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Leaders and Champions: The Role of Funders in Strategic Public Financing

How funders can help communities fund services for children and youth in sustainable and equitable ways through strategic public financing.

Leaders and Champions: The Role of Funders in Strategic Public Financing

The majority of funding for children’s programs and services in our country comes from public dollars, by a long shot. If we want to scale the programs and services that all children need over time, we need to think of them as a public good, sustained by public investments. This opens philanthropy up to focus strategic investments in things like innovation, evaluation, and capacity building rather than paying for direct services year after year.

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