Public-Private Partnership

Developing public and private sector leadership on homelessness

With funding from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the National Alliance to End Homelessness has developed a Peer-to-Peer Leadership Council that several times each year connects a select group of leaders from across the nation who have taken responsibility for ending homelessness in their cities. Through the Leadership Council, the Alliance hopes to provide these leaders with opportunities to share experiences, overcome challenges, and educate federal policymakers.

The Foundation has also worked with philanthropic partners to mobilize private sector resources and efforts to end homelessness. In 2004, we were a founding member of the Partnership to End Long Term Homelessness, a national collaboration of foundations and corporations working to stimulate development of 150,000 units of permanent supportive housing nationwide and generate the philanthropic commitment necessary to transform policy. Renamed Funders Together to End Homelessness in 2008, this network seeks to end homelessness by:

  • Investing in effective, strategic, and innovative grantmaking
  • Mobilizing leadership, ideas, and partnerships to communicate what works, and why
  • Promoting more efficient use of local, state, and national resources

Results

  • The National Alliance to End Homelessness Peer-to-Peer Leadership Council met with members of HUD as well as the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) to discuss the development of the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act and the Federal Strategic Plan.
  • Funders Together members have invested over $200 million in the pursuit of ending homelessness and have funded innovative demonstration programs in Housing First, permanent supportive housing, rapid family re-housing, and systems change work that have become best practice models for ending homelessness.

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