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The Death Penalty Mobilization Fund (DPMF) is a Tides Foundation funding collaborative that supports strategic collaborations of local, regional or national nonprofits working to abolish the death penalty at the state and/or federal levels. Projects supported by the DPMF may also focus on intermediate steps such as specific reforms to the death penalty system, moratoria on executions, or study commissions. The Fund was initiated in 2000 by a Tides donor and is sustained through the support of individual and institutional partners. To date, the DPMF has awarded approximately $1.16 million in grants to over 50 organizations.
Past efforts focused on supporting grassroots state-based organizations working in the anti-death penalty arena via two funding strategies: State Strategies and the monthly Rapid Response. Currently only the State Strategies segment of the Fund is active. State Strategies provides larger capacity building grants to effective state-based activist organizations working on death penalty reform (abolition or moratoria campaigns) in the US.
