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Custom-Designed Education
Curriculum, incubators, and accelerators built for a specific city and a specific gap, so attendees leave as active participants, not an audience.
Amplify · Strengthen · Launch
Harnessing big
ideas.
ASL Strategy Group is where creativity meets economic development. We amplify education, strengthen communities, and launch entrepreneurs. taking organizations to the next level and leveling the playing field for the founders who build our economies.
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Doors under one umbrella06
Service lines01
Story, told together01 | One story, three doors
One story. Three doors into the same work.
ASL Strategy Group is the umbrella. Underneath it sit three ways to work with us: the education institutions hire, the space entrepreneurs join, and the resource founders and funders use. Open a door to see what's behind it.
The through-line
Harnessing big ideas (ASL Strategy Group). Uniting communities (POLARIS). Accelerating economies (Vanguard).
02 | The founder
Alycia Levels-Moore, an architect of ecosystems.
Alycia builds what founders are usually told to find on their own: the education, the room, and the money path. She has spent her career designing entrepreneurship programs with cities, universities, nonprofits, and foundations, then handing entrepreneurs the keys.
Her work sits at the intersection of creativity and economic development: storytelling that makes an idea legible, strategy that makes it fundable, and community that makes it durable. The mandate is simple: equity in entrepreneurship, and level playing fields for the people building on them.
Founder & Principal
Alycia Levels-Moore
Architect of entrepreneurial ecosystems. She designs the programs, spaces, and funding pathways that let overlooked founders compete.
Ecosystem building
Programs that outlive the grant
Incubators, accelerators, and cohort curriculum designed with institutions and delivered directly to entrepreneurs.
Equity in entrepreneurship
Level playing fields
Every engagement is measured by who gained access, who got funded, and who stayed in business afterward.
Convening
Founders, funders, and cities
Bringing public leaders, philanthropy, and small business owners into one room with one shared plan.
03 | What we do
Six service lines, one intention, make big ideas easier to launch.
We work with institutions, government, nonprofits, and founders, building the education, strategy, and capital pathways that move a local economy.
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Ecosystem Strategy
Landscape scans, strategic planning, and roadmaps that align institutions, funders, and founders behind one set of community priorities.
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Community Engagement
Initiatives that create real interaction between organizations and the people they serve, tailored programs, leadership positioning, measured outcomes.
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Stakeholder Convening
Seeking input, listening to concerns, and hosting the dialogue that builds trust across public, private, and philanthropic partners.
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Capital Readiness
Preparing founders for funding and giving funders credible deal flow, technical assistance, pitch readiness, and honest diligence support.
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Program Management
Running the work end to end: launch, delivery, reporting, and the iteration that keeps a program alive after the ribbon cutting.
Sectors:NonprofitsFor-profitsGovernmentStartups
04 | How we work
A simple, honest way of working.
We work alongside organizations and founders to build relationships, surface concerns, and turn collaboration into outcomes, grounded in trust, honest data, and shared credit.
What you can expect
- A clear scope before a dollar is spent.
- Curriculum and programs designed for your city, not a template.
- Reporting that names what worked and what didn't.
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Listen
Interviews and landscape scans to understand the city, the context, and the community.
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Frame
Name the opportunity with clarity, rigor, and honest ambition, before anyone spends a dollar.
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Build
Curriculum, programs, spaces, and systems designed to ship, and to keep shipping.
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Measure
Access gained, businesses launched, capital moved, reported truthfully, not decorated.
05 | What ASL stands for
Amplify. Strengthen. Launch. And the people behind the ideas.
Amplify
We raise the volume on ideas, founders, and institutions that deserve to be heard, through education, storytelling, and visibility.
Strengthen
We build the operating muscle underneath the idea: strategy, systems, community, and the relationships that hold when funding shifts.
Launch
We ship. Programs open, spaces fill, businesses start, and capital moves, because a strategy that never launches is not a strategy.
Partners & collaborators
06 | In the press
The work, on the record.
Coverage of the spaces, programs, and partnerships Alycia has built across Birmingham and beyond.
07 | Get in touch
Have a big idea worth harnessing?
Tell us which door fits: the education, the space, or the resource, and what community you're building for. We usually reply within 48 hours.
Email
hello@aslcreativefirm.com
Who we serve
Cities · Institutions · Founders
Doors
ASL Creative · POLARIS · Vanguard
Response
Within 48 hours