In Abilene, Texas, a team has worked to nearly halve the length of time it takes to move a client experiencing chronic homelessness into housing, from 188 days to 95. The Functional Zero accomplishment came after ending veteran homelessness, reaching functional zero for that population in February 2019. Today, the community announced it had become […]
Jacksonville and Duval County (Florida) is working to make veteran homelessness rare and brief. At the heart of this movement is the insight that communities can’t fix what they can’t see. Community Solutions teamed up with the Tableau Foundation and Built for Zero communities to gather and analyze real-time homelessness data. This takes the anonymity […]
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Poverty Outcomes Improvement Network Team (POINT) is a first-time, regional driven, initiative focusing on introducing continuous improvement methodology to nonprofits so that they can learn the tools and apply them to their systems and processes in order to accelerate change, improve outcomes and ultimately reduce poverty in Northeast Wisconsin. It was an 18-month initiative, funded […]
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Rockford, Ill., was the first community in the United States to reach the “functional zero level” for veterans, and the second community to do so for chronic homelessness. “Every person who is homeless in our community that we are aware of goes on our by-name list, which is broken out by subpopulations: chronic, veteran, family, […]
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