National Coalition for the Homeless

Registration is OPEN for the first West Coast version of the National Coalition for the Homeless Lived Experience Conference and we are excited to be partnering with Donald Whitehead and team to host this in City of San José in November. We still have general registrations open (we've already registered 200 or so people with lived experience, including full scholarships + travel) but this conference is ALSO for practitioners, policy makers and community members who want to attend a conference where every session is designed and led by people with lived experience on a wide range of topics (as it should be!) We can't wait and hope you will consider registering at the below link and joining us in San Jose in November. Please share with anyone you think might benefit from learning and spending time with this mighty group of leaders (who are coming from 30 different states and Canada).

You can read our full statement here: https://lnkd.in/e2sEkASr We are coordinating a rapid response funder call on Wednesday, January 31 at 12pm ET / 9am PT to hold space for understanding the impacts of this case and opportunities to coordinate stakeholders. Registration information is coming soon. Please hold Wednesday, January 31 at 12pm ET / 9am PT on your calendar if you are interested in attending. If you are not on our mailing list, and interested please email me at amanda@funderstogether.org. I so appreciate this reflection from my colleague: Focusing on the Long-Term Vision: Holding Space for the Both/And As mentioned, the decision by SCOTUS to hear Johnson v Grants Pass guarantees generational impacts on housing justice efforts. How the Supreme Court rules will either uphold values that create a path for housing justice to be realized. Or - it will give permission for this country to expand efforts on criminalizing and incarcerating Black, Indigenous, and other people of color and marginalized identities who disproportionately experience homelessness. This case is yet another indicator of how our systems are embedded in white supremacy. Our movement often finds itself in a constant cycle of crisis response at the expense of energy and resources that could be dedicated to transformational work and proactive positioning. It is important to act with a sense of urgency and we must also be intentional, coordinated, and bold in how our work is connected to long-term impact. As philanthropy, we need to ask ourselves: how we can abundantly resource both the immediate needs and the long-term generational work? How can we make the case internally to fund organizing and advocacy like we want to win - not just in 2024 or 2025, but for the next 10 to 20 years? Tell Us: What do you need to strategize around the both/and of this work? How can Funders Together to End Homelessness help?