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Webinar: Ending Black Homelessness: Policy Recommendations from Two State-Based Reports  

Posted by 5sc on August 14, 2024

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 | 2:00pm ET, 1:00pm CT, 12:00pm MT, 11:00am PT

As a consequence of slavery and anti-Black structural racism, Black Americans experience homelessness more often, for longer periods of time, and experience worse treatment while facing housing insecurity. California and Illinois both conducted unprecedented statewide studies to understand the distinct challenges facing Black people who are homeless, along with targeted policy recommendations at the state level. Join this webinar to learn about the key findings from these reports, with an emphasis on how funders can support the corresponding policy/advocacy recommendations. We will connect the dots between the policy recommendations, along with racial repair and reparations, as part of our larger vision for housing justice. 

Learning Objectives 

  • An understanding of the specific challenges that Black people experiencing homelessness in California and Illinois face
  • Knowledge of policy recommendations to support Black people experiencing homelessness and how philanthropy can incorporate these recommendations into their own advocacy work 
  • An explicit connection between the research findings and recommendations with Funders Together’s vision for housing justice 

Speakers 

  • Christine Haley, Chief Homelessness Officer, Illinois Office to Prevent & End Homelessness  
  • Kara Young Ponder, Director of Community Engagement & Racial Justice, Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative  
  • Iván Arenas, Senior Associate Director, Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, University of Illinois Chicago  

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.  

Please note: Participation in Funders Together programming is limited to foundations, United Ways, corporate giving programs, philanthropy-serving organizations, and members of Funders Together. Government funders, government employees, and staff at organizations where grantmaking is not the primary function are not eligible to participate. If you have any questions about your eligibility to participate, please contact Carey Cabrera, Membership and Knowledge Coordinator.

Technology


This webinar will take place via Zoom meeting. If you do not receive your Zoom link or have technical issues logging into this call, please reach out to Michael Durham, Director of Networks. 

This call will last 75 minutes.

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December 03, 2024 at 2:00pm - 3:15pm
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Michael Durham ·

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  • Jack Zhang
    published this page in Programming 2024-08-14 11:47:21 -0400

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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