Be a Catalytic Funder

Catalytic funders working to end homelessness focus not on the successes of individual programs, but rather on a systemic approach that addresses the underlying causes. They know that housing-based solutions combined with the right supports can end homelessness, so they so they invest in evidence-based best practices. They take risks to discover innovative solutions. And they raise the bar for everyone else. Using our Funder Resources can help start and expand your efforts as you focus on being catalytic.

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Collaborate with Others

No funder has the resources to end homelessness alone. Funders can play a powerful role in convening diverse stakeholders, facilitating system-wide collaboration, and identifying key gaps in homelessness systems. Collaborating speeds up the learning process and enables funders to take a strategic, systems-change approach to ending homelessness. There is power in philanthropy speaking with one voice. Through our programming, you can learn, share, and collaborate at both the local and national level.

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Be a Voice for Change

Funders are more than just a checkbook. Philanthropic dollars are small when compared to government funding, but through advocacy funders can build support for new approaches and strategic shifts. Foundations can help reduce policy barriers, leverage funds, and create bridges between different systems to have a real impact on ending homelessness. We can help you learn how to best use your voice and influence to impact change locally and nationally.

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From The Blog

Block & Build: A Framework for Housing Justice and Philanthropy

Oct 31, 2025

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By Rachelle A. Matthews (RAM), Director of Membership and Programs


At Funders Together for Housing Justice, we know that advancing housing justice requires both courage and clarity. We are living in a political moment where attacks on racial justice, equity, and democracy are constant—and where philanthropy must decide not only what to fund, but also what to fight.
 


That’s why we’ve embraced the
Block & Build framework, first shared in Convergence Magazine as an advocacy and grantmaking strategy  The framework challenges us to block harmful systems, narratives, and policies that perpetuate injustices, while simultaneously building new structures, practices, and pathways toward liberation, justice, and thriving communities. 

Loud and Clear: Philanthropy Must Confront Violent Rhetoric and Attacks on Unhoused People

Sep 19, 2025

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Not all political violence is physicalit can also come in the form of brutal and harmful rhetoric, policies, and the erasure of truthful histories and stories. However, words shape ideas and worlds. Language matters and moves violence from abstract to targeted action.  

Criminalizing Homelessness Will Make Everyone Less Safe

Aug 26, 2025

FTHJ bannerIn May 2025, Funders Together for Housing Justice and the Democratizing Development Program co-hosted the webinar Cultivating Philanthropic Champions to Drive Real Solutions in Today’s Threatening Climate. Featuring leaders from the National Homelessness Law Center, VOCAL-US, and the Drug Policy Alliance, the conversation was recapped in a blog post by the Neighborhood Funders Group.