Race, Gender, and Human Rights Donor Circle (2007-2008)

Grant Partners

A New Way of Life Reentry Project/Statewide
$2,500

To participate in the Criminal Justice Leadership Project

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California/Statewide
$80,000

To support the Disproportionate Minority Confinement Project, which assesses the extent of minority over-representation in the justice systems in several key California counties and examines a variety of factors that contribute to this issue

California Coalition for Women Prisoners/Statewide
$2,500

To participate in the Criminal Justice Leadership Project

California Coalition for Women Prisoners/Statewide
$15,000

To support organizing campaigns and coalition work focused on women’s mental health and imprisonment

Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment/Statewide
$2,500

To participate in the Children of Incarcerated Parents Learning Cohort

Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment/Statewide
$2,500

To participate in the Criminal Justice Leadership Project

Critical Resistance Oakland/Statewide
$10,000

To coordinate efforts to prevent construction of new prisons and to eventually close one women’s and one men’s prison in the state

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights/Statewide
$12,000

To support a plan that transforms how California treats its young people, including rehabilitation over incarceration, closing of youth facilities and increasing the access of families to their incarcerated children

Environmental Working Group/Statewide
$10,000

To support outreach to women of color organizations in California for a research project to assess the unique health risks women and girls of color face through exposure to chemicals from personal care products

Families of Incarcerated Loved Ones/Statewide
$2,500

To participate in the Children of Incarcerated Parents Learning Cohort

Families with a Future/Statewide
$2,500

To participate in the Children of Incarcerated Parents Learning Cohort

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/Statewide
$2,500

To participate in the Criminal Justice Leadership Project

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/Statewide
$15,000

To support policy advocacy efforts, including restoring civil liberties of formerly incarcerated people and those with felonies, improving prison conditions and improving family reunification practices

National Network for Women in Prison/Statewide
$2,500

To participate in the Criminal Justice Leadership Project

TGI Justice Project/Statewide
$15,000

For general operating support to engage low-income, transgender, gender variant and intersex women in social justice movements and to create a national crossmovement alliance of criminal justice and queer issues

Time for Change Foundation/Statewide
$2,500

To participate in the Criminal Justice Leadership Project

Women’s Foundation of CA: Women’s Policy Institute
$30,000/Statewide

To support the Women’s Policy Institute to include a cohort of fellows focused on criminal justice reform issues, working to advance critical legislation, administrative advocacy and policy advocacy at the state level.

A New Way of Life Reentry Project/Los Angeles
$15,000

To support the Women Organizing for Justice Project, which engages formerly incarcerated women in criminal justice community organizing and policy work

Time for Change Foundation/San Bernardino
$15,000

For reentry services and reduce recidivism rates in San Bernardino County and to strengthen the All of Us or None project

California Prison Moratorium Project/San Joaquin Valley
$13,000

To continue anti-prison expansion organizing in the Central Valley and to support coalition work to build a statewide anti-prison movement

Just Detention International/San Joaquin Valley
$13,000

To support working toward the elimination of sexual violence in all forms of detention and to advocate for mental health treatment for those who are sexually abused

The Center for Young Women’s Development/San Francisco
$15,000

To develop the leadership of young women who have previously been incarcerated or in the juvenile justice system, and to promote a policy agenda that improves the approach to rehabilitation and healing of girls in crisis

Justice Now/San Francisco
$15,000

To support a national cross-movement campaign that will mobilize people in women’s prisons and bridge anti-prison, reproductive justice, anti-population control and gender justice movements around the country

Youth Justice Institute/San Francisco
$12,000

To strengthen and advocate for rehabilitation programs and to support coalition work in Alameda and San Francisco counties