Beyond Housing Award
Nomination applications are due by December 4, 2019.
The mission of the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness (ICPH), in addition to framing homelessness as a children’s issue, is to highlight approaches to family homelessness that go beyond just housing. These include programs that actively serve the additional needs that a family experiencing housing instability might have, including employment, education, child care, and health-related services.
The Beyond Housing Award honors people and organizations whose work exemplifies the idea that homelessness is much more than a housing issue. Recipients’ work goes “beyond housing” to provide services and support to homeless families while keeping the needs of children at the forefront. ICPH is currently accepting nominations for the fourth biennial Beyond Housing Award, to be presented at the 2020 Beyond Housing Conference taking place in New York City, January 15-17, 2020.
Individuals and organizations (non-profit, for-profit, and government) are eligible to be nominated. Nominees should fit into one of these four categories:
- Service Provision: Pioneering and comprehensive program and service provisions addressing the unique and complex needs of homeless families and children.
- Partnerships: Innovative partnerships, especially those between homeless service providers and other community organizations (schools, libraries, clinics and medical services, children’s services, museums, universities, law enforcement, etc.) that demonstrate an approach to family homelessness that goes beyond housing OR partnerships between government agencies that break down bureaucracy and silos in an effort to serve the holistic needs of homeless families.
- Media: Innovative use of journalism, media, or social media to highlight the issues of childhood poverty and homelessness. Disclaimer: This award is for an established media outlet or journalist, not an in-house multimedia project.
- Philanthropy: Meaningful charitable donations, volunteer work, and humanitarian efforts focusing on the needs of children experiencing homelessness. For instance, this could be an individual adult, youth, or child; a foundation, a corporate social responsibility effort, a community group, a faith-based group or a fraternal organization.
Award Winners
ICPH reserves the right to award multiple awards in a category or no awards in a category if not enough nominations are received or nominations do not meet basic criteria.
Nomination Information
Please include links to or examples of the nominee’s work as appropriate.
Nomination applications are due by December 4, 2019.
