We are thrilled to announce that our circle has expanded! In November, CJI added Jordan Moeller to the Development and Communications Department as an associate. Jordan will be working under the direction of Raquel Marion-Virgo and Isaac Skelton to advance fundraising and communications efforts, as well as broadening CJI’s capacity to launch new key projects…
CJI’s Capacity Building Program finished the year strong with a non-stop slate of free-of-charge grantee and prospective grantee programming. The overarching goal of the CJI Capacity Building Program is to develop the overall strength of our grantee organizations, focusing on their inner workings, thereby making them more effective and ultimately better able to serve…
Justice Teams Network—a Leadership Circle 2020 grantee ($15,000) and 2021 SOS Rapid Response ($5,000) grant recipient—succeeded this year in winning two enormous legislative victories in California that will combine to improve thousands of lives. Now signed into law, the CRISES Act (AB118) provides $10 million to fund non-police response to crises on California streets in…
CJI proudly announces the award this month of our 600th grant since launching in 2000. Combined with a slate of recent FreeHer grants, CJI’s Strategic Opportunities Support (SOS) Rapid Response Circle added to our totals to push our awardee list over the line. It’s an important milestone for Circle for Justice Innovations, which began…
CJI’s FreeHer Circle proudly announces its roster of grantees for 2021. The list of organizations approved to receive a FreeHer grant was released in August, with a total of $500,000 in grants. This new round of grants—only the program’s second—will now fuel the organizing efforts of 25 grassroots organizations working in seven states to eliminate…
Relaunching… and Reimagining Starving the Beast Starving the Beast (STB) is proudly relaunching as an independently operated CJI Circle fund rededicated to its core prison-diversion priorities, but with an ambitious, expanded program mission. CJI’s STB Circle is currently recruiting new donor members to be a part of the action. For donors seeking a better…
Four New Members Join CJI Leadership Circle Dominique Morgan (she/her) is an award-winning artist, activist, and TEDx speaker. As the Executive Director of Black and Pink, the largest prison abolitionist organization in the United States. She works daily to dismantle the systems that perpetuate violence on LGBTQ/GNC people and individuals living with HIV/AIDS. Partnering…
In order to build on the trailblazing work CJI has carried out over its 20 years of revolutionary philanthropy, CJI is rolling out a fresh, new logo design. CJI new logo was conceived to more fully capture our grantmaking philosophy, who were are as a community, and how we function as the country’s first Black…
Open Door Philanthropy Podcast The Open Door Philanthropy Podcast gathers philanthropists, entrepreneurs, and change makers of all stripes. The podcast is hosted by Dave Moss, who founded Unfunded List in 2015 to ensure the next generation of changemakers receive the feedback and recognition they need to be successful. His Open Door Philanthropy podcast’s mission…
Today marks 57 years since Congress ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, forbidding the use of a poll tax in federal elections. For 70 years—from the 1890s until this day in 1966—voting fees applied in southern states as a legal means of preventing Black Americans from exercising their hard-won right to vote. A…