Seed funding for health promotion: sowing sustainability or skepticism?
- Resource Type
- research-article
- Authors
- Higgins, Joan Wharf; Naylor, Patti-Jean; Day, Meghan
- Source
- Community Development Journal, 2008 Apr 01. 43(2), 210-221.
- Subject
- Funding
Health promotion
Community capacity building
Sustainable communities
Collaboration
Ecological sustainability
Sustainable development
Community health
Community development
Renewable energy
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 00103802
14682656
Health promotion activities are enjoying renewed attention from governments under the rubric of chronic disease prevention, yet often with similar and inadequate resources. Seed-funding opportunities are popular means for governments to distribute monies and groom communities to embed the funded activities into local ecology. The success of seed funding in nurturing community capacity and engendering program sustainability is controversial. This article discusses a recent seed-funding experience in the Canadian province of British Columbia.