A fund is an already existing collection of money. Funding is the source of that collection. In other words, funding is the money coming into the fund. They can often be used interchangeably, but they do mean slightly different things. I need the funds from my account for college. The funding for the program comes from Coca-Cola. In your sentence, I would probably use funds because you mean more the actual money they need, but either would be ok because they could also be the government would be giving the funding. Hope that helps! Good luck!

Hi Pedram. There is a grammatical difference; 'fund/s' is countable noun, whereas 'funding' is uncountable. In the meaning there is a slight difference; a fund is an existing pot of money, funding is what goes into the pot. However, often they are interchangeable. In the example you give, probably funding is better but you need to change the verb to 'increase' rather than 'contribute' as funding here refers to the act of adding to the fund. You could say 'the government should create a fund for education' but that doesn't sound right because we expect governments to already have a fund for such basic services. You can use 'other funds' as above, meaning the government could take from existing fund already established for other purposes, e.g. defence spend. Hope that helps!