While such an approach is familiar to crowdfunding veterans, it has the same drawbacks as other services, namely, the lack of sustaining funds for a research project.
The panel shared this concern: "The majority strongly questioned whether grants of this size are justified at a time when many investigators, particularly young investigators, are experiencing severe difficulty in obtaining and sustaining funding".
In addition to sustaining funding, we must follow the evidence.
That includes sustaining the relationships, commitments, knowledge, capability, values, and trust, generated from partnerships, as well as sustaining funding, staff, programs, policy changes, and the partnership itself [ 9, 10].
Despite being located in one of Australia's largest rural Aboriginal communities there were problems with securing sufficient referrals to the service and this was compounded by concerns about sustaining funding and practitioner availability.
Israel et al. [ 53] examined three requisites for CBPR sustainability: 1) sustaining relationships and commitments among the partners involved; 2) sustaining the knowledge, capacity and values generated from the partnership; and 3) sustaining funding, staff, programs, policy changes and the partnership itself.
Efforts should be concentrated on enhancing and sustaining funding, focusing on capacity building, promoting research careers, prioritizing funding for studies on mental health systems and burdensome conditions, sensitizing policy-makers to the burden of mental disorders, and ultimately improving scientific research and its dissemination.
Partnering in this program therefore contributes to sustainability of the NGO as this provides a mechanism for sustained funding.
"If school sport is to grow, it needs sustained funding and time to develop," he said.
We need to look at how we can sustain funding for further research after specific projects end.
In the long term, Davies hopes to get sustained funding – Reading currently has no national portfolio organisation in receipt of ongoing Arts Council support.
