This framework will be used as a guide by the BC Health Promotion Coalition for developing a health promotion funding organization. It also presents a model for discussion with government ministries, foundations and other funders about an alternative or complementary approach to funding when collaborating with communities to address the determinants of health.

Policy makers and planners might find the framework useful because it offers a philosophy and a process to assist with planning programs that facilitate the empowerment of individuals, community organizations and frontline personnel. This approach is in alignment with the provincial government's Community Charter (2002) and responds to the priorities of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986) and the Jakarta Declaration on Health Promotion (1997).

Others who might find the framework to be of benefit are researchers and community developers in the field of health promotion. The framework is a call to actively support community leadership. It can function as a guide when planning community participation in projects and supports the empowerment philosophy when accessing funds and developing ongoing programs that are associated with addressing the determinants of health. For community organizations, frontline personnel and people in communities, it validates their role in health promotion and presents a rationale and a process for adequately funding their work in ways that are responsive to community-identified priorities.