The Diversified Funding for Health and Wellbeing Toolkit is designed to help you think about what’s needed to build a more resilient and sustainable financial strategy targeting health and wellbeing in your city. It provides foundational knowledge and core concepts that can guide your efforts as you develop a plan tailored to your community’s needs.
How to Navigate this Toolkit
This toolkit 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 the toolkit, you will find Navigation Tips marked with a lightbulb 💡. These tips will help you chart your path through this toolkit, identifying the knowledge and information you need to ground your strategy.
Click the arrows to learn more about Toolkit features.
💡Top Navigation
Click the arrow next to HOME to expand the menu and jump to specific chapters:
💡Back to Top & Print this Page
Use the Back to Top button in the lower-right-hand corner of your screen to return to the menu at any time.
Use Print this Page to create a printer-friendly version of the text in each chapter.
💡Left-hand Navigation & Tags
Use the left-hand navigation to jump to topics within the same page.
Tags will direct you to a list of additional NLC.org resources related to the same topic.
💡Navigation Tip: Reading the Chapters
You can choose to read these chapters sequentially or jump to a specific chapter from anywhere in the toolkit using the dropdown menu at the top. Throughout each chapter, you will find downloadable resources, tools, and city examples to help lay the foundations for a strong diversified funding strategy. At the end, don’t forget to visit Chapter 5: Resources to find more detailed information to build out your strategy.
CHapter 1
Start Here
Foundational information for getting the most out of this toolkit.
Chapter 2
Best Practices
Practical steps to setting up a sustainable funding strategy.
Chapter 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.
Chapter 4
Capital Strategies
How to bring together multiple funding streams to achieve long-term goals, including strategies such as blending, braiding, and capital stacking.
Chapter 5
Resources
Additional resources from NLC and our partners.
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. Support for this guide was generously provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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