Kingdom Causes   

City Net's parent nonprofit Kingdom Causes, Inc. was formed in Long Beach, CA, in 2003 in part to streamline homelessness services in the city by establishing and leading a collaboration among faith congregations, city government, and nonprofit organizations. City Net worked in partnership with these providers to develop collective, systems-wide goals, strategic action plans, and measurable results and thus—by promoting collaboration over competition—helped create and lead an initiative that was partially responsible for a 26% reduction in homelessness in Long Beach (City of Long Beach, 2015). By 2013, City Net’s work proved so effective that the City of Anaheim asked us to replicate our impact in Orange County. Since then, we have expanded our services through contracts across California. The multi-sector collaborations we lead through these contracts have transitioned more than 10,000 people from the streets to housing. Today, we work together to provide services that will result in ending street-level homelessness through the provision of street outreach, case management, housing navigation, transitional/bridge housing, non-congregate shelter operation, family reunifications, community mobilization, census coordination, and more. We are committed to reducing homelessness to functional zero through the means of collaboration and data-driven solutions. Functional zero is the state of a community where services and housing are available for every individual who may need them.