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2020 IMPACT REPORT Using Our Trumpet to Transform Awareness Into Action 2020 IMPACT REPORT Using Our Trumpet to Transform Awareness Into Action JUSTICEAID.ORG On cover: Cécile McLorin Salvant. Above: The Resistance Revival Chorus Dear Friends, In 2013, a group of civil rights advocates and music lovers founded JusticeAid to use music and the arts to raise money to support organizations fighting injustice and inequality. A few years ago we introduced free public “Forums” in addition to our live music concerts as a way to move our audiences from awareness to action. Each year our Board of Directors identifies timely and important justice causes. Then we find organizations on the front lines that are addressing those causes by defending people in need, organizing community members, and advocating for new policies —organizations where every dollar in donations makes a huge impact. In 2020, our cause was voting rights, and our grantee partner was the Election Protection initiative of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. In normal times we would have gathered with you, celebrating the emotional power of live music to move us to action. We sorely miss seeing you at live events, but even in the virtual world, we were able to come together as a community. In 2020, we partnered with The Riverside Church, Civic Life Project, wonderful artists, brilliant thought leaders, and our amazing JusticeAid family of supporters to raise collective awareness about racist voter suppression and awarded a grant of $300,000 to JusticeAid's grantee partner, Election Protection. Thank you for believing, as we do, in the power of art and music to empower, unite, and heal. Our resounding mantra of 2020 as illustrated by Steve Milliken JusticeAid collaborator Co-Founder and CEO, JusticeAid and cartoonist for The New Yorker, Liza Donnelly. OUR MISSION JusticeAid leverages the community-building power of art and music to transform awareness into action in the fight against injustice. 2 2020 IMPACT REPORT | 2 , WE'RE MAKING AN IMPACT Paula Cole spoke directly to JusticeAid's audience in 2020 about her support for voting rights. ur selection process is rigorous. We look for Our audiences gain insights into pressing issues nonprofits that are working tirelessly on the through the personal stories and knowledge shared O ground: attorneys and activists protecting by our grantee partners and distinguished speakers. civil rights, freeing innocent prisoners, training public A growing roster of multi-genre artists—Grammy defenders, defending people with mental health Award-winning legends and emerging stars alike challenges, and fighting inhumane immigration —have graced our stage over the years. Whether policies—to name just a few of the causes of our past performing in large theaters in DC, intimate clubs in grantees. NYC and New Orleans, or in the comfort of their own To further our reach, we produce live and streaming homes, JusticeAid artists share our passion for justice. discussion panels, social media campaigns, house JusticeAid Board members, sponsors, and a circle of parties, and other outreach—educating thousands of loyal donors cover all administrative costs so 100% Americans on key civil and human rights challenges of every other donation goes directly to support our in the fight against injustice. grantee partners. Support for Our Grantee $300K 2020 Election Protection/866-OUR-VOTE $300,000 Partners 2019 Immigrant Defense Project $138,000 $230K 2018 Essie Justice Group & Civil Rights Corps $230,000 2017 Mental Health Project of the Urban Justice Center $116,000 2016 $138K Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth $117K $120K $116K & National Juvenile Defender Center $90,000 $90K 2015 Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project & Innocence Project New Orleans $120,000 $52K 2014 Youth Empowerment Project & Justice For Vets $117,000 2013 Rising for Justice & Gideon's Promise $52,000 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 $225K $300K $150K 0 $ 75K Music That Matters: Songs of Protest Since 2013, JusticeAid Inspirations on MLK Day In January, on MLK Day, JusticeAid $1.1 has provided $1.1 million launched a music blog and playlist of protest songs, with a different focus each million to its grantee partners. month. Read the blog at justiceaid.org and listen to the playlists on Spotify and YouTube. 