How We Transform Justice Together
With your help, we put people and their individual needs at the forefront of justice. Here is a small sample of what your support has allowed us to do.
Transforming justice means investing in community-led programming to reduce the reach and the harms of the criminal legal system and ensure long-term safety for all. We do this by working side-by-side with communities to translate evidence-based research and 25 years of innovation to create opportunities and build strong, healthy neighborhoods.
Your contribution has a lasting real-world impact on:
Investing in Youth
When a summer employment program in New York was threatened by COVID-19-related budget cuts, your support allowed us to provide young people with job opportunities to develop professional skills, build a strong resume, earn an income, and create new narratives for their own lives.
Thanks to you, we continued to engage the hardest-to-reach-youth—those who are justice-involved, at high risk of violence, or involved in the child-welfare system—and gave them a chance at a particularly challenging time to connect with others and build their future.
Energizing Entrepreneurs
Recognizing the largely untapped entrepreneurial talent in many communities across New York, your support helped to create the Hub: a space offering training and access to cutting-edge tools to learn skills and test out new business ideas with peers.
The Hub is located in a historically under-resourced central Brooklyn neighborhood and works closely with the community and participants to help young people launch new businesses and energize the next generation of entrepreneurs.
A New Vision of Justice
Our Justice Centers are a real-life example of what a better justice system can look like. Your support means that we can continue to ensure everyone who walks through our doors are treated with dignity and respect—whether it's someone facing a criminal charge, a victim, or simply a person seeking help with a problem. Thanks to you, we have Justice Centers serving neighborhoods across New York, including a brand new Center in Far Rockaway, Queens, this summer.
Thank you for your ongoing support and your commitment to transforming justice together!