On May 1, 2019, the Brookings Institution’s Braiding and Blending Working Group hosted Braiding and blending funds to promote social determinants of health, a public event on how to establish more flexible funding strategies to improve community health and economic mobility. This has proved to be a particularly popular event, with almost a thousand attendees and viewers so far.
If you were not able to attend or view the webcast, video recordings of each of the panels are now available on our website. The morning began with a public event introducing the audience to the topic of “braiding and blending” funds from different sources and the challenges of achieving such flexible funding. A panel of senior program managers from different states then deepened the conversation by providing examples and lessons from governments and organizations in the field. A second panel discussion assessed policy steps that could be taken to facilitate a better environment for addressing the challenges and opportunities associated with braiding and blending funds.
This public event was part of an ongoing project at Brookings focusing on encouraging cross-sector collaboration to improve community health and economic mobility. As part of this project, the working group also collaborated with the Urban Institute’s Pay for Success Initiative (PFSI) to release a blog series on Uniting funding streams for health and social innovation.
You can access more on the Brookings Health-Economic Mobility project here: https://www.brookings.edu/seri...althy-neighborhoods/.
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