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How to Navigate this Guide

This guide is divided into four main chapters. Each is designed to provide you with foundational information needed to diversify your municipal funding for health and wellbeing. Throughout this guide you will find Navigation Tips. These tips will help you chart your path through this guide, identifying the knowledge and information you need to ground your strategy.

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Start Here

Foundational information for getting the most out of this guide

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Best Practices

Practical steps to setting up a sustainable funding strategy.

section 3

Funding Streams

Specific sources of funding available to cities to support health and wellbeing work, such as restricted and unrestricted funding, taxes, municipal bonds, and more.

section 4

Capital Strategies

How to bring together multiple funding streams to achieve long-term goals, including strategies such as blending, braiding, and capital stacking.

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Resources

Additional resources from NLC and our partners.

End Notes
NLC would like to extend our thanks and appreciation to Sara Zeigler and Aliyah Ali of Courage Forward Strategies for their research and content development for this guide.