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NCRC Statement On Trump Administration Withdrawal Of 2023 Community Reinvestment Act Final Rule
WASHINGTON, March 29 -- The National Community Reinvestment Coalition, an organization that works to uphold fair housing, fair lending and consumer protection laws, issued the following news release:
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NCRC Statement On Trump Administration Withdrawal Of 2023 Community Reinvestment Act Final Rule
In response to the Trump administration's announcement that it intends to withdraw the 2023 Community Reinvestment Act final rule, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) released the following statement from President and CEO Jesse Van Tol:
"We're very disappointed to see the Trump
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WASHINGTON, March 29 -- The National Community Reinvestment Coalition, an organization that works to uphold fair housing, fair lending and consumer protection laws, issued the following news release:
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NCRC Statement On Trump Administration Withdrawal Of 2023 Community Reinvestment Act Final Rule
In response to the Trump administration's announcement that it intends to withdraw the 2023 Community Reinvestment Act final rule, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) released the following statement from President and CEO Jesse Van Tol:
"We're very disappointed to see the Trumpadministration rescind the CRA rule. The bipartisan 2023 CRA rule was reached after years of engagement and input from banks and advocates alike, with major compromises and concessions. The rule would have brought the law into the 21st century, closed major gaps that allow banks to avoid investing in underserved areas both rural and urban, and created greater investments in affordable housing, small business development and community services - all desperately needed in this time.
"CRA has been the cornerstone of the affordable housing and community development finance infrastructure, motivating trillions of dollars of investment over its lifespan. The Administration had the opportunity to embrace the new rule as a major win for working class people. Now the cynics within the industry who have been throwing a three-year tantrum over these modest modernization efforts will find out whether the regulatory chaos they've won is really a world they want to operate in."
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Original text here: https://ncrc.org/ncrc-statement-on-trump-administration-withdrawal-of-2023-community-reinvestment-act-final-rule/
[Category: Financial Services]
MASS STABBING IN AMSTERDAM UNDERSCORES NEED FOR SELF-DEFENSE
BELLEVUE, Washington, March 29 -- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms issued the following news release:
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MASS STABBING IN AMSTERDAM UNDERSCORES NEED FOR SELF-DEFENSE
BELLEVUE, WA - A mass stabbing incident in Amsterdam, in which two U.S. citizens were injured, is a reminder of the importance of a person's right of self-defense, and to have the proper tools to carry out that defense, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.
Published reports say the unidentified suspect apparently attacked his victims at random. Police in the Netherlands capital
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BELLEVUE, Washington, March 29 -- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms issued the following news release:
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MASS STABBING IN AMSTERDAM UNDERSCORES NEED FOR SELF-DEFENSE
BELLEVUE, WA - A mass stabbing incident in Amsterdam, in which two U.S. citizens were injured, is a reminder of the importance of a person's right of self-defense, and to have the proper tools to carry out that defense, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.
Published reports say the unidentified suspect apparently attacked his victims at random. Police in the Netherlands capitalcity, are trying to establish a motive. Five people were hospitalized, as was the suspect, who was injured when he was stopped by a passerby, Dutch police said. The two Americans were identified as a 67-year-old woman and 69-year-old man. The other victims were from Belgium, Poland and Amsterdam.
"Violent attacks like this happen suddenly, no matter where you are, but if they occur here in the United States," observed CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, "there is at least the potential that a legally-armed private citizen might intervene. Armed citizens have stopped mass attacks in the past, and more often than the public has been led to believe. I've co-authored several books which discuss such incidents, and more are happening all the time.
"Our Second Amendment enables private citizens to legally carry firearms for personal protection," he continued, "unlike other countries, where the public is kept unarmed. The most recent data on licensed concealed carry estimates that more than 21 million law-abiding citizens are now legally armed, and that doesn't include maybe millions more who reside in the 29 states which now enjoy permitless, or 'constitutional carry' laws, where no license or permit is required.
