The Public Welfare Foundation distributes grants to organizations it believes it can contribute to reform.
Grantees fitting under this scope include the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and the Drug Policy Alliance.
Its juvenile justice program supports groups to end the sentencing of youth in the adult criminal justice system, expand the use of community-based programs for youth, promote fair and equitable treatment of youth of color, and support advancing state policies that restrict the use of incarceration by the juvenile justice system.
Its Workers' Rights program aims to improve the lives of low-wage working people.
It seeks to advance reforms to prevent severe illness, injury, and death on the job, advance worker's rights in complex employment arrangements, and to hold employers accountable for wage theft.