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Ever since the concept of sustainable development was articulated and received worldwide endorsement, the gap between perceived need for action (demand) and its financing (supply) has been growing ever wider. If a community is at the action point in carrying out an integrated, systemic approach to planning for a sustainable future—then the most intricate, challenging, but important issue left is financing project actions. The hope is that community leaders encouraged by the SCD practitioner will have been researching the types and availability of specific funding for planned actions of the project’s implementation long before execution is planned to begin (Nagy 2009). Well before this point research and the beginning of dialogue should have commenced regarding State, Federal, and private funding programs available to assist the community in implementing its sustainability roadmap.
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Flint, R.W. (2013). Financial Sources for Sustainability Actions. In: Practice of Sustainable Community Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5100-6_16
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