On January 26th, Philanthropy New York hosted a members briefing sponsored by the Daphne Foundation, the New York Foundation, and the Open Society Institute, with our Increasing Diversity in Philanthropy and Philanthropy Connects special committees, which highlighted and explored new opportunities for institutional transformation and policy reform following last year’s overhaul of New York State’s Rockefeller Drug Laws. We are pleased to have the program’s moderator, Gabriel Sayegh, Director of the State Organizing and Policy Project of the Drug Policy Alliance, share his thoughts with Smart Assets.
In April 2009, New York finally overhauled its draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws (RDLs), the result of a decades-long advocacy campaign to which hundreds of local, state, and national organizations contributed. It is one the most significant U.S. social justice victories in recent years and one of the largest criminal justice reforms in decades.
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