Restorative Justice Fund is a nonprofit justice reform incubator based in Los Angeles. We advocate for, design, and deploy innovative intervention at every level of the justice system to make it more equitable, effective, and cost-efficient.
Core Challenge
Criminal justice lags far behind almost every other sector in terms of use and adoption of new technology. From courts to prosecutor offices to defendants and their families, the ability to adapt new software tools to better meet the needs of system actors and system-involved people has tremendous potential to improve outcomes system-wide. Nevertheless, most people working in the legal system, in law enforcement, in corrections, and in community-based organizations remain resistant to new tech tools despite the obvious benefit of using them. Therefore, RJFund seeks to partner with passionate coders and developers who understand the promise of technology for the criminal justice system to build the tools of the future while also helping to raise awareness of the value of new technology for the system as a whole.
Projects
Website Feed Aggregator Content management system that populates a Twitter-like feed on front page of www.rjfund.org with what I save to Pocket, Instapaper, tweets/retweets from @_RJFund, and newsletter.This will be the crown jewel of our website redesign and super important for our supporters and people curious about criminal justice reform to stay up to date and clear on the most important issues in criminal justice reform.
Core Skills Needed
Knowledge of RSS and how to use APIs from the services described above, front web design to make it look nice.
First of all, RJFund is grateful for any work that volunteers feel called to do for us. We respect your time and expertise and recognize that we simply could not do it without you. With regard to the above-described project, we’d hope first to understand what level of complexity this project entails so we can plan for how hard it will be to execute. However, if it’s a relatively easy project to execute, then we’d expect at least to receive support in implementing it on our website (either on Squarespace or some other platform) and minor ongoing support to make sure that it works and meets our needs.
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Restorative Justice Fund is a nonprofit justice reform incubator based in Los Angeles. We advocate for, design, and deploy innovative intervention at every level of the justice system to make it more equitable, effective, and cost-efficient.
Core Challenge
Criminal justice lags far behind almost every other sector in terms of use and adoption of new technology. From courts to prosecutor offices to defendants and their families, the ability to adapt new software tools to better meet the needs of system actors and system-involved people has tremendous potential to improve outcomes system-wide. Nevertheless, most people working in the legal system, in law enforcement, in corrections, and in community-based organizations remain resistant to new tech tools despite the obvious benefit of using them. Therefore, RJFund seeks to partner with passionate coders and developers who understand the promise of technology for the criminal justice system to build the tools of the future while also helping to raise awareness of the value of new technology for the system as a whole.
Projects
Core Skills Needed
Knowledge of RSS and how to use APIs from the services described above, front web design to make it look nice.
Current Tech Stack
What to expect?
First of all, RJFund is grateful for any work that volunteers feel called to do for us. We respect your time and expertise and recognize that we simply could not do it without you. With regard to the above-described project, we’d hope first to understand what level of complexity this project entails so we can plan for how hard it will be to execute. However, if it’s a relatively easy project to execute, then we’d expect at least to receive support in implementing it on our website (either on Squarespace or some other platform) and minor ongoing support to make sure that it works and meets our needs.