Select a section: Adapting to Change Preserving Energy and Enthusiasm Maintaining Partnerships Sustaining Your Partnership’s Initiative Honoring Your Partnership Institutionalizing Your Efforts You and your partnership may wish to make your intervention activities or efforts a more permanent part of your community. You should plan for instititutionalization to give yourself the time you need to achieve your goals. The greater the issue you wish to address, the longer it may take for you to make progress in your goals. Also, keeping your program alive will be more cost effective in the long run than creating future programs to address the problem.

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Some ways to help you institionalize your efforts:

• Consider applying for 501 (c)(3) non-profit status
• Secure alternative long-term funding, such as endowments or planned giving arrangements. Endowments are donations given to the organization that is invested so that an annual income is produced.
• Plan initiative efforts when developing the project so that they could eventually be incorporated into an existing community institution. For example, you may create an after school program, that could be potentially adopted by the local school district.
• Think about potential policy changes that could help your organization sustain its efforts. Your partnership may be able to change regulations or laws in your community through advocacy efforts or other social change mechanisms.