What would you say is this organization's (CoH) Purpose? by Armando Garcia https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq en-us 2020-07-22 23:27:50 UTC 2020-12-28 21:03:02 UTC hello@padlet.com Example Post: Feel free to answer the question here (in the title) armandogarciasf https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/660512865 (Or, you can answer the question here, in the body)

To create a new note, click the plus sign in the circle at the bottom of the column (+)]]> 2020-07-22 23:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/660512865 well.... https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/661202793 I know technically it is "to center the voices of homeless folk" in whatever we're doing- be it policy that comes out of city hall,  outreach, or anything that's going on with homelessness in the City, but there are times it feels this mission/purpose is not focused. It's more of a value than it is a mission per se, which I think can lead us to do different things- for example, we are supposed to ORGANIZE and we end up doing direct service work or extensively policy work. -Olivia]]> 2020-07-23 17:29:20 UTC https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/661202793 End homelessness through policy and advocacy and help people who are currently experiencing homelessness https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/661202827 2020-07-23 17:29:22 UTC https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/661202827 To undermine the systems that have created homelessness and create new systems that provide housing for all. https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/661203373 2020-07-23 17:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/661203373 This is olivia but I'm adding this for emmett https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/661204970 he thought the exercise today was useful. "the purpose is to help in any way possible"

]]> 2020-07-23 17:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/661204970 Provide solutions to homelessness and its criminalization by centering the people who are directly affected. https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/661205473 2020-07-23 17:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/661205473 Tracey- https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/661205585 To drive us crazy LOL

jk- "to be a voice for the voiceless"]]> 2020-07-23 17:33:04 UTC https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/661205585 https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/661206939 To empower, uplift, and deploy the voices, values, and skills of unhoused San Franciscans by intertwining people within policy and advocacy that is internal and external of the state. Concurrently, to resist and undermine the elements who perpetuate all forms of violence, mitigate and subvert bad policy, and mobilize allies at the individual and organizational level]]> 2020-07-23 17:35:09 UTC https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/661206939 To be an example of participatory, transformative systemic change: to empower the disempowered and be a vehicle for change and conduit of power for them; in that way, to actually BE the systemic change that we find lacking in formal government armandogarciasf https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/661210230 because I'm motivated to think a little more deeply on this after our time together today... yeah. I notice that my own focus when I think of "purpose" is on the participatory aspect of our organization. A lot of organizations do types of advocacy at a legislative or policy level, and if we were just doing that we might be more of a "think tank" ]]> 2020-07-23 17:39:10 UTC https://padlet.com/armandogarciasf/rs4fsu1gfrdcf5cq/wish/661210230