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description: Received fiscal recovery funds through the American Rescue Plan? Here is how you can leverage those funds for your communications needs...
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# How to Spend State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds

### Leverage American Rescue Plan funds for your communications needs.

As the federal government and states continue to roll out the funds from the American Rescue Plan, understanding how to use those funds remains a big conversation. This is incredibly true for the State Fiscal Recovery Fund and the Local Fiscal Recovery Fund.

We did some research to help provide a few ideas on how to leverage those funds for your communications campaigns:

- **Public communications campaigns to mitigate/prevent COVID-19** are an eligible use of funds. You can use State/Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to bolster your public health efforts to lessen the health impacts of COVID-19. 
- **Improve the design and execution of your existing public health campaigns** through targeted consumer outreach and public communications efforts. You can build a campaign to spread awareness about existing programming or develop new marketing to better reach high-priority audiences. 
- **Design and implement a public information campaign to address an economic need that was worsened by the pandemic.** As long as you can articulate how the need was made worse by COVID-19 and the campaign targets Qualified Census Tracts(QCT), this is an approved use of the recovery funds.
- **Violence prevention work** is also an approved use of this funding. You can design and implement a program to educate the public on violence prevention.  
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### Didn't receive American Rescue Plan funds? 

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## Check out our work

### Here are some communications campaigns we've done this year:

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### **Public Communications Campaign**

In the midst of the global pandemic, the Gaston County Public Information Office had limited resources but needed to extend its reach to provide critical COVID-19 resources and information to high-risk populations in the county.

 

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### **Improved Public Health Campaign**

As the COVID-19 vaccine became readily available, Gaston County's Health Equity Team needed a way to communicate vaccine safety to underserved residents. A video PSA served nearly 500,000 measurable impressions to the target audience. 

 

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![#COVIDStopsWithMe](https://stories.havencreativeagency.com/hubfs/%23COVIDStopsWithMe.png)

### **Economic Impact Campaign**

The Road to Resilience, an exclusive program to train business leaders in crisis management, needed help with its marketing and branding. We helped them build a brand story and messaging to jumpstart their program's growth.

 

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### HAVEN is certified as a HUB / WSBE in the State of North Carolina.

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## Our team is here to help make any of these campaigns a reality.

Reach out to speak with a Maven about these campaign ideas or any other projects you’re working on.

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