Sustaining Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Key Elements for Success

Sustaining Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Key Elements for Success - "Sustainability is a critical issue for the vast array of community initiatives that promote healthy children, strong families, and safe communities. These initiatives, which encompass everything from state or community-wide system building efforts to local direct service programs, face similar challenges. Due to time-limited grants and narrow categorical funding streams, program developers must constantly search for new funding that will enable them to continue and/or expand on their initiatives. Repeatedly, program developers, community organizers, political leaders or others who invest resources in community initiatives ask the question, “How do we build a stable base of support to sustain effective initiatives over time?” "

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