Funding

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Funding is to provide resources, usually in form of money (Financing), or other values such as effort or time, for a project, a person, a business or any other private or public institutions. When a request for funding is made then fundraising is being attempted.

Those funds can be allocated for either short term or long term purposes. The health fund is a new way of funding private healthcare centers.

Sources of funding

Among the main sources of funding, there are:

• Savings
• Credit
• Donations
• Subsidies
• Grants
• Taxes

Soft funding

Donations, subsidies and grants are described as soft funding, i.e. funding that has no direct requirement for return of investment.

See also

Look up funding in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Investment
• Foundation (charity)
• Peer-to-peer lending
• Mass-funding
• Crowd funding
• Research funding
• Seed money

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