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For Fiscal Year 2023, Public Welfare’s funding strategies include:

• Narrative Change, Media, and Strategic Communications: Re-framing the narrative and fostering greater transparency and urgency around the U.S. criminal justice system through storytelling, journalism, and other targeted efforts.
• Targeted Criminal and Youth Justice Reforms in: Oklahoma; Michigan; Georgia; Colorado; Louisiana; Jackson, Mississippi; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Washington, DC.

In addition to our core strategies, Public Welfare is deepening exploration of the following strategies:

• Gender Justice: Dismantling the incarceration of women an d women-aligned people through gender-informed specialized treatment, healing trauma and wellness, transformative reentry programs and leadership development for justice-impacted women.
• Violence and Harm Reduction: Reducing violence using community-centered interventions, including through professionalizing community violence intervention workers, creating or expanding offices of violence prevention, and emphasizing interventions that attend to individual needs within localized geographic locations.
• Formerly Incarcerated Leadership: Supporting the development and leadership of formerly incarcerated and justice-impacted leaders in the field, including through expanding re-entry services; building organizational and movement capacity for formerly incarcerated leaders; and addressing trauma and providing space for healing and wellness

More details about the Foundation’s funding strategies can be found in online application system.

• Visit the LOI Content Guide below.

• Please note: Our FY23 LOI process is now closed. Please check back late Fall of 2023.
• Access our grants management system here.
• If you are a first-time user, click the “New Applicant?” link under the email address field on the login screen. Follow the prompts to create an account.
• If you have started an LOI or proposal and wish to return to it, log into our grants management system here. This will take you to your account homepage where you can access all LOIs and/or proposals you have created using the system.
• If you receive an error message when you try to log in, please try logging in using another web browser. For example, if you are using Google Chrome, please try to log in using Internet Explorer, Firefox or another web browser. If you continue to receive an error message, please delete the cookies on your web browser and try to log in again. If neither of these solutions corrects the problem, please email info@publicwelfare.org.

• The Letter of Inquiry should contain facts and figures about the organization, describe its mission, and explain the purpose of the request, including the Foundation program under which a grant is being requested. For more information, visit the LOI Content Guide.

• Once a Letter of Inquiry arrives at the Foundation, our staff determines whether the proposed project fits the Foundation’s funding guidelines and available resources.
• Our staff responds to letters of inquiry within 60 business days.