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The James Irvine Foundation announced the recipients of its 2023 Leadership Awards, honoring seven leaders from six organizations for advancing solutions to critical issues affecting millions of Californians: housing and homelessness, tribal sovereignty and family welfare, criminal justice reform, human rights, education, food insecurity, climate change, and economic justice.

We are so grateful to Tipping Point Community for their vision and commitment in launching the San Francisco Flexible Housing Subsidy Pool. Check out this Chronicle of Philanthropy piece on the lasting impact of Tipping Point’s groundbreaking funding.

We are proud to share this beautiful piece on older adults who previously experienced homelessness, featuring our amazing Brilliant Corners San Diego Flex Pool participant, Greg.

Transformational change requires transformational leadership and partnership. We’re grateful to Tipping Point Community for their passion, focus and commitment to tackling San Francisco’s homelessness crisis and proud to be a partner in this initiative.

With rents on the rise statewide, Brilliant Corners is working to broaden our network of landlord partners to connect clients to time-limited voucher resources. CalMatters highlights this issue and features Brilliant Corners Chief Program Officer, Chris Contreras.

This powerful LA Times article features Housing For Health and Brilliant Corners client, Sean, sharing his journey to stability. LA County’s Housing for Health program underscores how housing is the cornerstone of health and wellbeing, and Sean’s story is a testament to how supportive housing and care can lead to transformative health outcomes.

Brilliant Corners is proud to be part of this important project, bringing much-needed supportive housing to our community and serving residents with developmental disabilities.

PBS journalist Bonnie Boswell highlights our Breaking Barriers Program, featuring the journey of our former participant Raven in securing her very own apartment.

Brilliant Corners was proud to partner with DHS Housing for Health, the City and County of LA, and JWCH Institute, Inc. on The Oasis, a new recuperative care site providing medical monitoring, counseling and case management for homeless women who are medically vulnerable.

Throughout the pandemic Brilliant Corners and the non-profit Tipping Point have housed people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco.

As Bay Area officials work to find long-term options for homeless residents housed by Project Roomkey, some nonprofits are working with landlords to find permanent housing solutions.

The Avalon 1355 project was developed in partnership with the Richmond Group, KFA Architecture, and Brilliant Corners. This new project will bring 53 units of much-needed permanent supportive housing to the Wilmington community, maintaining the existing site structure and adding in green design elements.

Brilliant Corners was honored to be featured in the California Community Foundation’s (CCF) 2020 Annual Report. As one of the recipients of funding from CCF’s COVID-19 emergency response grants, Brilliant Corners partnered with LA County to stand up quarantine sites for the unhoused in a matter of weeks.

People experiencing homelessness are one of the populations most impacted by COVID-19 in California because they lack protection from the environment, adequate access to hygiene and sanitation facilities, or connection to services and health care.

San Francisco will move 200 homeless residents out of the hotels where they’ve been temporarily sheltering during the pandemic, and into permanent supportive housing.

The Regional Task Force on the Homeless (RTFH) announced the selection of Brilliant Corners, a nationally recognized innovative non-profit, to operate the San Diego Regional Flexible Housing Pool (FHP).

In collaboration between the Annenberg Foundation, Brilliant Corners, Los Angeles County and MobileDemand donated 300 iPads to four hospitals so isolated patients can have virtual visits with family and friends during the coronavirus pandemic.

Philanthropy has both a unique opportunity and a critical responsibility to protect the most vulnerable communities during a pandemic. During this vital time, philanthropy can leverage its flexibility to provide funds to organizations for immediate relief and urgent needs.

City officials and non-profit developer Community Corporation of Santa Monica broke ground on Vista Ballona, a subsidized affordable housing complex in Mar Vista.

In 2017, as part of a broader set of programs aimed at reducing chronic homelessness, the City of San Francisco, the San Francisco Housing Authority, and the grantmaking nonprofit group Tipping Point launched a new initiative called Moving On.

Navy veteran Carl Moisoff takes pride in his neat, one-bedroom apartment at the newly opened Veterans Village in Colma.

The reality of California’s homeless crisis is that there is little social safety net to catch the very poorest residents before they fall to the streets.

Homeless advocates this month kicked off a citywide campaign to encourage residents to get involved in solving the epidemic of homelessness in San Francisco.

The Los Angeles City Council member representing Venice introduced legislation Wednesday to expand two programs that have quickly housed thousands of people experiencing homelessness.

When the Los Angeles City Council voted in July to reinstate a ban on sleeping overnight in vehicles parked on residential streets, it imposed yet another obstacle for homeless Angelenos forced to live in their cars – the number of whom exceed 10,000 by some estimates and more than 15,000 by others.

Building housing for homeless people is slow and costly, and is getting slower and costlier every year. But six developers responding to a challenge from Mayor Eric Garcetti are getting a chance to show how they would do it faster and cheaper.

The city of San Francisco has taken one of the most significant steps ever toward tightening up relations between the galaxy of nonprofit and government agencies that deal with homelessness.

The movement to better address the social and environmental factors that affect health has insurance companies and other payers looking beyond the hospital or clinic and stepping into the community to give patients help where it’s needed.

On any given day, Conrado Solano has a network of help that keeps him at home and out of a nursing facility.

This report aims to bridge a knowledge gap between the
affordable housing and healthcare fields that limits their
ability to implement health and housing projects and
partnerships.