Blog: Homelessness Ends Here

01/31/2010 January 2010 Week in Tweets Publisher: Funders Together Author: Funders Together

A summary of tweets from the Funders Together twitter feed. Follow us at @FundersTogether for real-time updates!

Week in Tweets Jan 23 thru Jan 29:

  • RT @NLIHC: Read: The American Prospect "The Rental Breakdown" NLIHC's Pres Sheila Crowley quoted and NHTF mention http://bit.ly/9CkTR4     12:45 PM Jan 29th   via TweetDeck
  • Short-term housing assistance not always enough: financial situation 4 poor families worse as state programs are cut: http://bit.ly/c6ortP  12:37 PM Jan 29th via TweetDeck
  • OneFamily Inc. launches interactive map of of org's offering help for those homeless/at-risk of homelessness in Mass: http://bit.ly/aHArEp  12:29 PM Jan 29th via TweetDeck
  • S. Mark Taper Fdn donates $25K to Sunburst Housing: provides safe & supportive housing for San Diego’s homeless youth: http://bit.ly/9e4dJ5  12:13 PM Jan 29th via TweetDeck
  • RT @vetpao: Bill Would Expand Grant Programs For Homeless Veterans http://ning.it/dsUSii  12:07 PM Jan 29th via TweetDeck
  • Agencies Join Forces to Help Children Exiting Foster Care Get Housing: http://bit.ly/9aesn4  11:37 AM Jan 28th via TweetDeck
  • Lieberman and Dodd Sign On To Letters Requesting $1 Billion for Housing Trust Fund, expansion of Section 8, etc: http://bit.ly/eqR54  9:46 AM Jan 28th via TweetDeck
  • RT @PSCtweets: CT 2010 legislative priorities: new supportive housing for frequent users of services; preserve the... http://bit.ly/cYirS1  1:18 PM Jan 26th via TweetDeck
  • Congratulations and a warm welcome to new USICH Deputy Directors: Anthony Love, Jennifer Ho, and Sharon Price: http://bit.ly/c9sc0C  10:39 AM Jan 26th via TweetDeck
  • RT @naehomelessness: Great new map from National Alliance to End Homelessness: EVERY official homeless count ever: http://bit.ly/4ryBBa  7:24 AM Jan 26th via TweetDeck
  • United Way launches permanent supportive housing pilot project in Arizona to end chronic homelessness: http://bit.ly/82uNsC  11:27 AM Jan 25th via TweetDeck
  • RT @hominc RT @commongroundny: Recasting Homelessness As Life Or Death - apply vulnerability index in Hartford: http://bit.ly/70OQ7f  11:11 AM Jan 25th via TweetDeck
  • RT @tripproject: Drugs, Homelessness and Health: Homeless Youth Speak Out About Harm Reduction: http://bit.ly/5gcD46  9:49 AM Jan 25th via TweetDeck
  • Fireman Foundation $350K grant to SE Mass to "divert, prevent & eliminate homelessness... for individuals & families": http://bit.ly/8AmlL4  9:24 AM Jan 25th via TweetDeck
  • I subscribed to IroncutterMedia's channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/IroncutterMedia?feature=autoshare_twitter  8:39 AM Jan 25th via Google
  • RT @naehomelessness: HUD Secretary plugs HPRP "We have begun reorienting the Fed govt toward preventing homelessness." http://bit.ly/63H8D9  8:27 AM Jan 25th via TweetDeck
  • Core philosophy of Billings Forge Community Works and Melville Trust: self-sufficiency is how people keep their homes: http://bit.ly/7lrtDm  8:17 AM Jan 25th via TweetDeck
  • Serving the Community, Satisfying the Palate - NY Times profiles "unusual culinary endeavor" to end homelessness in CT: http://bit.ly/7lrtDm  8:16 AM Jan 25th via TweetDeck
  • Building Changes in Seattle Releases 5-Year Outcomes on More Than 1,000 Families Served by Washington Families Fund: http://bit.ly/6jp7PD  8:11 AM Jan 25th via TweetDeck
  • RT @knoxtyp: How does permanent supportive housing work? A quick, good video answer: http://bit.ly/4N6xYy  8:07 AM Jan 25th via TweetDeck

Week in Tweets Jan 16 thru Jan 22:

