COMMUNITY JUSTICE RESOURCE CENTER
The following are tools for action that can be used to further your work in Community Justice. Please click on the link(s) below to utilize them:
  • Funding/Resource Opportunities for Community Justice Practitioners
    This list provides information about a few of the funding resources that are available to community justice practitioners. We plan to update this resource periodically as we learn of new opportunities. Please contact us with any opportunities of which you know. This list includes programs with upcoming deadlines as well as a few opportunities with rolling deadlines.
  • Mapping The Literature
    CJRC now includes a bibliography (partially annotated) of recent publications and articles that relate to the community justice model. Check out topics such as the Hmong campaign on welfare reform; higher education and community lawyering; and problemösolving courts.
  • So Goes A Nation: Lawyers and Communities
    A video highlighting innovative communityöbased lawyering by legal services and other creative lawyers in the New York metropolitan area, was produced by New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and Fordham University School of Law. A copy can be ordered from NY Lawyers for the Public Interest, 151 West 30th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10001-4007, Tel (212) 244-4664, Fax (212) 244-4570, TDD (212) 244-3692, info@nylpi.org.
  • Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) has produced a short, inspirational video ("Los Angeles, The Capital of the Working Poor") that highlights several of the organization's successful campaigns. http://www.laane.org/video/RealVideo%20version/realLAANE.rm
  • Civil Rights Data from across the country is finally available to the public!
    The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the United States Department of Education has finally released the 2000 civil rights data, which includes: disbilities, language, discipline, and a host of other data, to be available to the public. Navigating OCR's site to find the data may be difficult, so in order to make your search for data easier, we have composed the following tutorial to assist you. Click here to use the tutorial.
  • Achieving Equal Justice Brochure
    This brochure lays out examples of creative community lawyer partnerships and highlights the characteristics of this approach to battling injustice. Click here to download.
  • ORDER the Symposium Proceedings for Building a Multiracial Social Justice Movement
    To order a copy of the NYU Symposium journal of proceedings, please contact us with your request and mailing information at cjrc@advancementproject.org
  • LISTEN to the Streaming Audio of the Symposium Proceedings for Building A Multiracial Social Justice Movement
    The New York City Symposium focused on The Miner's Canary, a new book by Prof. Lani Guinier & Prof. Gerald Torres, click here to hear the audio files of the sessions.