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Webinar: Leveraging Innovative Employment Tactics to Serve Those Experiencing Homelessness

The connection between employment and homelessness is evident: homelessness is a barrier to stable employment. Without the fair opportunity for employment, the ability to find a home and stay housed dramatically decreases putting individuals and families at risk. How, as funders, can we invest in and use our influence to leverage tactics to help employ individuals experiencing homelessness?

Join us on Wednesday, August 24th at 3:30pm ET as our expert panelists discuss how funders can advance employment opportunities and engage employers in the community to build support around these efforts. The speakers will also share examples of what is working in Colorado to help individuals who experience barriers to employment through partnerships throughout the community.

Panelists include:

  • Ed Blair, Embassy Suites Downtown Denver
  • Jeff Hirota, The Denver Foundation
  • Chaer Robert, Colorado Center on Law and Policy
  • Laura Ware, Colorado Center on Law and Policy
  • Melissa Young, Heartland Alliance

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Please note: The webinar is at 3:30pm eastern time.  If you are logged in, the time should reflect your current time zone. If you have any questions regarding the time, please contact Lauren at [email protected]

This event is intended for funders.  Before you invite non-funders to participate, please contact Lauren Bennett at [email protected]

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August 24, 2016 at 3:30pm - 4:45pm
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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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