Opportunities
New Orleans Criminal Justice Leadership Alliance
Baptist Community Ministries (BCM) is a New Orleans-based private foundation that makes grants in four program areas: health, education, public safety, and governmental oversight. This grant will enable BCM to provide staff to the New Orleans Criminal Justice Leadership Alliance and its efforts to reshape the city’s criminal justice system.
Florida Partners in Crisis, Inc. is a statewide advocacy organization that seeks to reduce the involvement of people with mental illnesses and substance abuse disorders with the criminal justice system. This grant provides general operating support.
Race, Communications and American Life
Created in 1999, FrameWorks is a nonprofit organization focused on the advance of the nonprofit sector's communications capacity by identifying, translating and modeling relevant research for framing the public dialogue about social problems. This two-year grant will support a comprehensive study of race in America from a communications perspectice, examining the public's views of race as they relate to a number of public policy issues, in particular crime and the criminal justice system. The results of this study will be used to provide the criminal justice advocacy community with tangible ways to evoke a broader range of policy alternatives through effective framing and messaging.
Protecting the Rights of Immigrants in Detention
Heartland Alliance is an anti-poverty, human rights organization that advocates for social justice and provides an array of services to society's most marginalized populations. This grant supports impact litigation addressing human rights and due process violations of immigrants in detention, and national coordination and mobilization of advocates and legal experts around this issue.
Detention Watch Network
The Detention Watch Network is a membership-based coalition comprised of legal service providers, national immigration advocates and community-based groups to support immigrants in detention and their family members. This grant provides core support for the Network.
Defending Immigrants Partnership
Immigrant Legal Resource Center, the New York State Defender Association, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild formed this partnership was to promote greater awareness of the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. The training and technical support in this area to the criminal defense bars in California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Texas. This grant provides the Partnership with operating support.
This grant provides general operating support for the Center's work, which focuses on a number of issues including the immigration consequences of criminal convictions, political asylum, and due process protections for immigrants facing detention and deportation.
Disappeared in America
Pacific News Service is a diverse network of media groups dedicated to offering marginalized voices and unpopular opinions exposure in the public arena. This grant supports expanding the capacity of ethnic press to publicize cases of immigrants who may have been unjustly arrested, detained, or deported for alleged violations of immigration laws or as threats to national security under the Patriot Act.
Immigration Network Pilot Phase
This grant supports the pilot test of an online national support network for advocates working in the immigrants' rights field. The network includes a library of information on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions.
Developing a Justice Mapping Center for Criminal Justice Reform
This grant supports the integration of justice mapping into the technical assistance and research components of The Institute's work. Justice mapping takes traditional criminal justice data and reorganizes it in a comprehensive and illustrative way using computer generated maps that link a range of information about criminal justice populations and resources to their geographic distribution.
Immigration Enforcement Project
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, established in 1989, is a data gathering, research and distribution center associated with Syracuse University. This grant supports the systematic collection of information on immigration enforcement activities, particularly with respect to the deportation of immigrants with criminal convictions. TRAC will analyze this data in a series of publications and make it available online for researchers.
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Death Penalty Clinic (DPC)
The DPC was established in 2001 to expose and tackle problems attendant to the administration of the death penalty. In 2006, DPC began to post pleadings, transcripts, exhibits, and court rulings on lethal injection challenges from various states on its Web site. This grant supports the transformation of the Web site from a repository of information to a more interactive and comprehensive clearinghouse available to litigators, media, policymakers, and the public.
Strategic Communications: Defining and Branding Project
The Vera Institute is a research and policy organization based in New York City. For 46 years, Vera has been a key source of innovation for the entire criminal justice field in New York, the United States, and abroad. This grant will permit Vera to increase its visibility and strengthen its ability to raise funds from diverse sources.
Strategic Planning Project
The Western Prison Project was first founded in 1999 as a regional grassroots organization dedicated to promoting the interests of formerly incarcerated people and their family members. This grant provides funds to hire a consultant to develop a strategic plan for the organization.
Institute on Women & Criminal Justice
This grant provides continued support for the Institute on Women & Criminal Justice.
