CTPF grantee Alliance for Educational Justice.
Established in 2017, Borealis Philanthropy’s Communities Transforming Policing Fund (CTPF) proudly resources a national network of grassroots organizing groups led by and centered on supporting the communities most affected by police and state violence to end criminalization, increase police accountability, reimagine transformative public safety strategies, and build healthy, healed communities. In May 2024, the CTPF awarded three-year, $150,000 grants to 26 organizations selected by the fund’s participatory grantmaking (PGM) committee. Three finalists were selected to receive one-year, $25,000 learning opportunity grants, for a participatory grantmaking total of $3.975 million.
For a third consecutive year of grantmaking, the CTPF leaned on the leadership of its PGM committee members—11 advocates, organizers, and storytellers from BIPOC, disabled, and LGBTQ+ communities across the nation that have been impacted by policing and the criminal justice system. The CTPF believes in the power and wisdom of collective decision-making by those who are most impacted by criminalization and are also deeply rooted in work for the safety and liberation of their communities.
The 2024-2027 PGM cohort is a diverse group spread out across 16 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. 96% of the organizations are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color-led; 53% are queer, trans, or gender non-conforming-led; and 46% are led by individuals with disabilities.
- Alliance for Educational Justice (National)
- Atlanta Community Support Project (GA)
- California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance (CA)
- Coalition for Community Owns Safety (MI)
- Decarcerate Miami (FL)
- Equality for Flatbush (NY)
- Healthy and Free Tennessee (TN)
- Human Rights Coalition of Alachua County (FL)
- Lady’s Intervention Project for Success (LIPS) Florida (FL)
- Micelio Abolicionista (PR)
- Michael Brown Sr. Chosen for Change (MO)
- Muslim Justice League (MA)
- National Survivor Union (NC)
- New Jersey Red Umbrella Alliance (NJ)
- Providence Student Union (RI
- Saratoga Black Lives Matter (NY)
- Southeast Asian Freedom Network (NY)
- Southern Movement Committee (TN)
- Sovereign Bodies Institute (MT)
- The Black Response Cambridge (MA)
- The Miles Hall Foundation (CA)
- Transformations Youth Group (MO)
- Until We Are All Free Movement (MN)
- VOCAL KY (KY)
- Virginia Student Power Network (VA)
- W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction (PA)
Meet the recipients of the 2024 PGM learning opportunity grants below!
In addition to funding, the CTPF also offers all of its partners capacity building support that includes peer learning community spaces curated by Building Beyond Policing and the Community Resource Hub, and one-on-one coaching on topics like organizational development, fundraising and financial strategy, narrative powerbuilding, research, and more.
Borealis’ CTPF staff also identified eight partners to receive learning opportunity and anchor grants. Two groups received $25,000 in learning opportunity grants, including the Fund’s first Utah-based grantee partner! Six organizations that provide capacity-building support to grassroots groups operating in the movement’s ecosystem also received $25,000-$50,000 anchor grants. In total, the CTPF distributed an additional $225,000, bringing its grantmaking total in this round to $4.2 million.
Meet the recipients of the 2024 CTPF learning opportunity grants below!
Meet the recipients of the 2024 CTPF anchor grants below!
- Building Beyond Policing (National)
- Dissenters (National)
- Just Practice Collaborative (National)
- Justice Committee (NY)
- Justice Teams Network (CA)
- Marijuana Justice
We are endlessly grateful to our grassroots partners for leading work that keeps families and communities together, safe, and healthy. While the CTPF’s core grantmaking for 2024 is complete, the team encourages interested applicants to sign up for its listserv to receive notice of new funding opportunities in the future. And we invite all those committed to justice, joy, and liberation to partner with the CTPF to flank community safety organizing across the United States. To learn more, please email us at ctpf@borealisphilanthropy.org.
