Coordinate Collaborative Fundraising
Impact Team Agenda
Determine process for collaborative fundraising and distribution of those funds. Establish a community panel and associated guidelines for decision-making, procedures for ensuring equity and fairness.
Create an initial listing of available grants for youth violence prevention work and establish process for keeping it up to date
Identify grant writers and mobilize them to begin writing for the grants identified.
Establish a resource allocation panel comprised of community members that effectively represent all stakeholders in terms of location, type of services provided, and cultural and linguistic competency.
Determine guidelines for the resource allocation on how to make decisions informed by data and other equity considerations.
Establish bridge funding that will allow CBOs to be paid up front for services
Roll out the process, conduct retrospectives, iterate and refine as needed.
Current Focus
This work has been mostly paused while we wait for the federal government to determine which grant programs remain available to us. We are moving forward the work of the other impact teams, defining the efforts that we wish to pursue funding for, which will accelerate our ability to complete grant applications. Since the current political moment has a huge focus on government efficiency, we are also re-raising the possibility of utilizing social impact bonds to support our efforts.
Our Journey
You may find running notes from impact team meetings on this topic here.