Annual Grants Awarded
Annual Grants Awarded
Funding projects that meet our mission.
Project
Nashville Conflict Resolution Center
$120,000 to create a centralized platform used by all seven Tennessee nonprofit mediation centers to make remote mediation services accessible for systemically disenfranchised low-income litigants in all Tennessee General Sessions and Juvenile Courts.
GRANT AMOUNT
$120,000
Project
Research Foundation of CUNY obo John Jay College of Criminal Justice
$88,000 to produce user-friendly resources to help court staff easily address and implement best practices in terms of accessibility, trauma-informed service delivery, and procedural fairness.
GRANT AMOUNT
$88,000
Project
Arizona Town Hall
$75,000 to invite Arizonans of diverse views and experience to participate in a forum to examine the issue of extreme polarization, interact with one another, respectfully discuss the issues, and work together to find solutions.
GRANT AMOUNT
$75,000
Project
Union League Boys and Girls Clubs
The Restorative Justice and Trauma-Informed Healing Centered Project (RJ&TIHCP) is a collaboration between Union League Boys and Girls Clubs (ULBGC), The University of Illinois at Chicago Law School’s Restorative Justice Program (RJP), The Urban Youth Trauma Center at UIC and UIC’s Office of Community Engagement and Neighborhood Health Partnerships. The program will also include key community partners representing school, law enforcement and juvenile justice systems. RJP law students will provide an alternative dispute resolution model that includes a trauma- informed approach and restorative justice training to youth and the adults collaborating with them in ULBGC programs.
GRANT AMOUNT
$250,000
Project
New York State Unified Court System
$250,000 to utilize Community Dispute Resolution Centers Restorative Justice and facilitation expertise to assist the NYS Division of Human Rights in the development of ten Regional Hate and Bias Prevention Councils by providing listening sessions, local action planning, and community dialogue.
GRANT AMOUNT
$250,000
Project
The RAND Corporation’s Creating Dialogue via a Tabletop Exercise to Improve Community-Police Relations
The Foundation has awarded $249,732 to this project facilitating a tabletop exercise testing police and community emergency responses in three communities. After-action and evaluation reports will be distributed in every community, and research briefs based on the final reports will be used to recommend improvements as needed. The project will also create and disseminate an online toolkit hosted on a RAND Corporation webpage to support other communities wishing to facilitate these tabletop exercises.
GRANT AMOUNT
$249,732
Project
The Ohio State University Foundation
$249,521 to the Divided Community Project in partnership with the National Civic League as well as Fordham and Stanford Law Schools to organize, design and implement multi-day academy programs training local leadership teams to plan and implement strategies to address polarizing community dynamics.
GRANT AMOUNT
$249,521
Project
National Civic League
To innovate and support strong civil discourse in local governance in three U.S. locations. The initiative aims to improve citizen-government relations in partnership with the SHIFT Family Foundation, the National League of Cities, and the International City/County Management Association.
GRANT AMOUNT
$244,800
Project
Essential Partners
EP will partner with a network of YMCAs (Tacoma, Oklahoma City, Nashville, Houston, Silver Bay New York, and the National YMCA in Chicago) to conduct a pilot initiative with goals to augment local YMCA capacities as local bridge-builders by training staff, volunteers, and youth leaders in EP’s approach to dialogue and equipping them to facilitate dialogues on local issues, and build a model for other YMCA Associations to adopt, expand, and sustain similar efforts around the U.S.
GRANT AMOUNT
$224,450
Project
ABA Fund for Justice and Education
$200,000 to bring communities together to begin restoring productive public discourse on critical topics, leveraging state and local bars’ legal expertise and leadership to develop a framework for community conversations to strengthen democracy.
GRANT AMOUNT
$200,000