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Welcome to the Web site for the GFOA’s
Financing the Future: Long-Term Financial Planning for Local Government

This site provides resources to supplement those found in the GFOA's book, Financing the Future: Long-Term Financial Planning for Local Government. If you do not already have the book, you can learn more about it and order it here and you will still find many resources on this site that you can use. We hope that the book and this site are of assistance to you in achieving and maintaining financial sustainability. For other assistance with long-term planning, please contact us at Long-Term Financial Planning.

News  

• GFOA January 2009 training related to long-term financial planning
  
• Case study of Jefferson County, Colorado
• FAQs about Long-Term Financial Planning
  

An Introduction to Financial Planning - A four-page handout covering the basics of long-term financial planning, helpful for introduing financial planning to others and building the case for planning.

Training, Presentations, and Other Resources - The GFOA provides training on financial planning at its annual conference, national training sessions, and at state GFOA conferences and training. If you are interested in having GFOA present at one of your events, please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

• Presentation on Long-Term Financial Planning from an Elected Official's ViewPoint
• Materials from the GFOA 2008 Annual Conference - Presentations from the preconference seminar, "Long-Term Financial Sustainability: What You Can Do in the Short Term to Thrive in the Long Term," and Monday, June 16, concurrent session, "Planning for Financial Sustainability."

• Magazine Articles - Shorter articles related to long-term financial planning.

• Other Books - Publications for supplemental assistance in developing a long-term financial plan.

• Research Reports - Research reports that provide additional information on planning.

Tools and Samples

• Planning Tools - Tools to facilitate planning process, adaptable to your own planning.

• Process Maps - Financing the Future features graphical maps of the planning processes used by three jurisdictions and a map of a conceptual model for planning. This site makes those maps available as separate pdf documents.
  
• Financial Analysis - Interesting reports from other organizations on current financial conditions.
• Financial Plan Documents
•  Sample official plan documents from many jurisdictions featured in Financing the Future.
• Overview of the characteristics of effective plan documents.

Environmental Sustainability - Recognizing the link between environmental and financial sustainability, the GFOA has begun to collect resources useful to finance officers is promoting environmental sustainability in their communities