COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD
Our grant helped support work to improve adult and family homeless services systems and engage in peer-to-peer sharing opportunities with other communities around the Homeless Prevention & Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP). CSB regularly engages in collaborative work to bring together various providers and partner agencies to share best practices in planning and implementing strategies to create long term change in the homeless system.
ENTERPRISE HOPE SF
HOPE SF is an ambitious program to revitalize seven public housing sites in San Francisco. It is a far reaching project striving to rebuild isolated and dilapidated communities into thriving, sustainable mixed income neighborhoods. It differs from other public housing revitalization projects in that it is designed to serve current residents, assisting them to remain in their neighborhoods while providing comprehensive human services. Butler supported the public advocacy and awareness campaign designed to build and maintain support among all the various partners involved in this project; the public, the philanthropy and private sectors well as city, state and federal agencies.
SISTERS OF CHARITY
A Butler grant assisted the Sisters of Charity of Cleveland (SOCF) to support the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Office of Homeless Services (OHS) in its planning efforts for the most efficient and effective use of its combined allocation of over $14 million in new dollars through the federal Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Funds (HPRP) to prevent and end homelessness. SOCF engaged experts to provide technical assistance and training to the OHS and service providers in planning for these funds. The grant helped develop and implement a Central In-Take for all families and individuals experiencing homelessness; forge new partnerships for homelessness prevention, targeted to the populations prevalent in our local shelter system; develop in-take and housing barrier assessments to allow for better needs assessments and targeting of resources; and, foster peer-to-peer exchange with other communities in Ohio to explore best practices and how to best utilize the resources available under the HPRP.
PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS
We supported the nonprofit developers in Philadelphia in their successful efforts to spearhead the passage of the Philadelphia Housing Trust Fund. Since September 2005, the Philadelphia Housing Trust Fund has raised over $57 million to expand housing opportunities for more than 4,000 families and individuals through the development of new affordable homes, repair of existing homes and assisting families to stay in their homes avoiding foreclosure and homelessness. Our two grants totaling $45,000 supported the housing trust fund campaign, and our grant of $20,000 contributed to advocacy efforts around effective implementation of the trust fund.
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE
We support the Center for Community Change's work to attain social and economic justice for low-income people. Our overall homelessness funding strategy has focused on increasing the supply of affordable housing. The Housing Trust Fund Project provides intensive technical assistance to some twenty-five housing trust funds campaigns each year and works with at least another twenty-five as they develop their campaigns or implement their housing trust funds. Housing Trust Funds across the country support hundreds of thousands of affordable homes for the homeless to the working poor each year. For each dollar that a housing trust fund invests in affordable housing, on average, another $7.00-$10.00 are leveraged from other public and private resources. During 2009-2010, the work of the Housing Trust Fund Project added at least $163.2 million in revenues to housing trust funds. Fourteen new housing/homeless trust funds were created during this period. The Housing Trust Fund Project is exploring ways to highlight new models for homeless trust funds so that these can be replicated throughout the country as well.
CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
We support the policy and advocacy efforts of the Corporation of Supportive Housing (CSH). CSH is a national non-profit and community development financial institution that helps communities create permanent housing connected to supportive services to prevent and end homelessness. CSH has led a coalition of advocates, providers and thought-leaders to encourage policymakers to dedicate more resources towards permanent solutions for ending homelessness, including permanent supportive housing. CSH's leadership has led to the federal government increasing its investment in homeless programs by more than $1 billion and adding approximately 70,000 permanent housing beds in the last 10 years.