Children’s Budgets and Fiscal Maps—Resources
Children’s Budgets and Fiscal Maps—Examples
Dedicated Funding Streams for Children and Youth—Resources
Dedicated Funding Streams for Children and Youth—Examples
Children’s Budgets and Fiscal Maps—Resources
- Funding Our Kids 101, Understanding Fiscal Maps, Children’s Funding Project
- Mapping Investments in Kids, Children’s Funding Project
- Map My Community, Youth.gov
- Connecting the Dots: A Guide to Leveraging Federal Funding Streams, Jobs for the Future
Children’s Budgets and Fiscal Maps—Examples
Local
- Denver, Colorado Inventory of investments in children and youth
- New Orleans, Louisiana Fiscal Map of investments in children and youth
- San Antonio, Texas Fiscal Map of financial investments in youth
State
- Minnesota Children’s Fiscal Map provides fiscal information on state programs that serve children and youth.
- Alaska Children’s Budget documents how Alaskans choose to spend their financial resources related to children, youth, and families.
- Funding Virginia’s Future: Fiscal Map of Children’s Supports in Virginia FY20
Federal
- Children’s Budget 2022: A Record-Breaking Investment in Kids, First Focus
- Kids’ Share 2021: Report on Federal Expenditures on Children Through 2020 and Future Projections is Urban Institute’s 15th edition of its annual report that analyzes federal spending on children from 1960 until the present. These reports also project the proportion of federal expenditures spent on children in the future.
- Children’s Budget Coalition works to ensure that children and families are the priority in federal policy and budget decisions.
- Budgeting for the Next Generation: Does the Budget Process Prioritize Children? Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
- Budgeting for the Next Generation: Options to Improve Budgeting for Children, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Dedicated Funding Streams for Children and Youth—Resources
- Local Dedicated Funds for Children and Youth: What, Why, Where, Who, and How, Children’s Funding Project
- Creating Local Dedicated Funding Streams: A Guide to Planning a Local Initiative to Fund Services for Children, Youth and their Families, Funding the Next Generation
- The Billion-Dollar Bet On A Community’s Future: How the Children’s Trust persuaded the 2.4 million residents of Florida’s largest county to tax themselves during an economic downturn examines and analyzes the planning and implementation of a campaign by The Children’s Trust in Miami-Dade County to reauthorize hundreds of programs that serve children in the areas of health care, education, and safety.
- Innovative Financing to Expand Services So Children Can Thrive, Children’s Funding Project and Education Redesign Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Prioritizing Our Future: How Cities and States Dedicate Funds for Early Care and Education, Louisiana Policy Institute for Children
- State-Enabling Legislation for Children’s Special Taxing Districts, Children’s Funding Project
- Local Dedicated Children’s Funds and Recessions: How to create, authorize, and maintain your fund in the face of economic adversity, Children’s Funding Project
Dedicated Funding Streams for Children and Youth—Examples
- San Antonio, TX’s Pre-K 4 SA: A November 2020 Ballot Measure Case Study, Children’s Funding Project
- Multnomah County, OR’s Preschool for All: A November 2020 Ballot Measure Case Study, Children’s Funding Project
- Leon County, FL’s Children’s Services Council: A November 2020 Ballot Measure Case Study, Children’s Funding Project
- Escambia County, FL’s Children’s Services Council: A November 2020 Ballot Measure Case Study, Children’s Funding Project
- Examples across California, Funding the Next Generation
- Resources from the Children’s Funding Project that relate to supporting communities and states expand equitable opportunities for children and youth through strategic public financing
- Resources from the Children’s Funding Project that relate to ensuing children and youth get their fair share of American Rescue Plan dollars
- Creating Local Dedicated Funding Streams: A Guide to Planning a Local Initiative to Fund Services for Children, Youth and their Families, Funding the Next Generation
- The Billion-Dollar Bet On A Community’s Future: How the Children’s Trust persuaded the 2.4 million residents of Florida’s largest county to tax themselves during an economic downturn examines and analyzes the planning and implementation of a campaign by The Children’s Trust in Miami-Dade County to reauthorize hundreds of programs that serve children in the areas of health care, education, and safety.
- Funding Our Future: Generating State and Local Tax Revenue for Quality Early Care and Education, BUILD Initiative, Center for American Progress, the Children’s Funding Project, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, and University of Maryland College Park, Schools of Public Health and Public Policy
- Prioritizing Our Future: How Cities and States Dedicate Funds for Early Care and Education, Louisiana Policy Institute for Children in partnership with the Children’s Funding Project
- State-Enabling Legislation for Children’s Special Taxing Districts, Children’s Funding Project
- Funding Brighter Futures: How Local Governments are Enhancing Investments in Kids, Children’s Funding Project