This brief outlines three strategies to finance and sustain mentoring programs and services for youth and illustrates these options through state and community examples. Strategy 1: Building Partnerships with Businesses and Foundations. This strategy outlines how youth mentoring programs can use partnerships with businesses and foundations to implement, expand, and sustain their organization. Strategy 2: Conducting Community Fundraising to Generate Revenue. This strategy describes how community fundraising can be used to raise revenue to support and sustain youth mentoring programs. Strategy 3: Maximizing Public Revenue. This strategy describes how tapping federal, state, and local revenue can contribute to a diversified portfolio for mentoring programs. (authors)

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