CTC Monthly Series: Financing Your CTC work: Keys and insights

Margaret Flynn-Khan has worked as a senior manager and consultant with a focus on supporting planning for the financing and sustainability of child welfare, education, and prevention initiatives. She has helped leaders of collaborative initiatives across the country to agree on a shared vision for their work and then identify and activate the range of resources needed to achieve that vision. To support this work, Margaret has conducted research and produced a number of publications exploring funding sources and financing strategies to support education and child welfare initiatives. Margaret led Mainspring’s work to develop the web-based Fund Mapping Tool, which helps government and nonprofit leaders to make sense of the complicated landscape of public and private funding sources supporting services for children and families. She has designed and implemented fiscal analysis projects to help state and local child welfare agencies to understand the costs of extending foster care as well as Family First prevention services. Margaret is a former Practice Group Leader for Vulnerable Children and Youth at The Finance Project, a national policy research and technical assistance organization. Prior to The Finance Project, she worked for the Center for the Study of Social Policy, collecting and analyzing data for the independent court monitoring of child welfare systems. She started her career as a Case Manager with homeless families at Serving People in Need in Lynn, Massachusetts. Margaret holds a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Connecticut.