Sustaining the Work or Initiative:

Quick Tips: Strategies for Financial Sustainability

Sustainability is the key to making sure your initiative has a lasting impact on the community over the long haul. There are no shortcuts, but the ideas that follow might help you get off to a solid start.

  • Leverage shared positions and resources
  • Become a line item in an existing budget
  • Create a sustainability committee
  • Collaborate with groups with similar missions
  • Write a grant
  • Tap into existing personnel resources
  • Solicit donations and in-kind support
  • Hold a fundraiser
  • Pursue third party funding
  • Develop a fee-for-services structure
  • Acquire tax revenues
  • Secure endowed funds/planned giving
  • Establish membership fees or dues

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