Funder Collaboratives and Networks

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

Funder Collaboratives and Networks

Funder Networks Collaborating to Prevent and End Homelessness

"All politics is local," and the same is true of housing development and services for those experiencing homelessness. At Funders Together, we support the dedicated collaboration of committed foundations, United Ways, and corporate partners who work as one to prevent and end homelessness in their communities.

A number of regional funder partnerships and movements dedicated to ending homelessness have emerged in cities and states throughout the country. If you are involved in a collaborative that is not listed here, please let us know so we can be sure to add it to our list!

Illinois

Funders Together Chicago

Maryland

Funders Together Baltimore

Massachusetts

Home Funders

Minnesota

Heading Home Minnesota Funders Collaborative

Washington

Youth Funders Group

National

Funders for Housing and Opportunity
Youth Transition Funders Group

We also believe that philanthropy cannot alone cannot end homelessness, which is why we promote the model of working within a Public-Private partnership. Visit our Public-Private Partnership page to see if there is an established cross-sector partnership in your area!

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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