We partner with bold funders to design, launch, and resource funds that build shared power and abundance.
Who We Are
Valiente Capital Design is a boutique consultancy advancing transformative fund design, helping investors and the organizations they support co-design funding mechanisms that drive shared power and thriving. We challenge conventional grantmaking and investment practices, replacing them with brave new approaches to moving capital that are rooted in shared learning, distributed power, and mutual integrity.
PROJECT COLLABORATORS & ADVISORS
Alicia DeLia
Ari Sahagún
Cecilio Solis Librado
Gaithiri Siva
Hafsa Mustafa
Jess Rimington
With more than a decade of experience designing and managing transformative funds, Valiente’s project collaborators and advisors bring the rigor and strategy that investors demand while infusing the process with the joy, abundance, and courage that unlock true change.
What if a key to thriving futures isn't what we fund, but how we fund?
At its heart, Transformative Fund Design is about co-creating funds in power-sharing ways because it is simply more effective. By changing who is in the room to decide how a fund will operate, what it will offer, and what change it will drive, we open the door to rewriting the rules of investment-as-usual and reimagining philanthropic practices in ways that embody our values.
As traditional aid and philanthropy contract, movements across the globe are already pioneering new ways to survive and flourish. Funders have a unique opportunity to stand with them by engaging in Transformative Fund Design, a process that equips them to walk the talk of their values, to invest in transition infrastructure rather than patchwork fixes, and help seed the economic futures we actually want to inherit.
Participating in this work is not just an act of generosity; it is a brave and necessary choice to design capital in ways that repair, nourish, and expand what is possible.
What is Transformative Fund Design?
NonProfit Quarterly. Beyond Grant Capital: What the Buen Vivir Fund Experience Teaches Us
The Criterion Institute Podcast: Designing Finance for Context
Valiente Capital Design in the Media
Download our latest report on Innovative Financing and gain actionable insights from practitioners and funders who are informing new ways to think about financial resourcing.
Reports and Resources
Let’s re-imagine how capital moves
At Valiente, we help funders boldly embody their values, reimagining together how money moves in service of shared thriving.
At Valiente, we help funders boldly embody their values, reimagining together how money moves in service of shared thriving.