On July 8-9, we gathered in Washington, D.C., for our 2024 Funders Institute, held in conjunction with the National Alliance to End Homelessness' National Conference on Ending Homelessness. We discussed our next steps after Johnson v. Grants Pass, explored how to advance Indigenous housing justice, and hosted peer-learning roundtables alongside national housing justice partners.

On March 4, 2024, we gathered in San Francisco for our 2024 Funders Forum held in conjunction with the National Alliance to End Homelessness's 2024 Innovations & Solutions for Ending Unsheltered Homelessness Conference. More than 50 funders attended to participant in the opportunity for philanthropy to understand what a more liberated world looks like and hear how funders are infusing housing justice values in their grantmaking and advocacy across a continuum from prevention to crisis response.

On Tuesday, February 13, 2024 philanthropy and community leaders from across the state convened at The California Endowment offices in Los Angeles for a special event on how philanthropy can collectively support housing justice for all California's communities.

From July 17-19, 2023, we gathered in Washington, D.C., in conjunction with the National Conference on Ending Homelessness for our 2023 Funders Institute. More than 50 participants joined to discuss how we can lean into trust and embrace "loving accountability" in our pursuit of housing justice. 

On February 28, 2023, we gathered in Oakland, California in conjunction with the National Conference on Ending Homelessness for our 2023 Funders Forum. More than 60 participants joined to discuss the urgency of building coalitions, engaging in principled struggle, and prioritizing housing justice values.

Funders Together to End Homelessness was excited to host our 2022 Funders Institute from July 25-27 in conjunction with the 2022 National Conference on Ending Homelessness. Attendees joined us in person in Washington, DC for a program designed to create space for deep peer-to-peer and peer-to-expert connections.  

2021 Virtual Funders Institute

September 28-30, 2021

Funders Together to End Homelessness held our annual Funders Institute on September 28-30, 2021. Over these three days, participants heard from leaders in the field, made new connections with funders from across the country, and found joy together. This year, we dove deep on what narrative change research is telling us, how philanthropy can fight against the criminalization of homelessness, and what's happening nationally to push for housing as a human right and housing justice. 

On March 23-24, we held our 2021 Funders Forum: Housing Policies and Partnerships Rooted in Justice, which focused 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.

See below for details and resources from the event. A blog post with reflections from the Funders Forum is coming soon.

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On August 11-13, 2020 we held our annual Funders Institute virtually and engaged in principled struggle to push for racial justice in our work to end homelessness. Attributed to N’tanya Lee, the concept of principled struggle is that struggle is a condition for change and liberation and that to disagree and grapple with each other is an inevitable and necessary part of racial equity work.

As a movement of funders working to prevent and end homelessness, we collaborated to push and support each other while also finding joy together. We focused our conversations on issues including COVID-19 and homelessness, how philanthropy can engage strategically in policy and advocacy, and how we should use our voice and dollars to seek racial and housing justice.

We kicked off with a plenary conversation for the first hour of each day followed by a choice of curated breakout conversations. Resources related to specific conversations are linked below.

You can read a recap of the Funders Institute on our blog here. 

For information and resources on racial equity and homelessness, visit our Racial Equity Resource Page.

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On February 19, 2020, we convened sixty funders in Oakland, CA for our annual Funders Forum to learn about philanthropy's evolving role in catalyzing solutions to ending homelessness. Held in conjunction with the National Alliance to End Homelessness’s Solutions for Individual Homeless Adults Conference, convening participants heard about policy changes happening at the national and local levels, how different groups are thinking about narrative change, the latest evaluation findings about rapid rehousing and diversion efforts, and much more.

Resources related to specific conversations are linked below.