Keys: Ending Family Homelessness

This video highlights how communities across the country are decreasing homelessness among families. Thanks to the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, it’s yours to use for free.

Use it as a tool to educate, influence, and inspire people in your community. Some ideas on how to use the video:

• Show the video to your staff, partners, and key funders.
• Show the video at an annual meeting, board meeting, or conference.
• Send copies to local elected officials; schedule a screening in their office.
• Hold screening parties and use the video as a fundraising tool.
• Add it to your website by adding a link.
• Provide copies of the video to your local schools and universities.
• Provide copies to the local faith-based community and ask them to get involved.
• Highlight the video in your newsletter.
• Add your own “response” video to our You Tube site about what your community is doing to end family homelessness.
• If broadcast news organizations are interested in putting together a homelessness story, send the video to them so that they can pull visuals and sound bytes.
• Send the video to blogs that cover homelessness, family and poverty issues. Encourage them to highlight it on their websites.

This video was made with generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.