A national network of funders supporting strategic, innovative, and effective solutions to homelessness

Funders Toolkit - Youth


Search for Another Topic or Resource Type


What Topic Are You Interested In?
What Type of Resource Are You Looking For?

 

Below are the Search Results for 'Youth' Resources:

 

Featured Youth Resources


Apr 17, 2020

Funders Together to End Homelessness is dedicated to preventing and ending youth homelessness. We have worked with funders from around the country to create a network of learning and action. These are resources will provide a snapshot of the current youth homelessness landscape for funders and support funders in identifying the role they can play in advancing the work happening...

Mar 13, 2018

2018_FF_collage_(2).png

Passion. Understanding. Curiosity. Intellect. It was all happening in one room during the 2018 Funders Forum. 

Additional Youth Resources


Dec 20, 2023

Apr 17, 2020

Funders Together to End Homelessness is dedicated to preventing and ending youth homelessness. We have worked with funders from around the country to create a network of learning and action. These are resources will provide a snapshot of the current youth homelessness landscape for funders and support funders in identifying the role they can play in advancing the work happening...

Jun 26, 2019

What can funders learn from LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness? Our CEO, Amanda Andere, joined Kahilb Barton, True Colors United; Rivianna Hyatt, True Colors United; and Kelli King-Jackson, The Simmons Foundation to discuss this at the Funders for LGBTQ Issues Funding Forward convening in March.

Nov 07, 2018

DolsVVjX0AEeV6W.jpg


Lauren Samblanet, FTEH Program and Membership Coordinator, reflects on key takeaways for philanthropy from the 2018 True Colors Fund Summit in October.

May 04, 2018

Missed Opportunities: National Estimates highlights results from a national survey on unaccompanied youth homelessness in America. The study captures youth homelessness broadly, including sleeping on the streets, in shelters, running away, being kicked out, and couch surfing.

Mar 13, 2018

2018_FF_collage_(2).png

Passion. Understanding. Curiosity. Intellect. It was all happening in one room during the 2018 Funders Forum. 

Mar 08, 2018

The 2018 Funders Forum was held in Los Angeles in conjunction with the National Conference on Ending Family and Youth Homelessness. Seventy individuals representing 34 different foundations and United Ways joined us as we explored philanthropy’s role in preventing and ending family and youth homelessness.

Nov 17, 2017

Researchers from Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago have released Missed Opportunities: Youth Homelessness in America, a summary of findings from their groundbreaking, multi-component study, Voices of Youth Count, on the extent and nature of youth homelessness in America.

Jan 10, 2017

Ann Sewill, Vice President of Housing & Economic Opportunity at the California Community Foundation, explains the Foundation's recent advocacy work around Los Angeles's Proposition HHH and the outcome of this support from a public-private coalition.

Nov 29, 2016

Crwi_TmVMAAeKWz.jpg

Three communities across the nation – Los Angeles, Austin and Cleveland – are currently amid the nation’s first 100-Day Challenge to end youth homelessness. Through these challenges, initiated by A Way Home America (AWHA), philanthropy’s essential role as conveners in our communities and across the nation is clear. Through this work, we continue to learn much...

Sep 22, 2016

image1.JPG

Initial Learnings from Foundation for Youth Success

Jun 28, 2016

Candle_lighting_man.jpg

On June 23rd, FTEH Board Member David Wertheimer spoke in Orlando, FL, at The Road Home Breakfast gathering of the Central Florida Commission on Homelessness.  Still reeling from the shock of the deadly attack against the LGBTQ community at the Pulse nightclub that took 49 young lives and wounded 53 others, the city’s officials nonetheless...

Jun 14, 2016

awha-rgb-large_horiz-e1463580729203.png

The launch of Away Home America also kicks off the 100-Day Challenge to end youth homelessness, community by community, and yours can be a part of the movement.

Jun 09, 2016

FT_at_AWHA_Event.jpg

Funders Together CEO, Amanda Andere, attended the White House Policy Briefing on Youth Homelessness held on June 3rd and walked away with some key action items in order to leverage the momentum of those partnering to end youth homelessness.

May 03, 2016

26303683861_60b32547a2_o_resized.jpg

Members of Foundations for Youth Success (FYS) gathered in Minneapolis April 7th and 8th to learn about the inspiring work happening in the state to end youth homelessness. In this second post in our series, Casey Trupin of the Raikes Foundation reflects on how the convening strengthened his understanding of philanthropy's role in preventing and ending...

Apr 26, 2016

IMG_4579_resized.jpg

Members of Foundations for Youth Success (FYS) gathered in Minneapolis April 7th and 8th to learn about the inspiring work happening in the state to end youth homelessness. Angela D'Orazio of Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland came away from the convening inspired and armed with key takeaways to apply to her foundation's work to...

