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FORBES: Why Alternatives To Incarceration Like AFJ Are Good For Communities

If there is a solution that saves taxpayers’ money and prevents people from being incarcerated, why isn’t the solution being more widely used?

ESSENCE: NBA Awards Grant To AFJ For Pushing Back Against The Incarceration Of Black Youth

THE GRANT FUNDING FROM THE NBA WILL SUPPORT THE COURT ADVOCACY SERVICES FOR YOUTH AS WELL AS THE VOCATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING OF AVENUES FOR JUSTICE.

Executive Director Angel Rodriguez featured in Cerini Associates Nonprofit Trend Guide

Executive Director Angel Rodriguez featured in Cerini Associates Nonprofit Trend Guide

NEWS 12: AFJ featured on News 12 evening news about three New York City organizations recently chosen to receive grants from the NBA Foundation.

Avenues for Justice featured on News 12 evening news about three New York City organizations recently chosen to receive grants from the NBA Foundation.

NBA Foundation Awards Grant to Avenues for Justice to Support our HIRE UP Program!

Annual Grant part of the league’s ‘Season of Giving’ awarding $4.8 Million to 12 Non-Profit Organizations

Avenues for Justice is featured in Crain’s New York Business 2022 Giving Guide

"As Life Returns to ‘Normal’ in New York, Charitable Donors Open Their Wallets." Avenues for Justice is honored to be featured in Crain's 2022 Giving Guide!

NBC UNIVERSAL: AFJ Awarded PROJECT INNOVATION Grant from WNBC/WNJU

Avenues for Justice (AFJ) was awarded $40,000 in funding through the 2022 WNBC/WNJU Project Innovation grant challenge.

2022 Baer Faxt Invitational Golf Classic

Join us at Rockaway Hunting Club on September 12th, 2022!

East Village’s Avenues for Justice Program Honored with Street Co-Naming by The Village Sun

Spend any time in the Criminal Court building in Lower Manhattan and you’ve probably seen Angel Rodriguez moving through the halls, from courtroom to courtroom, buttonholing prosecutors, lawyers, police and even judges...

AFJ Hosts a Career Panel

Avenues for Justice (AFJ) hosted a Career Panel this past December to inspire and activate our participants. The professionals featured on the panel included a retired Supreme Court judge, a music producer, an athletics business owner, a popular Manhattan dog groomer, a barber, a renowned Harlem chef, and a dentist.

Where We Landed in 2021, and Where We’re Going Next!

With the help of our funders and supporters, Avenues for Justice (AFJ) experienced exciting growth in 2021 and we are planning for more expansion in the next few years in order to help more of our City’s youth, ages 13–24, who are court-involved, incarcerated or at-risk...

AFJ on PBS NewsHour

Check out PBS NewsHour’s 5 minute highlight of AFJ!

NYC City Council to Rename Block on Avenue B the “Avenues for Justice Way”

On December 15, 2021, City Council approved a motion by 2nd District Council Member, Carlina Rivera, which had previously been voted for approval by the Lower East Side’s Community Board 3, to rename the block on Avenue B just south of Tompkins Square, “Avenues for Justice Way”.

AFJ Featured on F.Y. EYE’s PSA Network Campaign!

The PSA Network includes indoor and outdoor screens placed in high-traffic locations throughout NYC’s five boroughs and Westchester used exclusively to promote social impact messaging.

Boxing for Justice: An AFJ Junior Board Fundraiser

On November 7th from 12:45–1:45, Taylor Rae Almonte will be teaching an hour long boxing class with Rumble at their TriBeca studio! All proceeds of the event will be going to Avenues for Justice (AFJ) a crime-prevention program for youth based on Manhattan.

Where Do Your DEI Initiatives End? What You Need to Know About Youth Incarceration

Read more about AFJ’s story through the eyes of Court Advocate Elsie Flores and Manager Gamal Willis in Employee Benefit News.

In Memory of AFJ Participant: Menkie Woodard-Collins (1997–2021)

It is with a heavy heart and deep sadness that we announce the passing of one of AFJ’s participants, Menkie. Menkie was smart, jovial, witty, ambitious, creative, and energetic. He changed the energy of every room that he walked into. He was always cracking jokes, testing wits, and making the people around him laugh and think.