Just Impact Advisors

Grantsthe association provides grants to a variety of organizations that are focused on reforming and shrinking the criminal legal system, working to ensure a healthy movement ecosystem. Historically, grants have supported community organizing, leadership development, direct advocacy, journalism, narrative change, prosecutor accountability, and policy reform. We prioritize funding to directly impacted leaders, and a large majority of our funding goes to organizations led by people of color. We seek to Fund innovative leaders and organizations deploying dynamic strategies to reduce incarceration and to forge solutions and alternatives to incarceration that are effective in keeping communities safe. Grants are typically unrestricted and made for general operating purposes for grantee organizations. Grants have ranged in size from $30,000 to $1,500,000.

Donor advisingthe association spends the majority of its time focused on providing advisory assistance, grant recommendations, and thought leadership to donors who on our advice have invested heavily into transforming criminal Justice. The association regularly compose and distribute memoranda on current affairs, recent news, and philanthropic opportunities in the criminal Justice reform space, reaching hundreds of donors and donor Advisors each month. We publish articles and interviews discussing our strategy and providing guidance to funders who are interested in grantmaking to the criminal Justice reform field. We host events and convene speakers to provide learning and engagement opportunities for funders, and we have begun offering an introductory workshop to the field of criminal Justice reform for donors and donor Advisors for interested donors and donor Advisors.