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Cisco Systems, Inc.

  • Kelly Petrich, Community Relations Manager, San Jose CA

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

  • Kristin Aldana-Taday, Program Associate, Los Angeles CA

Crown Family Philanthropies

  • Christy Prahl, Program Officer, Chicago IL

HealthSpark Foundation

  • Russell Johnson, President & CEO, Colmar, PA

Melville Charitable Trust

  • Susan Thomas, Senior Program Officer, New Haven CT
  • Rebecca Allen, Program Officer, New Haven CT
  • Aimee Hendrigan, Vice President, Programs, Boston MA

Meyer Memorial Trust

  • Michael Parkhurst, Program Officer, Portland OR
  • Elisa Harrigan, Housing Opportunities Program Officer, Portland OR
  • Jody Marshall, Program Associate, Portland OR

Oak Foundation

  • Paul Wishart, Programme Officer, London, England
  • Amanda Beswick, Director of Housing and Homelessness Programme, London, England

PetSmart Charities

  • Dani LaGiglia, Canada Regional Relationship Manager, Toronto Canada
  • Sima Thakkar, Regional Relationship Manager, Phoenix AZ

Polk Bros. Foundation

  • Deborah Reznick, Senior Program Officer, Chicago IL
  • Deborah Bennett, Senior Program Officer, Chicago IL

Raikes Foundation

  • Katie Hong, Program Director, Seattle WA
  • Casey Trupin, Program Officer, Seattle WA

Rasmuson Foundation

  • Todd Shenk, Senior Program Officer, Anchorage AK
  • Dick Mandsager, Senior Fellow on Homelessness, Anchorage AK

Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland

  • Adrienne Mundorf, Senior Program Director, Cleveland OH
  • Angela d'Orazio Senior Program Officer, Housing, Cleveland OH

The Denver Foundation

  • Julie Patiño, Director of Basic Human Needs, Denver CO

Tipping Point Community

  • Mayra Sierra, Community Liaison, San Francisco CA
  • Debbie Koski, Senior Program Officer, Housing, San Francisco CA

United Way of Metropolitan Dallas

  • Ashley Brundage, Senior Vice President, Community Impact, Dallas TX
  • Aisha Lusk, Community Impact Engagement Specialist, Dallas TX

United Way of Miami-Dade

  • Vanessa Benavides, Senior Director, Miami FL

United Way Worldwide

  • Alicia Lara, Senior Vice President, Impact, Los Angeles CA
  • Matthew Aliberti, Director, Foundations & Grants, Washington DC

Valley of the Sun United Way

  • Krickette Wetherington, Community Impact Director, Phoenix AZ

We joined Funders Together because we believe in the power of philanthropy to play a major role in ending homelessness, and we know we have much to learn from funders across the country.

-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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