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WCGMF Grants: Strategies

To link its interests in community, school and policy change, the Memorial Fund employs three strategies: capacity building, knowledge development and public willbuilding. From a community’s perspective, these strategies work together. Our aim is to help communities create the policies, practices, and processes needed to build an agenda for enhancing the lives of children. For purposes of this initiative, these three strategies are defined as follows:

Capacity building

Aimed at improving the capacity of both a community’s organizations and its residents, this strategy includes support for collaboration, leadership development, network creation, planning, communications, organizational development, and technical assistance.

Knowledge development

With the goal of collecting and using information for better decision-making, this strategy includes issue and action research, assessment, monitoring, dissemination of best practices and other information, convening communities and individuals working on similar issues, and other activities that contribute to the development of learning communities.

Public will-building

To inform and engage citizens, this strategy focuses on building public awareness, advocacy, constituency building, and message development that will move local and state policy to be more responsive to children’s needs.