The Foundation’s Human Rights program envisions a society where people are free to live whole, safe, and dignified lives.
The Foundation’s Human Rights program seeks to center people impacted by mass criminalization; dismantle systems of punishment in the United States; and invest in communities rather than prisons and surveillance, promoting practices of healing and community accountability rooted in our common humanity.
To meet these goals, the Human Rights program invests in three key areas:
The program invests in the leadership of people who have been directly impacted by these systems and who are seeking transformational change of the current notion of safety and well-being. The program makes grants nationally and in California, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina—four key states in the movement to reimagine new approaches to safety, justice, and accountability.