Deadline: 12-Jul-23
The Northwest Health Foundation Fund II is pleased to release the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Justice Reinvestment Equity Program (JREP).
The Justice Reinvestment Equity Program (JREP) supports culturally specific organizations and culturally responsive services in communities most harmed and least helped by Oregon’s criminal legal system. JREP seeks to elevate organizations that have been overlooked by traditional funding streams with the goals of reducing incarceration and racial disparities in the criminal legal system, promoting healing and advancing community safety in Oregon.
Cohort Training and Convenings – Tentative Schedule
- First week of November 2023 (virtual), JREP Kick-off
- Late February 2024 (virtual)
- Early May 2024 (in-person)
Late September 2024 (in-person) They intend to have specific dates/times for 2023-2024 sessions at least three months beforehand. Dates for the 2025 sessions will be shared in the fall of 2024.
Types of grants
There will be two types of grants: Project Grants and Project Grants with Capacitybuilding Support.
- Project Grants
- Award amount: Up to $225,000
- Duration: 27 months (October 2023 to December 2025)
- Description: Funding to provide culturally specific or responsive programs/services and attend training and convenings. This funding is for organizations not wishing to participate in the capacity-building program and already have the internal capacity to meet the grant reporting requirements
- Project Grants with Capacity-building Support
- Award amount: $325,000
- Duration: 27 months (October 2023 to December 2025)
- Description: Funding to provide culturally specific or responsive programs/services, attend training and convenings and participate in a capacitybuilding program.
Funding Priorities
All proposals need to align with one of the three funding priorities. If you believe your work addresses multiple priorities.
- Victim and survivor services
- Community-led victim and survivor services that are accessible to historically underserved communities.
- Focus Population
- Any person experiencing harm, violence or crime victimization, including those who have been incarcerated or are on pretrial release and their family members and/or support network.
- Goals
- Grantees will be asked to make incremental progress toward these goals over time:
- 60% of program participants will report a decrease in experiencing or witnessing violence.
- Grantees will be asked to make incremental progress toward these goals over time:
- Focus Population
- Community-led victim and survivor services that are accessible to historically underserved communities.
- Violence reduction and/or services that prevent involvement in the criminal legal system
- Focus Population Any person and their family and/or support network.
- Goals
- Grantees will be asked to make incremental progress toward these goals over time:
- 60% of program participants will report increased prosocial behaviors that help prevent involvement in the criminal legal system.
- 60% of program participants will report an increase in their own well-being and quality of life.
- 60% of program participants will report an increase in behaviors or actions that avoid or reduce violence.
- Grantees will be asked to make incremental progress toward these goals over time:
- Goals
- Focus Population Any person and their family and/or support network.
- Reentry, diversion and services that reduce involvement in the criminal legal system
- Focus Population
- Reentry and Diversion: Youth (under 18 years) or adult (18 years or older) who is under diversion or criminal supervision of any kind. Services may also include family members and/or support network to support the goals of the youth or adult.
- Reducing Involvement in the Criminal Legal System: Youth (under 18 years) or adult (18 years or older) who is at risk of involvement with the criminal legal system (i.e., arrest, charges, convictions) according to assessed risk factors determined by the grantee organization. Services may include family members and/or support network to support the goals of the youth or adult.
- Goals
- Grantees will be asked to make incremental progress toward these goals over time:
- Diversion: 60% of program participants in a diversion program will successfully complete the diversion.
- Reentry: 60% of program participants under probation or parole will not incur any new charges while in the program.
- Reducing Involvement: 60% of program participants will not incur any new charges while in the program.
- Grantees will be asked to make incremental progress toward these goals over time:
- Focus Population
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be based and working in Oregon.
- Applicants must be organized as one of the following:
- A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
- A project or program with a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, with a written fiscal sponsorship agreement in place
- A federally recognized tribal government
- Applicants must provide, or be proposing to provide,
- Applicants must be either a “culturally specific organization” or a provider of at least one “culturally responsive service,” as defined by Senate Bill 1510: “Culturally specific organization” means an organization, or a program within an organization, that serves a particular cultural community, that is primarily staffed and led by members of that community and that demonstrates selfadvocacy, positive cultural identity and intimate knowledge of the lived experience of the community, including but not limited to (A) The impact of structural and individual racism or discrimination on the community; (B) Specific disparities in access to services and resources experienced by the community; and (C) Community strengths, cultural practices, beliefs and traditions. “Culturally responsive service” means a service that is respectful of, and relevant to, the beliefs, practices, cultures and linguistic needs of diverse consumer or client populations and communities whose members identify as having particular cultural or linguistic affiliations by virtue of their place of birth, ancestry or ethnic origin, religion, preferred language or language spoken at home. A culturally responsive service has the capacity to respond to the issues of diverse communities and require knowledge and capacity at systemic, organizational, professional and individual levels of intervention.
Selection Criteria
- The following criteria will guide them in selecting organizations:
- Shared commitment to advancing JREP’s goals of reducing incarceration and racial disparities in the criminal legal system, promoting healing and advancing community safety in Oregon.
- Demonstrated experience working in and with the community the organization proposes to serve.
- Clearly describe project goals and how the proposed activities will meet community needs.
- Staff and board reflect the communities served.
- Geography – Their commitment to geographic equity means they will prioritize organizations working in rural communities, counties where racial disparities are most notable and counties where incarceration rates are among the highest.
- Intersectional approach – They know intersecting factors like gender, disability, race, class and English as a second language compound to create even greater barriers for people who have been harmed by violence or incarceration. They will consider these factors as they review proposals.
For more information, visit JREP.
