About Strategy Funding Group

Professional judgment. A practical path forward.

We are an attorney-led strategy group helping organizations become fundable, compliant, visible, competitive, and built to grow.

The advantage is perspective

Professional judgment. Practical execution.

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    Attorney-led

    Legal insight & organizational strategy

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    Cross-functional

    Funding, compliance & visibility

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    Founder-led delivery

    A direct, accountable relationship

STRATEGY FUNDING GROUP

Attorney-led insight. Organization-first strategy.

Founder messageAttorney Nekima Hill

Meet the founder

Meet Attorney Nekima Hill.

Legal insight. Strategic perspective. Practical execution.

Strategy Funding Group is led by Attorney Nekima Hill, founder of The Strategy Counsel—a licensed attorney, IRS Enrolled Agent, strategist, and consultant with more than a decade of cross-functional experience.

Her professional background spans legal services, nonprofit and business strategy, tax and compliance, funding research, program development, and consulting experience that includes PwC and Deloitte. That range supports a practical approach: assess the organization, qualify the opportunity, protect credibility, and build work leaders can actually use.

DC-licensed attorneyIRS Enrolled Agent10+ years’ experienceFounder-led delivery
PwC and Deloitte are listed as professional background experience and do not imply endorsement.
Attorney-ledstrategy, compliance, and professional judgment
10+ yearscross-functional advisory experience
Opportunity-firstfit and readiness before pursuit
Execution-mindedplans designed to become real work
01belief behind the company

Our point of view

Opportunity creates value when strategy, readiness, and execution work together.

Strategy Funding Group was built for organizations with ambitious goals but limited capacity to navigate funding, compliance, programs, visibility, and growth through disconnected specialists.

Our role is to see the whole picture: which opportunities fit, what the organization must strengthen, how the case should be communicated, and what responsible implementation requires after the win.

The integrated advantage

A rare combination of legal judgment, organizational strategy, and execution capacity.

STRATEGYPriority · Position · Growth
COMPLIANCEStructure · Risk · Credibility
IMPACTPrograms · Funding · Results

One integrated partner

Operating principles

How we think shows up in what we build.

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Fit before pursuit

An open opportunity is not automatically the right opportunity.

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Readiness before urgency

Strong responses begin with credible programs, documents, budgets, and evidence.

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Judgment matters

Eligibility, compliance, risk, and capacity require professional review.

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Build for use

Every plan should produce usable files, decisions, ownership, and next steps.

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Earn trust

Make claims specific, processes visible, and commitments defensible.

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Think beyond the award

Build foundations that support responsible implementation and sustainable growth.

Our advantage

A rare mix of judgment and execution

Organizational strategy, professional experience, compliance, communication, and implementation are integrated from the start.

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Strategic judgment

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Legal perspective

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Funding fluency

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Program development

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Professional writing

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Implementation discipline

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Why clients can trust the process

Growth decisions guided by real-world professional experience.

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Professional judgment

Legal, tax, compliance, and consulting experience helps us recognize where governance and human review matter.

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Opportunity translation

We connect grants, RFPs, partnerships, and incentives to eligibility, capacity, risk, and operating reality.

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Founder empathy

Our work is designed for real organizations with limited time, competing priorities, and ambitious goals.

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Visible expertise

Strategy, writing, design, and systems thinking work together so the organization looks as capable as it is.

Public project examples are presented as representative project types unless a client has specifically authorized identification.

Why organizations invest

Not more information. More capacity to pursue what matters.

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Focus

Stop losing leadership time to disconnected searches and low-fit opportunities.

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Credibility

Present a stronger organization to funders, agencies, partners, donors, and clients.

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Capacity

Access multiple growth capabilities without building a full internal department.

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Momentum

Turn strategy into deadlines, deliverables, decisions, and consistent follow-through.

Our commitment

“Pursue only what fits—and build what makes the organization stronger.”

That standard protects leadership time, keeps the investment defensible, and makes the result genuinely useful.

How we work

Structured enough to be dependable. Flexible enough to fit your reality.

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Assess

We clarify your stage, goals, readiness, immediate pressure, and strongest opportunity.

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Prepare

We organize the strategy, documents, positioning, compliance, and evidence needed to move.

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Pursue

We support the application, proposal, launch, partnership, or implementation with disciplined execution.

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Strengthen

We help your team improve the systems, evidence, visibility, and capacity behind its next stage.

Insights

Ideas for becoming more fundable and competitive.

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Field guide

The Funding Readiness Map

What to organize before your next grant or contract opportunity.Read the insight
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Executive brief

What Makes an Organization Fundable?

How structure, programs, evidence, and visibility shape confidence.Read the insight
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Opportunity note

From RFP to Strong Response

A practical path from solicitation review to compliant submission.Read the insight

Let’s move forward, thoughtfully.

You do not need more opportunity lists. You need a clearer strategy.

Bring us the organizational challenge. We’ll help define and build the right response.

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