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

Webinar: Homelessness and Aging

Seniors and older adults experiencing homelessness are often a forgotten population.  In this webinar, we will hear about the current framework for working with this population, explore the ways in which systems serving seniors can work better together, and discuss the funder’s role in ending and preventing homelessness for older adults. 

Panelists include:

Peggy Bailey, Director of Health Systems Integration at Corporation for Supportive Housing

Amy Kleine, Program Director, Basic Human Needs & Health at The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Michael Marcus, Program Director, Older Seniors at The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Nancy Sasaki, Executive Director at the Alliance Healthcare Foundation


RSVP for this webinar here.

 

WHEN
May 20, 2015 at 2:00pm - 3pm
CONTACT
Alexis Perlmutter ·

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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