Alternative funding is messy. You get calls, vague emails, and recycled urgency. Application stack. Promises repeat. Then the money lands, and perhaps some silence begins. This guide was written to navigate: how alternative funding moves once you ask for it, or touch it. How your request is carried, the friction it creates, and the decisions it demands.

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