Grant Programs
Innovative Programming Grants
The Innovative Programming Grant (IPG) provides grant funds to non-profit organizations wishing to expand programs they are currently providing in other California state institutions that have demonstrated success and focus on an incarcerated person’s responsibility and restorative justice principles, or to not-for-profit organizations with experience in providing programming in a correctional setting. Innovative programs are insight-oriented with a focus on incarcerated persons responsibility and restorative justice principles.
California Reentry and Enrichment (CARE) Grants
California Reentry and Enrichment (CARE) Grant programs are insight-oriented, restorative justice programs that focus on increasing empathy and accountability among participants. These programs are provided by non-profit organizations and can demonstrate that the approach has produced, or will produce, positive outcomes in correctional environments.
Restorative Justice (RJ) Grant
The Restorative Justice grant provides nonprofit organizations funding to provide restorative justice programming in Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation institutions. These organizations are identified per assembly bill.
Victim Impact (VI) Grant
Victim Impact programs are victim-focused restorative justice programs provided by community-based organizations. These programs must employ restorative justice principles, have an emphasis on accountability, and provide opportunities for incarcerated individuals to understand the impact of the harm caused by crime.
Rehabilitative Investment Grants for Healing and Transformation (RIGHT) 2.0 Grant
The RIGHT 2.0 Grant offers support to community based, nonprofit organizations for the purpose of delivering trauma-informed, rehabilitative and/or restorative justice programming in CDCR institutions.
Rehabilitative Investment Grants for Healing and Transformation (RIGHT) 1.0 Grant
The RIGHT 1.0 Grant offers funding to enhance the capacity of community-based, eligible nonprofit organizations to provide in-prison programming in CDCR institutions.
Extended Sentence Hardhip (ESH) Grant
The ESH Grant provides a one-time payment of $500 to eligible incarcerated individuals in CDCR institutions who have ten or more calendar years remaining on their sentences. This grant is intended to alleviate some of the psychological and emotional burdens associated with long-term incarceration and to acknowledge the human impact of mandatory minimum sentencing.