"The ability to defend one's self and/or his or her loved ones is paramount to thwarting violent attacks," Gottlieb observed, "whether they involve a lunatic with a knife or someone using a gun illegally. We've seen many sich incidents where would-be killers have been stopped cold by good people with guns.
"It is appalling how anti-gunners and their allies in state legislatures, and on Capitol Hill, continue efforts to disarm honest citizens in this country," Gottlieb said. "The idea that leaving good people vulnerable to vicious attack by criminals or crazy people will somehow prevent crime is, at best, delusional. That much was demonstrated in Amsterdam, where they don't enjoy the same right to carry as we do in the U.S. Let's make sure nobody is able to take away our right to self-defense, and the tools to guarantee it."
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Original text here: https://ccrkba.org/2025/03/28/mass-stabbing-in-amsterdam-underscores-need-for-self-defense/
[Category: Political]
Joint Statement From CODEPINK and CODEPINK Indiana Regarding Sen. Jim Banks' False Accusations
LOS ANGELES, California, March 29 -- CodePink, a grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S.-funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, posted the following news release:
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Joint Statement From CODEPINK and CODEPINK Indiana Regarding Sen. Jim Banks' False Accusations
CODEPINK Indiana Calls Out Intimidation Tactics from Senator Jim Banks
"We don't have to get paid by a foreign government to believe that US foreign policy of endless war is wrong"
CODEPINK Indiana is appalled at Senator Jim Banks and his attempts to attack and silence our anti-war
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LOS ANGELES, California, March 29 -- CodePink, a grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S.-funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, posted the following news release:
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Joint Statement From CODEPINK and CODEPINK Indiana Regarding Sen. Jim Banks' False Accusations
CODEPINK Indiana Calls Out Intimidation Tactics from Senator Jim Banks
"We don't have to get paid by a foreign government to believe that US foreign policy of endless war is wrong"
CODEPINK Indiana is appalled at Senator Jim Banks and his attempts to attack and silence our anti-warorganization. Earlier this week, Senator Banks submitted a letter to Attorney General Pamela Bondi asking her to investigate CODEPINK: Women for Peace for "engaging in propaganda efforts to support the Chinese Communist Party foreign policy aims." He goes on to make a number of assertions about CODEPINK that are completely untrue, suggesting that we are paid off by and represent a foreign government.
CODEPINK receives no money from any foreign government and is funded by individuals and foundations that are based in the US. CODEPINK has no contact with the Chinese Communist Party. We, CODEPINK Indiana, are made up of people who oppose war because it is the right thing to do. We are all volunteers. We are workers, veterans, artists, and peace activists from the state of Indiana. Senator Banks' suggestion that we are representing anything but our own opinions is ridiculous. We don't have to get paid by a foreign government to believe that US foreign policy of endless war is wrong--unlike Senator Banks, who has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from the AIPAC lobby which directly represents the interests of Israel.
We would like to remind Senator Banks that--as people from all over Indiana, from Fort Wayne to Jasper, from Indianapolis to Evansville--we are with the majority of Americans who do not support war crimes being carried out in our name and with our money. Every time Senator Banks votes in favor of another weapons sale or massive Pentagon budget, he is voting against the interests of his constituents. It is his job to represent us, not AIPAC or anyone else.
By asking the AG to investigate CODEPINK using regurgitated lies by his colleagues, he is engaging in an act of intimidation to interfere with our right to free speech and assembly. We don't want a war with China--neither do most regular folks in Indiana. We want the U.S. to cooperate with China to avoid a catastrophic war between two nuclear-armed nations. That is just common sense.
Senator Banks is deliberately engaging in intimidation tactics against his own constituents who are part of CODEPINK Indiana. We call on the Senator to revoke his request, stop lying about CODEPINK, and actually represent the people of Indiana.
