of capital propositions the available evidence carries, each with the evidence behind it and the capital route it fits.
Covers: One youth program, the evidence you can supply
The files you receive
- Accessible PDF portfolio
- Editable proposition table with evidence class and route
Format
Accessible PDF plus editable table
Your work
- Supply attendance, retention, outcome and cost data you already hold
- Tell us what you cannot evidence yet
DSG's work
- Surface the propositions the evidence carries
- Say where the evidence runs out rather than filling it
Timing
Within 15 business days of complete intake
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
One factual-correction request within 7 calendar days
What this is not
- Not exhaustive: this covers what your evidence carries, not every story that may exist
- No new data collection and no evaluation performed
- No funder introductions
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.
DSG found several defensible propositions. The strongest requires evidence you hold informally but have never documented. Build My Capital Case™ assembles it into something an institution can act on.
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.