- Program Civil Society
- Program Area Increasing Access to Justice
- Grant Amount $300,000
- Grant Period September 1, 2024–August 31, 2027
- Location New York, NY, United States
- Geographic Focus United States
About this grant
The project goal is to expand justice services in the United States. To this end, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors will support a nascent, but growing, movement of legal helpers specifically trained to support people in resolving their legal challenges. The grantee will do this by executing rigorous research and building a body of evidence on what works in expanding the scope of justice service providers. This additional funding will allow the grantee to finalize its training curriculum for community justice workers and to launch a networking and mentoring platform for justice workers. Additionally, it will support expansion and consolidation of the National Leadership Council and Justice Worker Task Force. In its first year, this initiative brought together over 150 justice actors for the first time to exchange experience on effective community justice work. The grantee also worked with 15 state-level Access to Justice commissions to identify opportunities for engaging more widely with community justice work. Frontline Justice is a project sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors with the aim of giving real meaning to “equal justice under law” as enshrined in the founding documents of the United States.