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Original text here: https://www.codepink.org/jointindianastatement
[Category: Sociological]
GIFFORDS Responds to Report Trump Admin Considering Merger of ATF and DEA
WASHINGTON, March 29 -- Giffords, an organization dedicated to saving lives from gun violence, issued the following news release:
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GIFFORDS responds to report Trump admin considering merger of ATF and DEA
Move would be defunding the police
WASHINGTON -- GIFFORDS, the national gun violence prevention organization founded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, responded to the Reuters' report that the Trump administration is considering merging the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
"Cutting resources from ATF would literally
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WASHINGTON, March 29 -- Giffords, an organization dedicated to saving lives from gun violence, issued the following news release:
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GIFFORDS responds to report Trump admin considering merger of ATF and DEA
Move would be defunding the police
WASHINGTON -- GIFFORDS, the national gun violence prevention organization founded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, responded to the Reuters' report that the Trump administration is considering merging the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
"Cutting resources from ATF would literallybe defunding the police," said GIFFORDS Executive Director Emma Brown. "The ATF's mission is to stop violent gun crime and keep the public safe. Cutting agents by merging the two agencies would reduce resources, weakening efforts to stop gun traffickers, straw purchasers, and gun dealers who are breaking the law. The American people want to stop gun crime and violence, which is the number one killer of kids and young people. Instead of making unnecessary cuts, ATF should be fully funded and staffed so it can do its jobs and save lives."
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REPORT: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-department-considers-merging-dea-atf-major-wave-cuts-memo-shows-2025-03-27/
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Original text here: https://giffords.org/press-release/2025/03/giffords-responds-to-report-trump-admin-considering-merger-of-atf-and-dea/
[Category: Political]
Costa Rica Hosts GEF Knowledge Exchange With Five African Countries
WASHINGTON, March 29 -- The Global Environment Facility issued the following news:
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Costa Rica hosts GEF Knowledge Exchange with five African countries
The first GEF Knowledge Exchange for Policymakers was launched in Costa Rica this week. Ministers and representatives from Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Kenya, Senegal, and Zimbabwe saw first-hand how Costa Rica has effectively leveraged GEF resources, partnerships, and policies to transform the country's ecosystems while improving lives of local communities.
People walking down a trail through the forest
The agenda included meetings with government
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WASHINGTON, March 29 -- The Global Environment Facility issued the following news:
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Costa Rica hosts GEF Knowledge Exchange with five African countries
The first GEF Knowledge Exchange for Policymakers was launched in Costa Rica this week. Ministers and representatives from Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Kenya, Senegal, and Zimbabwe saw first-hand how Costa Rica has effectively leveraged GEF resources, partnerships, and policies to transform the country's ecosystems while improving lives of local communities.
People walking down a trail through the forest
The agenda included meetings with governmentofficials and visits to Monteverde and Guanacaste National Park to see the results of successful ecological restoration, ecotourism, and conservation projects supported by the GEF which transformed the environment over the past decades and vastly contributed to Costa Rica's economic and social development.
The effective use of GEF resources, institutional capacity building, political coherence, and creation of financial instruments such as Payment for Ecosystem Services pioneered by Costa Rica were highlighted as pieces of a sustainable model that addresses multiple challenges and can be adapted and replicated by other countries.
"Costa Rica showed African policymakers its exemplary GEF projects implemented in partnership with local communities with access to financial resources, technical advisory, and other instruments," said Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, CEO and Chairperson of the GEF.
People in a forest
Costa Rica is globally recognized as a model in the implementation of environmental conservation practices. The GEF has been the financial mechanism of choice for the country to accelerate its transformation, investing in biodiversity and forest protection and enacting forward-looking environmental protection policies. Costa Rica's economic transition to a sustainable and robust growth model demonstrates that the environment and development can work together.
The seven-day program was a successful opportunity for participant countries to share common experiences on policies and institutional models, best practices, challenges, and collectively design solutions that make sense for Global South countries.
"This exchange was more than a dialogue. It was an opportunity to build a collective vision of a future in which conservation and development go hand-in-hand," said Arnoldo Andre, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica.
