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Your Donation Matters
By supporting us, you will join our work to ensure that low income households and communities of color live in a NJ that provides equal access to economic opportunity, empowers their voice in the political process and safeguards equal justice under the law for everyone.
Economic Justice
By supporting us, you will join our work to ensure equal economic opportunity for urban communities through equitable employment, affordable housing, and access to credit.
Criminal Justice Reform
By supporting us, you will join our work to ensure the criminal justice system treats communities of color fairly and equally, provides alternatives to incarceration, protects constitutional rights, and provides accountability and transparency in law enforcement.
Democracy & Justice
By supporting us, you will join our work to make democracy real in NJ by expanding the right to vote, reducing barriers to democracy participation, and ensuring communities of color are given representation in the redistricting process.
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New Jersey is poised to serve as a national light for transformative change.
But we need your help to make this vision a reality.
Policy and systemic change are never quick or easy.
We need partners like you to advance the policies that help vulnerable communities thrive.
For 20 years, the Institute has been doing social justice through research, public education, advocacy, and collaborative partnerships to develop lasting solutions to vexing urban issues.
Our current focus is on closing NJ's staggering racial wealth gap and connecting urban residents of color to full-time, meaningful work and wealth; advancing a progressive and policy-driven agenda to expand the right to vote, build democratic power and ensure political accountability; and advocating for the transformative reform of NJ’s criminal justice system and reimagining traditional policing practices.
This moment provides us with a mandate that must guide us each day: to realize social justice, we must do social justice.
Here at the Institute, we are clear that change will happen, as it always has, from the ground up in our communities.
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Please reach out to our Director of Development, Lynda Seward, by phone 973-755-9901 or email, lseward@njisj.org.