Leaders Share Their Perspectives
Portland, Oregon has a national reputation for providing leadership on effective solutions to ending homelessness. Mayor Bud Clark, who led the city from 1985 to 1992, offered unprecedented mayoral leadership on solving homelessness. He created a 12-point homeless plan that has received national recognition.
In a series of short interviews, Stacy Holtmann and Marc Hillman uncover Portland’s role as a leader on the issue. The podcast includes interviews with:
- Bud Clark who describes the personal and policy reasons why he offered leadership at a critical moment;
- Dan Steffey, Clark’s aide at the time, who put together Portland’s 12-point plan on homelessness; and
- Doreen Binder, executive director of Transition Projects, explaining how Clark’s leadership led to other Portland innovations, including the award-winning Bud Clark Commons. Transitions is a nonprofit organization that works to transition individuals experiencing homelessness into housing.
Click here to listen to this podcast.
Click here to learn more about Transitions.
Monarch Housing Associates
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Kate Kelly joined Monarch Housing Associates in March of 2011. Prior to that, she worked for seven years at the Partnership for Strong Communities in Hartford, Connecticut as the Reaching Home Campaign Manager. Managing the statewide effort to end long-term homelessness, Kate effectively implemented statewide advocacy campaigns to fund over 700 new supportive housing units for individuals and families. She has experience directing fundraising events and presenting federal and state conferences. At the Partnership, she educated state and federal legislators and staff about supportive housing homelessness issues and advocated for new funding sources. She has also developed public forums that led to formal policy recommendations and educated local constituencies such as policymakers, legislators and funders. Ms. Kelly received her B.A. in government from the University of Notre Dame and an M.S.W from the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. Click here to send Ms. Kelly an email.
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