Community Foundations - The Relevance for Social Funds in Urban Areas : The Tanzania Social Action Fund Experience
This newsletter concerns the relevance for social funds in Urban Areas. Social funds face a common challenge of sustaining the community capacities that are built and investments that are supported beyond the relatively short lifespan of external f...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/02/9044774/community-foundations-relevance-social-funds-urban-areas-tanzania-social-action-fund-experience http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11154 |
| Summary: | This newsletter concerns the relevance
for social funds in Urban Areas. Social funds face a common
challenge of sustaining the community capacities that are
built and investments that are supported beyond the
relatively short lifespan of external funding. For long-term
sustainability, external funding needs to be replaced by a
steady flow of domestic revenue. The Community foundation
(CF) approach offers a number of advantages for urban work.
Community foundations are independent organizations that
provide grants to support a variety of projects identified
and implemented by local residents. A CF does not replace
the scale of resources and national reach achieved by social
funds. But it can provide a partial answer to the
sustainability challenge in some large and medium-size urban
areas, where it can mobilize local resources and sustain
social dynamism and participation in broad areas of
development work. |
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