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The fund's grantmaking provides capacity-building grants to state-based activist organizations, focusing on states with good prospects for progressive change. Fundable activities include expansion or enhancement of staff capacity, public education, and direct and grassroots lobbying.
DPMF’s grantmaking supports short-term, strategically-timed projects of grassroots local, state and national organizations. Projects may include media campaigns; polling leading to a larger community education and organizing strategy; components of legislative campaigns; and strategic public education campaigns and speaking tours at the local, state or national levels.
The following organizations have funded or advised the Death Penalty Mobilization Fund:
ACLU Capital Punishment Project
The Arca Foundation
Butler Family Fund
Columbia Foundation
Death Penalty Focus
Equal Justice USA
Junta for Progressive Action
The Justice Project
National Coalition Against the Death Penalty
New Mexico Coalition to Repeal the Death Penalty
The Open Society Institute
Public Welfare Foundation
The Quixote Center
Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project
