Thursday, January 21, 2021 | 2:00pm ET / 1:00pm CT / 12:00pm MT / 11:00am PT 

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, Funders Together to End Homelessness organized funder calls for philanthropy to connect about local responses to COVID-19 for people experiencing homelessness. We have also used these calls to share field updates from our partners and timely information about changing policies. This call in January 2021 will be one of our last regularly-scheduled calls before we transition them to an as-needed basis. We will continue to aggregate and share resources on our COVID-19 Responses for Philanthropy resource page, as well as update add examples and resources to our COVID-19 Response and Recovery Recommendations for Philanthropy. 

January 21 Agenda:

• Policy updates and announcements from Funders Together, including a recap of the last COVID-19 relief package
  
• Community updates specific to members' work happening in Baltimore, New York City, Hawaii, and Chicago that will touch on:
  • COVID response that includes a new CDFI initiative and involvement in a housing work group to focus on post-hotel housing,
  • Focusing on Youth Homeless Demonstration Projects during the pandemic to get them to the finish line in Baltimore and Hawaii,
  • Work happening in New York City to enhance the stabilization bed program,
  • A philanthropy-funded study that led to right to counsel legislation being passed,
  • And more!

If you are curious about any of the topics listed above or have questions you'd love our speakers to share their thoughts on, feel free to let us know in advance and we'll weave them into conversation.

Speakers:

• Amy Kleine, Senior Program Director, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
• Elvis Guzman, Program Officer, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
• Bianca Carter, Program Officer for Homelessness & Housing, Trinity Church Wall Street

Registration 

Please register for this COVID-19 Funder Call through the button below. Once confirmed, you’ll receive call-in information directly from Zoom. If you have questions about registration in the hour before the call, please contact Lauren Samblanet at lsamblanet@funderstogether.org  

Please note: Participation in Funders Together programming is limited to private funders, United Ways, philanthropy-serving organizations, and/or members of Funders Together. Public funders, government employees, and staff at organizations where grantmaking is not the primary function are not eligible to participate. If you have any questions about your eligibility to participate, please contact Stephanie Chan, Director of Membership and Programs.    

Friday, January 22, 2021 | 1:00pm ET / 12:00pm CT / 11:00am MT / 10:00am PT

Co-sponsored by Funders' Committee for Civic Participation

After years of challenges, the 2020 Census headcount is complete. However, the work to ensure a fair and accurate census isn’t over, especially when it comes to making sure people experiencing homelessness are fairly counted and equitably represented as local and state governments engage in resource allocation and redistricting. Given the importance of the count for funding, policy decisions, and redistricting, funders must understand and engage in the post-count processes. to amend the data now and improve the process for future counts.

During this webinar, we will explore what happened during the 2020 Census count, the status of data analyses efforts, and strategies to improve the data, specifically among people experiencing homelessness. We’ll also hear how funders can support operations to impact the quality of the Census data, engage around fair redistricting, and ensure people experiencing homelessness are part of that assessment.

Speakers

• Beth Lynk, Census Counts & The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
• Meghan Maury, LGBTQ Taskforce
• Stephania Ramirez, California Community Foundation

Registration

Please register for this webinar through the button below. Once confirmed, you’ll receive call-in information directly from Zoom. If you have questions about registration in the hour before the call, please contact Lauren Samblanet, Knowledge Management and Communications Manager.

PLEASE NOTE: Participation in our programming is limited to private funders, including foundations, United Ways, corporate giving programs, individual philanthropists, and philanthropy serving organizations (PSOs). If you have questions about your eligibility to register, please contact Stephanie Chan, Director of Membership and Programs at Funders Together to End Homelessness.  

This webinar will last 75 minutes.

Monday, January 25, 2021 | 3:00pm ET / 2:00pm CT / 1:00pm MT / 12:00pm PT

We cannot end youth homelessness until we prevent it. Feasible, sustainable solutions require many things, including the participation of young people, the reliance on evidence, consideration of multiple public systems with roles in youth well-being, the benefit of knowledge gained on the front lines, a vision of equity, and a posture that empowers young people. 

