Securing Funding
How Do I Fund My RCC?
One of the ever important aspects of non-profit work is securing and maintaining funding to support the work of your RCC. There resources on this page can help you find funding opportunities and successfully get the dollars needed to continue (or start) your recovery work.
On this page, you’ll find other resources that discuss the key elements of funding your RCC. You can find the resources on this topic and a description of each item in the list below. You can click on the title of the resource to jump down to it on the page, or simply scroll down to see previews of each resource.
Available Resources
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Articles and Blogs
- Donor Analytics: 3 Ways to leverage Data at Your Non-Profit (~7 min)
- The Science of Addiction and Recovery (32 pages)
- Federal Government Resources (2 pages)
- Non-Profit Resources (1 page)
- 10 Reasons to Fund Recovery Support Services (1 page)
- Economic Benefits of Long-Term Recovery (1 page)
- Recovery Capital: Addiction Professionals (11 pages)
- The Recovery Capital Scale (5 pages)
- Safety and Protective Capacity for Families (6 pages)
- Evidence on Peer Recovery Coaching (2 pages)
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Additional Resources
Articles and Blogs
This blog from BetterImpact provides some context on how data can be beneficial in the non-profit space—especially in areas that you might not expect.
This article from Faces and Voices of Recovery provides you with several data points to use when securing funding from various stakeholders or grant providers.
What resources are available for RCCs? This article provides a list of all the different federal resources RCCs can use for funding and data.
Similar to the federal government resources, this resource page is built specifically for non-profits, rather than RCCs. We recommend referring to this page as well as the RCC resources.
This resource from Faces and Voices of Recovery is an easy tool to provide to those who may be curious about why they should fund your RCC.
When we work to support recoverees, people may not realize we also benefit broader society at the same time. This article provides you with some details on how recovery positively affects the economy around it.
This resource from Faces and Voices of Recovery discusses what recovery capital is, and how it should pertain to those who are professionals in the addiction recovery space.
What is recovery capital, and what might it look like? This resource answers some of those questions and provides a scale for measuring recovery capital.
One funding avenue that recovery services may not think to pursue is related to families in recovery. The work we do to support parents and families in recovery could help us find additional funding. This article provides insight on how to best serve families using protective factors. IIt also highlights the importance of utilizing an "equity lens" when serving these families.
This is another resource we recommend either reviewing or providing for those who are interested in funding your recovery community center.
Recovery Iowa Resources
Additional Pages
Funders often require us to report on our work. To help you with that requirement, you can also utilize other pages in the resource library on data management on these pages: