Letters of Interest for Project Funding

Letters of Interest for Project Funding is sponsored by Foundation for Criminal Justice (NACDL). The Foundation for Criminal Justice supports charitable and educational work related to its mission, occasionally funding projects of other organizations that serve its mission.

NACDL - Applying for Grants The primary purpose of the Foundation for Criminal Justice is to support the charitable and educational work of its member organization NACDL. However, the Foundation does occasionally fund projects of other organizations that serve its mission.

To request funding from the Foundation for Criminal Justice, please send a Letter of Interest of no more than two pages describing the organization seeking funding and the project for which the funding would be used. Letter of interest will be reviewed by the Board of Trustees, after which the organization may be invited to submit a full grant proposal.

Letters of interest should be submitted to Foundation for Criminal Justice, 1660 L Street NW, 12th Floor, Washington, DC 20036 or by email to both nreimer@nacdl. org and dweir@nacdl. org .

For more information about the grant application process, please contact Daniel Weir at dweir@nacdl. org or 202-465-7640.

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