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Rosenberg Foundation Selects Nine Movement Leaders as Leading Edge Fellows

  • Feb 01, 2022

Fellows represent the next generation of changemakers with bold ideas for winning justice for Black communities and communities of color.
San Francisco, CA — The Rosenberg Foundation announced today that nine bold movement leaders have been selected as Leading Edge fellows for the next three years.

Latest News about the 2018-2021 Fellows

  • Mar 24, 2021

How the 2018-2021 Fellows Are Winning Justice for Impacted Communities. Eddy Zheng New Breath Foundation Eddy is the first formerly incarcerated “juvenile lifer” to serve as founder and president of a philanthropic foundation. Over two decades, while in state prison and then immigration detention, Eddy transformed his life and made significant contributions, including counseling at-risk […]

Nine Emerging Movement Leaders Selected as Leading Edge Fund Fellows

  • Jan 30, 2019

Fellows represent the next generation of changemakers tackling deep barriers to opportunity for communities of color across California San Francisco, CA — The Rosenberg Foundation announced today that nine bold movement leaders have been selected as 2019 to 2021 Leading Edge Fund fellows. Launched in 2016, the Leading Edge Fund was created to seed, incubate […]

Funding Innovations That Break the Mold

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  • Dec 27, 2018

Patrisse Cullors is creating a network of rapid responders, as an alternative to police, to support victims and survivors of state violence and mass criminalization. Raj Jayadev is helping individuals who face incarceration, their families, and their communities play an active role in their defense. Nicole Pittman is taking on the practice of placing children […]

Placing a Spotlight on Prosecutorial Misconduct

  • Mar 27, 2017

For decades, criminal justice advocates, scholars, and the media have primarily focused on the role of police, judges, and defense attorneys in determining criminal justice outcomes. Recent conversations about the need to address our broken criminal justice systems have focused on the epidemic of extra-judicial police killings and police terror. Very little analysis and attention […]