A wide range of philanthropic institutions around the country are partnering to advance racial equity in their homelessness and housing work. 

Funders Together to End Homelessness, a national network of funders supporting strategic, innovative and effective solutions to homelessness, announced the individuals who will join the second cohort of Foundations for Racial Equity (FRE). 

Vanessa Samuelson, director of learning and research at the McGregor Fund, is among thirty individuals representing foundations in the cohort. 

Basic needs and housing are a focus area for the McGregor Fund. 

According to a press release, the cohort will work at “national and local levels to build relationships with other funders, learn together about systemic racism in housing and homelessness and lead the field in creating a more equitable world.” 

In addition to advancing racial equity in ending homelessness, over the next two years the FRE participants will: 

•    Learn about how other funders are applying a racial equity lens to their housing and homelessness grantmaking and are operationalizing racial equity in their organizations.

•    Shift their own practices to invest their dollars, time and influence in changing the homelessness and housing systems to make them more equitable and just.

•    Articulate a collective action to help build the philanthropic field working to advance racial equity in preventing and ending homelessness.

Ultimately, the goal is to share learned insights with the field of philanthropy to help advance this work. 

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Learn more about the work of the McGregor Fund.

Learn more about Foundations for Racial Equity.