In this webinar, we will be exploring the Youth Homelessness Prevention Initiative, which will be developing a national strategy to prevent youth homelessness that integrates all those components and reflects a diverse array of stakeholder voices. Chapin Hall will discuss how they are developing this collaborative agenda and movement for action and evidence-building around prevention. While this national work will be launching early next year, we will hear from the Washington State Office of Homeless Youth about their multi-prong state-level work on the prevention of youth homelessness, which includes co-designing with young people with lived expertise. Whether on the national level or on the state level, funders can play a role in supporting the focus on rigorous prevention research and evaluation. Join us for this engaging conversation with funders and providers who are exploring strategies to prevent youth homelessness. 

Speakers

• Casey Trupin, Director of Youth Homelessness, Raikes Foundation
• Matthew Morton, Research Fellow, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago 
• Shree Lakshmi (SL) Rao, Senior Foster America Fellow, Office of Homeless Youth, Washington State Department of Commerce 
• Charles Rutheiser, Senior Associate in Center for Community and Economic Opportunity, Annie E. Casey Foundation 

How to Register

Please register for this webinar through the button below. Once confirmed, you’ll receive call-in information directly from Zoom, which will be resent the day before and day-of the program. If you have any questions about registration in the hour before this webinar, please contact Lauren Samblanet, Knowledge Management and Communications Manager.

Please note: Participation in our programming is limited to private funders, United Ways, corporate-giving programs, philanthropy-serving organizations, and members of Funders Together. If you have any questions about your eligibility to participate, please contact Stephanie Chan, Director of Membership and Programs.

Wednesday, February 3, 2020 | 2pm ET / 1pm CT / 12pm MT / 11pm PT

Funder networks and collaboratives provide the opportunity for philanthropy to advance more equitable investments and policies in their communities. However, when each individual and foundation is at a different place in their journey, it can be difficult to create a common equity agenda for the funder network or collaborative.  

Funders Together is hosting a call to discuss how funder networks and collaboratives can build an equity agenda to help advance housing justice. During this call, you will have the opportunity to hear how other funder networks and collaboratives are engaging more equitably in their collective work.

This call is open to members of both established networks and collaboratives, as well as to those that are newly interested in convening funders in their communities.  

Learning Objectives

• Share how funder networks and collaboratives have engaged in race equity work.

• Understand how funder networks and collaboratives are able to create a collective equity agenda.

How to Register

Please register for this webinar through the button below. Once confirmed, you’ll receive call-in information directly from Zoom, which will be resent the day before and day-of the program. If you have any questions about registration in the hour before this webinar, please contact Lauren Samblanet, Knowledge Management and Communications Manager.

Please note: Participation in our programming is limited to private funders, United Ways, philanthropy-serving organizations, and/or members of Funders Together. If you have any questions about your eligibility to participate, please contact Stephanie Chan, Director of Membership and Programs.

Join us virtually on March 23-24 for our 2021 Funders Forum: Housing Policies and Partnerships Rooted in Justice, which will focus on housing justice policy priorities at the national, state, and local levels, and opportunities for public-private partnerships. 

Under a new Presidential Administration, housing and homelessness advocates are working to proactively push for policies and practices that are rooted in evidence and justice. And, as the country continues to grapple with the effects COVID-19 and racism has on homelessness, it is important for philanthropy to lean into public-private partnerships. Join us during the 2021 Funders Forum to learn about the housing and homelessness priorities we need to advocate for and how we can build new public-private partnerships that advance those priorities, racial equity, and housing justice. 

An agenda will be available soon. Until then, we encourage you to hold these days and times on your calendar. 

Date and Time

• Tuesday, March 23, 2021 | 2:00-4:00 ET (1pm CT / 12pm MT / 11am PT)  
• Wednesday, March 24, 2021 | 2:00-4:00 ET (1pm CT / 12pm MT / 11am PT) 

 Agenda

A formal agenda is coming soon! If you have speaker or topic suggestions, please let us know.   

Registration  

Registration allows for 1 individual to attend both days (March 23-24) of the Funders Forum.  Participation in the Funders Forum is limited to private funders, United Ways, philanthropy-serving organizations, and/or members of Funders Together. Public funders, government employees, and staff at organizations where grantmaking is not the primary function are not eligible to participate. If you have any questions about your eligibility to participate, please contact Stephanie Chan, Director of Membership and Programs.    

Participation Fee 

• $60 for Full (dues-paying) Members  
• $120 for Basic (non-dues paying) Members and Non-Members 
  

Questions about registration? Please contact: Lauren Samblanet, Knowledge Management and Communications Manager.    

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