Key takeaways from the participants:
1. Leadership and vision: The importance of strong and visionary leadership was emphasized. Leaders need to foster connectivity, integration, and a holistic approach to create buy-in and ensure the success of initiatives.
2. Science and decision-making: The linkage between science and decision-making is crucial. Research and scientific data should inform the decision-making process to ensure effective and sustainable outcomes.
3. Youth and community engagement: Training and engaging the younger generation, including children, and the local community is vital. This includes promoting bio-literacy, private ownership, and hybrid management to build a knowledgeable and involved society.
4. Public-private partnerships (PPPs): Efficient use of PPPs is a key strategy for achieving goals. Learning how governments can involve the private sector and maximize the use of funding - such as from the GEF - is essential.
5. Communication and visibility: Effective communication is necessary to ensure the visibility and success of projects. This includes simplifying and making platforms accessible, as well as fostering collaboration and understanding between different stakeholders.
6. Institutional coherence and implementation: Establishing institutional coherence and strong implementation of policies and frameworks on the ground is critical. This involves turning environmental challenges into opportunities for wealth and socioeconomic development and ensuring that projects are adapted and strengthened for long-term success.
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Original text here: https://www.thegef.org/newsroom/news/costa-rica-hosts-gef-knowledge-exchange-five-african-countries
[Category: Environment]
Community Catalyst: Federal Health Cuts Will Hurt Families and Communities
BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 29 -- Community Catalyst issued the following news release on March 27, 2025:
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Community Catalyst: Federal Health Cuts Will Hurt Families and Communities
"These cuts represent a full-scale retreat from our shared responsibility to keep people safe and healthy."
BOSTON, MA -- In response to sweeping health care cuts announced today under the Trump administration, Brandon G. Wilson, Interim Co-President and CEO of Community Catalyst, warned that the changes will have devastating consequences for families, communities and the nation's ability to respond to
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BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 29 -- Community Catalyst issued the following news release on March 27, 2025:
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Community Catalyst: Federal Health Cuts Will Hurt Families and Communities
"These cuts represent a full-scale retreat from our shared responsibility to keep people safe and healthy."
BOSTON, MA -- In response to sweeping health care cuts announced today under the Trump administration, Brandon G. Wilson, Interim Co-President and CEO of Community Catalyst, warned that the changes will have devastating consequences for families, communities and the nation's ability to respond topublic health threats. The announcement includes the elimination and reorganization of 20,000 roles at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), affecting key departments supporting older adults, people with disabilities and people with mental health or substance use disorders. In addition, HHS is stripping billions in critical funding from state and local health departments as well as potentially dismantling the CDC's Division of HIV Prevention.
"These cuts represent a full-scale retreat from our shared responsibility to keep people safe and healthy," said Wilson. "They leave families and communities to carry the burden through preventable illness, rising medical costs, increased caregiving needs and fewer resources in moments of crisis. Gutting programs that help older adults and people with disabilities live independently and hamstringing communities' efforts to address the opioid epidemic. And let's be clear--this is not what people want. These decisions go against the values we share across race, place and income: that everyone should have the freedom to live a healthy life and care for the people we love."
The cuts announced today are particularly alarming when seen through the broader cuts to supportive services across the government. In combination with disruptions in food support, social security and looming threats to Medicaid and SNAP benefits, older adults, people with disabilities and people needing support for mental health or substance use disorders are becoming increasingly more vulnerable. Departments within HHS like the Administration for Community Living (ACL), which provides support to older adults and people with disabilities to live independently, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which leads public health efforts to support people with mental health and substance use conditions, are being reorganized, moved or trimmed, jeopardizing critical health care services.
The impact will fall hardest on those already facing deep barriers to care--especially Black and Latinx families, LGBTQ+ communities, people living with HIV, and those with low incomes--further widening racial and economic health gaps.
"Our public health infrastructure is already under strain," Wilson added. "Slashing support now doesn't just threaten programs--it threatens lives. It means less ability to prevent illness and promote health, respond to emergencies, and support mental health and chronic illness care."