3 JUSTICEAID.ORG | 3 GRANTEE PARTNERS 2013-2020 Students from Keiser University (Florida) volunteering with Election Protection to assist at the voting polls on Election Day 2020 / VOTER SUPPRESSION 2019 / IMMIGRATION 2018 / DEBTORS' PRISONS The nation's largest nonpartisan voter IDP works to secure fairness and justice Civil Rights Corps brings cutting-edge class- protection coalition works year-round for immigrants in the U.S. It aims to abolish action litigation all over the U.S., as evidenced to ensure that all voters have an equal a racially biased criminal legal system in a historic victory to end the unconstitutional opportunity to vote and have that vote that violates basic human rights and an bail system in Houston, Texas. count. With 100+ local, state, and national immigration system that every year tears Essie Justice Group mobilizes women with incar- partners, Election Protection uses a wide hundreds of thousands of immigrants cerated loved ones to take on the rampant range of tools and activities to protect, with convictions from their homes, their injustices created by mass incarceration. Essie is advance, and defend the right to vote. families, and their communities. also helping lead the campaign for bail reform in California. 2017 / MENTAL HEALTH 2016 / DEFENDING CHILDREN 2015 / FREEING THE INNOCENT Since 1994, the Mental Health Project’s NJC ensures that every child facing Innocence Project-New Orleans focuses on team of attorneys, social workers, advo- prosecution in juvenile court is repre- winning exonerations, both in the minority cates, and peers has assisted thousands sented by a specialized attorney trained of cases where DNA testing can prove inno- of New Yorkers with mental health chal- to defend children. CSFY uses a multi- cence and in more difficult cases where DNA -lenges to retain their housing, obtain pronged approach to end the practice does not exist or has been destroyed. disability benefits, assert their rights to of sentencing children to life in prison Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project brings discharge planning, obtain supportive without parole, including legislative comprehensive legal assistance to regional housing, and transition back into their advocacy, litigation, public education, residents facing wrongful convictions and communities from prison or jail. and coalition building. incarceration. 2014 / DEFENDING VETERANS 2014 / EMPOWERING YOUTH 2013 / EXPANDING LEGAL SERVICES Justice For Vets strives to ensure that The Youth Empowerment Project is Rising for Justice leverages the collective force of veterans treatment courts are within New Orleans’ most comprehensive students and experienced advocates to achieve reach of all veterans in need. They also and established agency working with equity and justice for all. provide training and technical assistance at-risk, court-involved and out-of- Gideon’s Promise is transforming the criminal so that communities can serve veterans school youth. justice system by building a movement of public suffering from mental health disorders, defenders who provide equal justice for margi- trauma, and substance use. nalized communities. "You have been a most generous and true partner in our work Music That Matters: Songs of Protest PEACE & LOVE—WAR NO MORE throughout the entirety of the 2020 election season. We are In February, we examined how music grateful for your steadfast support as we continue our fight to illuminates our collective humanity to create empathy and justice for others. ensure that every voice is heard and every ballot counted." Featuring antiwar songs by Pete Seeger, Marvin Gaye, Mary Gauthier, Edwin Starr, 4 —KRISTEN CLARKE, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law The National, and others. 2020 IMPACT REPORT | 4 People viewed our vitual events 2020: A YEAR LIKE 6,386 streamed on YouTube, Facebook, NO OTHER and Instagram Live in 2020. Virtual Programming Highlights Left to right: "Voices to Protect Music That Matters: Songs of Protest the Vote" (May) concert artists Paula Cole, David Hidalgo, Leyla NO LOVE EXCEPTED McCalla, David Shaw & Zack Feinberg of The Revivalists, Kandace The June blog celebrates Pride Month Springs, and Paine the Poet. "Lift Every Voice and Vote" (June) public and songs that focus on intensely forum speakers Stacey Abrams, Kristen Clarke, U.S. Rep. Hakeem personal issues that many millions Jeffries, Maria Teresa Kumar, and Ray Suarez. A JusticeAid prize-winning of people have had to hide for too film from Civic Life Project’s Democracy 2020 Youth Film Challenge long. With Melissa Etheridge, the (Sept). JusticeAid performer Matthew Whitaker, Riverside Church Pet Shop Boys, Grace, Chika, Frank (June). Instagram live event host DJ Suss One (Oct). "Voices to Protect Ocean, and others. the Vote" (Oct) artists Ivan Neville, Tom Morello, Regina Carter, Lila Downs, and Rosanne Cash. 5 JUSTICEAID.ORG | 5 , 2020: VOTING RIGHTS A Year of Firsts Election Protection A year ago, when JusticeAid’s board of direc- In 2020, JusticeAid’s grantee partner, Election Protec- tors selected “voting rights” as our defining justice tion/866-OUR-VOTE and its litigation arm, the Lawyers’ focus for 2020, we could not have foreseen how Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, had the unpre- necessary this work would be, or how 2020 would cedented
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