Funders Together to End Homelessness

Our Mission

Funders Together to End Homelessness will mobilize its members to utilize the voice, influence, and expertise of philanthropy in ways that will advance lasting solutions to ending homelessness, including addressing its underlying causes like structural and racial inequities, and helping create policies and systems that center people with lived expertise.

Our Work

Funders Together to End Homelessness is the only philanthropic membership organization devoted to ending homelessness in the United States. We serve as a vehicle for members to be part of a broader movement and bring greater financial and intellectual resources to end homelessness and move toward housing justice, and we support the field of philanthropy by providing critical learning and networking opportunities around best practices and innovation to ensure investments are maximized.

Funders Together is an entirely remote organization, and all staff work from home unless traveling for work. Due to COVID-19, our in-person events in 2021 have been shifted to a virtual format, and we do not anticipate any required travel in 2021 on behalf of the organization.

Funders Together to End Homelessness:

• Encourages and supports our members in risk taking and learning faster together.
• Inspires by connecting members doing critical work across the United States to each other as well as members with a local focus to national efforts.
• Highlights available opportunities for funders to be part of policy change and bring the collective philanthropy voice to advocacy at both the local and national level.
• Provides tailored learning that allows philanthropy to consider the role in best practices and emerging topics around preventing and ending homelessness. 

We believe:

• Moving people into permanent housing through proven best practices is critical to ensuring homelessness is rare, brief, and one-time.
• It is essential that philanthropy work in a public-private partnership model identifying where funds can be leveraged, help to fill gaps, and spur innovation.
• In order to effect lasting change, it is critical for communities to take a systems change approach to the work of preventing and ending homelessness.
• Recognizing policy change and prioritizing public resources is critical to our work and we believe funders should engage in and fund advocacy efforts at the local and national level. 
• Racial and other inequities contribute to homelessness and housing insecurity, therefore, it is critical philanthropy work with partners to address structural inequalities.
• In a grantee-centered approach and embedding lived experience in all aspects of our members’ work to prevent and end homelessness.
• In embedding the voices of people with lived experience in all aspects of our members’ work to prevent and end homelessness.