Community Justice Fresno

A Community Justice Center initiative

Build what Fresno needs next

Build what helps the work last.

Community justice is people and relationships first. Places, funding, compensation, and shared infrastructure matter because they can help that capacity stay available.

Community Justice Campus

A home for learning, convening, practice, and community access.

Shared space can support community rooms, learning, practitioner development, organizational proximity, and mission-aligned coworking.

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Community Justice Access Fund

Keep cost or capacity from closing the door.

Near-term support can help underwrite restorative processes, learning, and practitioner capacity when no existing payer is available.

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Longer-term investment

Pay people and strengthen the organizations around them.

The developing model asks what it would take to compensate practitioners, support host organizations, sustain learning, and build shared infrastructure responsibly.

Explore the investment model

Principles for building

Infrastructure should serve the work, not become the work.

People first

Pay attention to the people carrying the work before building structures around them.

More than one source

Durability comes from several understandable sources of support, not one fragile dependency.

Strengthen organizations

Infrastructure should help frontline organizations carry work responsibly rather than centralize ownership.

Keep planning honest

Working models should stay clearly labeled as planning until commitments are real.

The Sustainability and Investment pages are planning materials for partner review. They are not awards, commitments, guaranteed positions, or promises of funding.