Sustainable Funding for Community Health Promotion Fund CHPF Projects

WHEREAS many small rural community volunteers and local governments have partnered to conceive and deliver beneficial community health initiatives otherwise unavailable through local health authorities providing proactive and reactive programs germane to community health; AND WHEREAS while UBCM has provided a positive mechanism to fund such initiatives through CHPF, the pilot project nature of fund allocation prohibits the ability to create sustainability over time, resulting in the unproductive collapse of such initiatives following the achievement of short-term goals as approved by fund administrator: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the UBCM develop an evaluative component to the CHPF that may permit extended funding to approved, successful initiatives in order to ensure their eventual long-term viability under a variety of funding sources.