What We Fund:
Safety & Justice

Providing health care consumers with the services and support they need to navigate a complex health care financing system.

Using a data driven, public health approach to promote community education and programs to reduce gun violence.

Attaining optimal physical, mental and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents and young adults.

Protecting civil liberties and civil rights, advancing equity, justice, and freedom, and dismantling systems rooted in oppression and discrimination.

Helping women reclaim their lives, gain awareness of their personal self-worth, and be empowered to make the changes necessary to improve their welfare along with that of their children and families.

Leading with facts and designing evidence-based programs that address the root causes of America’s gun violence epidemic.

Helping strengthen families and support children, teens, and adults impacted by trauma and adversity.

Empowering youth, strengthening families, engaging the community.

Working to reduce gun violence in Black and Brown communities by empowering those closest to the pain.

Providing access to justice by offering affordable legal services from qualified and dedicated attorneys.

Empoweing all survivors of gender-based violence in Dane County, Wisconsin by making it easier for them to access the right help, at the right time.

Empowering those affected by domestic violence and advocate for social change through support, education, and outreach.

Providing efficient, technology driven legal assistance to clear civil legal barriers to economic prosperity for Wisconsin families; transforming legal and court systems to prevent economic drags; and contributing to national reform movements to improve access to civil legal justice.

Helping individuals and families address barriers to employment and obtain the skills, training, and experience they need to support their families through employment.

Promoting social change that transforms societal attitudes, practices and policies to prevent and eliminate domestic violence, abuse and oppression, which destroy human dignity and liberty.

Correcting the narrative within all systems that support mass incarceration and excessive supervision.

Catalyzing a movement to eliminate the fines and fees that distort justice.

Using a holistic approach to reduce generational trauma by providing evidence-based intervention and prevention services to the people, neighborhoods, and families most impacted by gun violence.

Supporting advocacy, research, education, and community based organizing in order to reduce gun injuries and deaths.

Educating the public about the state of gun violence and proposing solutions that increase the safety of cummunities by encouraging personal responibility and commense policies.

Helping grantmakers improve the health of all people.

Building a safer future with fewer guns by holding the gun industry accountable and by organizing action around research-based campaigns that push corporations and other powerful voices in society to limit the role guns play in American life.

Building and connecting violence intervention programs and promoting equity for victims of violence globally.

Providing legal assistance to those who otherwise cannot afford it.

Helping to transform individual lives and social systems to create a just and equitable community.

Fighting for rights, dignity, equity, and opportunity for youth.

Delivering exceptional civil legal services and structural change advocacy, free of cost, to those most in need.

Empowering survivors of sexual violence and trafficking.

Empowering, inspiring and enriching the lives of justice-impacted individuals by bringing together customized community resources, supportive service providers, and second-chance employers both pre-release and post-release to maximize positive impact and successful reentry.

Focusing on strengthening Black families to create a stronger Madison for all.

Ending gun violence and creating a safer, stronger Oregon for all of us.

Preventing gun violence by creating a new cultural narrative that guns make us less safe.

Advocating for those harmed by sexual violence by centering survivors, promoting societal change, and committing to be an evolving force for social equity.

Reducing trauma and promoting healing for children and adults with intellectual disabilities who are victims of or witnesses to crime.

Protecting mental health and prevent suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults.

Turning public health research into policy action that reduces all forms of gun violence and saves lives.

Fostering a love of reading behind bars, encourage the pursuit of knowledge and self-empowerment, and to help break the cycle of recidivism.

Providing restorative healing and hope for young children and their families who have experienced trauma, helping them build a foundation for the mastery of life-sustaining skills.

Advocating for effective and humane responses to crime that minimize imprisonment and criminalization of youth and adults by promoting racial, ethnic, economic, and gender justice.

Empowering the community to break the cycle of domestic violence, end sexual assault, and promote heathy family systems.

Providing students with a significant learning experience in which they develop into skilled legal professionals and engaged public citizens.

Connecting children and parents in justice-involved families through literacy-rich experiences and environments.

Providing opportunities for personal transformation and empowerment through prison education.

Educating law students and servicing incarcerated persons in the state of Wisconsin and beyond.

Preventing gun violence, injuries, and deaths through education and advocacy.

Creating the social change necessary to end sexual violence.

Advocating for progressive change in the Wisconsin justice system by educating the public about its real-life impacts and partnering with other organizations to achieve more just outcomes.