Release — Match the right blend of capital to the outcomes you're working to improve | Recurve

Recurve — a tool for place leaders

Release.

Innovate·Improve·Invest

Expand what your place can do — by mobilising capital, not just spending it.

Find your blend How it works

3 questions · 2 minutes · no sign-up

The idea

The resources to transform your place already exist — most of them just aren't yours to spend. The shift that unlocks them is from spending capital to mobilising it: using your own investment to attract philanthropy, impact investment and enterprise alongside it. Release shows you the blend of capital that fits your priority, how that blend grows as your idea proves out, and the first move to make. Public money works hardest here as the catalyst, not the gap-filler.

Step 01 — Your seat

What's your role?

The blend is the same physics for everyone — but the first move depends on what you can actually pull.

Step 02 — Your priority

What's on your desk?

Nine priorities place leaders actually hold — each anchored to a real result, not a hypothetical.

Step 03 — Where you are

What are you trying to do?

Pick where you are — it sets the blend.

Optional — Sharpen the readout

Three quick questions

Choose where you are in Step 03 and we'll ask the three questions that fit — no wrong answers.

Choose a role, a priority and where you are first.

Your readout

The blend that fits

Your capital blend — and how it widens

Indicative balance of the blend at each stage — a pattern, not a prescription. Notice what doesn't happen: no capital hands over the baton. Sources are blended in and the balance shifts, with public / catalytic capital woven through every stage.

Public / catalytic — woven throughout
Philanthropy — first-loss / R&D
Social investment — incl. civic bonds
Institutional & values-driven debt
Purpose-driven business

View the blend as a table

Indicative share of each capital type in the blend, by stage of solution maturity
Capital type	New ideas	Testing a pilot	Proving	Scaling up	Mainstreaming

The vehicle that carries it

The closest real analogue

Your first move

Readiness flag

PUBLIC INVESTMENT×IMPACT-ECONOMY PARTNERS÷TRUSTED INTERMEDIARY=SHARED OUTCOME

The mobilisation equation — every partnership your place develops should be expressible in it.

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