{"id":1140,"date":"2013-01-28T14:32:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T18:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2013-01-28T14:32:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T18:32:43","slug":"drug-policy-alliance-advocacy-grants-program-special-opportunities-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/2013\/01\/28\/drug-policy-alliance-advocacy-grants-program-special-opportunities-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Policy Alliance Advocacy Grants Program Special Opportunities Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grants from the Drug Policy Alliance&#8217;s Special Opportunities Fund support drug policy reform efforts that aim to influence local, state or federal legislation.The maximum request is $25,000, though generally grant awards range from $10,000 to $15,00. The fund prioritizes the following areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Public education campaigns and litigation to raise awareness of the negative consequences of current local, state and national drug policies.<\/li>\n<li>Organizing and mobilizing constituencies that raise awareness about the negative consequences of local, state or national drug policies.<\/li>\n<li>Public education efforts that speak to: (1) the failures and consequences of drug polices in the U.S. and the potential benefits of alternatives to prohibition; (2) reducing over-reliance on the criminal justice system by raising awareness of the need for alternatives to incarceration and\/or health-based approaches to drug use; (3) discrimination in employment, housing, student loans and other benefits against those who use drugs or who have been convicted of drug law violations; (4) the negative consequences of current drug policies on human rights; and (5) efforts that mobilize people around the disproportionate impact of the drug war on communities of color and youth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Applications are accepted on a rolling basis and are due on the first business day of each month. For more information, see the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugpolicy.org\/grants\/advocacy-grants-program-special-opportunities-fund-proposal-guidelines\">http:\/\/www.drugpolicy.org\/grants\/advocacy-grants-program-special-opportunities-fund-proposal-guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grants from the Drug Policy Alliance&#8217;s Special Opportunities Fund support drug policy reform efforts that aim to influence local, state or federal legislation.The maximum request is $25,000, though generally grant awards range from $10,000 to $15,00. The fund prioritizes the following areas: Public education campaigns and litigation to raise awareness of the negative consequences of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":997,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,8,7,6],"tags":[147,148,146,145,144],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-justice","category-education","category-law","category-political-science","category-social-sciences","tag-criminal-justice","tag-education","tag-law","tag-political-science","tag-social-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/997"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}