Supporters

Know Your Rights Camp/ Entertainment Industry Foundation

PCBF thanks Know Your Rights Camp (KYRC) for their $25,000 grant to support our bailout efforts. KYRC is dedicated to advancing the liberation and well-being of Black and Brown communities. KYRC is a fund of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), a Charity Navigator Four-Star Charity that meets all 20 Better Business Bureau charity standards and carries the GuideStar Platinum Seal of Transparency.

Philadelphia Black Giving Circle

Philadelphia Community Bail Fund is a proud grantee of the Philadelphia Black Giving Circle (PBGC). PBGC's mission is to cultivate charitable giving within the Black community, build capacity and financial sustainability of Black-led non-profits, and address the most pressing needs facing the Black community in the Greater Philadelphia region. Their 2020 grant of $25,000 will support PCBF's staff and operating costs.

PHL COVID-19 Fund

Philadelphia Community Bail Fund is a proud grantee of the PHL COVID-19 Fund, a collaboration between the Philadelphia Foundation, the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, and the City of Philadelphia. The $50,000 grant made in early May 2020 will enable us to free more of our neighbors during this pandemic and provide critical support for those coming home.

Samuel S. Fels Fund

Philadelphia Community Bail Fund sincerely thanks the Samuel S. Fels Fund for their support of our 2019 Holiday Youth Bailout! Their gift of $20,000 will help us free children locked away in adult prisons in time for the holidays. Since then, the Samuel S. Fels Fund has become an ongoing supporter of the bail fund.

The Samuel S. Fels Fund is a private independent foundation with a commitment to improving conditions and opportunities for communities that are marginalized within the City of Philadelphia. They provide grants to support services, advocacy and activities that move us towards a more socially, racially and economically just society.

Union Benevolent Association

Philadelphia Community Bail Fund sincerely thanks the Union Benevolent Association for their grant of $20,000. These funds will be added to our revolving bail fund and enable us to free more of our neighbors from pretrial imprisonment. Our average posted bail is $2000, so this grant will enable us to free 10 people right away and others down the line as the bail money is returned to the fund at the conclusion of their cases.

Union Benevolent Association (UBA) is Philadelphia-based foundation established in 1831 that provides funding and support to organizations that help vulnerable Philadelphians access basic needs.

Bread & Roses Community FUnd

Philadelphia Community Bail Fund thanks Bread & Roses Community Fund for their vital support of our operating and administration expenses. Their Giving Project has awarded us general operating grants under their Racial & Economic Justice and Gender Justice programs.

Founded in 1982, Bread & Roses believes in change, not charity. They organize donors at all levels to support community-based groups in building movements for racial equity and economic opportunity. They support movements and their leaders through fundraising, grantmaking, capacity building, and convening.

Eagles Social Justice Fund

In November 2018, the Eagles Social Justice Fund granted the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund $50,000 to bail out eight people ahead of Thanksgiving. In December 2019, they granted another $15,000 to support our efforts to bring on full time staff.

Established in 2018, the Eagles Social Justice Fund was formed to provide grants to organizations that work to reduce barriers to equal opportunity, with a specific focus on education, community and police relations, improving the criminal justice system, and other initiatives targeting poverty, racial equality, and workforce development in the greater-Philadelphia area.

The National Bail fund Network

The National Bail Fund Network has provided support, training, and funding to PCBF since 2019.is a national project that works with organizers, advocates, and legal providers across the country that are using, or contemplating using, community bail funds as part of efforts to radically change local bail systems and reduce incarceration. The Network was established in September 2016 and is made up of over 80 community bail funds that use the regular payment of bail as well as strategic bail out actions in campaigns to end money bail and pretrial detention in both the criminal legal and immigration detention systems.

The National Bail Out Collective

The National Bail Out Collective has partnered with PCBF since 2018 providing funding and support, especially during our annual Black Mama's Bail Out.

The National Bail Out Collective is a Black-led and Black-centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers, and activists building a community-based movement to support our folks and end systems of pretrial detention and ultimately mass incarceration. We are people who have been impacted by cages-either by being in them ourselves or witnessing our families and loved ones be encaged. We are queer, trans, young, elder, and immigrant.

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