Trying to fund linkages is impossible, because it we'd have to deal with too many funding streams--federal, state, and local.
That's what staff members from a foundation that fights poverty in a large U.S. city told me when I asked them if they provide funding to help programs link together with other ones--not just drive funding to single organizations.
Research shows that helping poor people through interventions works best if one intervention leads to another. Nonprofits are notorious for protecting their turf and avoiding collaboration. We're never gonna solve tough problems unless we solve them together. And we're never gonna work together unless we can line up our dollars.
By the way, this was a major foundation with a lot of pull. If they step back from linkage-funding with their hands in the air, that says something.
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