Our Mission
The Public Welfare Foundation supports efforts to ensure fundamental rights and opportunities for people in need.
We look for carefully defined points where our funds can make a difference in bringing about systemic changes that can improve the lives of countless people.
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Featured Grantee
Proving Youthful Innocence
A Chicago-based organization helps free prisoners who were wrongly convicted as teenagers.
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Latest News
Can Crime Victims and Reformers Get Along?
A new report by a Public Welfare Foundation grantee explores how to achieve more cooperation and collaboration between victims of crime and criminal justice reformers.
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Reforming Juvenile Justice in DC
New report details how foundations supported crucial reforms of the juvenile justice agency in Washington, DC.
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Public Welfare Foundation’s 2010 Annual Report Now Available
See what advocates have to say about changing the criminal and juvenile justice systems and helping injured workers in the vibrant online version of our 2010 annual report.
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