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.
Navigation Tip: You can choose to read these chapters sequentially or jump to a specific chapter using the dropdown menu at the top. You can navigate within chapters using the left sidebar. If you are reading this for the first time, we strongly recommend that you start with Chapter 2: Best Practices for Diversified Funding, for important considerations for any funding strategy. Throughout each chapter, you will find downloadable resources, tools, and city examples to help lay the foundations for a strong diversified funding strategy. Don’t forget to visit Chapter 5: Resources to find more detailed information to build out your strategy.
section 1
Start Here
Foundational information for getting the most out of this guide
section 2
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.
section 5
Resources
Additional resources from NLC and our partners.
Resilient by Design: How Cities Can Connect Climate Goals with Childhood Wellbeing
- Brigid Deegan
Resource Collection: Extension & Municipal Collaboration
From Congress to Community: Morgantown’s Monongahela River Revival
- Dante Moreno
Mapping Food Insecurity: Using Local Data to Drive Community Solutions
- NLC Partnerships
From Congress to Community: Investing in Tampa’s Seniors and Neighborhoods
- Dante Moreno
Now is the Time to Begin Investing in the Mental Health of Municipal Workers
- Tashfia Hasan
- Georgia Gempler
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.