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Reimagining Public Safety Grassroots grants are multi-year general operating and capacity building support grants for new grassroots organizations working towards public safety reform. Several of the organizations are led by family members of victims of police violence.
Organization: Be Their Voices
Grant amount: $125,000
Organization: Don’t Complain, Activate
Grant amount: $120,000
Organization: Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence
Grant amount: $175,000
Organization: Minneapolis NAACP
Grant amount: $120,000
Organization: Minnesota Justice Coalition
Grant amount: $120,000
Organization: Racial Justice Network
Grant amount: $120,000
Organization: Until We Are All Free
Grant amount: $25,000
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The Reducing Harm Through Collaborative Solutions Initiative provides multi-year grant funding and tailored technical assistance to municipalities to achieve three goals:
(1) Innovate and transform traditional approaches to public safety.
(2) Reduce the occurrence and severity of negative encounters between law enforcement and the community.
(3) Actively confront racial disparities and history of racism to improve safety, trust and greater wellbeing among Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC).
Organization: City of Brooklyn Center
Grant amount: $550,000
Grant purpose: Create an unarmed Community Response Program Pilot (CRP) to enforce non-moving traffic violations and respond to all incidents where a City resident is primarily experiencing a medical, mental health, disability-related, or other behavioral or social need.
Organization: City of Golden Valley
Grant amount: $250,000
Grant purpose: Assist Golden Valley in establishing the Police Employment, Accountability, and Community Engagement (PEACE) Commission, completing a racial equity audit of policing policies, and establish data tools to increase transparency in policing.
Organization: City of Minneapolis
Grant amount: $700,000
Grant purpose: Capacity building support of the behavioral health crisis response unit in partnership with Canopy Mental Health and the procurement and development of an Early Intervention System for police accountability.
Organization: City of St. Paul
Grant amount: $600,000
Grant purpose: To establish the Saint Paul Rapid Response Team, a pilot program that results in better outcomes for people in crisis while optimizing the response of public safety and social service resources. Response model will include social service interventions in collaboration with community-based organizations.
Organization: Leadership for a Networked World
Grant amount: $250,000
Grant purpose: Support the City of Minneapolis in developing a transformational vision and strategic plan for an integrated spectrum of multi-disciplinary and cross-organization human services and policing services. Process will assist the city in identifying gaps in their efforts around community safety, policing, and human services models, ultimately assisting the city in weaving together current efforts and strategies into a Comprehensive Plan.
Organization: National League of Cities
Grant amount: $60,000
Grant purpose: Technical assistance to convene local community engagement team, evaluation expertise, and support implementation of the Foundation’s Reimagining Public Safety Collaborative Solutions Program.
Organization: National League of Cities
Grant amount: $550,000
Grant purpose: Coordinate comprehensive technical assistance, including national network expertise, local community engagement, and measurement and evaluation assistance to sites selected as a part of the Reimagining Public Safety Collaborative Solutions Initiative.
Organization: Rainbow Research
Grant amount: $300,000
Grant purpose: Establish and implement an evaluation framework for the Reimagining Public Safety Collaborative Solutions Initiative that demonstrates impact on public safety and racial equity within individual City sites and across the initiative.
Organization: Ubuntu Cares
Grant amount: $250,000
Grant purpose: Provide local technical assistance and community engagement to City sites selected as a part of the Reimagining Public Safety Collaborative Solutions Initiative. Local technical assistance will result in Cities establishing deeper relationships in community and knowledge of how to authentically engage community in public safety transformation.
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Other Reimagining Public Safety grants for projects independent of the Grassroots and Collaborative Solutions programs.
Organization: Community Healing Team
Grant amount: $75,000
Grant purpose: To acknowledge and heal historical community trauma in connection to the Derek Chauvin trial and one year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder.
Organization: Healing Justice Foundation
Grant amount: $75,000
Grant purpose: Community healing support during the Derek Chauvin trial and the one year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder.
Organization: Interfaith Action of Greater St. Paul
Grant amount: $15,000
Grant purpose: Convening faith leaders to discuss recommendations on public safety and police reform.
Organization: Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light
Grant amount: $15,000
Grant purpose: Healing and restorative justice community circles for activists and organizers.
Organization: New York University
Grant amount: $100,000
Grant purpose: School of Law Policing Project research in Minneapolis.
Organization: One2One
Grant amount: $200,000
Grant purpose: Support for Change Minnesota, a program to develop a shared plan and vision for transforming public safety that
creates safer and more equitable outcomes for communities of color.
Organization: The Minneapolis Foundation
Grant amount: $250,000
Grant purpose: Contribution to the Minneapolis Public Safety Transformation Fund to fund initiatives that confront racial disparities and a history of racism to improve safety, trust, and greater wellbeing for BIPOC communities in Minneapolis.