Oct 14, 2015

Raikes_Image.jpg

 







Youth homelessness is a community-wide issue that demands a community-wide response. Read about what Katie Hong of the Raikes Foundation took away from the most recent Foundations for Youth Success convening in Toronto.

Mar 16, 2015

At Funders Together, we work to facilitate information sharing and scale best practices. One of the ways we do this is through issue- and community-based learning communities.

Mar 16, 2015

Jan 23, 2015

This webinar provides an overview of our forthcoming community of practice, Foundations for Youth Success

Jan 12, 2015

Ending youth homelessness is possible if we work together and learn from each other.

Jan 12, 2015

Our vision for this two-year initiative

Jan 12, 2015

Is this initiative a good fit for you?

Jan 12, 2015

Your support ensures that we can customize a program that best meeds your needs.

Jan 12, 2015

Funders from around the country are joining Foundations for Youth Success.

Jan 12, 2015

Contact Jennifer Olney at [email protected] with any additional questions.

Jan 12, 2015

Jan 12, 2015


20150112_gates_pacific_northwest.jpg

Hint: stable housing, great schools, and strong communities are key pillars of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Pacific Northwest initiatives.

Jan 07, 2015

Dec 03, 2014

Nov 13, 2014

20111114_fys_planning.jpg

Why joining a new community of practice can help funders end and prevent youth homelessness.

Oct 01, 2014

forty_to_none_summit_sized.jpg

Funders Together was thrilled to attend the True Color's Fund's first Forty to None Summit this week, where we talked about philanthropy's role in ending LGBTQ youth homelessness.  

Aug 28, 2014

nn4y_national_summit_sized.jpg

America’s young people could have a safer, more secure, and much brighter tomorrow if philanthropy and government collaborated to invest in five key areas. (Part 2 of 2)

Aug 26, 2014

nn4y_youthcare_orion_sized.jpg

America’s young people could have a safer, more secure, and much brighter tomorrow if philanthropy and government collaborated to invest in five key areas. (Part 1 of 2)

Aug 07, 2014

institute_sized.jpg

Reflections on our 2014 Funders Institute

Jul 16, 2014

20140716_youth_harbors_sized.jpg

By harnessing the power of New England's technology ecosystem to source, screen, and fund social innovation, TUGG is supporting Youth Harbors, a program for homeless, unaccompanied high school students.

Jul 08, 2014

20140708_ca_youth_homelessness.jpg

The California Wellness Foundation and The California Homeless Youth Project discuss the need for data and what philanthropy can do about it.

Mar 07, 2014

zeilinger_poppe.jpg

USICH has been instrumental in our efforts to rethink the systems that have allowed homelessness to persist.

Jan 31, 2014

20140131_staff_blog_2014.png

We are excited for 2014!  Here's a look at what we're doing and how you can plug in.

Jan 22, 2014

systems_change_blog_sized.png

With limited resources and increasing demand, we have to think about prevention. 

Jan 07, 2014

Homelessness is more than a lack of a place to sleep tonight. For a young person, it means instability, fear, and often an inability to properly learn and prepare for adulthood. Increasingly, people who work with vulnerable youth are realizing that the lack of a safe and stable home makes it difficult for any other youth-focused program to be successful....

Jun 24, 2013

Data on youth homelessness is notoriously lacking.  We need better data to understand the scale of the problem and our progress toward solving it.

May 02, 2013

Because of the generosity of Barbara and Al Siemer, a collaboration of 23 United Ways is sharing best practices and collecting and assessing data that will lead to a better understanding of homelessness and its impact on children.

Mar 01, 2013

What happens when you bring together more than 900 of the nation’s leading players in the work of ending family and youth homelessness from the non-profit, government, advocacy and philanthropic sectors?

Feb 22, 2013

At this week’s NAEH 2013 Conference on Ending Family & Youth Homelessness, Funders Together hosted several events as part of our Networking Series: Where Catalytic Philanthropy Begins With Conversation. 

Feb 07, 2013

All of us should cringe when we hear the words “youth” and “homelessness” joined together. No society, least of all ours, should tolerate a system which allows our young to be discarded, victimized or left to live on the streets.  

Jan 16, 2013

A few years ago I was stopped on a freeway off-ramp on my way to a meeting in downtown Seattle.  As I sat there, I noticed a group of homeless people gathered under the overpass.  Then I saw something that shook me.

Mar 12, 2012

A seminal study established the link between childhood trauma and poor health outcomes in adulthood.

Oct 20, 2011

Philanthropy needs to play a role in order for us to achieve the goals in Opening Doors.

X

Become a Member

Only members have access to some of the resources we list on this page. Feel free to explore the Funder Toolkit and see what we have to offer, but you may not be able to access some of the resources without signing up for membership.

When you join Funders Together, you also gain access to: educational programming, national learning communities, funder-focused tools and resources, networking opportunities, and more. Read about membership here.

Read how funders can end homelessness.

Join Now
Already a member? Sign in.