Barnes & Thornburg Racial and Social Justice Foundation

Click on a highlighted state for a glance at each organization, located in cities where Barnes & Thornburg has an office

See All Grant Recipients 2020-2023

Columbus, Ohio - Zora’s House

Wilmington, Delaware - Project New Start

New York, New York - The Parole Preparation Project

San Diego, California - RISE

Dallas, Texas - Buried Alive Project

Washington, D.C. - Thrive DC

Fort Wayne, Indiana - Center For Nonviolence

Chicago, Illinois - Sunshine Gospel Ministries’ Flourishing Community Initiative

Raleigh, North Carolina - North Carolina Center for Actual Innocence

Grand Rapids, Michigan - Michigan League for Public Policy

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Boston, Massachusetts- Boston Higher Education Resource Center (HERC)

Atlanta, Georgia - Project Pinnacle

Florida - 5000 Role Models

Minneapolis, Minnesota - All Square

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Why Not Prosper

Nashville, Tennessee - Choosing Justice Initiative

Indianapolis, Indiana - Public Advocates in Community Re-Entry (PACE)

South Bend - El Campito Child Development Center

Ann Arbor, Michigan - Youth Arts Alliance

Los Angeles, California - Social Justice Learning Institute

Salt Lake City, Utah - Restoring Ancestral Winds, Inc.

• Racial Equity • Reducing Incarceration • Re-Entry After Incarceration • Wrongful Imprisonment • Reducing Gun Violence • Domestic Violence • Poverty • Homelessness • Social Justice

• Counseling • Advocacy • Community Collaboration • Intervention • Treatment • Community Mobilization • Education and Career Development • Employment • Coaching • Legal Counsel • Food and Shelter • Policy • Research

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Why I Give

The Barnes & Thornburg Racial and Social Justice Foundation is supported by employee and partner donations. Click on an individual below to learn more about why they choose to support the foundation.

Anthony Arnold, Partner, San Diego "What we have a chance to do here is pretty special in that we're able to contribute to organizations in our community that are actually making meaningful contributions to change on the ground level...We're standing where we are today...to promote the change we want to see in the world and I think this is a good chance for us to do it."

Roslyn Chauvin, Corporate Transaction Coordinator, Grand Rapids "I give to the foundation with the hope that we ALL will someday have the same opportunities for health, safety and success. I feel fortunate in ways that others may not, and the magnitude of the foundation’s gifts for others has the potential to change not just one person’s life but many lives, and from those given a lift up, a ripple effect of change is possible. I’d like to be a part of that change."

Connie Lahn, Partner and Foundation President, Minneapolis "When we all work together we can effectuate real change...We can monitor that change and we can pay attention to that change and we can buy into these organizations as a community and as a team."