Funders Together to End Homelessness has joined partner philanthropic organizations and private funders in responding to the U.S. Supreme Court's recent rulings in the Affirmative Action case. 

Last week, Jordan Neely, a 30-year old Black man, was murdered while pleading for help and experiencing homelessness in New York City. Days earlier, Banko Brown, a 24-year old transgender Black man and organizer, was killed when suspected of shoplifting. 

We will name it: These murders are a result of policy choices rooted in white supremacy.

On February 28, we gathered in Oakland, California, in conjunction with the National Conference on Ending Homelessness for our 2023 Funders Forum. More than 60 participants from across the country joined to discuss how philanthropy can support the movement through coalition-building, what it means to engage in principled struggle, and how we can authentically and holistically center those with lived experience to achieve housing justice.  

National members of the National Coalition for Housing Justice (NCHJ) call on the Biden-Harris administration and Bowser administration to immediately halt plans to forcibly remove unhoused people in McPherson Square on Wednesday, February 15, two months ahead of schedule before all unhoused individuals in the encampment have been housed or moved to bridge housing while they await permanent options.

By creating the Greenlining Fund and intentionally sharing power with community members impacted by redlining in Omaha, Front Porch Investments demonstrates how transformative change can come from authentic relationships and ceding power.

Members of Funders Together's California Homelessness & Housing Policy Funders Network sent a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom stressing the importance of an ongoing, flexible state revenue source in our efforts to end homelessness and housing insecurity and achieve housing justice for all California residents.

Driven by the values of our new strategic framework, the Funders Together team reflects upon 2022 and looks forward to building a more liberated world in 2023.

Funders Together to End Homelessness responds to the newly released United States Interagency Council on Homelessness Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness.

In October 2022, Michael Durham, Funders Together Director of Networks, attended “cross-border learners’ exchange” between Canadian and U.S. foundations around youth homelessness prevention and documented his experience in Toronto, summarizing the two-day meeting itself and reflecting on what this means for the movement stateside.  

In early November, Governor Newsom announced he would be rejecting local homelessness plans and would hold funding as a result. Funders Together to End Homelessness and our California Homelessness & Housing Policy Funders Network joined other housing justice organizations and people with lived experience in voicing concern of the Governor's rejection and choice to withhold critical resources from communities for homelessness services and programs.