Arab-American Family Support Center

For programs that strengthen Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian immigrant youth’s academic achievement, creative expression and healthy behaviors

Urban Youth Collaborative

To organize youth of color who have been the victims of school-based over-policing to advance youth justice alternatives and promote wellbeing of both youth and their communities

Teachers Unite

For members' work with students and teachers to lead the shift from punitive to transformative justice in NYC public schools

Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation

For a youth organizing group that seeks to address racial and educational injustice through a campaign to implement restorative justice practices at a local high school campus

Osborne Association

To support programs for children of incarcerated parents as well as a council that engages young people impacted by incarceration to develop campaigns around issues affecting their lives and communities

JustLeadership USA

To empower court-involved youth to drive policy reforms, including the campaign to #CloseRikers, a comprehensive multiyear effort to close Rikers Island Detention Facility

Correctional Association of New York

To support the implementation monitoring supports for the newly passed “Raise the Age” law taking minors off Rikers Island, as well as support for Safe Passages, a leadership development and peer support program for system-involved LGBTQIA young people of color, and the Youth Speakers Institute, a media training and advocacy program for system-impacted youth

ReConnect

To connect youth to employment, entrepreneurship training, and access to college credit to help navigate systemic challenges that make it hard to find sustainable employment

exalt

To counteract the school-to-prison pipeline by elevating expectations of personal success for court-involved youth through job skills courses, individualized support, paid internships, and alumni network

Drive Change

To provide training and first job experience for formerly incarcerated and court-involved young people through a nonprofit food truck

Invest in Youth Grant Program