Monday, December 16, 2024 | 1:00pm ET, 12:00pm CT, 11:00am MT, 10:00am PT 

Co-Sponsor: Fund for Housing and Opportunity

Throughout our funder policy call series, we’ve explored the various roles philanthropy needs to step into in the changing political environment and ongoing attacks on racial justice efforts. A continual theme is the need for philanthropy to better organize itself to support the needs of advocates and organizers on the ground, so they have the capacity, spaciousness, and resources to do both the short- and long-term work.  

During this workshop funder call, we’ll utilize our time together to dig deeper into what this looks like to best support the housing justice movement to meet the moment and seed the work that is to come in 2025 and beyond. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in peer-to-peer dialogue to strategize around how we organize ourselves for the work to come, explore what it means to strengthen and increase resourcing commitments, and seek advice around both internal and external challenges and barriers to our work.  

Join us for this collaborative “choose your own adventure” session where together philanthropy will strategize, share resources, and co-develop pathways for collective action that address immediate needs and build long-term resilience for the housing justice movement. 

Learning Objectives 

• Develop Strategic Action Plans: Participants will identify and prioritize immediate and long-term strategies mentioned in our November 15 policy call to support housing justice, focusing on justice-centered advocacy, coalition-building, and resource mobilization. 

• Address Challenges and Barriers to Transformational Work: Participants can seek advice from peers on how to move housing justice work forward in new and creative ways to resource advocates and organizers abundantly 

• Align Organizational Values with Advocacy Efforts: Participants will evaluate their organization's risk tolerance and operational practices to better align with equity-driven strategies and long-term movement resilience. 

Registration  

Please RSVP for this funder call using the button below. You will receive your unique Zoom link once a Funders Together staff person has approved your registration.

Participation in Funders Together programming is limited to foundations, community foundations, grantmaking staff at United Ways, corporate giving programs, individual philanthropists, venture philanthropy and other non-traditional philanthropic giving entities, philanthropy-serving organizations, and members of Funders Together or Fund for Housing and Opportunity.  Government funders and staff at organizations where grantmaking is not the primary function are not eligible to participate. Funders Together reserves the right to deny participation to individuals we believe do not meet participation eligibility criteria. If you have questions about your eligibility, please reach out to Rachelle A. Matthews, Director of Membership and Programs.

Technology 

This funder call will take place via Zoom meeting. If you do not receive your Zoom link or have technical issues logging into this call, please reach out to Rachelle A. Matthews at [email protected].  

This call will last 75 minutes.