The Charitable Asset Deployment Agreement: A Structural Alternative to Public–Private Partnership Capital Architecture

Two prior papers establish a connected diagnosis. The first shows that public--private partnerships fail structurally — not through poor contracts or weak governance, but because their capital architecture embeds extraction, temporal misalignment, and fragility into systems whose missions require long-horizon continuity. The second shows that PPPs persist not because they perform well but because public accounting systems lack the categories to represent capital continuity, mission cycles, or deferred fragility, making PPPs appear fiscally responsible when they are merely accountingly convenient. Both call for new capital architectures; neither specifies one. This paper provides one. The Charitable Asset Deployment Agreement (CADA) is a recoverable-grant instrument for the deployment of capital assets — equipment, infrastructure, and physical plant — that is constructable within existing Australian charitable, taxation, and accounting frameworks, and deployable today.