More than a Funder: We are the Source, Strategy, and Story.
what we do
Through an aligned vision to end CSA, JBC works collaboratively across communities, activists, and funders to research and develop CSA prevention frameworks founded on community-based alternatives to criminal legal programs.
We're creating a world where children flourish within beloved, safe, and nurturing relationships, where those who harm can transform their abusive behavior, and where thriving communities are liberated from cycles of violence and the systems that perpetuate them.
Ending CSA will take several generations. JBC unites stakeholders to create a clear, coordinated plan for that change.
Invest directly in community-driven, survivor-led solutions to CSA. Start a conversation with our team to learn more.
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85% of JBC Funders have shifted from responding to harm to investing in community-led work that addresses where harm begins.
the impact
Fully funded community-driven solutions through JBC’s large resource pool
Through Source, we move vital resources into the hands of those closest to the work.
CSA prevention remains severely underfunded. JBC advocates for and organizes financial resources to ensure that survivor-led, community-driven solutions receive the robust funding they need to thrive. We also create a safe and grounded space for funders to convene, ask questions, and hear directly from survivors and organizers on what they truly want — and the successful strategies they’re building.
Organizing and realigning funding priorities
Source
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Philanthropy’s funding priorities realigned through data, training, and authentic conversation
Learning sessions designed to bring together funders and organizers to showcase what happens when money and movement align
Explore how to get on our radar or apply for an upcoming grantee cycle. We partner with those doing the hard, unglamorous work of real prevention and transformation.
Got something powerful to build?
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100% of JBC Grantees are moving toward a shared set of safety metrics — building collective evidence for what truly prevents harm.
the impact
Restorative justice circles for families navigating harm without police
Evaluation frameworks rooted in healing, relationship, repair, and care
National convenings to connect leaders, funders, and practitioners
Infrastructure to ensure these solutions take root and grow
Hands-on support for designing and sustaining new prevention models piloted by survivor-led teams
Learning cohorts that build shared knowledge, capacity, and metrics
Through Strategy, we cohere a fractured field into a powerful ecosystem:
JBC invests in research, field-building, and the development of community-based alternatives to the criminal legal system. We support visionary leaders using nonviolent, healing-centered approaches to CSA prevention, recognizing that CSA is an effect of harmful systems rather than individual wrongdoing and requires collective, long-term solutions.
Building better models through grassroots leadership
strategy
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Click here to meet the visionary organizers in our current cohort and see how their work is transforming what safety can mean.
The future is already in motion.
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Builds a survivor-led movement to end child sexual abuse through storytelling and collective healing.
Abolitionist movement hub and incubator, cultivating and harnessing community power to end family policing and build a world where all families can thrive.
California
Movement for Family Power
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Links abolitionist organizing and healing work to the fight for safety and freedom for all.
National
Mass Liberation Network
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Continues to equip organizers with the Creative Interventions Toolkit for community-based responses to harm.
National
Creative Interventions
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Operates restorative-justice programs and the Healing & Justice Center — a 25-acre retreat in Santa Cruz for survivors, justice workers, and community leaders to heal and build together.
California
Ahimsa Collective
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Builds community-based systems of care and accountability to end cycles of violence.
Missouri
Freedom Community Center
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Advances collective care, survivor leadership, and cultural organizing to address violence at its roots.
California
Root Cause Collective
Our AiR program brings in long-term, expert collaborators in a shared vision to end CSA. To honor their labor, JBC provides competitive salaries, health and wellness benefits, and 3-5 years of sustained support. This investment reflects our belief that transformational work requires stability, creativity, and the spaciousness to test bold ideas.
Activist-in-Residence
Shannon Perez-Darby is JBC’s inaugural Activist in Residence. A writer, organizer, and nationally recognized practitioner of transformative justice, she brings over two decades of experience supporting survivors, developing community accountability processes, and challenging institutional responses that perpetuate harm.
Her work critically examines the impact of mandatory reporting laws on survivors and communities — exposing how these systems often reproduce fear, surveillance, and punishment rather than safety and healing. Through her writing and facilitation, Shannon helps organizations and policymakers imagine new approaches that prioritize care, consent, and collective accountability over coercion and control.
