Meet some of our grantees.
Our partners are leading efforts to improve the system through advocacy, rehabilitation programs, litigation and more. Their work at the local, state and federal levels is increasing the number of pathways to justice and safety for all people within our communities—especially the Black and brown communities harmed most by the criminal legal system.
Get to know some of our grantees at the forefront of this important work.
Ending Overcriminalization
Civil Rights Corps
To advance litigation and advocacy efforts challenging systemic injustice in the legal system.
Communities Transforming Policing Fund at Borealis Philanthropy
To build power, advocate for decarceration policies and transform policing through resourcing local community groups.
DC Justice Lab
To support research, organizing and advocacy for transformative changes that aim to increase police accountability and reduce incarceration.
Drug Policy Alliance (DPA)
To end the war on drugs, repair the harm it has caused and support equal access to treatment and resources.
Fair and Just Prosecution
To help foster a network of prosecution leaders committed to promoting a justice system grounded in fairness, equity, compassion and fiscal responsibility.
Fines and Fees Justice Center (FFJC)
To eradicate unjust fines and fees in the criminal legal system.
For The People (FTP) and Silicon Valley De-Bug
To encourage the resentencing of incarcerated people convicted under harsh policies who have shown rehabilitation and potential for successful reentry into society.
Institute for Innovation in Prosecution at John Jay College
To connect prosecutors, policy experts and communities to promote data-driven strategies and inventive scholarship toward achieving public safety.
Local Progress
To aid local city- and state-elected officials in implementing innovative policy solutions to policing and criminal justice reform.
NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF)
To establish grassroots advocacy and litigation that will advance racial justice and equity in the United States.
Oregon Health Justice Recovery Alliance (HJRA)
To ensure Oregon’s Drug Treatment and Recovery Act is fully implemented and centers communities most affected by the war on drugs.
Prosecutorial Performance Indicators at Florida International University and Loyola University Chicago
To foster engagement between community members and elected prosecutors committed to measuring effectiveness, efficiency and fairness.
Prosecutors Alliance of California
To develop statewide law enforcement membership organizations for prosecutors committed to reforming the criminal legal system with solutions that advance not just public safety but also community well-being.
Spark Justice Fund at Borealis Philanthropy
To support grassroots organizations building power in their communities to demand jail closings, prevent new jails, end cash bail and innovate pretrial supervision.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
To support advocacy legislative advocacy and coalition building around federal criminal justice issues such as sentencing and prison reforms, pretrial justice and policing.
The Marshall Project
To strengthen nonpartisan, nonprofit news about criminal justice issues.
Debt Free Justice
To eliminate unjust fines and fees in the juvenile justice system.
Achieving Community-Centered Health and Safety
CBPS Collective
To advance the development and scaling of community-based violence intervention strategies that center public health and healing in Black and brown communities.
Cities United
To advance the development and scaling of community-based violence intervention strategies that center public health and healing in Black and brown communities.
Common Justice
To advance solutions to violence that transform the lives of those harmed without relying on incarceration.
Equal Justice USA
To transform the justice system by promoting responses to violence that break cycles of trauma.
Fountain House
To improve the health of people living with serious mental illness and to end their social and economic isolation.
The Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (HAVI)
To advance the development and scaling of community-based violence intervention strategies that center public health and healing in Black and brown communities.
The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR)
To advance the development and scaling of community-based violence intervention strategies that center public health and healing in Black and brown communities.
University of Chicago Health Lab
To identify, evaluate and scale programs and policies that improve health outcomes and address systemic barriers to achieving equity in Chicago, Illinois, and Washtenaw County, Michigan.
Reducing and Repairing Harm
AMEND at the University of California San Francisco
To transform correctional culture inside prisons and jails and reduce the debilitating health effects of those environments.
Creating Restorative Opportunities and Programs (CROP)
To implement a holistic, human-centered and integrated housing, skill development and employment program for people who are formerly incarcerated through a three-year pilot program.
Impact Justice
To foster a more humane, responsive and restorative system of justice.
Root & Rebound
To restore power and resources to the families and communities most harmed by mass incarceration through advocacy, public education, policy reform and litigation.
The Justice and Mobility Fund
To boost economic mobility and improve the life trajectories of people affected by the criminal justice system.
The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
To end the criminal legal system’s forced separation of women, girls and mothers from their communities and loved ones.