Top Nonprofits tagged with policy reform
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The Innocence Project
National Criminal Justice
#1 Top Nonprofit
The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University to assist prisoners who could be proven innocent through DNA testing. To date, 273…
National Criminal Justice
#1 Top Nonprofit
The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University to assist prisoners who could be proven innocent through DNA testing. To date, 273…
Southern Center for Human Rights (Georgia)
Local Criminal Justice
#2 Top Nonprofit
The Southern Center for Human Rights provides legal representation to people facing the death penalty, challenges human rights violations in prisons and jails, seeks through litigation and advocacy to improve legal representation for poor people accused of crimes, and advocates…
Local Criminal Justice
#2 Top Nonprofit
The Southern Center for Human Rights provides legal representation to people facing the death penalty, challenges human rights violations in prisons and jails, seeks through litigation and advocacy to improve legal representation for poor people accused of crimes, and advocates…
American Cancer Society (ACS) (Multiple Cancers)
National Cancer
#2 Top Nonprofit
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.
National Cancer
#2 Top Nonprofit
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.
The Sentencing Project
National Criminal Justice
#3 Top Nonprofit
The Sentencing Project is a national organization working for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing law and practice, and alternatives to incarceration. The Sentencing Project was founded in 1986 to provide defense lawyers with…
National Criminal Justice
#3 Top Nonprofit
The Sentencing Project is a national organization working for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing law and practice, and alternatives to incarceration. The Sentencing Project was founded in 1986 to provide defense lawyers with…
Southern Center for Human Rights
National Criminal Justice
#6 Top Nonprofit
The Southern Center for Human Rights provides legal representation to people facing the death penalty, challenges human rights violations in prisons and jails, seeks through litigation and advocacy to improve legal representation for poor people accused of crimes, and advocates…
National Criminal Justice
#6 Top Nonprofit
The Southern Center for Human Rights provides legal representation to people facing the death penalty, challenges human rights violations in prisons and jails, seeks through litigation and advocacy to improve legal representation for poor people accused of crimes, and advocates…
Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama
National Criminal Justice
#7 Top Nonprofit
A nonprofit organization providing legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners denied fair and just treatment in the legal system.
National Criminal Justice
#7 Top Nonprofit
A nonprofit organization providing legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners denied fair and just treatment in the legal system.
Public Safety Performance, Pew Center on the States
National Criminal Justice
#8 Top Nonprofit
The Public Safety Performance Project helps states advance fiscally sound, data-driven policies and practices that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable and control corrections costs. The Project was launched in 2006 by The Pew Center on the States, a division…
National Criminal Justice
#8 Top Nonprofit
The Public Safety Performance Project helps states advance fiscally sound, data-driven policies and practices that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable and control corrections costs. The Project was launched in 2006 by The Pew Center on the States, a division…
Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama (EJI) (Alabama)
Local Criminal Justice
#8 Top Nonprofit
A nonprofit organization providing legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners denied fair and just treatment in the legal system.
Local Criminal Justice
#8 Top Nonprofit
A nonprofit organization providing legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners denied fair and just treatment in the legal system.
Justice Policy Institute
National Criminal Justice
#9 Top Nonprofit
Our mission is to reduce the use of incarceration and the justice system and promote policies that improve the well-being of all people and communities.
National Criminal Justice
#9 Top Nonprofit
Our mission is to reduce the use of incarceration and the justice system and promote policies that improve the well-being of all people and communities.
Drug Policy Alliance (DPA)
National Criminal Justice
#10 Top Nonprofit
Our mission is to advance those policies and attitudes that best reduce the harms of both drug use and drug prohibition, and to promote the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and bodies.
National Criminal Justice
#10 Top Nonprofit
Our mission is to advance those policies and attitudes that best reduce the harms of both drug use and drug prohibition, and to promote the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and bodies.
Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition (CCJRC) (Colorado)
Local Criminal Justice
#12 Top Nonprofit
CCJRC's mission is to reverse the trend of mass incarceration in Colorado.
Local Criminal Justice
#12 Top Nonprofit
CCJRC's mission is to reverse the trend of mass incarceration in Colorado.
Justice Center, The Council of State Governments
National Criminal Justice
#13 Top Nonprofit
The Council of State Governments Justice Center is a national nonprofit organization that serves policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels from all branches of government. Staff provides practical, nonpartisan advice and consensus-driven strategies—informed by available evidence—to increase public…
National Criminal Justice
#13 Top Nonprofit
The Council of State Governments Justice Center is a national nonprofit organization that serves policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels from all branches of government. Staff provides practical, nonpartisan advice and consensus-driven strategies—informed by available evidence—to increase public…
Families And Friends Of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (FFLIC) (Louisiana)
Local Criminal Justice
#13 Top Nonprofit
Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC) is a statewide membership-based organization that fights for a better life for all of Louisiana’s youth, especially those involved in or targeted by the juvenile justice system.
Local Criminal Justice
#13 Top Nonprofit
Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC) is a statewide membership-based organization that fights for a better life for all of Louisiana’s youth, especially those involved in or targeted by the juvenile justice system.
Safe Streets/ Strong Communities (Louisiana)
Local Criminal Justice
#14 Top Nonprofit
Safe Streets/Strong Communities is a community-based organization that campaigns for a new criminal justice system in New Orleans, one that creates safe streets and strong communities for everyone, regardless of race or economic status.
Local Criminal Justice
#14 Top Nonprofit
Safe Streets/Strong Communities is a community-based organization that campaigns for a new criminal justice system in New Orleans, one that creates safe streets and strong communities for everyone, regardless of race or economic status.
W Haywood Burns Institute
National Criminal Justice
#15 Top Nonprofit
To protect and improve the lives of youth of color, poor youth and the well-being of their communities by reducing the adverse impacts of public and private youth-serving systems to ensure fairness and equity throughout the juvenile justice system.
National Criminal Justice
#15 Top Nonprofit
To protect and improve the lives of youth of color, poor youth and the well-being of their communities by reducing the adverse impacts of public and private youth-serving systems to ensure fairness and equity throughout the juvenile justice system.
The Constitution Project (TCP)
National Criminal Justice
#16 Top Nonprofit
The Constitution Project (TCP) brings together unlikely allies—experts and practitioners from across the political spectrum—in order to promote and safeguard America’s founding charter. TCP is working to reform the nation’s broken criminal justice system and to strengthen the rule of law…
National Criminal Justice
#16 Top Nonprofit
The Constitution Project (TCP) brings together unlikely allies—experts and practitioners from across the political spectrum—in order to promote and safeguard America’s founding charter. TCP is working to reform the nation’s broken criminal justice system and to strengthen the rule of law…
A Better Way Foundation (Connecticut)
Local Criminal Justice
#19 Top Nonprofit
A Better Way Foundation is a Connecticut non-profit organization that is dedicated to a sensible shift in drug policy from one of incarceration to substance abuse treatment and public health.
Local Criminal Justice
#19 Top Nonprofit
A Better Way Foundation is a Connecticut non-profit organization that is dedicated to a sensible shift in drug policy from one of incarceration to substance abuse treatment and public health.