National
$260,000
Refine the national strategy to abolish the death penalty as needed; coordinate and increase collaboration between litigation, advocacy, policy, communications, and research; and offer strategic guidance, consultation, and technical assistance as opportunities and crises arise.
National
$10,000
Campaign to prevent execution of Marcellus Khalifah Williams.
National
$575,000
Refine the national strategy to abolish the death penalty as needed, coordinate and increase collaboration between (litigation, advocacy, policy, communications, and research), and offer strategic guidance, consultation, and technical assistance as opportunities and crisis arise.
National
$20,000
Host national death penalty convening.
Florida
$100,000
Integrate high-quality mitigation investigation throughout the state of Florida with direct casework, referral services, training and consultation for defenders, and community engagement.
Arizona
$50,000
Decrease Arizona’s use of the death penalty through strategic pro bono training and consulting efforts at the trial level and grasstops advocacy and policy work.
Pennsylvania/Northeast
$50,000
Provide expertise and innovation to capital defense case strategy at the state and federal level.
Oklahoma
$60,000
Coordinate organizations working to end the death penalty in Oklahoma to maximize the effectiveness of the campaign and to identify and empower key stakeholders.
National
$150,000
Provide strategic communications to reduce executions, including by helping attorneys achieve litigation success in capital cases; coordinate capital litigators with the broader anti-death penalty advocacy community.
National
$35,000
Further repeal legislation in key states and advance the national strategy to abolish the death penalty by mobilizing and influencing key Catholic constituencies.
North Carolina
$50,000
Maintain North Carolina’s de facto moratorium on executions, block new death sentences, and shrink the size of North Carolina’s death row through litigation and public education.
Arizona
$75,000
Prevent further executions and advance an advocacy plan that supports death penalty reform and expands grassroots supporters for abolition.
National
$50,000
Educate the media and public about the problems with the death penalty, help shape national and jurisdiction-specific narratives on capital punishment and assist with rapid response messaging.
National
$75,000
Enrich the connections between death penalty abolition and broader Black liberation work within the Movement for Black Lives ecosystem.
National
$350,000
Work to end the death penalty by supporting state repeal campaigns and generating a narrative that shows the growing opposition to the death penalty from a broad cross-section of new and natural allies.
National
$65,000
Leaders of Color Healing Retreat
National
$110,000
Educate, engage and build a robust national community of Black/Indigenous interfaith leaders who are activated to eliminate the use of the American Death Penalty system.
Florida
$75,000
Reduce executions and sentences by passing a severe mental illness exception bill.
Georgia
$70,000
Support grassroots organizing and mobilization around death penalty abolition.
Oklahoma
$50,000
Advance the national strategy by educating the public about issues in death penalty policies—particularly racism and advocate for fewer death sentences in Oklahoma County.
Kentucky
$75,000
Spread awareness and foster public support for ending the death penalty.
National
$50,000
Elevate death penalty related issues in their priority criminal-legal advocacy work.
Missouri
$80,000
Reduce new death sentences and executions, most notably in high-use counties where historical racial violence is prevalent.
Florida
$50,000
Work to stop executions and reduce new death sentences in Florida.
Nevada
$85,000
Capitalize on momentum, media attention and community support to continue elevating the need for death penalty repeal.
North Carolina
$115,000
Increase capacity to educate and engage individuals, organizations, and communities to transform the death penalty narrative in North Carolina.
Ohio
$250,000
Work to repeal capital punishment in Ohio.
National
$225,000
Empower defense counsel in trial level capital cases by equipping teams with nationally recognized skills and best practices.
Louisiana
$100,000
Work to repeal Louisiana’s death penalty through organizing, advocacy, education, and legislative outreach.
National
$60,000
Build narrative that the death penalty is bad for business.
California
$40,000
Support the work of the statewide coalition of advocates working to end the death penalty and extreme sentencing in California, and the litigation strategy group to advance new legal strategies to end the death penalty in California.
South Carolina
$85,000
Stop executions and death sentences and eventually abolish the death penalty in South Carolina.
