Local Learning: Improving the Lives of Children and Families – The Hidden Gem of the Tax Code

National Harbor, MD | Thursday, September 5, 2024 | 3:30pm - 6:00pm ET 

Host: Tax Equity Funders Network

This event will be held in conjunction with the 2024 Prosperity Summit taking place at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in the Washington, DC area. 

As Funders Together continues to mobilize philanthropy to leverage its resources and power to realize housing justice, we know that private resources pale in comparison to what governments bring to bear. And no tool is more powerful to liberate public resources than the tax code, including on the federal, state, and municipal levels.  

We are proud to co-sponsor the Tax Equity Funders Networks convening along with other national partners to explore how philanthropy can affect tax policies that promote economic and racial justice, preventing and reducing homelessness in turn.  

Learning Objectives

  • Identify opportunities for funders to scale their impact through tax credits and tax-system-focused strategies
  • Share how funders focused on equity, economic mobility, and improving outcomes for children, youth, and families work together to promote more inclusive and equitable tax policies that build prosperity for all
  • Provide lessons learned from early childhood, housing, childcare, health and mental health funders who are using tax-focused strategies to achieve their goals
  • Foster the opportunity for peer-to-peer learning, collaboration, and action planning.

Registration:


Please RSVP for this event by using the registration button below. Registration is through the Tax Equity Funders Network. The event will take place at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center (201 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, Maryland. If you have any questions, you may contact Ami
([email protected]).

Register here for the Re-Entry Webinar

WHEN
September 05, 2024 at 3:30pm - 6:30pm
WHERE
Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
201 Waterfront St National Hbr
Oxon Hill, MD 20745
United States
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CONTACT
Ami ·

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  • Jack Zhang
    published this page in Programming 2024-07-19 14:27:47 -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


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