A national network of funders supporting strategic, innovative, and effective solutions to homelessness

Webinar: Centering Voices Of Lived Experiences

Wednesday, February 13 | 1pm EST | 12pm CST | 11am MST | 10am PST

"Nothing about us, without us” is being heard throughout the country signifying the importance of voices of lived experience. Communities recognize the value of empowering individuals with lived experience in creating the solutions that will the prevent and end homelessness.  

 In this webinar, we will be joined by True Colors Fund and CSH, two organizations that are committed to and immersed in this work. We will discuss philanthropy's role in creating a culture of lifting voices of lived experience in communities around the country 

Panelists for this webinar are Ann English, Program Manager, CSH, and Twiggy Pucci Garçon, Program Director, True Colors Fund. 

Please RSVP below if you are able to attend. We look forward to you joining us for this important conversation. 

Please note: This webinar is only open to members of Funders Together, private funders, United Ways, and philanthropy-serving organizations. If you have questions about participating, please contact Stephanie Chan, Director of Membership and Programs, at [email protected]  

If you are not logged into the Funders Together website, times are in eastern time. If you are logged in, time should reflect your current time zone.

WHEN
February 13, 2019 at 1:00pm - 2:15pm
CONTACT
Tabitha Blackwell ·

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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


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