Fremont reaches functional zero for veteran homelessness
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FREMONT, Colo. (KRDO) Today, Fremont, Colorado has been certified by a national nonprofit for functionally ending veteran homelessness. It is just the 12th community in the country to achieve functional zero for veteran homelessness, a dynamic measure for ending veteran homelessness. The community will be focused on sustaining this reality and expanding these results to other populations.
Reaching functional zero for veteran homelessness means that fewer veterans are experiencing homelessness than can be housed in a month. This certification comes from Built for Zero, a national initiative of more than 80 cities and counties across the country working to measurably end homelessness, led by the nonprofit Community Solutions.
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News: The Colorado Health Foundation has announced Erin Brown will be taking the helm as vice president of community investment and impact effective July 6. Brown is currently deputy chief of staff and first chief equity officer for Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock, and implemented the City of Denverâs Race and Social Justice Framework.
âErin brings a depth of knowledge about equity, leadership and coaching, and has extensive managerial and operational experience,â said Chief Impact Officer Amy Latham. âI look forward to working with her to accelerate our progress toward advancing health equity in Colorado.â
Previously, Erin served as deputy director for Denver Parks and Recreation, director of resident services for Kappa Management, vice president of programs and development for the Urban League of Metropolitan Denver, and executive director for the YMCA of Metropolitan Denver.
Sonal Shah Tapped to Lead the Asian American Foundation
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Sonal Shah was President Obama’s first director of the White House’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.
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Sonal Shah, a professor and founding executive director of the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University, has been named president of this new foundation. Shah was President Obama’s first director of the White House’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.
The foundation was created with an initial $125 million in donations from its board of directors, and it intends to raise additional money to make grants to Asian American and Pacific Islander organizations and causes over the next five years.
The Colorado Media Partnership has announced that KSUT is among eight Colorado newsrooms and two newsroom-community partnerships that will receive a total of $85,000 in grants to support local journalism and community listening and reporting projects addressing critical information needs, questions, and concerns about uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine among communities of color and other marginalized groups.
KSUT s Tribal Radio and Four Corners Public Radio serve four counties in Southwest Colorado in addition to Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute Tribal lands. The station will receive
$10,000 to support local journalists and digital media content producers in hosting on-air and digital conversations about the vaccine with local tribal leaders and public health experts; increase reporting on vaccine questions and perspectives from tribal, rural, immigrant and homeless communities; and work with community partners to share information about pop-up and mobile clinics.