The Campion Foundation in Seattle, Washington has joined the growing movement to end homelessness in Washington State by leveraging its limited resources to invest in systemic change and advocacy efforts. The Foundation seeks to make homelessness a rare and temporary hardship, and to give the homeless access to a seamless network of support services.

Ending Homelessness in Washington State: Our Focus

Advocacy

We support the development of a vibrant statewide advocacy network, with integrated grassroots, media, policy and political components. This network will effectively advance state legislative funding and policy solutions, as well as support similar efforts at the local and national levels.

Systems Change

Campion Foundation supports implementation of evidence-based best practices—prevention, coordinated entry, rapid re-housing, tailored services and links to post-secondary education and employment.

We support efforts to move mainstream health, education, child welfare, corrections, foster care and other systems to accept appropriate responsibility and take action to end homelessness. Planning for permanent housing at discharge from prison, leaving foster care and exiting health facilities must be integrated into all of these systems.

Capacity Building

Campion Foundation will work with our nonprofit partners to ensure that they work strategically, from a solid fiscal and operations base. The Foundation will support key organizations with substantial multi-year organizational development investments, supporting a wide range of activities such as strategic planning, board and leadership training, staff training and support, fund development planning and fundraising and advocacy training for staff and boards.

Field Building

Campion Foundation works to engage other philanthropists in funding efforts that address structural causes of homelessness, in particular through advocacy. The Foundation leverages philanthropy’s unique power to connect diverse interests across nonprofits, foundations and the business and public sectors through outreach, convening and communication.