Setting Up a Grandfamily Council: 10 Tips
Creating a robust, active grandfamily council ensures that your programming meets the needs of the kin caregivers you serve.
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How to Build Capacity to Attract Funding for Smaller Kinship and Peer-Led Organizations
Within the continuum of kinship service providers, smaller, peer-led groups and organizations play an important role in ensuring caregivers receive access to needed support and resources.
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Kinship Peer Mentoring
Kinship peer mentoring can provide a sense of support and understanding to kin caregivers who wish to learn from someone who has experienced a similar caregiving situation.
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Funding Kinship Services: A Primer on Federal Funding Sources
This primer was produced to offer service providers in public, private, nonprofit, and community-based organizations basic information about federal programs that can be used to finance kinship services and programs.
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Formula Grants
Formula grants are funds distributed to states, territories, tribes, local governments, or intermediary entities.
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Discretionary Grants
Discretionary grants are competitive grants usually awarded based on an application process.
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Entitlements
Entitlements are a mechanism of federal funding provided based on the needs of eligible individuals, generally in the form of reimbursement to states, territories, tribes, and localities.
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Block Grants
A block grant is a form of flexible funding provided to states, territories, tribes, or local governments to use for broad purposes.
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Loan/
Loan Guarantee Loans and loan guarantees are funds provided by federal agencies to finance specific projects and similar loans provided by private lenders that are guaranteed by federal agencies to reduce risk.
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In-Kind Support
In-kind support is federal support provided in the form of goods and services, rather than funding.
