Micro-Webinar Series | Tuesdays this Fall

As a values-driven organization, Funders Together for Housing Justice holds fast to a bold vision of a world where ending homelessness is bare minimum, where we have realized collective liberation by repairing the harms of structural oppression. While we maintain that such concepts are as practical as theoretical, however, we know philanthropy’s role in promoting housing justice is felt in the minutia of daily worklife: trustee education, grant reviews, strategic planning, etc. It resides in the decision points between rapid-response grants versus long-term gen-ops support, program-related investments versus traditional grants, downstream services versus upstream prevention. 

This series invites us into these nuts and bolts. Through half-hour micro-webinars (two-thirds presentation and one-third Q&A), we will profile Funders Together members representing diverse sizes, political contexts, organizational structures, geographies, and focus areas across the continuum of housing precarity. We’ll dwell almost none on the “why” in order to focus on the “how” of funders’ role in the sector. These imminently practical glimpses serve as a useful opportunity for new Funders Together members to learn from their peers in our membership community, but also depict the breadth of possibilities for all funders to enhance their support of housing justice. 

Watch Michael Durham, Sr. Director of Funder Organizing & Coalitions and host of this series, offer more framing in the following video. 

Each 30-minute webinar begins promptly at 1:30 ET / 12:30 CT / 11:30 MT / 10:30 PT / 9:30 AK / 7:30 HT on the following Tuesdays:  

• October 27
• November 3
• November 10
• November 17
• December 1 

Through one registration form, you may select as many sessions as you’d like to attend. When a staff member approves your registration, you will receive separate confirmation emails for each date you selected. 

Presenting Organizations

	October 27: Butler Family Fund (national)  Kicking off our series with a longstanding Funders Together member, the Butler Family Fund focuses their funding and leadership on both housing justice and reforming the criminal legal system, plus the intersection of these systems, with a strong racial-justice analysis.
	November 3: Oregon Community Foundation (Oregon statewide) Serving the entire state, the Oregon Community Foundation is the only in the state to employ a program officer solely dedicated to housing. They work across the continuum of housing and homelessness and hold a central role in convening other funders toward a more unified statewide housing strategy in a politically diverse geography.
	November 10: Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation (Maryland & Hawaii) Headquartered in greater Baltimore, the Weinberg Foundation is active in many issues areas, from health to education to workforce. This presentation will feature their housing and homelessness program officers in both Baltimore and Hawaii that represent interventions that span direct services (as downstream as street outreach) to prevention, including housing development.
	We’re finalizing details for our November 17 conversation. Stay tuned for more information about this session and the Funders Together member who will be joining us.
	December 1: Trinity Church NYC (New York, NY) Rounding out our series, we virtually fly to the largest city in the US, perpetually in the national spotlight for its housing and homelessness crisis, and especially since the most recent mayoral election. Trinity Church is indeed a church, a progressive one with an endowment that funds numerous homelessness services in the Big Apple.

Logistics & Eligibility 

You will receive your unique access link directly from Zoom once a Funders Together staff person has approved your registration. Please save the meeting to your calendar from the confirmation email. Registration will be open until the morning of each micro-webinar. If you do not receive your Zoom link or have technical issues logging into this call, please reach out to Michael Durham. 

Please note: 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-infrastructure organizations, and members of Funders Together. 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 Michael Durham.