Imagine a world with spaces for peacemaking, education, housing, and healthcare instead of incarceration…

Let’s build that future together.

Your gift builds spaces rooted in care, repair, and belonging — restorative justice hubs, reentry housing, and places designed for healing instead of punishment. Only 3% of people will ever work directly with an architect. You’re helping change who gets access to good design, and who it’s built for.

 

Because of donors like you, DJDS has spent the past 10 years turning that vision into practice with 63 client partners, more than 4,000 community members engaged in design processes, 12 published toolkits and research papers, and over $1M in pro bono services provided for community-based organizations.

Every gift, at every level, fuels the transformation of spaces and systems.

  • For corporate sponsorship or in-kind donations (materials, furnishings, services): Reach out to fundraising@designingjustice.org.
  • For ACH/Wire, DAF Payments, Bequests, and gifts of Stock, Crypto, or Real Estate, please reach out to Director of Advancement Rachel Chung at rchung@designingjustice.org.

 

We also accept gifts via check:

 

Designing Justice + Designing Spaces
490 43rd Street #68
Oakland, CA 94609

 

Our EIN# is 81-2658023

From all of us at DJDS: thank you for your courage, vision, and generosity. Your partnership turns blueprints into belonging.