By joining the Alliance, you become part of a community-wide coalition doing concrete work to end homelessness in Ottawa.
CAN I BE A MEMBER?
This unique coalition draws strength from the expertise of people who have experienced homelessness, local housing and homelessness organizations, researchers, community leaders, and neighbours who care about their neighbours. Collectively, we have the power to make change, and to prevent, reduce, and end homelessness in our community.
WHAT DO MEMBERS DO?
Members support the Alliance not only with membership fees but by supporting and contributing to the Alliance’s work. This can look like sitting on committees, doing important research, or helping plan events. Organizational members can also vote at the Annual General Meeting.
WHAT WOULD MY MEMBERSHIP FUND?
Homelessness is a policy choice. Our work focuses on creating system-level change and addressing the conditions that create homelessness. That means your membership funds concrete changes to the homelessness system.
That can look like:
- Paying experts who have experienced homelessness to lead the development of policies and processes to end homelessness, like our Expert Steering Team.
- Community-wide advocacy campaigns such as Starts With Home
- Bringing together researchers and policy analysts to develop strong knowledge translation on homelessness and affordable housing trends in the City, such as the Scaling Up Non-Profit Housing report.
- Sector-wide initiatives to leverage resources, like the Systems Inventory project.
- A strong media voice on affordable housing and homelessness (News)
- Working with City staff, councillors, and community agencies towards stronger coordination and governance
WHAT ARE THE MEMBER BENEFITS?
- Advocacy tools (including social media shareables, etc.) for member agencies targeting a variety of audiences
- Inclusion in fundraising opportunities as part of annual event “Race to End Homelessness”
- Supporting initiatives aimed at building momentum and political will for affordable housing and ending homelessness
- Development of community-driven governance to enable system planning and coordination across the housing and homelessness sector
- Access to a team of people with lived experience of homelessness hired for member agencies in developing policies and programs, Board presentations, etc.
- Presentations with local and national experts on homelessness
- Reduced rate at Alliance events, including the Community Forum
- Newsletters and up to date information on housing related campaigns, initiatives, funding announcements and policy information affecting housing and homelessness
- Access to our wide network of organizations, community partners, all three local post-secondary institutions, and national homelessness partners
WHAT DOES MEMBERSHIP COST?
Individual Members: $120/year
Individual Members, Lived Experience: free
Organizational Members: membership fees vary based on an organization's budget
*Membership is valid for one year, from April 1 to March 31.