The Denver's Road Home Funder Collaborative is a network of more than 20 foundations and corporations in Colorado that have co-invested in the Denver's Road Home Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness.

Activities:

• Knowledge sharing
• Co-investment on housing first programs in the metro Denver area
• Support the implementation of Denver's plan to end homelessness by 2015

Contact:

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• Amber Callender, Execuitve Director, Denver's Road Home

Results:

• Housing: In the past five years in partnership with the community, Denver's Road Home has developed over 1,961 new units of housing for the homeless.
• Prevention: Denver's Road Home has prevented over 5,500 individuals and households from becoming homeless 
• Employment: Job seekers working with collaborating Denver’s Road Home agencies have an employment retention rate of 73% over a nine-month period. Since the initiative began in 2005, 5,253 individuals have been placed in full or part-time jobs permanent jobs
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• In February 2010, Denver’s Road Home, in partnership with Common Ground, collaborated with homeless street outreach workers from the 
• Denver Street Outreach Collaborative (St. Francis Center, Urban Peak, Colorado Coalition for the Homeless) and other volunteers from the 
• community to create a name-by-name list of all those sleeping on the streets of Denver. The Vulnerability Index, used by cities that are 
• part of the 100,000 Homes Campaign, identifies our most vulnerable homeless individuals based on various health risk factors. Over three 
• nights, a team of 50 people encountered 219 people sleeping on the streets of Denver and 92 in cold weather emergency shelters

News and Updates on Programs and Priorities:

• Denver's Road Home takes top honor at awards for excellence
• Denver's Road Home starts second half of it's plan
• Photo Essay on "The Face of Homelessness"
  
• Denver Housing First Collaborative

Denver's Road Home Video: How do you see homelessness?

Are you a funder in the Denver area interested in being part of this regional network?

• Sign up to join  today.