Threshold is starting a new grant committee this year, and could use more submissions from non-profits with org budgets under $700k who work in the areas of Youth Criminal Justice Reform and Youth Drug Policy reform. If any of you are aware of groups like this, please send them this link with instructions on how to send a 1-page Letter of Intent. They are due Friday, September 25.

Justice and Democracy: Threshold Foundation's Justice & Democracy Committee is a donor-based fund that seeks to ensure human rights for youth impacted by the criminal justice and drug policy systems, and political rights for those in historically disenfranchised communities. This committee will be accepting LOIs from organizations working in the following focus areas:

1. Criminal Justice Reform supports criminal justice reform efforts that benefit youth (programs for children of the incarcerated, rehabilitation, transformative justice alternatives to incarceration, spiritual and emotional healing, and re-entry) and transform criminal justice systems and policies that negatively impact youth (the "school-to-prison pipeline", aggressive sentencing, racial profiling).

2. Drug Policy Reform supports organizations working to end drug laws that criminalize youth of color, halt racially discriminatory policing practices and remove barriers to education for currently or previously incarcerated youth.