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PROPOSAL DETAILS <br />t. Applicant Profile and Qualifications: Tell us about your organization including the <br />purpose of your work, your goals, any history, and experience working in homeless <br />and/or affordable housing services, experience managing public funds, and anything <br />else that describes the organization's qualifications. (250 words max.) <br />HopeSource has a 50-year history of operating housing, financial management, nutrition, <br />energy assistance, home weatherization, transportation, and rental assistance programs, <br />operates the only homeless shelter in the County, and owns and manages over 900 units of <br />homeless and affordable housing. HopeSource has effectively managed and accounted for more <br />than 120 funding contracts from federal, state, and local municipalities with 1-4 years of <br />unqualified clean audits, including the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program, <br />Consolidated Homeless Grant, Housing and Essential Needs, Supportive Services for Veteran <br />Families, McKinney-Vento homeless shelters, HUD, Rural Development, Housing Trust Fund, <br />Housing Finance Commission, and local, private funding. <br />HopeSource has served homeless and at-risk veterans, individuals with disabilities, seniors, <br />homeless youth and young adults, and low-income families with offices and staff in Kittitas <br />County since l-967. Offices and staff in Grant and Chelan Counties have been offering housing <br />services since 2015. HopeSource has been operating rapid rehousing programs for over 50 years <br />and has an average exit to permanent housing rate of 98%. HopeSource Jlso operates enhanced <br />shelters in Kittitas and Grant Counties and has been active in managing the cold weather shelter <br />in Kittitas County. HopeSource has been certified by CARF since 201-5 for operating rapid <br />rehousing programs according to best practices. <br />4