Wilson emphasized that Community Catalyst will continue building power with community-based organizations left to fill the gap, despite being underfunded themselves.
"We'll continue to mobilize resources, provide technical assistance and advocate alongside partners across the country to protect what matters most: the health and well-being of our communities. These cuts do not reflect the will of the people, and they will not stop us from fighting for a future where everyone has what they need to be healthy."
Community Catalyst is calling on policymakers, advocates, and community leaders to speak out and resist these harmful rollbacks.
Wilson noted that the cuts will undermine the nation's public health infrastructure, reverse progress on critical health issues such as HIV, and shift even more burden onto underfunded, overstretched community-based organizations. Additionally, these reductions will hinder efforts to address substance use disorders, mental health challenges, and chronic conditions as Long COVID, ultimately jeopardizing the overall health and well-being of all of our communities.
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About Community Catalyst:
Community Catalyst is a national organization dedicated to building the power of people to create a health system rooted in race equity and health justice, and a society where health is a right for all. We're an experienced, trusted partner to organizations across the country, a change agent to policymakers at the local, state, and national level, and both an adversary and a collaborator to health systems in our efforts to advance health justice. We partner with local, state and national organizations and leaders to leverage and build power so that people are at the center of important decisions about health and health care, whether they are made by health care executives, in state houses, or on Capitol Hill. Together with partners, we're building a powerful, united movement with a shared vision of and strategy for a health system accountable to all people. Learn more at www.communitycatalyst.org.
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Original text here: https://communitycatalyst.org/news/community-catalyst-federal-health-cuts-will-hurt-families-and-communities/
[Category: Sociological]
Arnold Ventures 2024 Criminal Justice Research Grants Demonstrate Commitment to Reducing Crime, Improving Public Safety and Justice System
HOUSTON, Texas, March 29 -- Arnold Ventures (formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation) issued the following news:
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Arnold Ventures 2024 Criminal Justice Research Grants Demonstrate Commitment to Reducing Crime, Improving Public Safety and Justice System
Focusing on rigorous, causal evidence and understudied aspects of the criminal justice system ensures policymakers, practitioners, and researchers have access to accurate and actionable information on what makes our communities safer and fairer.
Houston, TX (March 27, 2025)--Arnold Ventures' (AV) grants awarded in 2024 by its Criminal
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HOUSTON, Texas, March 29 -- Arnold Ventures (formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation) issued the following news:
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Arnold Ventures 2024 Criminal Justice Research Grants Demonstrate Commitment to Reducing Crime, Improving Public Safety and Justice System
Focusing on rigorous, causal evidence and understudied aspects of the criminal justice system ensures policymakers, practitioners, and researchers have access to accurate and actionable information on what makes our communities safer and fairer.
Houston, TX (March 27, 2025)--Arnold Ventures' (AV) grants awarded in 2024 by its CriminalJustice program demonstrate the philanthropy's commitment to rigorous studies across every aspect of the criminal justice system. From community safety and policing, to courts and pretrial, to incarceration and post-incarceration, funded projects demonstrated strong research methods, innovative new approaches for gathering and analyzing evidence, and/or a focus on understudied aspects of our justice system.
Reducing crime, improving public safety, and making the justice system more effective remain top priorities for communities across the country. However, often policymakers do not have strong, reliable evidence about how to achieve these outcomes.
"In order to craft effective, bipartisan public safety and criminal justice policy, we must have rigorous, causal evidence on what works and what doesn't," said Jennifer Doleac, Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice at AV. "In 2024, our support allowed researchers throughout the country to investigate policies and interventions that can potentially reduce crime and make our criminal justice system fairer and more effective."
Projects supported in 2024 were primarily accepted through an open RFP. Examples of funded grant applications include:
Community Safety
Name: Business Cycles and Police Hires
Description: This project uses a difference-in-differences design to examine the impact of business cycles on the number and quality of police job applicants and the quality of police officers hired.
