Collaboration with social movements and community-based organizations is foundational to CRC’s approach and key to our success. As part of this commitment, we provide small grant opportunities, as well as material support, to grassroots organizations. We have also incubated multiple organizations, offering infrastructure support during their early development.
Center For Just Journalism
The Center for Just Journalism acts as a resource for new and experienced journalists covering public safety issues.
The style and substance of media coverage have ripple effects that influence everything from public policy and our collective sense of safety to the dignity and well-being of people who are directly impacted by crime, policing, and incarceration.
Futures Institute
Building a Future of Safe & Thriving Communities
The Futures Institute advances policies for safe and thriving communities. Using policy research and design, state and federal advocacy, and multidisciplinary coalition-building, we help to create policy systems that prevent gun violence and other harms before they claim lives — while providing all youth a chance to thrive.
Rights Behind Bars
Rights Behind Bars is a non-profit legal advocacy organization working alongside incarcerated people to challenge the cruel and inhumane conditions of confinement.
They approach trial litigation through a movement lawyering framework. This means that litigation is just one tool, among many, that is used to achieve the goals of the clients and movements they serve. Pairing innovative trial litigation with public advocacy, education, media and organizing strategies helps to ensure that the work has a broader and more sustainable scope than what would be achievable through litigation alone.
Scrutinize
Judges possess immense power to shape the outcomes of criminal cases through their decisions, ranging from setting bail and ruling on violations of constitutional rights, to determining the length of sentences.
Scrutinize’s mission is to end mass incarceration and racial inequality. They accomplish this by analyzing data that sheds light on the decisions and impacts of individual judges promoting transparency and accountability.