The AAA-ICDR Foundation Board awarded $50,000 Rapid Response Grants to All Home in San Francisco CA and Cleveland Mediation Center in Cleveland Ohio.  

The mission of All Home is to advance regional solutions that disrupt the cycles of poverty and homelessness, redress racial disparities, and create more economic mobility opportunities for people with extremely low incomes. All Home's work includes convening key stakeholder groups across the Bay Area to address housing insecurity and homelessness.  All Home implements mediation, conflict resolution and restorative practices across their work to achieve group agreements, facilitate dialogue and train individuals with lived experiences to become decision makers. This grant will support their Black Prosperity Initiative to redress the racial disparities in their region including housing disparities and economic security.

Cleveland Mediation Center (CMC) promotes just and peaceful community in Northeast Ohio by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. This grant will support their shelter diversion program to help individuals and families seeking shelter find safe, appropriate alternatives so they can avoid becoming homeless. This includes mediating with friends and family to identify places they can stay and offering financial assistance as needed. CMC has trained communities across the country in this model and started a new LGBTQI+ Shelter diversion program in 2022 using conflict resolution and mediation with individuals in the LGBTQI+ community to prevent homelessness.