Our Grants

Alliance for Safety and Justice aims to replace over-incarceration with more effective public safety solutions rooted in crime prevention, community health, rehabilitation, and support for crime victims. Focused on the largest states in the U.S., the Alliance partners with state leaders and advocates to achieve safety and justice reforms through advocacy, organizing, coalition building, research, and communications.

Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) offers individuals just coming home from prison the ongoing support necessary to build career capital and financial stability. CEO uses its scale, experience, and data – backed by participants’ feedback on what works – to change the way government invests in criminal justice and workforce development.

Civil Rights Corps is dedicated to challenging systemic injustice in the United States’ legal system, which is built on white supremacy and economic inequality. The Corps works to shift power to community-led movements, particularly those led by Black, Brown, and poor people who are most affected by the legal system, so they can build sufficient power to create structural change.

The Clean Slate Initiative works to expand and automate the sealing of arrest and conviction records after people have completed their sentence and remained crime-free for a period of time. Our grant supports Clean Slate Initiative’s work through the Audacious Project to enact a 50-state strategy to increase access to record clearance for more Americans.

Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement helps youth and families break the cycle and long-term impact of justice system involvement. It provides a credible messenger mentoring model, training curricula, capacity building, technical assistance, and ongoing support to community-based organizations and their government partners in communities seeking to implement and advance credible messenger work.

Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, challenging racial and economic injustice, and protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society. It provides research and recommendations to assist advocates and policymakers in the work of criminal justice reform.

The Fines and Fees Justice Center is a national advocacy organization working to create a justice system that treats individuals fairly, ensures public safety and is funded equitably. The center works with affected communities and justice system stakeholders to eliminate justice system fees, ensure that fines are equitably imposed and enforced, and end abusive collection practices.

Ideas42 uses insights from behavioral science to improve lives, build better systems and policies, and drive social change. Its work is helping people better understand, remember, and attend court dates, benefiting those most impacted by the judicial system: communities with low wealth and people of color.

Justice Innovation Lab builds data-informed, human-centered solutions for a more equitable, effective, and fair justice system. Its team, composed of data scientists, human-centered design experts, prosecutors, policymakers, and community advocates, supports local leaders in identifying unfair practices and developing effective alternative solutions.

The Debt Free Justice campaign is dedicated to eliminating the financial burdens of juvenile fees and fines, advocating for fair treatment of youth and families across diverse jurisdictions. Our grant will support the campaign’s efforts to abolish these fees and fines in additional states, ensure the effective implementation of existing legislation, and broaden the initiative to address other monetary sanctions in municipal courts, schools, and the child welfare system.

STRIVE provides a pathway to life-changing careers and opportunities through comprehensive professional training, intensive personal support, and self-empowerment for those who face societal barriers to advancement. Our grant will fuel STRIVE’s expansion and deeper reach into communities to support graduates as they work to achieve economic empowerment for themselves and their families.

The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that, through journalism, seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency to make the U.S. criminal justice system more fair, effective, transparent, and humane. Our grant helps The Marshall Project bolster local news by opening five local newsrooms, increasing engagement with incarcerated audiences, and strengthening their national newsroom.

The Vera Institute of Justice is working to end the overcriminalization and mass incarceration of people of color, immigrants, and people experiencing poverty. Founded in 1961 to advocate for alternatives to money bail in New York City, Vera is now a national organization that partners with impacted communities and government leaders to transform the criminal legal and immigration systems until they’re fair for all.

The W. Haywood Burns Institute (BI) employs strategies and tactics to establish a community-centered approach of justice administration that is anchored in structural well-being while challenging racial hierarchy and the social control of communities of color by the justice sector and other public systems. BI works to shift the operational culture within the justice sector and other human services agencies to build a community-based service ecosystem to support system transformation.

Youth First Initiative is a national advocacy initiative aiming to accelerate youth justice system transformation through the creation and support of successful state-based campaigns calling for the end of the punitive youth prison model and investments in effective community-based programs, services, and opportunities for youth. To achieve a “tipping point” in the U.S., Youth First is working to build a critical mass of states to shift away from incarceration and toward investing in youth in their communities.