Fighting Homelessness Nonprofit Advocacy Group

For over a decade, Lisa Marshall has been interested in the people most of us do not notice, those experiencing homelessness. Lisa began her work as a citizen volunteer, then an organizational volunteer and donor, and now runs her own nonprofit organization. After donating her time and philanthropic resources to establish St. Jude, a permanent housing facility in North Dallas, Lisa became interested in the public policy and carceral systems that surround those experiencing homelessness. She currently serves on the Dallas Citizens Homelessness Commission and, while managing a homeless advocacy nonprofit, Lisa is producing a documentary "Unreleased" intended to spread awareness. She feels it is of dire importance to expose this broken system that continues to break the human spirit.

Faith came to Fighting Homeless as a board member in 2021. Her Interests for human rights and wanting to share a voice for change led her to join our team. Faith has always had a passion for those seeking help from addiction and mental health issues. In 2010 she designed and developed  a rehab for those seeking drug and alcohol addiction. Faith brings to the board years of experience with her nonprofit philanthropy volunteering. There is a great need for people to become an advocate for policy solutions and change that can effect homelessness. After years in commercial and residential real estate development, Faith has retired and is pursing travel adventures with her husband Garrett.

Living Downtown Dallas for over 12 years, Heidi  watch the rise in homelessness felt pulled with a responsibility for her community — especially the vulnerable and unsheltered people living on the streets of Dallas.
 She explored what the City of Dallas was doing to address the complex homelessness problem. How could she play apart to help? It ignited a fire in her to aligned herself with everyone and anyone in the homeless sector. Most important she aligned her self with the unsheltered — the individual living on the streets.   She has served and advocated for homelessness in Dallas for over 8 years through shelters, organizations, art initiatives and street outreach. Heidi aligned her self using her knowledge of 20 years of experience in technology and her extensive passion to pursue solutions for homelessness in combing by passions she developed an app called OutReach Dallas. Filling the gap with the unsheltered that the City of Dallas doesn’t address. A street outreach were we meet the unsheltered, where they are. We build a relationship and understand their immediate, short and long term needs. We match the unsheltered with a volunteer — community to help them through their journey out of homelessness.