The Melville Trust concentrates its efforts on supporting solutions to prevent and end homelessness. We fund advocacy, service, and housing initiatives in Connecticut that can serve as models throughout the country. On the national level, the Trust works to strengthen and extend the reach of organizations focused on advocacy, education, research, and capacity building. We collaborate actively with a growing network of individuals and groups, public and private, to build communities where every adult and child has a place to call home.

Ultimately, the Trust is setting out to change public thinking about the ways to consider and end homelessness. Its conscious strategy has been to move policy, decision making and the structure of government and philanthropy away from emergency, palliative responses that serve only to perpetuate homelessness and toward proven, lasting and cost effective alternatives that will permanently end homelessness as we know it today.

March 26, 2012 - The Melville Trust is currently seeking an Executive Director. This is an exciting opportunity to provide vision and creative leadership to a philanthropic institution well positioned for continued impact.

See the position description and learn more here.