Geographic Focus: Florida
Grant Recipient: The University of Texas at Austin
Principal Investigator(s): Cody Tuttle, Fernando Saltiel
Term: 2024-2025
Amount: $55,800
Name: How do policies encouraging or discouraging pretext stops impact civilian contact with the police?
Description: This project uses synthetic controls to evaluate the impact of banning pretextual police stops and a difference-in-differences design to evaluate the impact of federal training for local law enforcement on how to make pretextual stops.
Geographic Focus: California
Grant Recipient: The University of California at Irvine
Principal Investigator(s): Emily Hope Anderson, Emily Owens
Term: 2024-2025
Amount: $80,300
Name: Sibling Spillovers and the Medium-Run Impacts of Restorative Justice: Exploratory Analyses
Description: This project uses a difference-in-differences design to extend a previous evaluation of restorative justice practices in schools by examining medium-run impacts as well as spillovers among siblings.
Geographic Focus: Chicago, Illinois
Grant Recipient: The University of Chicago
Principal Investigator(s): Anjali Adukia, Benjamin Feigenberg
Term: 2024-2026
Amount: $295,900
Name: An Experimental Test of a Behavioral Science-Informed Violence Prevention Program: Choose to Change (C2C)
Description: This project uses a randomized controlled trial to examine the impact of a behavioral science-informed intervention for youth at high risk of violence involvement.
Geographic Focus: Chicago, Illinois
Grant Recipient: The University of Chicago
Principal Investigator(s): Nour Abdul-Razzak, Kelly Hallberg
Term: 2024-2025
Amount: $95,500
Name: The Impact of Federal Investigations on Policing Activities
Description: The project uses interrupted time series, difference-in-differences, and synthetic control methods to evaluate the impact of a federal consent decree in Seattle.
Geographic Focus: Seattle, Washington
Grant Recipient: Cornell University
Principal Investigator(s): Romaine Campbell
Term: 2024-2025
Amount: $57,500
Courts
Name: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Measure the Impact of Financial Assistance on Pretrial Outcomes
Description: This project uses a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of financial assistance on both short-term and long-term pretrial outcomes, including court attendance, incarceration for failures to appear, and case closures.
Geographic Focus: Santa Clara, California
Grant Recipient: Harvard University
Principal Investigator(s): Sharad Goel
Term: 2024-2026
Amount: $271,100
Name: Persistent Low-Level Offenders Diversion: An RCT
Description: This project uses a randomized controlled trial to test if a court-led diversion program targeting persistent low-level offenders can reduce recidivism and improve housing and employment stability.
Geographic Focus: Toledo, Ohio
Grant Recipient: Harvard University
Principal Investigator(s): James Greiner
Term: 2024-2030
Amount: $843,600
Name: A Tale of Three States: Bond Court Decisions and Outcomes in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Colorado
Description: This project uses interrupted time series and difference-in-differences designs to measure the effect of statewide policy changes on the use of monetary bail, level of pre-trial detention, and case outcomes. It also uses an instrumental variable design to recover the causal effect of monetary bail on pretrial misconduct (failure to appear or subsequent criminal activity).
Geographic Focus: Illinois, Colorado, Wisconsin
Grant Recipient: Loyola University of Chicago
Principal Investigator(s): Branden DuPont, Joseph (J.J.) Naddeo, Don Stemen
Term: 2024-2026
Amount: $299,600
Name: Reducing Racial Disparities in Bail Decisions
Description: This project uses a randomized controlled trial to evaluate an intervention designed to improve accuracy and reduce racial disparities in bail decisions.
Geographic Focus: United States
Grant Recipient: Harvard University
Principal Investigator(s): Will Dobbie, Crystal Yang
Term: 2024-2025
Amount: $140,600
Name: Assessing the Impact of Bail Litigation and Abandonment of Bail Reform in Two North Carolina Counties
Description: This project uses a difference-in-differences design to estimate the impacts of changes in bail policy to end the presumption of secured bonds for people with low-level misdemeanor charges in two North Carolina counties
Geographic Focus: Alamance and Forsyth Counties, North Carolina
Grant Recipient: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Principal Investigator(s): Alexander Cowell, Jessica Smith
Term: 2024-2026
Amount: $349,000
Name: Research on Shelby County Bail Reform
Description: This project uses a difference-in-differences design to evaluate the impact of reforms to the bail system in Shelby County, Tennessee.
