Sequestration's Impact on Homelessness

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Sequestration's Impact on Homelessness

We know that sequestration is hurting homelessness services around the country. This infographic is designed to give a brief overview.

We also want to hear from you. If sequestration is affecting services/programs for the homeless in your community, tell us how.

As funders, you can also respond by:

Prioritizing evidence-based programs;
Initiating or re-engaging in a systems change conversation at the local level;
Sharing your story on the Funders Together blog so we can learn from each other; and
Educating your elected officials about the impacts of sequestration on your community.

Resources on Sequestration

Still looking for more information? Let us know what you're interested in and we'll try to help.

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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