Annual Grants Awarded
Annual Grants Awarded
Funding projects that meet our mission.
Project
Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
$750,000 to support the creation of a Person-Centered Triage Approach (PCTA) National Collaborative, which will transform mental health crisis response in 911/988 centers by developing, implementing, and scaling a person-centered and procedurally just approach in four sites nationally.
GRANT AMOUNT
$750,000
Project
New York State Unified Court System
$250,000 to utilize Community Dispute Resolution Centers Restorative Justice and facilitation expertise to assist the NYS Division of Human Rights in the development of ten Regional Hate and Bias Prevention Councils by providing listening sessions, local action planning, and community dialogue.
GRANT AMOUNT
$250,000
Project
Roca Inc.
$250,000 to reduce violence and increase understanding between police, community, and young adults by providing Rewire4 training department-wide at the Baltimore Police Department.
GRANT AMOUNT
$250,000
Project
The Ohio State University Foundation
$249,521 to the Divided Community Project in partnership with the National Civic League as well as Fordham and Stanford Law Schools to organize, design and implement multi-day academy programs training local leadership teams to plan and implement strategies to address polarizing community dynamics.
GRANT AMOUNT
$249,521
Project
ABA Fund for Justice and Education
$200,000 to bring communities together to begin restoring productive public discourse on critical topics, leveraging state and local bars’ legal expertise and leadership to develop a framework for community conversations to strengthen democracy.
GRANT AMOUNT
$200,000
Project
Resolution Systems Institute | RSI: Holistic Online Program for Evictions (HOPE)
$172,000 to reduce barriers to ODR for self-represented parties, especially those with low literacy. RSI will develop guidance for courts to prepare parties for ODR.
GRANT AMOUNT
$172,000
Project
National Association for Community Mediation
$136,500 to support development of a new toolbox in partnership with Living Room Conversations and community organizations that helps school boards and communities bridge conflict focused on mending social divisions and civil discourse
GRANT AMOUNT
$136,500
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
