Act — Twelve doors
Twelve ways in.
Only three of them
are about money.
Most of what this company needs is not capital. It is a factory that can make a ball properly. A ministry that can put a programme into a city. An auditor prepared to put their name against a record. A product company that wants each item it sells to carry one.
Pick the door that describes you. Each one states what it opens with, so you know what the first exchange contains before you spend a minute on it.
- Open
- The intake is live and a named person reads it.
- Seeking
- The door is real and nobody has come through it yet. We would rather say so than imply a network we do not have.
01
Procure delivery
Seeking a first public buyer
Ministries, UN agencies, development banks and city governments procuring programme delivery against the global goals.
Opens with Our delivery scope, the evidence methodology, and the verification chain a procurement officer can audit.
Open a procurement conversation02
Host a programme
Seeking the first host sites
Cities, schools, federations and community organisations that want a programme running where they are.
Opens with What a programme asks of a host — space, staffing, safeguarding — and what it produces as evidence.
Ask about hosting03
Grant funding
Open — dedicated intake
Foundations, development finance institutions, sovereign and corporate funders.
Opens with The diligence packet, the funding vehicle, and the structuring a grant to a C-Corporation requires.
Request the diligence packet04
Equity interest
Open — expression of interest only
Principals and family offices who want to understand the company itself.
Opens with Who you are, and a conversation with a principal. No terms are quoted on this site and no funds are accepted through it.
Visit investor relations05
Fund delivery
Open — dedicated intake
Individuals and companies funding field operations directly.
Opens with Where the money goes, and the records it appears against.
Contribute06
Make the ball
Seeking manufacturing partners
Manufacturers and material suppliers who can make a durable, repairable ball at volume.
Opens with The specification, the durability and repairability requirements, and the labour standards we hold a supplier to.
Talk to us about making it07
Put the record in your product
Seeking pilot partners
Product companies who want each item to carry a verifiable record, starting with the tag designed to sit inside the ball.
Opens with What the tag reads and writes, what the record proves, and what integrating it costs you in tooling.
Propose a pilot08
Distribute and retail
Seeking distribution partners
Retailers, distributors and licensees who can put the ball in front of people at scale.
Opens with Territory, channel, and what we ask of a partner on provenance and labour.
Discuss a territory09
Put it in play
Seeking founding sport partners
Federations, leagues, clubs and athletes who want the ball in play and their name against the record.
Opens with What a partnership asks of you, what it gives, and how the evidence gets published.
Start a sport conversation10
Verify the record
Constituting the verifier panel
Auditors, monitoring bodies and field verifiers prepared to put their name against a record.
Opens with The verification protocol, what a verifier attests to, and where the liability boundary sits.
Offer to verify11
Test the methodology
Seeking research partners
Universities, institutes and independent researchers who want to interrogate how we evidence a claim.
Opens with The methodology as written, its known weaknesses, and the data we can share.
Propose research12
Press and broadcast
Open — live intake
Journalists, producers and broadcasters on deadline.
Opens with A named contact, the facts we can stand behind, and the claims we decline to make.
Reach the press deskThe form
One form.
It changes with
the door.
Choose a door and the form asks only what that conversation needs — a procurement officer and a manufacturer are not owed the same questions.
The three capital doors are deliberately absent from this form. Gifts, equity and institutional grants answer to different law and different expectations, so each keeps its own intake and none of them shares a control with another.
Or write directly: hello@shebethechange.com
Disclosures
What each door is,
in plain law.
Contributions
She Be The Change is a Delaware C-Corporation, and is not a 501(c)(3). Contributions are therefore not tax-deductible as charitable donations, and are subject to our terms. We would rather put that here than in a footnote.
Equity
Nothing on this page is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security, and no funds are accepted through it. Any offering of securities, if and when made, would be made only to qualified investors through definitive offering documents. The equity door collects an expression of interest and nothing more, and it does not share a control, a form or a database table with the contribution path.
Grants
A grant to a C-Corporation carries structuring requirements for private foundations, including expenditure responsibility and, in some programmes, a fiscal sponsor. We raise those in the first conversation rather than the last.
The nine other doors
Eight of the remaining doors are marked Seeking: the intake is live, and no partnership behind it is signed, agreed or implied. Nothing on this page names a partner, customer, funder or endorser we do not have. Where a door describes something we intend rather than operate, the door itself says so.
Aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. No UN affiliation, endorsement or accreditation is implied or claimed.