Geographic Focus: Shelby County, Tennessee
Grant Recipient: The University of Memphis
Principal Investigator(s): Jonathan Bennett
Term: 2024-2025
Amount: $87,700
Incarceration and post-incarceration
Name: Parental Sentencing Alternative
Description: This project uses an instrumental variable design as well as a regression discontinuity design to estimate the effects of deferring prison sentences for convicted parents and the effects of releasing parents from prison early.
Geographic Focus: Washington State
Grant Recipient: The University of Chicago
Principal Investigator(s): Danielle Nemschoff
Term: 2024-2026
Amount: $53,600
Name: Impacts of Long Sentence Reforms in California
Description: This project uses difference-in-differences designs to evaluate the impacts of two policy changes aimed at reducing prison sentences - Proposition 57 and Senate Bill 1393.
Geographic Focus: California
Grant Recipient: The University of California, Berkeley
Principal Investigator(s): Mia Bird, Johanna Lacoe, Steven Raphael
Term: 2024-2027
Amount: $598,600
Name: Prison Education and Prisoner Outcomes
Description: This project uses an instrumental variable design to estimate the impact of higher education in prison on future education, reincarceration, and employment.
Geographic Focus: Iowa
Grant Recipient: Grinnell College
Principal Investigator(s): Romaine Campbell, Logan Lee
Term: 2024-2025
Amount: $50,500
Name: Oklahoma Legal Debt Study
Description: This project uses a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the long-term impact of court-ordered fines and fees in Oklahoma County's misdemeanor court.
Geographic Focus: Oklahoma
Grant Recipient: Columbia University
Principal Investigator(s): Bruce Western, Lindsay Bing
Term: 2024-2025
Amount: $99,900
Name: A Multi-Tiered Analysis of Debt Free Youth Justice's Impacts
Description: This project uses difference-in-differences designs to assess the impact of legislative changes to reduce or eliminate the use of fines and fees in the juvenile legal system.
Geographic Focus: United States
Grant Recipient: The University of Missouri
Principal Investigator(s): Valerie R. Anderson, Christopher Sullivan
Term: 2024-2025
Amount: $273,700
Name: Evaluating a Change in Drug Sentencing in Connecticut: The Effect of HB-7104
Description: This project uses a difference-in-differences design to evaluate HB-7104, which de-felonized drug possession convictions.
Geographic Focus: Connecticut
Grant Recipient: The Urban Institute
Principal Investigator(s): Walter Campbell
Term: 2025-2027
Amount: $589,400
This release covers a subset of grants that were committed, awarded or fully executed in 2024. It is intended to be illustrative of the work that AV is funding in the criminal justice field and serve as a resource for academics and practitioners who might be interested in applying for funding or in the outcome of previously funded research. It is not a comprehensive summary of AV's criminal justice grantmaking. Grant amounts are rounded to the nearest hundred dollars.
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Arnold Ventures is a philanthropy that supports research to understand the root causes of America's most persistent and pressing problems, as well as evidence-based solutions to address them. By focusing on systemic change, AV is working to improve the lives of American families, strengthen their communities, and promote their economic opportunity. Since Laura and John Arnold launched their foundation in 2008, the philanthropy has expanded, and Arnold Ventures' focus areas include education, criminal justice, health, infrastructure, and public finance, advocating for bipartisan policy reforms that will lead to lasting, scalable change. The Arnolds became signatories of the Giving Pledge in 2010.
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Original text here: https://www.arnoldventures.org/newsroom/arnold-ventures-releases-information-related-to-its-2024-criminal-justice-research-grants
[Category: Sociological]
