Friday, March 21, 2025 | 2pm ET / 1pm CT / 12pm MT / 11am PT
Co-sponsored by Youth Transition Funders Group & Funders for Justice
As we enter another chapter in which federal housing justice advocacy will necessarily focus on defense, we must also be future-focused and keep moving towards our long-term vision. To do that, we need to be intentional to build a strategy that includes liberatory visions and values. This webinar provides an opportunity to learn how abolitionist principles can help us analyze and prioritize the most effective advocacy opportunities even if we don’t all agree on the goal of dismantling carceral institutions. By uplifting the work of the upEND Movement in the context of preventing youth homelessness, we will use the child welfare (aka family policing) system as a case study that helps us identify the ways in which our usual approaches often assume the legitimacy of racist systems despite our best intentions. Joined by Funders Together member and upEND funder the May & Stanley Smith Charitable Trust, we will connect the dots between family-policing abolition, philanthropy, youth homelessness, and housing justice by leaning on Funders Together’s Policy Framework.
This session continues our ongoing series on Youth Homelessness Prevention but promises to elevate lessons that are applicable across the spectrum of funding on housing and homelessness.
Speakers
- Michael Durham (he/him) | Director of Networks | Funders Together to End Homelessness
- Josie Pickens (she/her) | Program Director | upEND Movement
- connease warren (she/her) | Cofounder & Advisor | upEND Movement
- Elisabeth Cutler (she/her) | Senior Program Officer | May & Stanley Smith Charitable Trust
Learning Objectives
- Differentiate between reformist and abolitionist (or non-reformist) reforms
- Articulate the relationship between youth/family homelessness and the child welfare (aka family policing) system
- Describe the key components of Funders Together’s policy framework
Registration
Please RSVP for this webinar using the button below. You will receive your unique Zoom link once a Funders Together staff person has approved your registration.
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-serving 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 Rachelle A. Matthews, Director of Membership and Programs.
Technology
This webinar/funder call will take place via Zoom meetings. Registration will be open until March 21. If you do not receive your Zoom link or have technical issues logging into this call, please reach out to Michael Durham: [email protected]
This call will last 75 minutes.
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