Tennessee
$50,000
Work to prevent executions and reduce death sentences by broadening and amplifying communications strategy focusing on the failures of the death penalty system, particularly around racial injustice.
Texas
$85,000
Advance the national strategy for abolition by maintaining lower use of the death penalty in Texas and damaging the death penalty brand.
Texas
$50,000
Keep new executions and death sentences in Texas as low as possible through legal advocacy, mitigation investigations and case consulting while shifting the narrative on the death penalty through advocacy and public education campaigns.
Arkansas
$50,000
Educate Arkansans about the societal costs of the state of Arkansas upholding a capital punishment regime.
National
$125,000
Amplify the voices of exonerated death row survivors in support of work to repeal the death penalty.
National
$80,000
Coordinate national strategy to end the death penalty.
Florida
$110,000
Integrate high-quality mitigation investigation throughout the state of Florida with direct casework, referral services, training and consultation for defenders, and community engagement.
Pennsylvania/Northeast
$25,000
Provide expertise and innovation to capital defense case strategy at the state and federal level.
Oklahoma
$80,000
Support the moratorium coalition and the organizing of victims’, faith, and BIPOC voices.
National
$50,000
Provide strategic communications to reduce executions, including by helping attorneys achieve litigation success in capital cases; coordinate capital litigators with the broader anti-death penalty advocacy community.
National
$30,000
Further repeal legislation in key states and advance the national strategy to abolish the death penalty by mobilizing and influencing key Catholic constituencies.
North Carolina
$100,000
Maintain North Carolina’s de facto moratorium on executions, block new death sentences, and shrink the size of North Carolina’s death row through litigation and public education.
National
$50,000
Stop executions and end the death penalty in the United States by providing leadership, support, high-visibility resources, educational events, and activities within the broader, anti-death penalty movement.
Arizona
$75,000
Abolish the death penalty for all individuals currently sentenced to death in Arizona.
National
$125,000
Support the Racial Justice Communications project which highlights the role the death penalty has played at the local level as an instrument of discrimination and as a key element of systemic racial injustice in the criminal legal system.
California
$25,000
Support the legislative goals of the statewide anti-death penalty coalition as well as enhance their work in communities to encourage local prosecutors to move away from the use of the death penalty.
National
$40,000
Repeal the death penalty through state campaigns or judicial decisions primarily in the south, and help push and promote a national narrative linking death penalty abolition efforts to broader abolition work and the Movement for Black Lives.
National
$300,000
Work to end the death penalty by supporting state repeal campaigns and generating a narrative that shows the growing opposition to the death penalty from a broad cross-section of new and natural allies.
Florida
$60,000
Reduce executions and sentences by passing a severe mental illness exception bill.
Georgia
$35,000
Support grassroots organizing and mobilization around death penalty abolition.
Kentucky
$95,000
Spread awareness and foster public support for ending the death penalty.
National
$65,000
Organize Black faith leaders in key states.
Missouri
$25,000
Reduce new death sentences and executions, most notably in high-use counties where historical racial violence is prevalent.
Nevada
$85,000
Capitalize on momentum, media attention and community support to continue elevating the need for death penalty repeal.
North Carolina
$65,000
Increase capacity to educate and engage individuals, organizations, and communities to transform the death penalty narrative in North Carolina.
Ohio
$250,000
Work to repeal capital punishment in Ohio.
National
$230,000
Empower defense counsel in trial level capital cases by equipping teams with nationally recognized skills and best practices.
Louisiana
$100,000
Work to repeal Louisiana’s death penalty through organizing, advocacy, education, and legislative outreach.
National
$60,000
Build narrative that the death penalty is bad for business.
California
$40,000
Support the work of the statewide coalition of advocates working to end the death penalty and extreme sentencing in California, and the litigation strategy group to advance new legal strategies to end the death penalty in California.
South Carolina
$50,000
Reignite a coalition of partners to abolish the death penalty in South Carolina.
South Carolina
$65,000
Stop executions and death sentences and eventually abolish the death penalty in South Carolina.
