Braiding Your Funds: Tips and Tools

Braided funding is when you use multiple funding streams utilized to pay for all of the services needed by a given population, with careful accounting of how every dollar from each funding stream is spent. This blog will introduce you to a “Coordinated Finance Plan” – a tool for designing a braided funding approach that …

Blend or Braid

The terms blending and braiding are used frequently, often together, and generally with little definition.  However, they refer to two very different approaches to fiscal coordination.   Rather than lump them together, let’s pull them apart and identify the settings where each is most useful.  Next week, we’ll explore some tips on how to develop your …