CJI works to end mass incarceration and criminalization throughout the country. We do this by forming giving circles that raise and grant funds to grassroots organizing groups & organizations.   Our giving is explicitly inspired and designed to reflect a principle of participatory philanthropy that values the role of THOSE MOST AFFECTED BY INJUSTICE  as LEADERS in GENERATING the SOLUTIONS to the ISSUES They FACE.

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Through the FreeHer Fund, we are working to support MORE formerly incarcerated women  & girls who lead front-line organizations in the Movement get connected to the resources they need to succeed. We have ways to go, but working together we can grow a Just Sisterhood! 

 

The FreeHER Fund will uplift grassroots organizing that is based on the awareness of the current political environment’s hostility toward the rights of women and girls and led by women and girls directly impacted by the US criminal legal system.  

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The CJI FreeHER Circle is comprised of criminal justice women and gender non conforming activists, who are directly impacted (ie, formerly incarcerated, immigrant detention wrongfully-convicted, family members imprisoned) and donors who are committed to ensuring a meaningful and transformative change. Our goal is to raise a minimum of $500,000, which will be awarded to up to 25  women/girl lead organizations this year. Their work focuses on restoration of rights; sentencing and conditions of confinement and economic & reproductive justice. To accomplish this, we need your help.  

 

We ask that you take the FreeHER Challange by:

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• Making a contribution and challenge your colleagues, friends, and family to do the same by March 30th  through your social media networks  

• Join us on Thursday, April 9th  for the very first  FreeHER event at the Sky Terrace at the Hampton Inn Downtown in Brooklyn, NY. We invite women as your unique selves to join us to learn more about CJI,  and this effort  RSVP below.

• Buy FreeHER merchandise starting March 15th when the CJI online shop will launch.  Proceeds from every FreeHER item will benefit the Fund.

 

We believe that your commitment to this campaign will help to raise awareness of the importance of this giving and how it impacts our communities. Your support will help make the first FreeHER Campaign a great success!