Restorative Justice Community is a collaborative effort to build capacity and sustainability in offender reentry. 

Capacity building is a very broad term. The United Nations began capacity building decades ago by assisting countries with infrastructure such as agriculture and clean water. 

Elements of capacity building include networking, partnership development, fundraising, planning, education, and access to affordable resources. Now, capacity building is being used to address social and community problems.

Restorative Justice Community, organized in 2000, has learned, grown, and evolved like other organizations in reentry.   For 10 years, we have participated and watched as the amount of funding, knowledge, and cooperation at all levels has increased.

We believe capacity building of community organizations and effective engagement of community resources has been underfunded and that is our focus. 

The framework provided in the Reentry Networks provides proven tools to organize and build community reentry initiatives.  This framework includes a Resource Directory which, when aggregated across the nation, becomes the largest, most comprehensive, most current database of reentry resources.    

Our goal is for the Benefits listed to the left and others to come to have a $500 per month impact on 5,000 organizations and to increase the number of organizations providing resources to reentry.