Strategic public financing is a process that allows states, communities and Native nations to assign a cost to the goals and policy priorities for their children and youth and, ultimately, to identify ways to cover those costs. It often builds on existing strategic plans by addressing the following three questions:

1. Current funding: How much money supports our goals right now?

2. Needed funding: What is the gap between what we have and what we need?

3. Sources of additional funding: Where can we find additional money to fill the gap between what we have and what we need?

States and communities can bring together the power of fiscal maps, cost models, and analysis of potential sources of additional funding to pair great plans with tangible resources. The combined and coordinated effects of those tools embody strategic public finance planning.

The purpose of this assessment is to help us understand your community's unique starting point. There are no wrong answers here.

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* 1. Name

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* 2. Role/Title

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* 3. Organization

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* 5. City or County

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* 6. State

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* 7. Please name and describe the organization or governmental department/agency/division/Tribe that will likely lead your strategic finance planning project.

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* 8. In an ideal world, this work would be led by a full-time Children's Funding Coordinator (CFC). This person would be responsible for researching, analyzing, producing, and sustaining the community's fiscal mapping, cost modeling, and sourcing of additional funding work to support kids. See this blog post for more information about how CFCs can make an impact.

Children's Funding Project can provide communities with hiring and onboarding support as well as intensive coaching for CFCs. Does your community have interest in establishing a full-time CFC and the resources to fund their position and coaching support for them?

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* 9. We believe that CFC candidates who represent the diversity of the community they serve and have lived-experience with the issues they will be working on provide the most value in these roles.

Do you have relationships to organizations or networks in your community that will allow you to effectively recruit these kinds of candidates?

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* 10. Are you pursuing this work with a specific timeframe or goal date in mind (for example, a specific election or time-bound funding opportunity)? How would you describe your desired timeline?

"We need a fiscal map, cost model/analysis, and/or insight on how to secure additional funding..."

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* 11. What is the geographic scope of your potential strategic finance planning effort?

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* 12. What is the service or population focus of your potential strategic finance planning effort? (Check all that apply)

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* 13. How much do you agree with the following statement?

"Our community regularly collaborates on behalf of kids. This collaboration includes representatives from many groups/sectors and has led to meaningful action or policy change."

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* 14. How much do you agree with the following statement?

"We are prepared to start, sustain, and carry forward the strategic finance planning work."

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* 15. Access to Data and Information

Does the project lead have the contacts necessary to easily access relevant fiscal and funding data from the following key contributor group?

  Yes No Maybe Not applicable
State policymakers and/or budgetholders
Local policymakers and/or budgetholders
Direct service providers
Youth
Child and youth serving intermediary organizations

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* 16. Coalition Composition
Which of these contributor groups are actively engaged with the project lead and are bought in to a strategic public finance planning effort?

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State policymakers
Local policymakers
Direct service providers
Youth
Families
Business community
Philanthropy
Advocates
Please upload and/or link to any relevant strategic planning documents. These might include but are not limited to youth master plans, child and youth focused strategic plans, or annual reports.

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* 17. Please upload files here:

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* 18. Please link to relevant documents:

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