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Announcing a New Partnership: Bay Area Homelessness Funders Network

Posted by · August 20, 2020 8:47 AM

Funders Together to End Homelessness (FTEH) and Northern California Grantmakers (NCG) are pleased to announce the Bay Area Homelessness Funders Network (BAHFN).

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A Bold and Dynamic Grantmaking Response to Systemic Racism

Posted by · August 12, 2020 7:22 AM

Why the grantmaking of the Zarrow Families Foundation is now in the hands of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.

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Joy Is The Resistance To The Oppression We Face

Posted by · July 31, 2020 11:54 AM

Funders Together to End Homelessness CEO, Amanda Andere, provided the opening remarks for the virtual State of the Movement from A Way Home America and Youth Collaboratory on July 23 and 24th with a message of joy and hope.

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Joint Statement on the Equal Access Rule

Posted by · July 02, 2020 8:20 AM

On July 1, Ben Carson, Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a new proposed rule that would allow discrimination against transgender people seeking access to shelter through HUD-funded services.

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National Housing Advocates Statement on Policing and Black Communities

Posted by · June 30, 2020 11:04 AM

Funders Together to End Homelessness joins other national housing advocates to support Black people and Black organizers who are working on housing justice.

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There Is No Low-Hanging Fruit in Ending Anti-Blackness and Racism

Posted by · June 09, 2020 8:34 AM

On June 8, 2020, Funders Together CEO Amanda Andere gave the following remarks on the National Low Income Housing Coalition's weekly national call as a part of their response to COVID-19.

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Statement on the Continuous Killing of Black People, White Supremacy, and Anti-Blackness

Posted by · June 01, 2020 4:16 PM

(A shirt I bought in the fall of 2014 after the murder of Eric Garner)

A statement from Funders Together CEO, Amanda Andere, on the continuous killing of Black people, white supremacy, and anti-Blackness.

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Open Letter to Philanthropy: The Cure to Viral Racism Is Within Our Hands

Posted by · April 08, 2020 4:13 PM

Funders Together to End Homelessness and colleagues signed on to an open letter to philanthropy with calls to action to address and fight racism and xenophobia against Asian Americans within COVID-19 responses.

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A Math Problem We Can Solve Together

Posted by · March 12, 2020 8:55 AM

On February 19, funders from across the country convened at our annual Funders Forum in Oakland. Melissa Stafford Jones, Executive Director at the Dean & Margaret Lesher Foundation, attended the Funders Forum and walked away ruminating on the disparities between income and affordable housing and steps funders can take to address these disparities.

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What the Martin v Boise Ruling Means for Ending Homelessness

Posted by · March 02, 2020 10:36 AM

In this blog post, Maria Foscarinis, Executive Director of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, explains what the Martin v Boise ruling means, why it is so important to efforts to end homelessness, and how funders can support momentum on opportunity for progress.

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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

Funders Together to End Homelessness (FTEH) and Northern California Grantmakers (NCG) are pleased to announce the Bay Area Homelessness Funders Network (BAHFN).

Why the grantmaking of the Zarrow Families Foundation is now in the hands of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.

Funders Together to End Homelessness CEO, Amanda Andere, provided the opening remarks for the virtual State of the Movement from A Way Home America and Youth Collaboratory on July 23 and 24th with a message of joy and hope.

On July 1, Ben Carson, Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a new proposed rule that would allow discrimination against transgender people seeking access to shelter through HUD-funded services.

Funders Together to End Homelessness joins other national housing advocates to support Black people and Black organizers who are working on housing justice.

On June 8, 2020, Funders Together CEO Amanda Andere gave the following remarks on the National Low Income Housing Coalition's weekly national call as a part of their response to COVID-19.

A statement from Funders Together CEO, Amanda Andere, on the continuous killing of Black people, white supremacy, and anti-Blackness.

Funders Together to End Homelessness and colleagues signed on to an open letter to philanthropy with calls to action to address and fight racism and xenophobia against Asian Americans within COVID-19 responses.

In this blog post, Maria Foscarinis, Executive Director of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, explains what the Martin v Boise ruling means, why it is so important to efforts to end homelessness, and how funders can support momentum on opportunity for progress.

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