Southern region
$80,000
Prevent death sentences and executions in Georgia and Alabama and work with Black communities across the country to strengthen the death penalty abolition movement.
Tennessee
$50,000
Work to prevent executions and reduce death sentences by broadening and amplifying communications strategy focusing on the failures of the death penalty system, particularly around racial injustice.
Texas
$75,000
Advance the national strategy for abolition by maintaining lower use of the death penalty in Texas and damaging the death penalty brand.
Arkansas
$50,000
Educate communities and media about the connection between the modern-day death penalty and Arkansas’ shameful history of racial terror.
National
$30,000
Amplify the voices of exonerated death row survivors in support of work to repeal the death penalty.
National
$250,000
Coordinate national strategy to end the death penalty.
Virginia
$25,000
Virginia death penalty repeal campaign.
Florida
$110,000
Integrate high-quality mitigation investigation throughout the state of Florida with direct casework, referral services, training and consultation for defenders, and community engagement.
Pennsylvania/Northeast
$50,000
Provide expertise and innovation to capital defense case strategy at the state and federal level.
National
$100,000
Provide strategic communications to reduce executions, including by helping attorneys achieve litigation success in capital cases; coordinate capital litigators with the broader anti-death penalty advocacy community.
National
$30,000
Further repeal legislation in key states and advance the national strategy to abolish the death penalty by mobilizing and influencing key Catholic constituencies.
North Carolina
$115,000
Maintain North Carolina’s de facto moratorium on executions, block new death sentences, and shrink the size of North Carolina’s death row through litigation and public education.
Arizona
$60,000
Abolish the death penalty for all individuals currently sentenced to death in Arizona.
National
$145,000
Support the Racial Justice Communications project which will highlight the role the death penalty has played at the local level as an instrument of discrimination and as a key element of systemic racial injustice in the criminal legal system.
National
$410,000
Work to end the death penalty by supporting state repeal campaigns and generating a narrative that shows the growing opposition to the death penalty from a broad cross-section of new and natural allies.
Florida
$35,000
Reduce executions and sentences by passing a severe mental illness exception bill.
Georgia
$60,000
Support grassroot organizing and mobilization around death penalty abolition.
Kentucky
$85,000
Spread awareness and foster public support for ending the death penalty.
Utah
$65,000
Support education efforts in Utah about the problems with the death penalty.
Missouri
$50,000
Reduce new death sentences and executions, most notably in high-use counties where historical racial violence is prevalent.
Nevada
$65,000
Capitalize on momentum, media attention and community support to continue elevating the need for death penalty repeal.
North Carolina
$50,000
Increase capacity to educate and engage individuals, organizations, and communities to transform the death penalty narrative in North Carolina.
Ohio
$175,000
Work to repeal capital punishment in Ohio.
National
$200,000
Empower defense counsel in trial level capital cases by equipping teams with nationally recognized skills and best practices.
Louisiana
$125,000
Work to repeal Louisiana’s death penalty through organizing, advocacy, education, and legislative outreach.
California
$50,000
Support the work of the statewide coalition of advocates working to end the death penalty and extreme sentencing in California, and the litigation strategy group to advance new legal strategies to end the death penalty in California.
Southern Region
$105,000
Prevent death sentences and executions in Georgia and Alabama and work with Black communities across the country to strengthen the death penalty abolition movement.
Tennessee
$75,000
Work to prevent executions and reduce death sentences by broadening and amplifying communications strategy focusing on the failures of the death penalty system, particularly around racial injustice.
Texas
$50,000
Advance the national strategy for abolition by maintaining lower use of the death penalty in Texas and damaging the death penalty brand.
Texas
$75,000
Maintain recent reductions in new Texas death sentences, continue to work to reverse imposed death sentences, and stop scheduled executions.
Arkansas
$25,000
Develop and cultivate an Arkansas-based “From Noose to Needle” public education campaign advocating for the abolition of the death penalty in Arkansas.
National
$60,000
Amplify the voices of exonerated death row survivors in support of work to repeal the death penalty.
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