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The Public Welfare Foundation supports efforts to ensure fundamental rights and opportunities for people in need nationwide. The Foundation looks for carefully defined points where funds can make a difference in bringing about systemic changes that can improve lives. The Foundation’s current funding priorities include the following issue areas: The Criminal Justice program supports organizations that are seeking to reduce incarceration rates of adult offenders in the U.S. The Juvenile Justice program focuses on organizations working to end the criminalization and over-incarceration of youth. The Workers’ Rights program supports organizations that promote policy and system reforms to improve the lives of low-wage working people, with a focus on securing their basic legal rights to safe, healthy, and fair conditions at work. Letters of inquiry should be submitted four to six weeks prior to proposals. The first proposal deadline of 2013 is February 15. Detailed guidelines for each of the grant programs are available on the Foundation’s website.