Reimagining Public Safety Grants List

Total Granted through March 2025: $2,855,250

Alliance for Safety and Justice – Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice

National
$170,000
Support Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice (CSSJ) to activate and mobilize the state’s most underserved crime survivors in order to reimagine public safety by replacing punitive approaches with proven, community-based solutions.

Common Justice

National
$150,000
Transform the criminal justice system in this country and dismantle our failing reliance on incarceration by providing organizing, policy, and narrative change work.

Equal Justice USA

National
$1,500,000
Build and sustain the movement for community-centered public safety by promoting responses to violence that break cycles of trauma. EJUSA works at the intersection of criminal justice, public health, and racial justice to elevate healing over retribution, meet the needs of survivors, advance racial equity, and build community safety.

Equal Justice USA

National
$240,000
Rebranding project.

Equal Justice USA

National
$20,250
Executive Director coaching.

Essie Justice Group

National
$200,000
Empower women with incarcerated loved ones to end mass incarceration’s harm to communities by bringing women together to heal, build collective power, and drive social change.

FORCE Detroit

Detroit, MI
$100,000
Create safer, freer communities by leveraging advocacy, organizing, and narrative building to advance community-led strategies that interrupt, prevent, and reduce gun violence.

Healing Dialogue and Action (FS: Community Partners)

California
$75,000
Provide restorative justice programming for individuals in carceral facilities and survivors of violent crime, support services for returning citizens, and leadership development for staff.

HUBB Arts & Trauma Center

Newark, NJ
$150,000
Increase opportunities for success by providing healing programs, services, and events for underserved Newark youth and their families.

Interrupting Criminalization: Transformative Justice Fellowship (FS: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs)

National
$50,000
Provide resources and support for grassroots organizations and individuals practicing transformative justice work to deepen their skills and build confidence to respond to conflicts without policing or punishment.

Just Communities Arizona

Arizona
$100,000
Create new models for justice and safety outside of Arizona’s criminal punishment system.

Pillars of the Community

San Diego, CA
$100,000
Counter the criminalization of communities through community organizing, leadership development, and strategic partnerships.

Total Granted 2024 $2,170,000

Alliance for Safety and Justice

National
$170,000
Support Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice (CSSJ) to activate and mobilize the state’s most underserved crime survivors in order to reimagine public safety by replacing punitive approaches with proven, community-based solutions.

Common Justice

National
$100,000
Transform the criminal justice system in this country and dismantle our failing reliance on incarceration by providing organizing, policy, and narrative change work.

Equal Justice USA

National
$1,000,000
Support policies and practices that create space to reimagine through reforms that significantly “make room” for new visions and systems and build new systems to replace punitive systems with community driven solutions.

Equal Justice USA

National
$500,000
Serve as an anchor in the community-based public safety movement by developing a new working group of field experts and refining its approach to building community safety together, providing proof of the concept that a well-supported, community-centered public safety ecosystem can foster safety within a city without furthering the cycle of trauma.

Essie Justice Group

National
$50,000
Empower women with incarcerated loved ones taking on the rampant injustices created by mass incarceration by bringing women together to heal, build collective power, and drive social change.

FORCE Detroit

Detroit, MI
$50,000
Create safer, freer communities by leveraging advocacy, organizing, and narrative building to advance community-led strategies that interrupt, prevent, and reduce gun violence.

Healing Dialogue and Action

California
$50,000
Sustain and expand trauma-informed healing programs for individuals in carceral facilities, detained youth in Los Angeles, and families affected by violent crime, aiming to break the cycle of violence and reduce mass incarceration.

Healing Justice

National
$50,000
Transform the lives and communities of those harmed and leverage their experiences to transform the justice system.

HUBB Arts & Trauma Center

Newark, NJ
$100,000
Increase opportunities for success by providing healing programs, services, and events for underserved Newark youth and their families.

Just Communities Arizona

Arizona
$50,000
Create new models for justice and safety outside of Arizona’s punishment system.

Pillars of the Community

San Diego, CA
$50,000
Counter the criminalization of communities through community organizing, leadership development, and strategic partnerships.

Total Granted 2023: $1,235,000

Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice (Fiscal Sponsor: Alliance for Safety and Justice)

National
$120,000
Support Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice to heal communities and shape public policy.

Equal Justice USA (EJUSA)

National
$1,000,000
Support policies and practices that create space to reimagine through reforms that significantly “make room” for new visions and systems and build new systems to replace punitive systems with community driven solutions.

Essie Justice Group

California
$20,000
Empower women with incarcerated loved ones taking on the rampant injustices created by mass incarceration by bringing women together to heal, build collective power, and drive social change.

FP YouthOutCry Foundation: The HUBB Arts & Trauma Center for Youth and Families

New Jersey
$25,000
Increase opportunities for success by providing healing programs, services, & events for underserved Newark youth and their families.

Healing Dialogue and Action (Fiscal Sponsor: Community Partners)

California
$50,000
Provide trauma-informed healing services to people impacted by homicide to end cyclical violence and mass incarceration.

Pillars of the Community

California
$20,000
Counter the criminalization of communities through community organizing, leadership development, and strategic partnerships.