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Project Overview
The Local Partnerships for Public Funding Program develops and facilitates collaborations between statewide and community-based partners. Collectively leveraging their diverse strengths and skills, they work to ensure that federal funds are used to do the maximum good in their communities.
The maximum good is defined as a community-driven, equitable, transformative, transparent, and impactful use of funds.
Local Partnerships for Public Funding Strategies
The Local Partnerships for Public Funding program maximizes the impact of federal funds through the following strategies:
- Analyze policy and develop locally tailored resources for community leaders and decision-makers
- Offer facilitation and coaching to help individuals and groups move from ideas to action.
- Develop and enhance community leaders’ capacity to facilitate community engagements, identify public funding priorities, and align stakeholder collaborations.
- Foster a learning network to share stories of success and address common barriers among peers.
- Re-energize and inspire each other to continue the work and sustain momentum.
Local Partnerships for Public Funding Outcomes
This program seeks outcomes of creating supportive partnerships that increase capacity and are inclusive to learning networks, engaging the community by cultivating collaboration across geographies, encouraging responsive governance that ensures governments are funding community-identified priorities, and creating lasting change via sustained leadership capacity and avenues for community voice, and equitable resource allocation.