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Testing New Waters: The Simmons Foundation Awards New Grants to Help Houston-Area Women Veterans

Posted on Blog by Amanda Cloud · November 05, 2013 3:15 PM

Through Funders Together, we have learned a great deal about the vast needs facing veterans in Houston. Much to our surprise, Houston has the second largest returning-veteran population and there is great need for private philanthropic support, coordination of services, and collaboration among local agencies.

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Foundations: Catalysts of Change

Posted on Blog by Deborah Fung · May 29, 2013 11:19 AM

In his forum, Rob Reich claims that, at their best, foundations foster pluralism and encourage discovery. But in my experience foundations can do much more.

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A Message for Funders: “There Are No Discrete Funding Areas”

Posted on Blog by Aimee Hendrigan · October 30, 2012 1:37 PM

Many systems touch at-risk and homeless families: foster care, child welfare, crisis response, mental health services, and schools, to name a few–but no one system will solve family homelessness alone. 

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Improving Our Knowledge About Ending Homelessness: A Role for Philanthropy

Posted on Blog by William Pitkin · October 22, 2012 11:49 AM

Despite different geographic and population focuses in our homelessness initiatives, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Conrad N. Hilton Foundation are unified in our belief that philanthropy can play a critical role in preventing and ending homelessness.

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Ending Family Homelessness Requires Changes in the Ways We Do Business

Posted on Blog by David Wertheimer · August 08, 2012 2:20 PM

Changing the way we do business has the potential to improve outcomes for families who are homeless across each of our communities.  

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The Power of Mini Planning Grants to Fuel Systems Change in Homelessness

Posted on Blog by Susanne Beaton · July 11, 2012 2:15 PM

When we first became involved with homelessness, we noticed that the national focus and most of the local work was on ending chronic homelessness.  While we applauded this effort, we wanted to see the 10-year community planning process include homeless families as well. 

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Ending Homelessness: An Overview for Funders

Posted on Grantmakers Toolkit for Ending Homelessness by Funders Together to End Homelessness · July 03, 2012 2:00 PM · 1 reaction

Homelessness is a complex issue but it is not an unsolvable problem. It can be ended and philanthropy has a vital role to play.

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Opening Doors to End Homelessness in Connecticut

Posted on Blog by Ann Woodward · May 03, 2012 3:17 PM

Connecticut has a new plan to end homelessness.

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Innovation Thrives in the Non-Profit World

Posted on Blog by Protip Biswas · April 16, 2012 12:39 PM

If we are going to successfully end homelessness and fight poverty, we must come up with ideas to do more with less. 

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Butler Family Fund Invests in Employment Programs that Target Homelessness

Posted on Blog by Martha Toll · March 01, 2012 12:39 PM

The Butler Family Fund has taken a two-pronged approach: we’ve addressed both our limited resources and the desire to make the most impact on ending homelessness.

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