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Co-Sponsored Webinar: Funder Strategies for Housing and Criminal Justice Reform

Posted by 5sc on September 05, 2024

Host: Criminal Justice Funders Forum

Monday, September 23, 2024 | 2:00pm ET, 1:00pm CT, 12:00pm MT, 11:00am PT

The “revolving door” between housing instability and incarceration is well documented and remains a persistent challenge in cities across the country. For years, advocates, funders, and policymakers have been pursuing strategies to address this challenge at multiple levels, including expanding housing supply and affordability, strengthening tenants’ rights, and ensuring housing access for justice-involved individuals, among other strategies. However, after the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass decision, funders are increasingly interested in how the political and legal landscape may change across the country and where funders can invest in addressing the root causes of homelessness and housing instability for long-term impact.

Funders Together members are invited to join this co-sponsored panel discussion to hear directly from leaders advancing innovative strategies across the country to eliminate housing instability and the connection to the criminal justice system, including our CEO Amanda Andere. It will also explore new challenges and opportunities based on the evolving political and legal landscape and explore where housing and criminal justice funders can be most impactful in creating lasting change.

Speakers 

  • Amanda Andere, Chief Executive Officer, Funders Together to End Homelessness (moderator)
  • Kayla Reed, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Action St. Louis
  • Nika Soon-Shiong, Founder & Executive Director, Fund for Guaranteed Income
  • Marie Claire Tran-Leung, Evictions Initiative Project Director, National Housing Law Project


About the Criminal Justice Funders Forum

The Criminal Justice Funders Forum (the Forum) is a network of philanthropic institutions supporting a wide array of efforts to end mass incarceration and transform the U.S. criminal legal system. Through the Forum, members maximize their impact through collaboration, relationship building, convening, and shared learning informed by those directly impacted by the criminal legal system. The Forum drives toward a vision of justice, safety, and racial equity that centers the well-being of everyone, especially communities of color that are most harmed by structural oppression, exclusion, and excess punishment.

Registration  


To RSVP to the session and receive the calendar invitation, please fill out this form. If approved, you will recieve the calendar invite and Zoom link from the event organizers. The deadline to register is Monday, September 9. 

Technology


This webinar will take place via Zoom meeting. If you have any questions, reach out to Marcus Ransom.

This call will last 90 minutes.

WHEN
September 23, 2024 at 2:00pm - 3:30pm
WHERE
Zoom
CONTACT
Marcus Ransom ·

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  • Jack Zhang
    published this page in Programming 2024-09-05 17:20:01 -0400

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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