Step 7

Developing Sustainability Strategies

IN THIS STEP GRANTSEEKERS LEARN how to develop strategies to continue the program beyond the initial grant funding. Other resources, and other funding strategies, are potentially available to keep programs running, but the organization must position itself early to take full advantage of—that is, to leverage—the first grant(s). Grantseekers identify, through exercises and examples, the potential sources of ongoing support that are best for the program.

Purpose of the Sustainability Component

The purpose of this component is to help grantseekers consider how the program will be funded past its immediate future—to begin with the end in mind, so-to-speak. Potential funders want to know that organizations ...

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