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Courtney Bryan
Courtney Bryan
A letter from our CEO Courtney Bryan
When we founded the Midtown Community Court just off Times Square in the mid-1990s, we were planting the seed of a simple but revolutionary idea—we can build true community safety not by throwing people in jail but by giving them the support they need to live safe, stable lives in their own community.
Thirty years later, that seed of justice has grown into the Midtown Community Justice Center, one of more than thirty court-based and community-based programs operated by the Center for Justice Innovation serving tens of thousands of people every year.
HELP US GROW COMMUNITY JUSTICE
We’ve brought what we’ve learned at our programs throughout New York to big cities and small towns in every state in the country, helping local changemakers plant their own seeds of justice—strengthening community courts, reducing community violence, and connecting families to the housing, mental health, and other supports they need to build a stable future.
On April 22, the political winds shifted as they have many times during our three decades when we received word that the Department of Justice had cut $7 million of our federal funding for this vital work.
These cuts will not stop us.
The entire mission of the Center for Justice Innovation is to plant seeds of justice, nurture them in partnership with the communities we serve, and then spread our insight and knowledge all across the nation.
But we need your support.
To continue to grow justice nationwide, we need steady, reliable supporters who truly understand that justice outlives any single administration or political moment.
Justice is a generational project. And justice needs you.
Please join us in this vital work by supporting our Seeds of Justice campaign. Every donation plants a seed of justice that will grow beyond any one of us.