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Happening thURSDAY — Engaging Your Elected Officials: What You Can Do to Help End Homelessness ​ In advance of the National Conference on Ending Homelessness and Capitol Hill day, the Alliance's policy team will review its top legislative priorities for the coming year. These include: funding for homeless assistance programs, affordable housing, preventing the addition of arbitrary work requirements to federal assistance programs, and permanent authorization for the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. Join this free webinar Thursday, June 12 from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. to learn how you can encourage your elected officials to be a part of the solution. You’ll also hear from the Alliance’s National Field Organizer about building momentum in your district during the August recess, and year-round engagement with your elected officials. Register here >> What to Expect in the 2018 CoC Program NOFA The 2018 NOFA for Continuum of Care funding is here, and the Alliance is pleased to help inform the application process. Check out the latest Alliance blog post, which sets the landscape for this year’s NOFA, and please keep an eye open for new resources to help your community submit a competitive application! Read the blog » from the blog Ending Homelessness Today the official blog of the national alliance to end homelessness What to Expect in the 2018 CoC Program NOFA by Steve Berg People are hard at work on the NOFA for Continuum of Care funding for 2018, and this blog post kicks off a set of tools the Alliance will produce to help. We encourage all readers to also review resources from other partners, including HUD and USICH. Both organizations are producing resources to answer questions about […] The post What to Expect in the 2018 CoC Program NOFA appeared first on National Alliance to End Homelessness. Read more » comments » | To Address Unsheltered Homelessness, Shelter and Housing Must Be Connected by Steve Berg This post is part of Unsheltered, an Alliance blog series to explore the crisis of unsheltered homelessness in the United States. You can catch up on the whole series here. Quickly getting people into housing is one central function of a homelessness system. But when unsheltered homelessness starts to rise, communities sometimes shift their focus […] The post To Address Unsheltered Homelessness, Shelter and Housing Must Be Connected appeared first on National Alliance to End Homelessness. Read more » comments » | Using Smart Outreach and Housing First to End Unsheltered Homelessness in Nevada by Ben Cattell Noll This post is part of Unsheltered, an Alliance blog series exploring the crisis of unsheltered homelessness in the United States. You can catch up on the whole series here. There are tunnels running under the streets of Las Vegas. They were built to collect rainwater during the monsoon season so that the casinos don’t flood. But for […] The post Using Smart Outreach and Housing First to End Unsheltered Homelessness in Nevada appeared first on National Alliance to End Homelessness. Read more » comments » | About Us The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States. Join Us The Alliance is online: on Facebook, on Twitter, on our blog, and on our website! Join the Alliance's online community, and stay up-to-date with homelessness and housing information. www.endhomelessness.org Forward to a Friend Need Technical Assistance? Visit the Center for Capacity Building to learn more about the ways the Center can help your community end homelessness.