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Pages tagged "systems change"


A Canadian Perspective on Ending Homelessness [Video]

Posted on Blog · November 16, 2012 9:54 AM

What does an end to homelessness look like? The city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada is on the road to finding out. 

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Lessons from 200 Smart Thinkers [Video]

Posted on Blog by David Wertheimer · November 06, 2012 3:19 PM

It isn’t every day that the work I do at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is called “audacious,” but when one of our partners described our collective efforts to end family homelessness in Washington State with precisely this word, I took it as a compliment.  

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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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Public-Private Partnerships: An Effective Way to Address Our Community’s Needs

Posted on Blog by Amanda Cloud · September 18, 2012 9:06 AM

I’m never quite sure what the reaction will be when I mention the concept of “public-private partnerships” to a colleague.

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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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HHS Secretary Highlights Foundation’s Systems Change Work

Posted on Blog by Martha Toll · July 19, 2012 12:52 PM

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius gave the keynote address at the National Conference on Ending Homelessness.

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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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Let’s Fix the System

Posted on Blog by Susan Thomas · May 30, 2012 10:53 AM

In January 2012, Mayor Kasim Reed launched an initiative to dramatically reduce street homelessness in Atlanta. 

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Developing a Shared Agenda Around Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Families

Posted on Blog by Funders Together to End Homelessness · March 22, 2012 11:41 AM

Last October, a group of 80 invited leaders from philanthropy, government, and the private sector gathered in Seattle to think about ways to fundamentally transform how we work with vulnerable children and their families.

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