Sustainable Financing: How to Move the Money

1. Sustainable Financing:
Washington, D.C.
Copyright © 2017 Fannie E. Rippel Foundation. All rights reserved.
Practical Playbook
June 1, 2017
1
How to Move the Money

2. Agenda
10:00-10:10 Introduction, Objectives
10:10-10:30 The Quest for Sustainable Funding:
A Success Story
10:30-10:45 Report Out
10:45-10:55 Becoming a Financing Pro:
5 Mindsets for Conquering Financing
10:55-11:00 Wrap Up, Next Steps

3. 3
(1) See and engage with financing in a new light
(2) Identify the conditions needed for moving
money in your region
Objectives

4. 4
The Quest for Sustainable Financing
System transformation requires
fundamentally different investment
patterns.

5. 5
The Quest for Sustainable Financing
A financing mechanism is
NOT a financing source.

6. 6
The Quest for Sustainable Financing
If you can’t grow it, you have to move it.

7. 7
The Quest for Sustainable Financing
What conditions enable our partnership
to influence the movement of money so
we can achieve our goals?

8. 8
The Quest for Sustainable Funding:
A Success Story
(1) Brainstorm on past examples where money
was successfully redirected to support
health transformation in your region.
(2) Pick one you want to explore further.
(3) Discuss the questions as a table.

9. 9
Report Out
1: What proposal did you discuss?
2. What are 1-2 key conditions to your success?
3. Would you do it again?What would you do
differently, if anything?

10. 10
A New Financing Narrative
Dominant Narrative ReThinkers’ Narrative
Central challenge is acquiring scarce
resources for individual initiatives
Central challenge is repurposing of
abundant resources to create new flows
of funding for health
Deference to StatusQuo Agency
Technical Values-based
Transactional Systemic
Assembly Creativity
Task Journey

11. Financing Mindset
11

12. 12

13. • Behind the numbers is a system of
values, a culture of health
• This culture (or lack thereof) shows up in
who gets the money, under what
conditions & who decides
Financing Mindset:Values

14. Financing Mindset: System
14
• The arrows show relationships, including financial.
• Can’t keep spending & investing in silos.

15. 15
Financing Mindset: Agency
• It’s about exercising the power you have to act and
bring about change.
• Influence vs. control
• Create and explore opportunities in order to see
financing in a new light.
• Demonstrate willingness to take action.

16. 16
• “Creativity is just connecting things.”
- Steve Jobs
• Building a culture that fosters creativity:
- iterating,
- willingness to take risk,
- experimentation.
Financing Mindset: Creativity

17. Financing Mindset: Journey
• Creating & maintaining a culture of
health is a long-term proposition.
• Creating a process that builds towards
the future is important.

18. Connect with us!
Lindsey Alexander,
Senior Project Consultant
Email: lalexander@rethinkhealth.org
Twitter: @lkalexandermn
ReThink Health
Twitter: @ReThinkHealth
www.ReThinkHealth.org
18