LJF Reentry & Economic Mobility Grant
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Overview of Opportunity
The Louisiana Justice Fund (LJF) is a pooled fund housed at FFL that supports projects aimed at reducing incarceration rates, improving reentry outcomes, and dismantling barriers to economic mobility, particularly for individuals disparately represented in the criminal legal system. The Fund focuses on deploying resources strategically to drive change and create lasting impact. LJF also values collaboration, capacity building, and strategic advocacy in its efforts to bring about lasting change in Louisiana's criminal legal landscape. LJF aims to achieve this through strategic investments in north Louisiana, central Louisiana, southwest Louisiana, Greater New Orleans, and Greater Baton Rouge areas through three grantmaking goals: 1) strengthen the ecosystem of criminal legal system reform organizations, 2) invest in organizations to shift narratives on safety, crime, and accountability, and 3) increase economic mobility for criminal legal system impacted folks.
The LJF Reentry & Economic Mobility grant supports Louisiana-based organizations conducting workforce advocacy and providing reentry services with a systems analysis that addresses economic mobility, workforce development, expanded and coordinated services for formerly-incarcerated persons (FIPs) and families of system-involved folks.
What the Grant Supports
Louisiana-based organizations implementing programs or initiatives that aim to improve employment opportunities for FIPs through direct services with an ecological systems analysis of the criminal justice system in Louisiana, policy advocacy, or integrated advocacy with direct services.
Examples of the type of work this grant will support include but are not limited to:
- “clean slate” legislative advocacy and connecting that work to the national movement;
- removing barriers to vocations and fixing the gaps in reentry services that create unnecessary barriers to living-wage employment (e.g., occupational licensure);
- strategies to ensure implementation of existing policies and laws facilitating access to employment, housing, voting, healthcare, etc. for formerly incarcerated persons;
- policy advocacy to improve employment opportunities and economic mobility for FIPs integrated with direct services);
- services/programs/policy advocacy to mitigate the economic burden on families of detained or incarcerated folks.
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