The Migration Justice Initiative (MJI) is the primary public-facing focus of Dr. Bronner’s Family Foundation, founded to serve displaced peoples and support human solidarity movements. We strategically fund organizations, efforts, and people working to address the root causes of suffering, intolerance, and injustice faced by migrants and refugees around the world in order to advance systemic change.

Strategy we support

Advocacy

Policy change: Efforts to educate and implore local, national, and international governments and law enforcement to develop or implement policies that recognize and protect the rights of refugees and forced migrants.

Impact litigation: Strategic lawsuits that have the potential to affect systemic change, and that hold individual leaders, law enforcement, government and their agents accountable to humane standards of treatment for migrants and refugees.

Universal legal representation: Efforts to expand and ensure equitable access to due process and fair hearing for individuals seeking protection from harm or persecution through the immigration justice system.

Power Building

Grassroots movement building: Activities that engage, educate, and organize refugee, immigrant, and displaced communities in civil society, building political awareness and solidarity within and among marginalized groups.

Voter and civic engagement: Nonpartisan efforts that mobilize eligible voters from immigrant, refugee, and displaced communities and that engage them in the policymaking process at various levels of government.

Leadership development: Efforts to deepen the bench of talented organizational and movement leaders from within displaced and marginalized communities through activities such as training, peer support, mentorship, and intersectional convening.

Narrative Shift

Inclusive culture creation: Programs that empower immigrants, refugees and marginalized people to participate fully in the creation of visual and narrative culture through training and professional development in the media arts.

Impact art and media: Projects that promote positive representation of minorities, immigrants, and refugees in media through humanistic storytelling and that expand our understanding of ethnic and national identity narratives.

Strategic communications: Research that produces effective messaging and the dissemination of best-practice narratives which leads to greater public support for immigrants, refugees, displaced peoples, and ethnic minorities.

Resiliency

Sustainable livelihood: Programs that enable refugees in protracted conflict situations and people living in persecuted or marginalized ethnic minority communities to achieve economic self-sufficiency.

Violence prevention and peacebuilding: Implementation of proven ethnic conflict and violence prevention strategies in at-risk communities; truth and reconciliation or restorative justice programs that address ethnically or racially motivated crimes.

Trauma/psychosocial support: Efforts to break the cycle of violence, victimization, and marginalization through the provision and expansion of behavioral health resources in communities traumatized by displacement and ethnic violence.

The population we serve

-Formally resettled or non-resettled refugees
-Internally displaced persons
-Forced migrants
-Asylum seekers
-Indigenous peoples
-Marginalized minorities/BIPOC communities

At this time, Dr. Bronner’s Family Foundation conducts grantmaking by invitation only. However, we welcome Letter of Inquiry (LOI) submissions from organizations with 501(c)3 status or under a fiscal sponsor with 501(c)3 status.