Grantmakers In Health

Colorado is exploring a new approach to public funding for youth well-being: one that focuses not just on effort and investment, but on alignment and coordination across systems.

In a new Views from the Field article, Renu Gupta-Fitzgerald of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment shares how the state’s Grant Prioritization Task Force is working to coordinate funding, data, and strategy across agencies to improve outcomes for youth and make grantmaking more accessible for community-based organizations.

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Funding Without Alignment Is Just Spending: Colorado’s Model for Alignment to Maximize Impacts on Youth Well-being - Grantmakers In Health Public funding for youth well-being isn’t lacking in effort or investment. But when dollars move through disconnected systems, even the best intentions can fail to translate into meaningful outcomes. What if the challenge isn’t how much we fund, but how those investments work together? Colorado ...

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