Impatient Optimists
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Creating 'The Big Tent' - Collaboration Key to Ending Homelessness

November 14, 2012 / Lisa Gustaveson

To solve a problem as complex as family homelessness we must find a way to build integrated knowledge into systems design and review, with new voices that challenge and question the status quo.

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Our “Aha” Moments in Tracking Washington Families Fund Data

November 14, 2012 / Alice Shobe

more than 200 gathered at a Washington Families Fund Systems Initiative data convening at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle recently—to review new, baseline information on our efforts to tackle family homelessness in King, Pierce, and Snohomish
counties.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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