Homeless Services United Inc.
Homeless Services United Inc.
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About this organization
Mission
Homeless Services United (HSU) is a coalition of non-profit agencies serving homeless and at-risk adults and families in New York City. HSU provides advocacy, information, and training to member agencies to expand their capacity to deliver high-quality services. HSU advocates for expansion of affordable housing and prevention services and for immediate access to safe, decent, emergency and transitional housing, outreach and drop-in services for homeless New Yorkers. Homeless Services United promotes effective solutions to end the crisis of homelessness in New York City.
About
The HSU program provides our members with discounted training on best practices in homeless services delivery, free job postings, media alerts, and periodic updates and alerts regarding developments in the sector. In addition to these benefits, we partner with our members to inform policy in the following ways: Promoting fiscal resiliency for homeless service providers. HSU continues to advocate on behalf of our members for timely contract registrations, model budget implementation, and increased funding for program services, administrative overhead, and cost escalations. Through HSU's efforts, DHS has greatly reduced the contract registration backlog, implemented a 20% advance policy, created a new 10% contingency for new needs on DHS contracts and established a working group to improve the fiscal outlook for our members, co-led by HSU and DHS/DSS senior leadership. We will continue to publicly draw attention to the severe delays and undue financial hardships that DHS contract delays place on your programs and staff. For the entire non-profit sector, HSU advocates for funding increases and solutions for overarching concerns that impact all non-profit service providers. HSU tackles issues like salary parity and coping with escalating fringe rates and insurance premiums, through collaboration both with non-profit led initiatives like HSC's Human Services Advancement Strategy Group (HSASG) and government-based taskforces like the Non-Profit Resiliency Committee (NRC). Advocacy for a comprehensive safety net: In addition to HSU's advocacy work focusing on the fiscal health of the homeless services sector, we also advocated and testified in support of expanding specialized services for other vulnerable populations impacted by the crisis of homelessness, including runaway and homeless youth (RHY), survivors of domestic violence (DV), and those suffering from addiction and the opioid epidemic in New York City. Organizing providers to improve service delivery: To place and keep people in permanent housing, HSU's Prevention Committee continues to work on streamlining subsidies and bringing together the city's prevention providers such as Homebase, STEHP and FHEPS programs, and the Legal Aid Society, ensuring that the prevention safety-net works collaboratively to identify and close service gaps. This committee focuses on the implementation of rental subsidy and prevention programs and continues to advocate for improvements as implementation continues. This year, a new workgroup focused on linking clients with rental assistance in shelters has come together to help shelter providers transition to the new CityFHEPS program complementing our core work on prevention. To help people to come inside, HSU's Street Homeless Workgroup brings together the various programs that street homeless individuals and families access throughout the city. By bringing various programs including outreach funded by DHS, MTA, Amtrak, airports, BIDs, DHS Safe Haven and drop-ins, faith respites, and RHY outreach, drop-in, TILS, and crisis shelters, we identify service gaps as well as possible new ways to interconnect services to provide additional support wherever possible. Individualized support: Many of our member programs experience challenges related to contracts, program rules and oversight and the administration of their homeless services programs. We encourage members to reach out to us when problems arise so we can help strategize solutions on an individual level as well as identify systemic issues that need to be addressed with a larger advocacy strategy system wide.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The filing sets forth the mission of the non-profit as “Homeless services united (hsu) is a coalition of non-profit agencies serving homeless and at-risk adults and families in new york city. hsu provides advocacy, information, and training to member agencies to expand their capacity to deliver high-quality services. hsu advocates for expansion of affordable housing and prevention services and for immediate access to safe, decent, emergency and transitional housing, outreach and drop-in services for homeless new yorkers. homeless services united promotes effective solutions to end the crisis of homelessness in new york city.”.
When detailing its responsibilities, they were listed as: “Homeless services united (hsu) is a coalition of non-profit agencies serving homeless and at-risk adults and families in new york city. hsu provides advocacy, information, and training to member agencies to expand their capacity to deliver high-quality services. hsu advocates for expansion of affordable housing and prevention services and for immediate access to safe, decent, emergency and transitional housing, outreach and drop-in services for homeless new yorkers. homeless services united promotes effective solutions to end the crisis of homelessness in new york city.”.
- The state in which the non-profit is legally permitted to operate is NY.
- The address of the non-profit for 2020 according to the filing is 307 WEST 38TH STREET 3RD FL, NEW YORK, NY, 10018.
- The number of employees reported by the non-profit on their form as of 2020 is 0.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are between $250,000 and $500,000.
- Revenue is between $250,000 and $500,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $105,411.
- The organization has 17 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1996.
- The organization pays $255,426 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $35,692 in fundraising expenses.
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