The Children’s Funding Project recently shared a success story out of Austin, TX. The city is the first in the nation to hire a Children’s Funding Coordinator to help identify ways to increase funding and resources for young children through strategic public financing. Read on about how Austin’s Children’s Funding Coordinator worked with local council members and residents to determine that a local ballot measure was a good strategy to offer an opportunity to generate new public funding for infants, toddlers, and other age groups of children.
