Factors That Predict Financial Sustainability of Community Coalitions: Five Years of Findings from the PROSPER Partnership Project
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This study is a longitudinal investigation of the Promoting School-community-university Partnerships to Enhance Resilience (PROSPER) partnership model designed to evaluate the level of sustainability funding by community prevention teams, including which factors impact teams' generation of sustainable funding. Community teams were responsible for choosing, implementing with quality, and sustaining evidence-based programs (EBPs) intended to reduce substance misuse and promote positive youth and family development. Fourteen US rural communities and small towns were studied. Data were collected from PROSPER community team members (N = 164) and prevention coordinators (N = 10) over a 5-year period. Global and specific aspects of team functioning were assessed over six waves. Outcome measures were the total funds (cash and in-kind) raised to implement prevention programs. All 14 community teams were sustained for the first 5 years. However, there was substantial variability in the amount of funds raised, and these differences were predicted by earlier and concurrent team functioning and by team sustainability planning. Given the sufficient infrastructure and ongoing technical assistance provided by the PROSPER partnership model, local sustainability of EBPs is achievable.
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Studies suggest that some factors may be uniquely important for sustaining coalitions, including board/team functioning, data/evaluation resources, and planning for sustainability.
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- Authors
- Greenberg, M. T., Feinberg, M. E., Johnson, L. E., Perkins, D. F., Welsh, J. A., & Spoth, R. L.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Iowa State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Greenberg, Mark T.
- Venue
- Prevention Science
- Published
- 2014-04-06
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 158-167
- ISSN
- 1389-4986 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-6695
- PMC
- PMC4186916
- OpenAlex
- W1974206150
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 3 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 7.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Prevention Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01AA014702, AA14702)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA013709, DA013709)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Community Health and Development
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Keywords
- financial sustainability, community coalitions, prevention funding, evidence-based programs, substance misuse prevention, youth development, family development, rural communities, small towns, team functioning, sustainability planning, technical assistance
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Child, Community-Institutional Relations, Family Health, Female, Health Promotion, Humans, Iowa, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Pennsylvania, Public Health, Program Evaluation, Community Networks, Evidence-Based Practice
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