Purpose in Action: Affordable Housing
May is a time to center housing stability, recognizing the critical work of organizations ensuring that people have safe, stable, and affordable places to call home. This month, we uplift organizations expanding access to housing, supporting individuals and families, and building more equitable, stable communities. Their efforts strengthen communities today and lay the foundation for long-term wellbeing.
Clients Featured: Decatur Land Trust, CaringWorks, Mi Casa, Inwood House
Decatur Land Trust
Mission: To acquire and create homes, land, and commercial properties for community benefit and permanent affordability, and to encourage home ownership by stewarding new homeowners and minimizing displacement.
Consultants: Caroline Egan, Susan Allison
Purpose Possible Work: Fundraising support: grant writing and individual giving.
“The Decatur Land Trust is a truly special organization that helps create permanently affordable housing and minimize displacement—making homeownership affordable for all Decatur residents. What stands out about DLT is how deeply they understand the community they serve. Every project reflects that — thoughtful, grounded, and community-centric.”
CaringWorks
Mission: Our mission is to reduce homelessness and empower the marginalized by providing access to housing and services that foster dignity, self-sufficiency, and well-being.
Consultant: Rebecca Davis
Purpose Possible Work: Fundraising support: identify and research prospects, advise on prospect relationship development, develop proposals, counsel on site visits and opportunities to pitch, and develop proposals. Reporting and stewardship support.
“I love working with CaringWorks. The organization specializes in working with some of Atlanta’s poorest and most vulnerable, those who are chronically homeless. These are not people who have just hit a bump in the road and ended up in a temporary bad spot. These are some of the people who have some of the biggest hurdles to overcome to achieve housing stability, challenges like behavioral health problems, addiction, and disabilities. The chronically homeless are some of the hardest to assist. Yet, CaringWorks has tremendous success, helping those it serves to achieve a better than 90% success rate in sustaining housing one-year post placement.”
Mi Casa
Location: Washington, D.C.
Mission: Provide, facilitate, and advocate for inclusive, affordable housing for underserved communities in order to promote equitable, thriving and diverse neighborhoods in the greater DC, Maryland and Virginia (DMV) area.
Consultant: Ed Holman, Maryellen Grant
Purpose Possible Work: Fundraising support: strategic fundraising planning, grant writing and reporting, institutional funder cultivation, and individual donor stewardship.
“Our work with Mi Casa has been a true and lasting partnership—combining strategic grant writing support with big-picture fundraising planning to help turn bold, innovative ideas into real momentum for affordable housing in DC.”
Inwood House
Location: Silver Spring, Maryland
Mission: Changing lives for the better by providing affordable, safe and accessible apartments for low-income adults with disabilities and seniors in an accepting, respectful, supportive independent-living community.
Consultant: Xandy McKinley, Kayla Gilchrist
Purpose Possible Work: Strategic support: strategic plan, board development, and strategic forecasting process.
“Inwood House is an incredible, unique, and deeply impactful part of our community. Their provision of our elders and neighbors with disabilities through affordable housing is so integral to our collective wellbeing and aspirations to be a fully intersectional and uplifting DMV area. It was a wonderful experience connecting with their wonderful collective of staff, board, and residents through our strategic planning process. ”
