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Many people equate sustainability with obtaining additional program funding.
Although money may be required to sustain your program's positive outcomes,
it is possible to sustain outcomes without any funding beyond the original grant,
or with far less funding than the original grant provided. Financial planning will
enable you to identify what resources you need to sustain program outcomes.

How can finance strategies other than grant funding sustain your program? Grant funding may give you the chance to demonstrate your program's worth to local funders such as private foundations or county boards, or the time to create third party payment mechanisms for a service. Non-profits are using an increasing array of revenue-generating, fund raising strategies to support previously grant funded programs.

For examples of how grantees have used Financing as a sustainability tool, read these Grantees at Work stories:

Click on any of these listings for more information:

Understanding funding streams (local, state, federal)


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		Home --> Resources --> Leaving a Legacy -->Financing Our View of Sustainability \| Partnership and Collaboration \| Capacity Building \| Communications/Marketing Public Policy \| Evaluation \| Financing \| Leadership for Change \| Strategic Planning \| Spotlight on Grantees Sustainability Planning Tool \| Models of Sustainability \| Self-Assessement \| FAQ \| Definitions Financing Many people equate sustainability with obtaining additional program funding. Although money may be required to sustain your program's positive outcomes, it is possible to sustain outcomes without any funding beyond the original grant, or with far less funding than the original grant provided. Financial planning will enable you to identify what resources you need to sustain program outcomes. How can finance strategies other than grant funding sustain your program? Grant funding may give you the chance to demonstrate your program's worth to local funders such as private foundations or county boards, or the time to create third party payment mechanisms for a service. Non-profits are using an increasing array of revenue-generating, fund raising strategies to support previously grant funded programs. For examples of how grantees have used Financing as a sustainability tool, read these Grantees at Work stories: Fee-for-Service: One Grantee's Roadmap for Sustainability The Art of Salesmanship Click on any of these listings for more information: Understanding funding streams (local, state, federal) Securing foundation grants Connecting with businesses Developing sources of revenue Leveraging resources Creating a financial plan Understanding funding streams (local, state, federal) 2003 state-by-state Medicaid fact sheets (Fact sheet) http://www.kff.org/mfs/index.jsp Channing Bete Company (Web site) http://channingbete.com/ Federal activities addressing violence in schools (Web site) http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/injury/pdf/violenceactivities.pdf Financing mental health for children and adolescents (Report) http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/briefs/FinanceBrief.pdf Forecast of funding opportunities under the Department of Education discretionary grant programs for fiscal year (FY) 2007 (Web site) http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html Grants.gov (Web site) www.grants.gov Guide to education programs (Web site) http://www.ed.gov/programs/gtep/index.html Information on federal funding for youth-focused mental health and violence prevention programming (YVPP Teleconference, 10/26/04) http://www.promoteprevent.org/documents/Funding sources for YVP grantees 10-26-04.doc Research and Funding (Web site) http://www.nimh.nih.gov/ResearchFunding/index.cfm Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention: Funding (Web site) http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/funding/funding.html Securing foundation grants Associated Grant Makers (Web site) http://www.agmconnect.org/ Channing Bete Company (Web site) http://channingbete.com/ Foundation Center (Web site) http://www.foundationcenter.org/ Grant guide (Web site) http://www.nc4hc.org/grants_welcome.htm Grant Proposal.com (Web site) http://www.grantproposal.com/ GuideStar (Database) http://www.guidestar.org/ Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Web site http://www.edexcellence.net/foundation/global/index.cfm U.S. Department of Education: Grants and contracts (Web site) http://www.ed.gov/fund/landing.jhtml?src=ln Connecting with businesses Channing Bete Company (Web site) http://channingbete.com/ The Collaboration Challenge: How nonprofits and businesses succeed through strategic alliances http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/06/07879522/ 0787952206.pdf Developing sources of revenue Channing Bete Company (Web site) http://channingbete.com/ Funding Sources: Distance Learning Courses (Web site) http://www.northeastcapt.org/PRODUCTS/faq/faq54.html Creating Dedicated Local Revenue Sources for Out-of-School Time Initiatives (Guidebook) http://www.financeproject.org/Publications/Brief1.pdf True Sustainability: A New Model to Aid Nonprofits in Developing Self-Sustaining Revenue Streams (Article) http://www.guidestar.org/news/features/sustainability.jsp Leveraging resources Finding Funding for injury and violence prevention: An overview (Report) http://notes.edc.org/HHD/CSN/csnpubs.nsf/0/07f12e066bff841c852570 91005d9058/$FILE/FUNDING.pdf Funding a full continuum of mental health promotion and intervention programs in the schools (Report) - full text not available http://library.promoteprevent.org/item.php?id=118549&catid=116373 Healthy Youth Funding Database (Web site) http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/HYFund/ Thinking Broadly: Financing Strategies for Comprehensive Child and Family Initiatives ). 2002. (Guide/Publication) http://www.financeproject.org/Publications/ThinkingBroadly.pdf Creating a financial plan The Finance Project. Profiles of successful financing strategies. (Toolkit) http://www.financeproject.org/irc/ost/profiles.asp The Finance Project. Cost worksheet for out-of-school time and community school initiative (Worksheet) http://www.financeproject.org/costworksheet.pdf The Finance Project. Thinking broadly: Financing strategies for comprehensive child and family initiatives (Guidebook) http://www.financeproject.org/Publications/ThinkingBroadly.pdf The Finance Project. Sustaining comprehensive community initiatives: Key elements for success (Report) http://www.financeproject.org/Publications/sustaining.pdf Back to the Legacy Wheel








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