Funders Together Blog: Homelessness Ends Here

Lessons from 200 Smart Thinkers [Video]

Posted by · November 06, 2012 3:19 PM

It isn’t every day that the work I do at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is called “audacious,” but when one of our partners described our collective efforts to end family homelessness in Washington State with precisely this word, I took it as a compliment.

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A Message for Funders: “There Are No Discrete Funding Areas”

Posted by · October 30, 2012 1:37 PM

Many systems touch at-risk and homeless families: foster care, child welfare, crisis response, mental health services, and schools, to name a few–but no one system will solve family homelessness alone.

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Improving Our Knowledge About Ending Homelessness: A Role for Philanthropy

Posted by · October 22, 2012 11:49 AM

Despite different geographic and population focuses in our homelessness initiatives, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Conrad N. Hilton Foundation are unified in our belief that philanthropy can play a critical role in preventing and ending homelessness.

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Building Partnerships, Rebuilding Lives in Tulsa

Posted by · October 15, 2012 8:56 AM

With a theme of Housing to Recovery: Building Community, Building Lives, the 2012 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium and Mental Health America Annual Conference brought people together for conversations around housing, collaboration, research, and advocacy.

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Funders Together and the November 6, 2012 Election

Posted by · October 01, 2012 12:03 PM

It’s troublesome that the issue of homelessness has maintained a comparatively low profile in this election season, regardless of which candidate or party is holding the microphone at any given point in time.

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Public-Private Partnerships: An Effective Way to Address Our Community’s Needs

Posted by · September 18, 2012 9:06 AM

I’m never quite sure what the reaction will be when I mention the concept of “public-private partnerships” to a colleague.

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Funders Together Goes to Washington

Posted by · September 05, 2012 12:15 PM

Part of philanthropy’s responsibility to the most vulnerable in our society is to call on government―both elected officials and non-elected staff on both sides of the political aisle―to work in ways that are just, effective, and efficient.

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Ending Family Homelessness Requires Changes in the Ways We Do Business

Posted by · August 08, 2012 2:20 PM

Changing the way we do business has the potential to improve outcomes for families who are homeless across each of our communities.

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Reflections on a Week in the “Other” Washington

Posted by · July 23, 2012 10:46 AM

Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in a broad range of events in our nation’s capital that, once again, confirmed for me that we can and will succeed in our long-term goal of ending homelessness.

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HHS Secretary Highlights Foundation’s Systems Change Work

Posted by · July 19, 2012 12:52 PM

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius gave the keynote address at the National Conference on Ending Homelessness.

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