It’s easy to see why children’s agencies need new ways to build their enterprise, fund their growth and do the organization’s work. Most of them depend on some combination of donations, fees and government payments. Yet, donations as a percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product are declining as is government funding, while costs of service delivery and competition for private donations are increasing. Most small and midsize agencies have little or no equity capital, and traditional fund-raising cannot fill the gap.