Tree Swenson, executive director of the Academy of American Poets in New York, says she finds many of the foundation's plans admirable but wishes that the organization would "use the money to leverage additional funding for the entire field" from other nonprofit groups through mechanisms like challenge grants.
By investing in new models for financing retrofits, the Fund will help catalyze and leverage additional funding from federal, state and local governments, financial institutions and foundations.
As was evident in the development of a master's programme in epidemiology and biostatistics at WSPH, initial funding has the potential to leverage additional funding and posts from the university and government (34).
It will also encourage public and private partnerships, to help tap into the comparative strengths of each sector to accelerate progress, advocate and raise awareness on sanitation, leverage additional funding, and develop country-level road maps.
It will also help encourage public and private partnerships, to help tap into the comparative strengths of each sector, advocate and raise awareness on sanitation, leverage additional funding, and develop country-level plans of action.
This can be very attractive to a major donor because they see their support leveraging additional funding.
Some scholars have used their awards to leverage additional research funding.
Some framed this in positive terms, explaining that incorporating an emphasis on human rights into their programs had helped them to leverage additional resources and funding and had facilitated beneficial relationships with large international organizations.
We also attempted to include higher outcome indicators [ 5, 25, 27, 28] such as amount of additional funds leveraged from alternative sources and number of publications.
