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Co-Sponsored Webinar: Project Homekey: California’s Newest Plan to Address Homelessness

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Friday, September 25, 2020 | 9:30-10:30am PT

Funders Together to End Homelessness is excited to co-sponsor this program presented by Northern California Grantmakers, San Diego Grantmakers, and Southern California Grantmakers.

The State of California recently launched Project Homekey as the State’s next phase of response to protect Californians experiencing homelessness from COVID-19. This effort leverages $600 million in CARES Act funding to support counties in acquiring and renovating properties to convert them into service-enriched housing units. As a part of this effort, the State joined with private partners to establish a Services Subsidy Fund that is providing funding to support operating costs for services and wraparound service supports for new state-acquired housing units.

Funders Together is excited to co-sponsor this webinar about the Project Homekey initiative and its progress to-date, hear learnings from key partners, and what roles philanthropy can play to support Project Homekey and other projects that are in the pipeline.

Speakers

  • Noni Ramos, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Enterprise Community Loan Fund, Inc. (ECLF)
  • Velasquez, Director, California Department of Housing & Community Development
  • John Vu, Vice President of strategy, Kaiser Permanente Community Health

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  • Lauren Bennett
    published this page in Programming 2020-09-23 12:20:14 -0400

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