F2L Network
- purpose: to end the incarceration of Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color who are queer, trans, and Two-Spirit in NY
- more info: Charity Navigator
Operation Amani
- purpose: provides comprehensive support to individuals impacted by the criminal justice system, including those recently incarcerated or at risk of incarceration, with a focus on youth, young adults, and adults facing barriers to reentry and opportunity
- more info: Charity Navigator
Operation Restoration
- purpose: support women and girls impacted by incarceration to recognize their full potential, restore their lives and discover new possibilities
- more info: Charity Navigator
Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty
- purpose: to stop executions by working with legal teams to advocate for justice for those condemned to death and uplift the humanity of those on death row
- more info: Charity Navigator
Friends Outside in Los Angeles County
- purpose: to assist children and families, prisoners, and former prisoners with the immediate and long-term effects of incarceration, and to act as a bridge between those we serve, the community at large, and the criminal justice system, thereby enhancing the character of justice
- more info: Charity Navigator
The Reentry Initiative
- purpose: provides comprehensive services inside and outside prison walls that empower adults to live fulfilling and crime-free lives in their community
- more info: Charity Navigator
Community Works
- purpose: to transform justice through programs and policy rooted in humanity and healing
- more info: Giving Compass, Charity Navigator
Texas Jail Project
- purpose: to liberate communities by organizing with, and advocating for, people incarcerated in Texas county jails and their loved ones
- more info: Charity Navigator
College & Community Fellowship
- purpose: enables justice-involved women to earn college degrees, certifications, and licensures so that they, their families, and their communities can thrive
- more info: Charity Navigator
Prison Phone Justice
- purpose: to provide current information on the high costs of phone calls from state prisons and county jails
- more info: Charity Navigator
Delaware Center for Justice
- purpose: listen, amplify, and act to seek justice for all Delawareans through advocacy and services
- more info: Charity Navigator
Dream Defenders
- purpose: a Black-led, feminist, socialist, abolitionist, and internationalist political formation fighting for a world without prisons, police, capitalism, and imperialism
- more info: Charity Navigator
Texas Defender Service
- purpose: fight for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education
- more info: Charity Navigator
Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
- purpose: to work for an end to mass incarceration, detention, and deportation and to seek dignity, freedom, and equity for people suffering under the weight of oppressive policies and institutions
- more info: Charity Navigator, Sojourners
Project POOCH
- purpose: providing life-changing opportunities for adjudicated youth and shelter dogs
- more info: Charity Navigator, GlobalGiving, Wikipedia
Safe Return Project
- purpose: to end mass incarceration and mass criminalization of black people and people of color and to re-enfranchise individuals and communities that have been disenfranchised as a result of criminalization, racial disparity, and poverty
- more info: Charity Navigator, RichmondSide
Cabrini Green Legal Aid
- purpose: provide holistic legal services that include social support services and advocacy for individuals and communities negatively impacted by the criminal legal system
- more info: Charity Navigator
Hearts on a Wire
- purpose: a grassroots inside/outside prison advocacy organization working to address the needs of transgender people in Pennsylvania’s prisons
- more info: Charity Navigator
Network Support Services
- purpose: empower incarcerated people to transform their lives and re-enter the community as productive citizens with a renewed sense of purpose
- more info: Charity Navigator
Emancipate NC
- purpose: to dismantle structural racism and mass incarceration in North Carolina
- more info: Charity Navigator
Colorado Freedom Fund
- purpose: help facilitate pretrial liberty for people who cannot afford the cost of money bond and lead the policy work to advance lasting change in Colorado through legislation and legal advocacy
- more info: Charity Navigator, National Bail Fund Network
Children's Legal Defense Center
- purpose: a nonprofit legal assistance organization in Hargeisa, Somaliland that defends wrongfully and unjustly imprisoned children
- more info: GlobalGiving
The Center for Death Penalty Litigation
- purpose: a non-profit law firm that represents people on North Carolina’s death row and serves as a clearinghouse for accurate and timely information about the North Carolina death penalty
- more info: Charity Navigator
Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative
- purpose: build safety within our community, investing in our collective embodied leadership, and building political power
- more info: Charity Navigator
Vehicles for Change
- purpose: empowers families with financial challenges to achieve economic and personal independence through car ownership and technical training
- more info: Charity Navigator
Connections Work
- purpose: changes lives and improves communities by providing services and supports to individuals seeking pathways to success
- more info: Charity Navigator
Paws For Life K9 Rescue
- purpose: saves and transforms the lives of animals and people through innovative canine-centered programs that provide purpose, support, and opportunity
- more info: Charity Navigator, The Forward, Petfinder
Capitol Area Reentry Program
- purpose: to redefine reentry in Baton Rouge through a holistic approach to routine screening, compassionate engagement, and harm reductive services aimed to reduce health disparities among people who inject drugs (PWID) and LGBTQ+ individuals
- more info: Charity Navigator
Center for Appellate Litigation
- purpose: dedicated to the pursuit of equal justice under the law for indigent New Yorkers in their criminal appeals and other post-conviction proceedings
- more info: Charity Navigator
Storycatchers Theatre
- purpose: guides young people to transform their traumatic experiences into powerful musical theatre, inspiring them to develop the courage and vision to become leaders and mentors
- more info: Charity Navigator