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San Francisco Vote Seeks to End Youth Incarceration

A vote this week by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has put the city on a path to virtually end youth incarceration, the first major city in the United States to do so. Community activists,...

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Latest News about the 2018-2021 Fellows

How the 2018-2021 Fellows Are Winning Justice for Impacted Communities. Eddy Zheng New Breath Foundation Eddy is the first formerly incarcerated “juvenile lifer” to serve as founder and president of a...

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An Education While Incarcerated

What Eddy Zheng taught himself—and me—when he was in prison. Eddy built relationships with gangsters and politicians, then turned to philanthropy.

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Rosenberg Foundation Selects Nine Movement Leaders as Leading Edge Fellows

Fellows represent the next generation of changemakers with bold ideas for winning justice for Black communities and communities of color San Francisco, CA — The Rosenberg Foundation announced today...

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Cat Brooks Awarded Unrestricted $250,000 Grant for 3 Years

These funds will be used to build alternatives to public safety that don’t rely on the violence of the carceral state but rather invest in our humanity and prevention strategies that stop “crime” from...

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Big Love: A New Kind of Tough Love

Krea Gomez-Jones says we can’t fully understand what our young folks are experiencing nowadays: maturing in the middle of a pandemic, friends dying from Fentanyl, not to mention things like trying to...

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Up In Smoke: Cannabis, Crime and Creating Equity

A storm's been brewing over legal cannabis in Oakland. And Chaney Turner thinks it has the potential to wash away small business owners-- especially People of Color.

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Wielding Grief to Enact Change

Malkia Devich Cyril, is a writer, public speaker and award winning activist on issues of digital rights, narrative power, Black liberation and collective grief. Their book, Radical Loss: Black Grief...

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Brave Ideas, Bold Leaders: Featuring Aria Sa’id, Shimica Gaskins, and Cat Brooks

The Rosenberg Foundation is committed to supporting bold organizers and brave advocates who are organizing to win fundamental rights, protections, and opportunities for California’s Black, brown, and...

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Brave Ideas, Bold Leaders: Featuring Malkia Devich-Cyril, Nicole Lee and Krea...

Together with our funding partners, through the Leading Edge Fund, we are supporting bold organizers and brave advocates who are organizing to win fundamental rights, protections, and opportunities...

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Latest News about the 2018-2021 Fellows

Learn more about how these leaders are meeting this moment and continuing to serve their communities. Eddy Zheng New Breath Foundation Big Idea: To transform opportunities for incarcerated Asian and...

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