  • RT @VeteransHealth: VA researchers strive for best approach to provide primary care for homeless #Veterans: http://ow.ly/YyT4  1:35 PM Jan 22nd via TweetDeck
  • The Disruption of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program: Causes, Consequences, Responses, and Proposed Correctives: http://bit.ly/4vQwby  12:13 PM Jan 22nd via TweetDeck
  • RT @commongroundny: Ending Homelessness After Foster Care Conference Report: http://bit.ly/7GaaQn  12:08 PM Jan 21st via TweetDeck
  • RT @naehomelessness: new research from WA shows housing supports prevents crime & hospitalization among mentally ill: http://bit.ly/4H8k0W  12:02 PM Jan 21st via TweetDeck
  • Budgets balanced, lives saved: Supportive housing for frequent users of public services: http://bit.ly/8Jnkq3  9:00 AM Jan 21st via TweetDeck
  • RT @BillGates: Bill Gates/Gates Foundation suggestions for how to help in Haiti (welcome to Twitter, Mr. Gates!): http://bit.ly/8dSgZy  11:13 AM Jan 20th via TweetDeck
  • Useful new reference on individual state economies from NP Quarterly: The State We're In: http://bit.ly/76ktZV  10:34 AM Jan 20th via TweetDeck
  • Foreclosure-based evictions leave many NJ renters homeless. 20 to 25K renters affected; many "don't know their rights": http://bit.ly/8qlbnZ  9:29 AM Jan 20th via TweetDeck
  • RT @HRHousing: Paterson budget proposal decimates supportive housing and shutters PSH for families & young adults. http://bit.ly/8x2jgI  9:21 AM Jan 20th via TweetDeck
  • RT @naehomelessness: 2 stories out today show #s of homeless youth increasing: in OR http://bit.ly/67IcLt and in NYC http://bit.ly/5eRtsP  8:08 AM Jan 20th via TweetDeck
  • NIMBY nonsense: examples of supportive housing's positive impact on surrounding neighborhoods: http://bit.ly/6uHZp7  7:47 AM Jan 20th via TweetDeck
  • I subscribed to HUDchannel's channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/HUDchannel?feature=autoshare_twitter  1:46 PM Jan 19th via Google
  • CT Mirror, launches January 25th. Read more: http://bit.ly/7UPwsG  1:24 PM Jan 19th via TweetDeck
  • Connecticut Mirror, independent, non-partisan, non-profit news org created 2 reinvigorate coverage of CT's state govt, pub policy & politics 1:23 PM Jan 19th via TweetDeck
  • NAEH webinar this Thursday, 3 to 4 p.m. (EST): Developing a Housing First Approach Systemwide in Alameda County, CA: http://bit.ly/7vw6QA  11:57 AM Jan 19th via TweetDeck
  • Earthquake in Haiti: A Briefing 4 the Fdn Community: experienced disaster grantmakers reflect on lessons learned: http://tinyurl.com/y86rb27  9:39 AM Jan 19th via TweetDeck
  • Alabama shelters hard-pressed 2 help homeless with serious mental illness: "not equipped to deal with the mentally ill" http://bit.ly/5cCRZn  9:11 AM Jan 19th via TweetDeck
  • Funder Collaboratives: Why and How Funders Work Together: http://bit.ly/8yEzv5   8:46 AM Jan 19th via TweetDeck
  • Consortium of Miami affordable & supportive housing developers receive fed grant 4 buying/fixing foreclosed properties: http://bit.ly/82FpxG  8:22 AM Jan 19th via TweetDeck
  • Changing systems 2 change lives: CSH audio-conference on ending institutional circuit 4 frequent users of pub services: http://bit.ly/8m1gdG  8:03 AM Jan 19th via TweetDeck

Week in Tweets Jan 9 thru Jan 15:

