Felony Murder Elimination Project wishes to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the The Race, Gender and Human Rights Fund at East Bay Community Foundation.
Our organization was awarded a grant from a Donor Advised Fund with the East Bay Community Foundation in the amount of $15,000 from the Race, Gender and Human Rights Fund.
The purpose of this award is to support work at the nexus of incarceration, domestic abuse and gender-based violence; and coalition efforts to eliminate the felony murder rule from law and secure relief for imprisoned survivors of domestic violence in California.
Established in 2002 by a group of committed donors, the Race, Gender and Human Rights (RGHR) Fund at East Bay Community Foundation promotes racial and gender justice by challenging the criminal legal system and mass incarceration in California. The Fund focuses on the system’s impact on women and girls (inclusive of cisgender, transgender and gender non-conforming individuals), prioritizes the leadership of formerly incarcerated women, and invests in efforts that build the justice movement and advance systemic change.
Our Founder and Executive Director Joanne Scheer offered her gratitude for the ongoing partnership between Felony Murder Elimination Project and the The Race, Gender and Human Rights Fund at East Bay Community Foundation.
We are so deeply grateful for the East Bay Community Foundation’s continued support of the Felony Murder Elimination Project through the Race, Gender and Human Rights Fund, and our work in the shared mission to end California’s unjust and inhumane felony murder rule, which so disproportionately impacts young people, communities of color, and survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. We deeply value the trust you place in our work and your commitment to standing alongside incarcerated people, their families, and communities across California as we pursue meaningful criminal justice policy and parole and sentencing reforms.
Your investment gives our organization greater ability to pursue lasting systemic change and bring hope for meaningful reform to people who have endured years of waiting for justice. We are honored to have the East Bay Community Foundation as a partner in this important work and are sincerely grateful for your confidence, generosity, and shared commitment in continuing this partnership and to sharing the meaningful impact of your support in the years ahead.
Thank you for allowing us to walk alongside you in the work to bring about a fairer and more just system of justice.
With deepest gratitude,
Joanne Scheer
Executive Director
Felony Murder Elimination Project
The RGHR Fund is deeply committed to working strategically with our grantees and partners and has invested more than $6 million to foster justice in California. The Funds support the field through strategic grantmaking, convenings, rapid response funding, donor engagement and partnerships. RGHR prioritizes underfunded communities and underserved regions, centers those most impacted by the criminal legal system, and supports policy change in our state. The Fund is housed at the East Bay Community Foundation.
The RGHR Fund works to grow justice-focused philanthropy and to increase funding of criminal justice issues. RGHR co-founded the California Criminal Justice Funders Group, a network of funders and donors aligned with the movements to advance abolition and end the policing, criminalization, imprisonment and the disinvestment of communities in California.
You can read more about the Race, Gender and Human Rights Fund at the East Bay Community Foundation at their website.
