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Upcoming: Homeless and Education System Collaboration Webinar - December 15, 2015 - 1 PM EST

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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Upcoming: Homeless and Education System Collaboration Webinar - December 15, 2015 - 1 PM EST The National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE) invites you to participate in an upcoming special topic webinar entitled Homeless and Education System Collaboration . Homeless and Education System Collaboration Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST (please adjust for your time zone) Visit the American Institutes for Research registration page to register . The homeless service system and education system are serving many of the same p

SNAPS In Focus: Equal Access for Transgender People

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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . SNAPS In Focus: Equal Access for Transgender People Transgender people face discrimination and mistreatment in many facets of their lives. These challenges not only increase the likelihood of homelessness, but they also prevent individuals in need from accessing community services. A joint report by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center on Transgender Equality in 2011 found that for those respondents who had attempted to access homeless shelters, 29% were turned away altogether, 42% were forced to stay in facilities designated for t

Have We Been Wasting Affordable Housing Money?

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Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Tuesday, December 8, 2015   Subscribe Now! Events Online Event | PIMBY: Philanthropy in My Back Yard | December 15 Place-based philanthropy. What does it mean to do it well, and what are the pitfalls? National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy offers this webinar with nonprofit leaders on the ground to ask: how should foundations investing in our communities behave to ensure that all of us thrive? Register here . Resources Making the Case for Linking Community Development and Health , a new report by Build Healthy Places Network , offers tools for connecting community development and health--two sectors that have previously worked in relative isolation from each other. The full repor