Justice & Public Safety Grants

Justice & Public Safety Grants is sponsored by Rosenberg Foundation. Funds initiatives focused on criminal justice reform and public safety improvements.

Our Grantees – Rosenberg Foundation The Rosenberg Foundation currently makes grants in four priority areas – Leading Edge Fund, Justice and Public Safety, Immigrant Rights and Immigrant Workers’ Rights, and Civil Rights and Civic Participation. Learn more about our current grantees below.

Californians for Safety and Justice (fiscal sponsor Tides Center) Support for a coordinated, multi-year criminal justice reform campaign to reduce incarceration and corrections spending in California. Chinese for Affirmative Action Project support for advocacy efforts in San Francisco and Sacramento. Silicon Valley Community Foundation Project support for California Black Freedom Fund.

Anti Police-Terror Project Through her Leading Edge fellowship, Cat Brooks is revolutionizing public safety in cities across California by engaging visual arts, theater and organizing to imagine and implement abolitionist solutions to effectively respond to community crises with care – not a badge and a gun. Aria Sa’id is co-founder of The Transgender District in San Francisco.

Through her Leading Edge fellowship, Aria aims to end the economic oppression and marginalization of transgender people by creating thriving economic hubs led by and for transgender people of color. Brandon Anderson is the Founder and Executive Director of Raheem.

Through his Leading Edge fellowship, Brandon is disrupting the 911 system and ending aggressive police response by building an alternative dispatching system that meets people’s needs during acute crises without ever involving police.

California Dignity for Families (fiscal sponsor Tides Foundation) California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance (fiscal sponsor MALDEF) California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation Central Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative Through their Leading Edge fellowship, Chaney Turner, founder of Beyond Equity, works to win tax and policy changes so people in communities most harmed by the drug war can enter the cannabis economy and realize equity and economic mobility by increasing reinvestment in those communities.

Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles EPIC (fiscal sponsor Tides Center) Through her Leading Edge fellowship, Jackie Byers is inspiring radical change through grassroots organizing, telling the story of Black organizing that led to historic victories and a national reckoning around the role of police in schools and communities.

Through her Leading Edge fellowship, Shimica Gaskins’ vision is to close the racial wealth gap and create economic mobility for California’s most vulnerable children by piloting the largest baby bond program in the country.

Through their Leading Edge fellowship, Malkia Devich Cyril is creating a Radical Loss Movement, mobilizing California's bereaved communities of color to build a radical practice of grief that fuels transformative grievance and governance, replacing racialized policies that punish and disenfranchise BIPOC grief.

Progressive Multiplier Fund Prosecutors’ Alliance of California (fiscal sponsor Tides Foundation) General support of the Prosecutors' Alliance of California. Smart Justice California Education Fund (fiscal sponsor Tides Foundation) General support of the Smart Justice California Education Fund.

Southern Border Communities Coalition (fiscal sponsor Alliance San Diego) Kirke Wilson Summer Intern Scholarship United Farm Workers Foundation Urban Peace Movement (fiscal sponsor Movement Strategy Center) Through her Leading Edge fellowship, Nicole Lee is working to end youth incarceration in Alameda County and pass that torch to the next generation of activists who are reimagining an entirely new youth justice system across California.

Warehouse Worker Resource Center Young Women’s Freedom Center (fiscal sponsor Young Women’s Freedom Center) Through her Leading Edge fellowship, Christina “Krea” Gomez aims to replace punitive and dehumanizing systems with a comprehensive new architecture that provides young people with the support and resources they need to address their trauma, heal and thrive.

Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy Association of Black Foundation Executives California Criminal Justice Funders Group (fiscal sponsor Northern CA Grantmakers) California Immigrant Policy Center Executive’s Alliance for Boys and Men of Color (fiscal sponsor Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors) Foundation Center – Bay Area Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees Headstones from the Heart Hispanics in Philanthropy Hyphen (fiscal sponsor Panarama Global) National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Native Americans in Philanthropy Neighborhood Funders Group Northern California Grantmakers Public Rights Project (fiscal sponsor Tides Center) Southern California Grantmakers UCLA Foundation – COVID Behind Bars Project Where Is My Land (fiscal sponsor Neighborhood Housing Services Los Angeles County)