Report Title:	Intermediary Profile Report
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Organization:	Corporation for Supportive Housing	Program ID Number: I-19
Date Profile Created:	May 3, 2006	Date Profile Last Updated: May 3, 2006

Program Summary:
The Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) was established in 1991 with funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Ford Foundation to support developing service-supported housing for vulnerable populations. CSH helps communities create helps communities create permanent housing with services to prevent and reduce homelessness, bringing together people, skills, and resources. It provides advice and development expertise, makes loans and grants to supportive housing sponsors, strengthens the supportive housing industry, and reforms public policy to make it easier to create and operate supportive housing. In coordination with broader national efforts to end homelessness, CSH will help communities create 150,000 units of supportive housing during the next decade, targeted to those most in need: people coping with homelessness and extreme poverty, as well as chronic health conditions such as mental illness, addiction or HIV/AIDS.

CSH raises dollars from national and local foundations in order to provide grants and predevelopment, project initiation, and acquisition loans. Among the foundations now supporting its work are Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, McKnight Foundation, The California Endowment, JEHT Foundation, Open Society Institute. It also leverages major investments of federal, state, and local public and private sector financing for capital, operating, and service needs. It partners with enterprise community partners on the Supportive Housing Investment Partnership (SHIP), providing project sponsors with a unified resource for grants, low-interest loans, technical expertise, low-income housing tax credit investments, and advocacy.

The national resource center operated by CSH maintains state-of-the-art information on a wide array of supportive housing issues, and responds to hundreds of requests annually from throughout the United States. The organization's website provides many online resources, including a Toolkit for Ending Long-Term Homelessness, a Financing Supportive Housing Guide, a Resource Library, Policy Updates, and a listing of its trainings. Training sessions with thousands of participants each year are a collaborative effort between CSH and a number of nonprofit and government partners, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development. A set of curricula developed with HUD, for example, provides best practices and guidance on supportive housing development, operations, and services. Each curriculum provides a one-day training to enrich the skills of supportive housing developers and providers. Finally, CSH reshapes public policies and public systems to improve the nation's response to long-term homelessness. It helps supportive housing advocates speak out-and be heard-on behalf of increased government investments in supportive housing.