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Riverside Ending Homelessness Fund's mission is to educate and fund programs or activities that engage service providers and the community to reduce homelessness and promote community-wide interest and concern for the homeless in the following types of activities:

• Serving as an education and informational resource;

• Promoting advocacy at the local, state, and federal level;

• Creating opportunities for planning, collaboration, networking, and sharing best practices among providers and partners

• Serving as a catalyst for new ideas and for implementation of solution

• A holistic approach that emphasizes coordination of care;

• Collaboration and cooperation between a broad range of community stakeholders including public and private partnerships;

• Assist homeless individuals and families in achieving and maintaining self-sufficiency;

• A housing-first approach focused on homeless prevention and rapid re-housing to help households at risk of becoming homeless and place homeless individuals directly into housing coupled with case management;

• End homelessness.

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We distribute grants to programs that are aligned with this mission. Grant applications are reviewed and approved by the Board of Directors for projects that serve:

• Outreach, training advocacy and communication

• Filling in the gaps that exist in the services to the homeless

• Direct services that help people secure housing

• Supportive services for people in housing

• Rental assistance

• Homeless prevention

• Outreach – effort to educate or advocate by engaging the community regarding available services;

• Rapid Rehousing – housing focused towards chronically homeless that moves the person into housing quickly;

• Rental Assistance – short term (up to 3 months) housing payment in the form of either of tenant based or sponsor based support;

• Transitional Housing – housing in which all persons have a signed lease or occupancy agreement to facilitate the move of homeless individuals /families into permanent housing within 24 months;

• Permanent Housing – community-based housing without a designated length of stay;

• Supportive Services – services that assist someone in the transition from the streets or shelter into permanent suppmeortive housing;

• Homeless Prevention Activities – activities or programs designed to prevent the incidence of homelessness;

• Mental Health and Health Services – services designed to improve individual’s health and mental health and enhance their ability to remain stable, housed and community integrated.