1. Disrupting the School to Prison Pipeline in Iowa

    AMOS partnered with public schools to implement Let’s Talk, an initiative that equips students to resolve disputes constructively and reduces suspensions, expulsions, and arrests. Leaders also worked with Des Moines police to create a mediation program that allows first-time juvenile offenders to avoid a permanent criminal record.

  2. Reducing Financial Traps for the Recently Released in Oklahoma

    VOICE-OKC and legal allies organized free Fines and Fees Client Clinics to help low-income residents returning from incarceration petition courts to reassess overwhelming fines and fees, reducing barriers that can lead to re-incarceration.

  3. Protecting Children From Adult Trials in Louisiana

    In 2025, Together Louisiana leaders educated and mobilized their neighbors to vote, blocking an effort to allow children as young as 10 to be tried for adult crimes.

  4. Responding to Gun Violence & Establishing a Police Substation in San Antonio

    After two mass shootings in only a couple of years, COPS/Metro leveraged $200,000 in 2024 for the distribution of 4,000 free gun lockboxes to prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands. The following year, leaders secured the groundbreaking of a new police substation to serve the city’s under-resourced Southeast Side.

  5. Preventing Sex Trafficking in Nevada

    Responding to children being preyed upon by pimps in Las Vegas, Nevadans for the Common Good was a driving force behind AB67, groundbreaking anti-sex-trafficking legislation (more here, here, and here). Leaders also worked with public officials to post the national sex trafficking hotline at the airport and regional bus shelters to expand access to help.