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Report Title:

Intermediary Profile Report

Report Date:


 

Organization Name:
 

 

Corporation for Supportive Housing

Program ID Number: I-119

Date Profile Created:
 

 

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.

 


 

Contact Name:

Lyn Hikida

Title:

Director of communications and fund development

Phone:

510-251-1910 x237

Fax:

510-251-5954

E-mail Address:

lyn.hikida@csh.org

URL:

www.csh.org

Address:

1330 Broadway, Ste. 601

Oakland, CA 94612


 

Date Program Began:

1991

Total Funds Awarded by this Program for Most Recent Fiscal Year:

$18,800,000

Date Program Scheduled to End:

N/A

Total Administrative Expenses for this Program for Most Recent Fiscal Year:

$10,000,000


 

How Capacity-Building Programs are Operated:

Run internally by the organization.


 

Number Staff/Consultants:

39/0

Background Materials Available:

Yes


 

Capacity-Building Work Evaluated:

No

Evaluation Results Available:

N/A

Frequency of Evaluation:

N/A

Type of Evaluation:

N/A


 

Geographic Areas Served:

National:

Yes

International:

N/A

 

  Selected States:

California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Maine, Oregon, Washington

  Geographic Details:

In addition to providing core services primarily through geographic hubs in the first 9 states listed above, CSH operates targeted initiatives in the other 4 states, and provides limited assistance in many other communities.


 

Types of Capacity-Building Assistance Offered to Nonprofits:

1. Grants:

2. Direct Service:

3. Direct Financial Support:

Categorical

Program

Assessment of service needs

Convening activities
Education/training for groups of nonprofits
Information and referral

Participation in community initiative
Website with capacity-building information

Loans


 

Grants Offered to Capacity-Building Service
Providers and Intermediaries:

  Support for Services to Nonprofits:

Yes

  General Support:

N/A

Grants Offered to Support Overall Capacity-Building Infrastructure:

Local, state/regional, national


 

Areas of Nonprofit Operations Supported:

How Funding/Service Decisions Are Made:

Administration & finance
Communication (internal & external)

Evaluation

Facilities management
Legal/risk management
Planning
Staff development & training

Application by potential recipient – organization selection.

Proactive identification of applicants by organization.


 

 

 

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