Funder Collaboratives and Networks

Regional Funder Networks

Funders Together recognizes that any best practice at the national level is limited apart from its implementation at the local level. As we continue to connect foundations, United Ways, and other private funders across the country, we also promote local coordination to ensure philanthropy’s investment in housing justice is aligned in strategy and values. We employ a Director of Networks who liaises with regional networks and collaboratives, providing guidance from Funders Together’s national priorities, such as recommending guest speakers and topics, along with tactical support on network operations, such as collecting a repository of policies and procedures. In turn, Funders Together benefits from our members’ local perspectives and priorities, gleaning insight on the felt experience of housing-justice funding.

Funders Together Networks

Some regional funder networks utilize the Funders Together to End Homelessness name and brand, functioning similar to local chapters. National staff supports and convenes the leaders of our regional networks and collaboratives for peer-learning, mutual support, problem-solving, and accountability. We also support those championing initiatives in local communities to form new regional networks. Our current Funders Together networks include:

Regional networks that adopt our name sign onto an MOU rooted in shared values and reciprocity. The MOU also includes prerequisites for any new FTEH networks. Read the MOU here.

If you are considering forming a regional network, please contact Michael Durham.

Other Networks and Collaboratives

Home for Good Funders Collaborative (Los Angeles, CA)
Heading Home Minnesota Funders Collaborative (State of Minnesota)
NYC Fund to End Youth & Family Homelessness (New York City)
Funders for Housing and Opportunity (National)
Youth Transition Funders Group (National)

Do you represent a funder network? Email us to get added to the list.

Network Resources

Funders Together recognizes that our vision for housing justice on a national level, including its aspirational values and concrete policy implications, requires implementation at the local level. In support of this goal, we have created a resource for local funder networks: What We Cannot Do Alone: Assembling Regional Funder Networks for Housing Justice. Read more about it here.

NEW! Considerations for Regional Network Incubation (Funders Together to End Homelessness, 2024)
What We Cannot Do Alone: Assembling Regional Funder Networks for Housing Justice (Funders Together to End Homelessness, 2023)
How Philanthropic Collaborations Succeed, and Why They Fail (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2019)
Housing Justice and Systems Change through a Funder Collaborative (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2022)
Fiscal Sponsorship: A Balanced Overview (Nonprofit Quarterly, 2020)
Funder Collaboratives: A Topic Brief for Donors (Rockefeller Philanthropic Advisors, 2021)
How Philanthropic Collaboratives Measure, Evaluate, and Learn (The Bridgespan Group, 2024)

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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