Reentry : Barriers to Reentry
Felon Enfranchisement Program of the Racial Justice Project
This grant supports ACLU's continuing work on voter education, advocacy, and mobilization.
Detroit Safe Community Collaboration
The Community Foundation for SouthEast Michigan has convened local funders to form the Detroit Safe Community Collaborative to coordinate reentry grantmaking in Detroit. JEHT is matching funds for grants made by the Collaborative to enhance the capacity of local organizations that work with the Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative (MPRI). This grant also supports capacity-building workshops for Detroit-based service providers interested in working with returning prisoners.
Integrating Supportive Housing into Reentry
The Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) is a national financial and technical assistance intermediary that helps non-profits finance and operate supportive housing for individuals and families with special needs, such as mental illness, substance abuse, or HIV/AIDS. This grant supports CSH to identify opportunities to incorporate supportive housing into city and state reentry programs.
The Effects of Low Level Offense Records and Race on Employability Project
The Council on Crime and Justice is a criminal justice policy research and advocacy organization that focuses on issues in Minnesota. This grant supports a research study that examines the impact of arrest records (with no convictions) and misdemeanor records, along with race, on employability.
Development Assistance
This grant will provide assistance to Family Justice to continue its board development and enhance its capacity to secure contributions from individuals and businesses to support family-focused justice reform.
Criminal Justice Project
This grant supports the creation of a how-to manual for employers seeking to hire ex-offenders and a report for Maryland employers on negligent hiring.
Community Safety through Successful Offender Reentry Training
Concerned with public safety and large numbers of returning offenders, the Missouri Department of Corrections created the Missouri Reentry Process, a model which focuses on preparing offenders prior to release and includes continuity of care from prison to the community. With this grant, the Department will engage the Center for Effective Public Policy to facilitate a three-day training event for mid-level administrators responsible for implementing its institutional change process.
Second Chance Labor Project
The National Employment Law Project is a legal services center that promotes employment rights of the working poor and unemployed. This project engages national unions to change unfair policies on background checks and to strengthen prohibitions on discrimination in hiring people with criminal records.
Manual on the Rights of Persons with Criminal Records to Enter Federally Assisted Housing
The National Housing Law Project is a housing law and advocacy center that works to increase and preserve affordable housing. This grant supports the creation of a resource manual for local housing advocates interested in impact litigation against local public housing authorities.
General Operating Support
The Rhode Island Family Life Center supports the reintegration of ex-offenders into the community and policy and systems reform through research, policy analysis, and key leader education in Rhode Island. This grant supports the core work of the Family Life Center.
Right to Vote Assessment
The Tides Foundation is a public charity that provides financial, human, and administrative resources to projects, such as Right to Vote (RTV), a collaborative effort to re-enfranchise formerly incarcerated people supported by JEHT, Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation, Open Society Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation. With this grant, the organization will undertake an independent assessment of the effectiveness of the collaboration and of RTV's implementation. The ultimate goal is to ensure the impact of RTV and the development of a valuable model of collaboration that can be used by others.
