Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness

A nonprofit organization

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$5,000 Goal

The Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness (SRCEH) was founded in 2013 and received our nonprofit status 501(c)(3) in April 2014.

At SRCEH, we work in coalition directly with people currently and formerly living outside, in shelters, and in temporary housing programs and their allies, to improve quality of life for the whole community, uplift living conditions, and ultimately win real housing solutions.

We develop leadership in our impacted community, understanding that the lack of their perspectives are the glaring hole in policy and community discussions related to their journeys, their struggles, and their lives. This has to change if we want reasonable, lasting solutions to the homelessness crisis. Therefore, we train and prepare for municipal and community meetings, including planning and facilitating our own events, and for traditional media experiences such as interviews, press conferences, and media relationship building.

We track and fight the expanding criminalization of homelessness through data analysis, direct surveying, community education, and advocacy.

We facilitate the local Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day, a national effort, through a Candlelit Vigil and Celebration of Life for those who have passed away living outside in our community each year. This event is an opportunity to honor those we’ve lost and to recommit to the fight against the growing public health crisis of homelessness that’s causing us to lose our community members at 20-30 years earlier than their housed peers.

This is an emergency and we fight for the urgency to treat it like one and we cannot do that without your support!

Mission

To end and prevent homelessness in the Sacramento region through policy analysis, community education, civic engagement, collective organizing, and advocacy.

Needs

General Operating supports our community education, organizing, and leadership development efforts in the unhoused community.

Equity Statement

Founding Guiding Principle: In order to promote equity, public policymakers and the community must address the underlying issues of structural racism and its intersections with class, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disabilities, and the political, economic and social structures that creates and perpetuate hunger, homelessness, the lack of decent affordable housing and disinvestment in neighborhoods of color.