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California Homelessness & Housing Policy Funders Network Call: COVID-19 Response Policy Implications

Friday, April 24 | 1:00pm-2:30pm PT

As communities in California grapple with their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, funders need to also focus on the policy implications of how the response and recovery efforts are executed and the impacton people experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity.  

During disaster recovery, policy implications often get lost due to the nature of urgency and can result in unintended consequences that can hinder progress on efforts to end homelessness. It’s crucial these conversations start happening at the local and state level sooner rather than later. Likewise, the need to move forward with recovery work requires being intentional about prioritizing racial equity in all relief and recovery efforts and policy opportunities.  

Join other funders from across California state during this California Homelessness and Housing Policy Funders Network call to hear regional updates and engage in conversation with other funders about what’s top of mind around policy engagement and opportunities to work on while responding to COVID-19, and how this network can support both individual and collective efforts. 


Discussion Points

This will be an open, dynamic conversation, and participants should be prepared to talk about: 

  • How has the COVID-19 pandemic and response changed your strategy or shift in focus in 2020 (i.e. demographic focus, more engaged in policy, less engaged in policy, etc.) 
  • What temporary policies enacted during COVID-19 relief efforts would you like to see made permanent? 
  • What policies or legislation are your advocacy-focused grantees still hoping to see advanced in 2020? (i.e. Statewide Flex Fund) 
  • What policies or legislation may be getting pushed during this response and recovery time that should be a policy focus moving forward? (i.e. CalAIM) 


How to Join this Call
 

Participation is limited to private funders in California. Only private funders (e.g. foundations, United Ways, corporate giving programs, philanthropy serving organizations, and members of Funders Together) located in California will be allowed to participate. If you have questions about your eligibility, please email Lauren Bennett

Please RSVP below and Lauren Bennett, Director of Communications and Policy, will send you a calendar invite with the Zoom call-in information. To make this as engaging as possible, we hope participants will join via videoconference.  

The California Homelessness and Housing Policy Funders Network is generously supported by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.  

WHEN
April 24, 2020 at 1:00pm - 2:30pm
CONTACT
Lauren Bennett ·
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Karen Brailean Michael McConnell Elvis Guzman Curtis Yancy Emma Heffernan Kerry Hastings Ellen Clear Angela Jenkins Ruby Bolaria shifrin Vy Nguyen Chris Block Lemlem Rijio Jackie Downing Ron Milam Emily Bradley Melissa Stafford Jones Alex Schafran Erin Jackson-Ward Leslye Lyons Gina Dalma Seyron Foo marilyn wells Sarah Lyman Kailyn FitzGerald Rajib Guha Richard Thomason Andrea Evans Roger Perez Ray Ellis Lindsay Fox Erin Gilbert Ashley Brand Monica Ball William Pitkin Ann Sewill Sarah Frankfurth Debbie McKeon

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-Christine Marge, Director of Housing and Financial Stability at United Way of Greater Los Angeles

I am thankful for the local partnerships here in the Pacific Northwest that we’ve been able to create and nurture thanks to the work of Funders Together. Having so many of the right players at the table makes our conversations – and all of our efforts – all the richer and more effective.

-David Wertheimer, Deputy Director at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Very often a lack of jobs and money is not the cause of poverty, but the symptom. The cause may lie deeper in our failure to give our fellow citizens a fair chance to develop their own capacities, in a lack of education and training, in a lack of medical care and housing, in a lack of decent communities in which to live and bring up their children.

-President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 State of the Union Address

Funders Together has given me a platform to engage the other funders in my community. Our local funding community has improved greatly to support housing first models and align of resources towards ending homelessness.

-Leslie Strnisha, Vice President at Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland

Our family foundation convenes local funders and key community stakeholders around strategies to end homelessness in Houston. Funders Together members have been invaluable mentors to us in this effort, traveling to our community to share their expertise and examples of best practices from around the nation.

-Nancy Frees Fountain, Managing Director at The Frees Foundation


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