During her residency with JBC, Shannon collaborates on curriculum design, storytelling, and field-building efforts that reframe how philanthropy understands harm and prevention. Her perspective anchors JBC’s belief that real safety emerges when communities are resourced to hold truth, practice repair, and transform the conditions that create violence.
Shannon is also the editor of How to End Family Policing (Haymarket Books, 2025), a forthcoming collection that challenges the family-regulation system and lifts up community-based alternatives rooted in love, safety, and self-determination.
Writer • Organizer • Visionary Practitioner of Transformative Justice
Each of our grantees carries a vital piece of transforming the conditions that allow CSA to fester. They craft new approaches, hold survivors and movements with care, strengthen relationships, and remove the barriers that keep communities from caring for themselves. Together, they move us closer to ending child sexual abuse.
Help us shift the narrative. Share your experience, your vision, or your truth as part of our collective story.
Stories change systems.
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50+ stories of successful, community-rooted safety practices have been shared across the network.
the impact
Tools that help communities imagine what else is possible
Narrative labs that reframe safety beyond punishment
Storytelling support for survivors and community leaders
Story campaigns that shift how safety is understood in the public imagination
Through Story, we shift the narrative around harm and justice:
Sexual abuse of children is not the story of one vulnerable child and one monstrous stranger; it’s the effect of an interwoven system of harmful and broken policies and procedures. And it is not inevitable. It can be prevented. But when a violent problem is addressed with violent solutions, the root of the problem is never healed. So the cycle continues — because harm not transformed is harm transferred.
Shifting the Narrative on Safety
STORY
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How we think change will happen
Turning legacies of harm and violence into those of justice, dignity, and mutual care
Story — We transform knowledge and harmful narratives through impactful storytelling, advocacy, and thought leadership.
jbc's approach
We must create a new story. While the dominant narrative says that harm-doers should be removed from society, survivors actually want something different: for the harm to stop, not for the person to disappear.
solution
The way we talk about CSA is a problem. When we believe CSA is inevitable and perpetuated by monsters and strangers, we ignore the true story — that 90% of children are harmed by someone they know, and that person most likely also experienced violence as a child.
PROBLEM
Shifting Harmful Narratives
Source – We mobilize resources while providing a grounded space for funders to learn, grow, and pivot.
jbc's approach
We must robustly resource this under-funded issue. Philanthropy needs to shift from solely funding responses to violence to investing in community-led work that addresses where harm begins — to end it once and for all.
solution
CSA Prevention Solutions are under-resourced. Annually, $5.4 billion is spent incarcerating people for CSA; only $2 million is directed towards CSA prevention research. And that research rarely gets translated into action.
PROBLEM
Resourcing The Movement
Strategy — We fund the research and development of community-based, transformative approaches, unify the movement, and support its visionary leaders.
jbc's approach
We must build new frameworks that address root causes, reimagine non-violent models, empower survivor communities, and promote healing over permanent removal of the one who caused harm.
solution
The way we deal with CSA makes ending it impossible. The main causes of violence are also how our criminal legal system punishes it: Shame, Isolation, Unmet Needs, and Exposure to Violence. When a violent problem is addressed with violent solutions, the root of the problem is never healed. So the cycle continues — because harm not transformed is harm transferred.
PROBLEM
Building Better Models for Prevention
We must learn from our past. We believe CSA will become rare when communities understand the roots of violence and have the tools, frameworks, and relationships to prevent it.
This requires examining and eradicating CSA.
CSA is preventable. By changing the way we talk about it, focusing on the conditions that lead to violence, and reimagining models that prioritize healing, we can stop harm before it starts.
We need accountability over punishment, designed by Survivors.
CSA affects the lives of millions every year, with long-term physical and mental health impacts for both children and the ones who did harm — who were often harmed as children themselves.
Violence generates violence.
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Story — We transform knowledge and harmful narratives through impactful storytelling, advocacy, and thought leadership.
jbc's approach
We must create a new story. While the dominant narrative says that harm-doers should be removed from society, survivors actually want something different: for the harm to stop, not for the person to disappear.
solution
The way we talk about CSA is a problem. When we believe CSA is inevitable and perpetuated by monsters and strangers, we ignore the true story — that 90% of children are harmed by someone they know, and that person most likely also experienced violence as a child.
