A national network of funders supporting strategic, innovative, and effective solutions to homelessness

Co-Sponsored Webinar: Making a Big Difference for Children and Communities

Thursday, May 23 | 1:00pm ET | 12:00pm CT | 11:00am MT | 10:00am PT

Policy research, public will building, message development, grassroots and grasstops engagement. Funders have lots of tools in their toolkit!

Join funder colleagues to discuss a range of advocacy and systems change strategies used to ensure more children, families and communities thrive. In this webinar presented by the Youth & Family Funders Roundtable and sponsored by Funders Together, we'll discuss strategies and lessons learned from a variety of funder perspectives.

Speakers:

  • Katherine Beckmann, Program Officer, Children, Families and Communities at the Packard Foundation
  • Melanie Bridgeforth, President and CEO at the Women's Fund of Greater Birmingham
  • Jennifer Esterline, Executive Director at the Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium
  • Sara Watson, Senior Director, Policy at the Bainum Family Foundation

This webinar is held in partnership with:

 

WHEN
May 23, 2019 at 1:00pm - 2pm
CONTACT
Lauren Bennett ·

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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