Funding Resilience: Advancing Multisector Investments for Equity Toolkit
Funding Resilience: Advancing Multisector Investments for Equity Toolkit
Are you looking for a way to use federal COVID-19 relief and recovery funds to address a community-identified priorities?
Do you need ways to encourage planning and financial innovations across silos?
Are you interested in how the COVID-19 funds can be used to invest in equity?
Do you want to maximize the funds to meet the needs of community?
Do you want to understand what American Rescue Plan Act funds came to your state and what funding opportunities are still open?
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Funding Resilience: Advancing Multisector Investments for Equity is an interactive tool designed to help communities 1) envision how the funds might be used for cross-sector initiatives aimed at building equitable, healthy communities and 2) understand scope of funds available to states to meet a wide variety of needs.
The Funding Resilience: Advancing Multisector Investments for Equity tool is part of a suite of tools and trainings the Georgia Health Policy Center developed to support states, collaboratives, and local fiscal intermediaries in aligning resources and strategies across sectors to build resilient and equitable communities.
What: The interactive tool will help users understand funding opportunities from the American Rescue Plan Act through a cross-sector lens. Users can explore funding streams through graphs and tables that can be filtered by specific social determinant of health and local needs.
Real-time, interactive features include:
- Breakdowns of American Rescue Plan Act funds by social determinant of health
- Detailed overview of the investment opportunities by federal department
- State snapshots of verified funds
- State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds
- Notice of current funding opportunities
Who: Never before has this amount of federal funding flowed into states, counties, and local communities. Any organization looking to leverage this opportunity to work across sectors and enhance the well-being of their community, including:
- Accountable Health Communities
- Area Agencies on Aging
- Community-based organizations
- Cross-sector, health-oriented community collaboratives
- Local wellness funds
- State and local government agencies
Why: Trillions of dollars in federal recovery funds are flowing into states and cities. This presents an unprecedented opportunity to:
- Recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Invest in equitable communities
- Purposefully address systemic inequities with a long-term view
Local communities, counties, and states are looking for information that can guide them in how to best leverage the COVID-19 relief and recovery funds in a way that balances immediate needs with the desire to be transformative and address root causes of inequities.
How: Funding navigation is a skillset to find money across disparate systems and leverage existing funds to enable transformative, cross-sector solutions. Funding navigation includes applying a systems perspective, a willingness to innovate, and expertise to help local collaboratives and states conceptualize, design, and financially support equity-advancing cross-sector initiatives.
Funding Resilience: Advancing Multisector Investments for Equity is one tool to help guide funding navigation. It is an interactive tool that can help users in real time to 1) understand how the federal funds can be used to address social determinants of health and 2) identify current funding opportunities that be used for cross-sector initiatives aimed at building equitable, healthy communities.
Funding Resilience: Advancing Multisector Investments for Equity is a product of Aligning in Crisis and is made possible because of support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Georgia Health Policy Center is solely responsible for the content, which does not necessarily reflect the views of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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- What support does your community need for all to thrive?
- Education. Health care. Social services. Understand how COVID-19 recovery funds can advance your community’s goals.
- Invest together in community change. Leverage funds across sectors to tackle big needs.
- Be a part of big change. Find funds resilient communities.
- Advance multisector investments for healthy, equitable communities.
- American Rescue Plan Act funds are still available to invest in equitable, healthy communities. Explore current opportunities.
- How are American Rescue Plan Act dollars being used to address social determinants of health in your community?
- Are you looking for a way to use federal COVID-19 funds to strengthen your community?
- Do you want to understand what American Rescue Plan Act funds came to your state and what funding opportunities are still open?
- Looking for how partners can invest in health equity together?
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Subject: New tool breaks down ARPA opportunities for communities
The Georgia Health Policy invites you to explore Funding Resilience: Advancing Multisector Investments for Equity. It is an interactive tool designed to help communities 1) envision how the funds might be used for cross-sector initiatives aimed at building equitable, healthy communities and 2) understand scope of funds available to states to meet a wide variety of needs.
Local communities, counties, and states are looking for information that can guide them in how to best leverage the COVID-19 relief and recovery funds.
Real-time, interactive features of the Funding Resilience: Advancing Multisector Investments for Equity tool include:
- Breakdowns of American Rescue Plan Act funds by social determinant of health
- Detailed overview of the investment opportunities by federal department
- State snapshots of verified funds
- State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds
- Notice of current funding opportunities
The Funding Resilience: Advancing Multisector Investments for Equity tool is part of a suite of tools and trainings the Georgia Health Policy Center developed to support states, collaboratives, and local fiscal intermediaries in aligning resources and strategies across sectors to build resilient and equitable communities.
Explore the tool at Framingfunds.org today.