PROBLEM
Shifting Harmful Narratives
Source – We mobilize resources while providing a grounded space for funders to learn, grow, and pivot.
jbc's approach
We must robustly resource this under-funded issue. Philanthropy needs to shift from solely funding responses to violence to investing in community-led work that addresses where harm begins — to end it once and for all.
solution
CSA Prevention Solutions are under-resourced. Annually, $5.4 billion is spent incarcerating people for CSA; only $2 million is directed towards CSA prevention research. And that research rarely gets translated into action.
PROBLEM
Resourcing The Movement
Building Better Models for Prevention
Strategy — We fund the research and development of community-based, transformative approaches, unify the movement, and support its visionary leaders.
jbc's approach
We must build new frameworks that address root causes, reimagine non-violent models, empower survivor communities, and promote healing over permanent removal of the one who caused harm.
solution
The way we deal with CSA makes ending it impossible. The main causes of violence are also how our criminal legal system punishes it: Shame, Isolation, Unmet Needs, and Exposure to Violence. When a violent problem is addressed with violent solutions, the root of the problem is never healed. So the cycle continues — because harm not transformed is harm transferred.
PROBLEM
Story — We transform knowledge and harmful narratives through impactful storytelling, advocacy, and thought leadership.
jbc's approach
We must create a new story. While the dominant narrative says that harm-doers should be removed from society, survivors actually want something different: for the harm to stop, not for the person to disappear.
solution
The way we talk about CSA is a problem. When we believe CSA is inevitable and perpetuated by monsters and strangers, we ignore the true story — that 90% of children are harmed by someone they know, and that person most likely also experienced violence as a child.
PROBLEM
Shifting Harmful Narratives
Source – We mobilize resources while providing a grounded space for funders to learn, grow, and pivot.
jbc's approach
We must robustly resource this under-funded issue. Philanthropy needs to shift from solely funding responses to violence to investing in community-led work that addresses where harm begins — to end it once and for all.
solution
CSA Prevention Solutions are under-resourced. Annually, $5.4 billion is spent incarcerating people for CSA; only $2 million is directed towards CSA prevention research. And that research rarely gets translated into action.
PROBLEM
Resourcing The Movement
Building Better Models for Prevention
Strategy — We fund the research and development of community-based, transformative approaches, unify the movement, and support its visionary leaders.
jbc's approach
We must build new frameworks that address root causes, reimagine non-violent models, empower survivor communities, and promote healing over permanent removal of the one who caused harm.
solution
The way we deal with CSA makes ending it impossible. The main causes of violence are also how our criminal legal system punishes it: Shame, Isolation, Unmet Needs, and Exposure to Violence. When a violent problem is addressed with violent solutions, the root of the problem is never healed. So the cycle continues — because harm not transformed is harm transferred.
PROBLEM
Story — We transform knowledge and harmful narratives through impactful storytelling, advocacy, and thought leadership.
jbc's approach
We must create a new story. While the dominant narrative says that harm-doers should be removed from society, survivors actually want something different: for the harm to stop, not for the person to disappear.
solution
The way we talk about CSA is a problem. When we believe CSA is inevitable and perpetuated by monsters and strangers, we ignore the true story — that 90% of children are harmed by someone they know, and that person most likely also experienced violence as a child.
PROBLEM
Shifting Harmful Narratives
Source – We mobilize resources while providing a grounded space for funders to learn, grow, and pivot.
jbc's approach
We must robustly resource this under-funded issue. Philanthropy needs to shift from solely funding responses to violence to investing in community-led work that addresses where harm begins — to end it once and for all.
solution
CSA Prevention Solutions are under-resourced. Annually, $5.4 billion is spent incarcerating people for CSA; only $2 million is directed towards CSA prevention research. And that research rarely gets translated into action.
PROBLEM
Resourcing The Movement
Building Better Models for Prevention
Strategy — We fund the research and development of community-based, transformative approaches, unify the movement, and support its visionary leaders.
jbc's approach
We must build new frameworks that address root causes, reimagine non-violent models, empower survivor communities, and promote healing over permanent removal of the one who caused harm.
solution
The way we deal with CSA makes ending it impossible. The main causes of violence are also how our criminal legal system punishes it: Shame, Isolation, Unmet Needs, and Exposure to Violence. When a violent problem is addressed with violent solutions, the root of the problem is never healed. So the cycle continues — because harm not transformed is harm transferred.
