LJF’s Narrative Change grants support development and dissemination of counternarratives to criminality of youth, communities of color, immigrants, unhoused and poor people in Louisiana, as well as defensive and affirmative communications and narrative strategies that shift narratives on safety, crime, and accountability prioritizing prevention, equity, and restoration and contributing to an enabling environment for legal policy and social change.
Donor Name: Foundation for Louisiana
State: Louisiana
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/05/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Louisiana Justice Fund (LJF) is a pooled fund housed at FFL that supports projects that reduce incarceration, improve reentry outcomes, and remove barriers to economic mobility for individuals disproportionately affected by the criminal legal system. The Fund strategically invests resources to drive meaningful and lasting change. LJF values collaboration, capacity building, and strategic advocacy in its efforts to bring about lasting change in Louisiana’s criminal legal landscape. LJF aims to achieve this through strategic investments in north Louisiana, central Louisiana, southwest Louisiana, Greater New Orleans, and Greater Baton Rouge areas through three grantmaking goals: 1) strengthen the ecosystem of criminal legal system reform organizations, 2) invest in organizations to shift narratives on safety, crime, and accountability, and 3) increase economic mobility for criminal legal system impacted folks.
Examples of the type of work LJF will support include, but are not limited to:
- counternarrative and message development;
- polling, public opinion research, spokesperson development, story-gathering, and collateral (marketing and promo materials) development;
- coordinated message deployment and use;
- dissemination and amplification of counternarratives and messages (earned media, digital campaigns, owned media, and social media); and
- training and technical assistance to strengthen the overall communications capacity and skill sets of the ecosystem.
Funding Information
Up to 10 organizations will be awarded up to $75,000 each, and may be renewable for up to one year.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must either have federal tax-exempt/501(c)3 status or have a fiscal sponsor with federal tax-exempt/501(c)3 status.
- Applicants with leadership that includes system-impacted individuals or those from communities most affected by criminalization and incarceration are encouraged.
For more information, visit Foundation for Louisiana.
