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Posted by 101sc on April 29, 2021

Learning with others and building relationships is at the heart of creating change. Funders Together is excited to announce the thirty funders in our second Foundations for Racial Equity community of practice who will work together to advance racial equity in their homelessness and housing work.

These thirty participants represent a wide range of philanthropic institutions in Funders Together’s network and range from private foundations to United Ways to funding collaboratives. Bringing them together as community for two years is their dedication to changing how and what they fund, using their voices, and building relationships that will shift the current system to a new one that is rooted in justice. The participants are:

	Arlene & Michael Rosen Foundation Jason Satterfield, Executive Director & General Counsel Laura Hamburg, Program Officer
	Campion Advocacy Fund Sheila Babb Anderson, Homelessness Program Director Carrie Savage, Chief Operating Officer
	Chicago Funders Together to End Homelessness Emily Krisciunas, Director
	Colorado Health Foundation Tracey Stewart, Senior Program Officer Sean Dollard, Program Officer
	Common Counsel Foundation Jazmin Segura, Program Officer
	Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Andrea Iloulian, Senior Program Officer Emma Heffernan, Program Associate
	Front Porch Investments Meridith Dillon, Executive Director
	Funders for Housing and Opportunity Jeanne Fekade-Sellassie, Project Director Jennifer Angarita, Senior Program Officer
	Funders Together to End Homelessness San Diego Amy Denhart, Director
	Graves Foundation Kyrra Rankine, Director, Partnerships and Initiatives
	Greater Washington Community Foundation Jennifer Olney, Community Investment Officer, Partnership to End Homelessness
	Heading Home Minnesota Funders Collaborative Patrick Ness, Executive Director
	HealthSpark Foundation Emma Hertz, Director of External Affairs
	McGregor Fund Vanessa Samuelson, Director of Learning and Research
	Melville Charitable Trust Alyia Gaskins, Senior Program Officer Sarah Armour-Jones, Director of Communications
	NYC Fund to End Youth and Family Homelessness John Kimble, Senior Advisor
	The Owens Foundation Katie Owens Mulcahy, Vice President, Grants and Programming
	Pierce Family Foundation Heather Parish, Co-Executive Director Marianne Philbin, Co-Executive Director
	Tipping Point Community Nina Catalano, Senior Planner
	Trinity Church Wall Street Bianca Alston, Program Officer, Housing & Homelessness
	United Way of Fresno and Madera Counties Lindsay Fox, President and CEO
	United Way of Forsyth County Andrea Kurtz, Senior Director, Housing Strategies Charmaine Carrillo-Angino, Senior Director, Community Planning & Investments
	United Way of Greater Los Angeles Tammy Marashlian, Grants Coordinator
	Zarrow Family Foundations Nancy Curry, Program Officer

We’re excited to kick off this second cohort in June and to share progress and lessons with our wider Funders Together network over the next two years. We also look forward to continuing to offer racial equity programming to our entire network. Changing the systems that perpetuate racial inequity is not an easy or quick task, and Funders Together is grateful to all of our members for their continued learning journey. Read more about Foundations for Racial Equity.

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Lauren Samblanet published this page in Blog 2021-04-29 09:59:30 -0400

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

Announcing the participants in Foundations for Racial Equity

Learning with others and building relationships is at the heart of creating change. Funders Together is excited to announce the thirty funders in our second Foundations for Racial Equity community of practice who will work together to advance racial equity in their homelessness and housing work.

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