Thanks to a Lilly Endowment Community Leadership Implementation Grant, gifts made to support a housing security endowment fund will be matched dollar-for-dollar!
The Community Foundation is leading a collaborative effort to reduce unsheltered homelessness in Monroe County through increased case management, outreach, landlord engagement, and homelessness prevention.
When you make a gift to an endowed housing security fund, your donation will be matched with funds from Lilly Endowment through the Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow (GIFT VIII) Community Leadership Grant Program. Double your impact today!
Gifts and pledge commitments made through December 31, 2029, will be matched while funds last. To reserve your matching funds, make a commitment today, which may be fulfilled over multiple years through 2029.
Ways to Join the Match
Together, we can strengthen housing security and decrease homelessness in Monroe County.
Give to the Housing Security Fund
You can give to one of our existing Housing Security Fund through our donation portal, or see additional ways to give. To make a gift, you can send a check to the Foundation indicating the fund you would like to support, or you can donate online through our donation portal.
Establish a New Housing Fund
This match opportunity makes it easy to start a new housing security fund. Because your gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar, you can establish a new, fully funded housing security endowment with $10,000.
If you are interested in establishing a fund or learning more about this matching program, please reach out to our Development Director, Meagan Niese.
About the Community Foundation’s Reducing Unsheltered Homelessness Leadership Initiative
In December 2024, the Community Foundation was awarded a Community Leadership Implementation Grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through the eighth phase of the Endowment’s Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow (GIFT VIII) statewide initiative.
For this initiative, the Foundation is collaborating with local partners to advance evidence-based strategies to reduce Monroe County’s population of individuals and families experiencing unsheltered homelessness through increased case management, street outreach, landlord engagement, and other homelessness diversion and prevention efforts. Included as part of this five-year effort is:
- Capacity building of Heading Home of South Central Indiana, the coordinating entity for reducing homelessness in Monroe County.
- Funding for case managers with local partner agencies.
- A pilot housing stability income supplement program for employed families at risk of losing their housing.
- Matching funds to grow the Housing Security Endowment Fund to sustain housing stability solutions in Monroe County.