How Community Colleges can Leverage Full Cost Budgeting to Finance Non-Degree Programs

Under the hospices of its New Models for Career Preparation project, which aims to understand how community colleges can establish high-quality non-degree workforce programs, New America's Center on Education and Labor contracted the Non-Profit Finance Fund to better understand how community colleges can finance such programs. A critical tool community colleges must use is "full cost budgeting" this technical assistance webinar was prepared for New America's New Models for Career Preparation grantees. It introduces the full cost tool and other related concepts that can help community colleges innovatively finance and plan for quality non-degree programs.

Credit for this work goes to NFF's Ashley Gunn, LaShawn Taylor, and Dana Archer-Rosenthal as well as New America's Shalin Jyotishi and Iris Palmer. New America thanks the Lumina Foundation for generously supporting the New Models for Career Preparation project.