Organizations Filed Purposes:
To solve family homelessness, one family, one community at a time.
In 2019, Solutions for Change (SFC) continued its unwavering commitment to address and solve the root causes of homelessness for over 600 children and their parents enrolled in their life transforming empowerment programs. With a physical presence within seven northern San Diego County cities, SFC is now the largest nonprofit human services and transformational housing provider for homeless families in the County of San Diego. Following its principled stand after state and federal policies took a dramatic shift into a new approach that was counter to its mission and core values, SFC stepped up its efforts to differentiate itself from the current top-down one-size-fits-all homelessness response system.The current homelessness response system puts a strong emphasis on housing as the solution to homelessness, yet in its two decades of service to the homeless, SFC has seen for many that homelessness is a result of root causative factors. If a person or family who is classified as homeless is not guided in such a way to solve the root causes of what got them to the streets, then they oftentimes will return to the streets, become incarcerated or institutionalized, or even die. This dynamic of addressing surface symptoms and not solving root causes gives the illusion that the problem has been solved. The actual outcome, which SFC has studied and published extensively for decades, are the unintended consequences of a costly and futile cycle that creates more vulnerabilities, more homeless, and a deeper and greater negative impact to society. SFC has named this dynamic The Churn.After being recognized in 2017/18 by federal poverty and welfare reform leaders as a potential new model for the nation, SFC received notice in 2019 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that it was among a small handful of nonprofits nationally being considered to be studied and evaluated through a demonstration effort. In November 2019 with national dignitaries assembled, SFC announced that it would launch a ground-up, community based and market-driven local systems change initiative by mid-2020. The effort will not only save hundreds more children and adults from The Churn, it would document, through evidenced based third party evaluators, SFCs results with the goal to help reshape public policy. Because the SFC approach is built on an empowerment model that intentionally moves families and people out of dependency and into hope-filled purpose and jobs, it is ineligible for all state homeless funding due to the State passing a law via SB 1380 that requires a form of socialized housing for 100% of the homeless, regardless of their personal capacity. As a result SFC programs are 100% funded through local stakeholder community based partners.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Chris Megison | President & CEO | 40 | $145,574 |
| Tamera Megison | VP OPERATIONS | 40 | $71,834 |
| Toby Wiik | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Gloria Foote | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Steven Ogus | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Bret Schanzenbach | Director | 1 | $0 |
| John Conrad | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jack Landers | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Dawn Hall Cuneen | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Leanne Abraham | CHAIRWOMAN | 1 | $0 |
| David Crean | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Steve Mcnulty | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Mark T Ealy Cfp Cpa | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Mike Kennedy | Director | 1 | $0 |
Data for this page was sourced from XML published by IRS (
public 990 form dataset) from:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202043109349302219_public.xml