Funders Together to End Homelessness

Our 2025 Funders Forum Working Agenda is Live! Our opening plenary will explore how philanthropy can advance housing justice through building collective power and engaging in advocacy at the national and local level. We will focus on how philanthropy can help bridge local and national movements, connect housing and homelessness with other issue areas, and continue to champion racial justice. Our speakers include: Jawanza James Williams, Managing Director of Organizing, VOCAL-NY Joanna Jackson, President & CEO, Weingart Foundation Rasheedah Phillips, Director of Housing, PolicyLink Learn more: https://t.co/ezaq3GNgus

Philanthropy: Join us for the next in our policy funder call series on Friday, November 15, as we explore how we advance housing justice with a new Presidential Administration and the unique role and perspective philanthropy can offer to ensure housing justice is a priority for the next administration, as well as state and local policymakers. Speakers will include: Lynn Ross, Founder & Principal, Spirit for Change Consulting, LLC Jeanne (Reitz) Fekade-Sellassie, Executive Director, Fund For Housing and Opportunity (moderator) Philanthropy can register here: http://bit.ly/3NJvuc4

If you’re attending Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees I’m speaking today on the intersection of housing justice. Join us! #GCIR2024

Join us today at 1pm ET / 10 am PT as we explore how to stay true to housing and racial justice justice values amid political attacks and pullbacks from the field. We'll strategize alongside movement leaders, including partners at ABFE. A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities , Pohlad Family Foundation, and TheCaseMade. Register today: https://lnkd.in/e7WvCN7R

Sheila Babb Anderson, President of the Campion Advocacy Fund, shares that "Good Public Policy Doesn't Just Happen," we must actively push for and invest in the solutions to end homelessness. At Funders Together, members like the Campion Advocacy Fund, highlight the importance of funders getting involved in advocacy and the power of working in coalition to create change.

Join us at the 2025 Funders Forum in Los Angeles on February 25! Our plenary discussion will explore the evolution of racial justice work and its implications for our movement. Don't miss out on opportunities for peer networking and in-depth strategizing about housing justice. Register today: https://lnkd.in/d6AM-ywX

We are two weeks away from this important funder conversation on how philanthropy can respond to external challenges to racial justice by advancing equitable outcomes and ensuring that marginalized communities remain at the forefront of housing justice advocacy efforts. Join us! Funders can register here: https://lnkd.in/gBxqS76b Speakers include: - Amanda Andere, CEO, Funders Together to End Homelessness - Susan Bass Roberts, President, Pohlad Family Foundation - Susan Taylor Batten, President & CEO, ABFE. A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities - Dr. Tiffany Manuel, President & CEO, TheCaseMade Co-Sponsors: - ABFE. A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities - Fund For Housing and Opportunity

On the heels of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, we know impacted communities face a long road of rebuilding and recovery. And for our neighbors experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity, particularly for those who are Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, the path to recovery is faced with additional hardships and disparities. Philanthropy has an obligation to address the both/and of short-term needs to provide safety and protection for people who have been impacted and the long-term response aimed at rebuilding in ways that prioritize the needs of those who are left out of equitable access to recovery efforts. Funders Together is compiling responses and resources by and for those involved in the work for housing justice and intersection movements to inform philanthropy's work in supporting a just recovery: https://lnkd.in/gN7nqhyP

Join me for this important conversation with some of my favorite people.

“The core of it is recognizing the racialized history of our country, particularly in housing, and that ending homelessness is not enough, that people should have power and agency over where and how they live.” ~ ~ Amanda Andere, CEO of Funders Together to End Homelessness, on Housing Justice Excerpt from our podcast: 'Love and Disruption: Advancing Housing Justice and Racial Equity.’ Watch on Invisible People's YouTube channel or listen wherever you get your podcasts. YouTube Podcast https://bit.ly/4bHgCEu Apple Podcast https://apple.co/4cckQ86 Spotify https://spoti.fi/3XyM98c Amazon Music https://amzn.to/3zbPu39 iHeartRadio https://bit.ly/4cciTZy