  • 2009 "Pioneering Housing Strategies" Award finalist Mercy Housing Lakefront features creative financing 4 supportive hsng: http://ow.ly/WS2r  9:06 AM Jan 15th via TweetDeck
  • Jan 19: 1000 Homes Kickoff from Urban Land Institute to help the development community end homelessness in Los Angeles: http://bit.ly/7T6XzH  8:00 AM Jan 15th via TweetDeck
  • NLIHC update on National Housing Trust Fund - $1billion + in "jobs" bill: http://bit.ly/8WwTJu  1:41 PM Jan 14th via TweetDeck
  • $50 Mil Private Funded Street to Home Plan to Help Homeless in Vancouver unveiled: letting government off the hook? http://bit.ly/7xVjgO  12:28 PM Jan 13th via TweetDeck
  • Fireman Foundation sponsors forum highlighting best & emerging practices to end family & individual homelessness in MA: http://bit.ly/5NLyvE  9:36 AM Jan 13th via TweetDeck
  • RT @njaneh: New Jersey Legislature Stops the Revolving Door of Recidivism (with broad bipartisan support): http://bit.ly/8L5E2e  8:57 AM Jan 13th via TweetDeck
  • RT @invisiblepeople: Demand overwhelms program to prevent homelessness: http://bit.ly/65NJqv  8:30 AM Jan 13th via TweetDeck
  • NAEH: impact of FY '11 scenarios for Homeless Assistance grants under HEARTH - how 2 avoid cuts 2 PSH/other activities: http://bit.ly/57jGat  11:30 AM Jan 12th via TweetDeck
  • RT @shrivercenter: Addressing the Foreclosure Crisis; new research from Urban Institute looks at 3 cities' approaches: http://bit.ly/71hd0T  9:31 AM Jan 12th via TweetDeck
  • CSH: Summary of Second Chance Act Adult and Juvenile Offender Reentry Demonstration Projects FY 2010 Competitive Grant: http://bit.ly/5QZqxJ  9:09 AM Jan 12th via TweetDeck
  • Goal of Housing First is 2 show how ind's can successfully transition directly from institutions to permanent housing: http://bit.ly/5wo69B  8:25 AM Jan 12th via TweetDeck
  • CSH launches Housing First pilot 2 provide supportive housing 4 20 ind's in CT coming out of hospitals & institutions: http://bit.ly/5wo69B  8:24 AM Jan 12th via TweetDeck
  • FUSE goal is to reduce cycling through the prison and other systems: http://bit.ly/5wo69B  8:22 AM Jan 12th via TweetDeck
  • CSH & Partners Launch FUSE - supportive housing for 30 freq. users of jail, shelter, emer health, & other pub systems: http://bit.ly/5wo69B  8:22 AM Jan 12th via TweetDeck
  • @pepdek sorry for delayed response - no, we do not make grants (our members do, however). 8:18 AM Jan 12th via TweetDeck in reply to pepdek
  • Partnership for Strong Communities named Connecticut Association of Nonprofits member of the week - congrats! http://bit.ly/72d5OM  8:17 AM Jan 12th via TweetDeck
  • RT @npquarterly: The state budget crises should be a rallying cry for the nonprofit sector http://bit.ly/6v4Nx8  8:11 AM Jan 12th via TweetDeck
  • New from Dennis Culhane: "Institutional discharges and subsequent shelter use among unaccompanied adults in NYC" : http://bit.ly/5ZDN0c  8:11 AM Jan 12th via TweetDeck
  • Community foundation thrives in Charlottesville: http://bit.ly/7i1vKx. Made previous grants 4 perm supportive housing: http://bit.ly/92kS2d  8:09 AM Jan 12th via TweetDeck
  • NAEH and CSH webinar 2 launch campaign to increase funding for HUD's McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants FY 2011: http://bit.ly/5caEeU  11:57 AM Jan 11th via TweetDeck

Week in Tweets Jan 2 thru Jan 8:

  • RT @PSCtweets: Welcoming the Corporation for Supportive Housing to Facebook! http://bit.ly/6NRx1Y   12:20 PM Jan 8th via TweetDeck
  • USICH: President's point man on homelessness is Derek Douglas, Special Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs: http://bit.ly/6PNZLg  12:01 PM Jan 8th via TweetDeck
  • Funder call on "Strengthening Advocacy in New Decade" sponsored by Funders' Cmte for Civic Participation & GIST: http://bit.ly/7rqGIi  11:21 AM Jan 8th via TweetDeck
  • From CNN, how to help the homeless in the cold: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/weather/01/08/homeless.help/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn  9:59 AM Jan 8th via web
  • Funder Networks Collaborating to Prevent and End Homelessness: http://bit.ly/pa74L  12:15 PM Jan 5th via TweetDeck
  • CSH’s Keeping Families Together Initiative pairs supportive housing with preventive child welfare services: http://bit.ly/8wTmt8  12:12 PM Jan 5th via TweetDeck
  • Supportive housing for homeless veterans: resources from Funders Together website: http://bit.ly/6A3GRi  11:15 AM Jan 5th via TweetDeck
  • RT @p2173: "The revolution will be mapped" GIS Mapping shows what discrimination looks like: http://bit.ly/4ZdY95  11:14 AM Jan 5th via TweetDeck
  • RT @SloanNetwork: Kaiser Fam Fdn: States Sustain/Expand Coverage 4 Low-Income Children/Fams Despite Recession, BUT...: http://bit.ly/8pvsVk  10:21 AM Jan 5th via TweetDeck
  • RT @naehomelessness: homeless youth in California - a piece from HuffPo http://bit.ly/87GTUk  9:52 AM Jan 5th via TweetDeck
  • RT @naehomelessness: "Housing is the answer" - a short piece from Healthcare for the Homeless in the BaltSun. http://bit.ly/8i9oXc  9:52 AM Jan 5th via TweetDeck
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