February Virtual Program | Gensler + DignityMoves

10feb10:00 am11:30 amFebruary Virtual Program | Gensler + DignityMoves

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Gensler + DignityMoves

DignityMoves is an organization that is making progress in the goal of helping our unhoused neighbors in Oregon and California get off the streets and onto a path towards permanent housing. Melissa Mizell, Principal at Gensler Portland, will facilitate a conversation on the importance of shifting the paradigm around supportive housing. Join us in an uplifting conversation with leaders of these organizations as they share their strategies and lessons learned from recently deployed solutions.

Networking

There will be networking breakouts at the end of the program.

Speaker Biographies:

Melissa Mizell is a Principal and Design Director at Gensler Portland. She believes that great spaces come as a result of designing with the user point-of-view in mind, and this is reflected in her work across many project types – aviation, workplace, higher-education, and retail spaces. Melissa is recognized for her collaborative design approach, engaging the client and team to bring out the heart and soul of each project. She has been working with DignityMoves on site planning and user experience to help ensure that the physical environment supports the mission and vision of the organization.

 

 

Elizabeth Funk is the founder and Executive Chairman of DignityMoves, a nonprofit focused on building interim supportive housing communities for people experiencing homelessness. Elizabeth was one of the early pioneers in impact investing. She founded the Dignity Fund in 2004, one of the first for-profit funds mobilizing investment capital for the microfinance industry. She later created Dignity Capital to continue her impact investing efforts. For several years she served as Chairman of the Board of Unitus, one of the world’s most innovative microfinance accelerators. Since that time, she has been a tireless advocate for the impact investing movement, serving as a fund manager for several impact funds, a mentor to social entrepreneurs, and an angel investor. She currently serves as the Senior GP at Dev Equity, an impact fund investing in economic development in Latin America. About half of Dev Equity’s portfolio is invested in low-income housing in impoverished regions across Honduras, Panama, and Ecuador. Elizabeth started her career as a Product Manager for Microsoft Word and on the founding team of Microsoft Office. She joined Yahoo! as one of the earliest employees, and was a co-founder of Yahoo! Shopping, among other Yahoo! services. Elizabeth was responsible for business development and strategic planning for services such as Yahoo! Finance, Search, Auctions, Greetings, Travel, and others. Elizabeth was President and CEO of CML Global Capital, a publicly traded investment conglomerate based in Canada.

Elizabeth has been actively involved in homelessness in California for nearly two decades. She served on the board and chaired Glide Memorial’s Community Housing initiative, which built two buildings for the formerly homeless in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District. She now serves on the board of LifeMoves, a leading homelessness services organization in Silicon Valley as well as on the real estate advisory board of HomeRise, a permanent supportive housing developer in San Francisco.

 

 

 

Time

(Thursday) 10:00 am - 11:30 am(GMT-08:00)

Location

Virtual Event

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