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Collaborative Funding Strategies
Many prevention programs are beginning to seek ways to pool resources with other agencies serving children and families to broaden the available service array and achieve common goals. Agencies that can demonstrate the capacity to raise financial resources from diverse sources also have a better chance of sustaining their programs over the long-term.
Many States and localities are developing braided or blended funding projects to meet the wide-ranging needs of the families they serve. Braided funding is the pooling and coordination of resources from various agencies to provide needed services while maintaining the integrity of each agency's funding stream. In other words, funds must be used for their original intent. With blended funding, resources are more flexible and can be used however they are needed to achieve the project's goals.
Blending and Braiding Funds and Resources: The Intermediary as Facilitator
National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth
Info Brief, 18, 2006
Focuses on how intermediary organizations can facilitate the blending and braiding of funds and resources to encourage cross-systems collaboration. Identifies strategies States can use to support local communities in the blending and braiding of resources, and outlines how cross-systems collaboration and alternative funding strategies can be facilitated by intermediary organizations at both the State and local levels. (PDF - 184 KB)
Blended Funding Report (PDF - 160 KB)
Washington State Department of Social & Health Services (DSHS)
Washington State DSHS produced a report to the legislature on its blended and braided funding activities during 2002. Although not all activities are related to prevention, the project descriptions provide useful information on how funding innovations were used to develop comprehensive services for children and families.
First 5 Alameda County: Every Child Counts (PDF - 385 KB)
Alameda County, California
In its 2005-2009 strategic plan to improve the health and well-being of all young children in the county, Alameda County proposed a comprehensive, cross-system approach to service provision. In order to support such a system, the county developed a cross-agency fiscal leveraging plan that included pursuing State matching funds, maximizing Federal funds, providing technical assistance for fiscal leveraging to Community Grant Recipients, and pursuing foundation and corporate support.
Linking State and Local Policy Planning: Oregon's Approach to Untangling the Web of Services for Youth and Families (PDF - 108 KB)
Forum for Youth Investment, Oregon Commission on Children and Families (2005)
Explores the partnership between Oregon's government and local communities and how they work together to achieve better outcomes for children, youth, and families.
Moving Forward While Staying in Place: Embedded Funders and Community Change
Sojourner, Brown, Chaskin, Hamilton, Fiester, & Richman (2004)
Discusses foundations that are actively engaged in place-based community-change initiatives, identifying common strategies and providing in-depth profiles of embedded funders.
Smart Cuts or Dumb Cuts: Family Support Programs in Tight Budget Times (PDF - 236 KB)
Foundation Consortium for California's Children and Youth
What Works Policy Brief, 6, 2003
In response to California's budget crisis, reviews strategies for partnering with other community organizations, targeting clients, and financing operations.
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