Annual Grants Awarded
Annual Grants Awarded
Funding projects that meet our mission.
Project
Street Law
To develop and assess resources and training for youth courts across the U.S. in partnership with the National Association of Youth Courts. This initiative will address gaps in the system and improve outcomes for over 100,000 youth annually, enhancing ADR practices in these courts.
GRANT AMOUNT
$653,492
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
Everyday Democracy
To train librarians in dialogue facilitation to foster civil discourse in 10-12 library systems across the U.S. in partnership with the Urban Libraries Council.
GRANT AMOUNT
$182,000
Project
The Ohio State University Foundation
The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law and Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) will collaborate to design and create tech tools to expand ADR access to justice (A2J) in the context of landlord tenant disputes. The JusticeTech interdisciplinary program allows Law and CSE students to design and build tools to help individuals with legal problems while also identifying and mitigating risks created by justice technologies.
GRANT AMOUNT
$250,000
Project
Roca Inc.
Roca has adapted its evidence-based behavioral health model, Rewire CBT, to train police and corrections officers. The goals of Rewire4 are to: provide an understanding of how trauma and the developing brain fuel high-intensity encounters; teach 4 foundational conflict resolution skills to use in challenging interactions; and strengthen and improve relationships between police/corrections officers and the community.
GRANT AMOUNT
$250,000
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
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
Dignity Best Practices
DBP’s Toolkit will guide jurisdictions through building a stand-alone Mediation Response Unit (MRU) to respond to select 911 calls, or alternatively, to build mediation-response capabilities into existing civilian mobile response teams. The Toolkit will be modeled after the successful Dayton, Ohio MRU Mediation Response Unit program, which addresses calls that otherwise would be responded to by police.
GRANT AMOUNT
$200,000
Project
University of Maryland Law School, Center for Dispute Resolution
The project equips Anne Arundel County Government civil servants with training and support to engage constituents and fulfill their organization’s mission while promoting civil discourse in communities. The Public Sector First Responder training builds on the first responder concept to equip civil servants with skills to gather information, make quick assessments, and address conflict.
GRANT AMOUNT
$191,739
Project
Western Justice Center Foundation
WJC will bring conflict resolution education to 40 schools in LA County and affect learning environments for 25,000 youth annually to drive transformative change in Pre-K-12 education.
GRANT AMOUNT
$150,000