Our Mission 
The Ohio Transformation Fund’s mission is to help transform our criminal legal system, through grant-making and related supports,  from one that over-criminalizes and over-incarcerates individuals, particularly young people, and people of color, to a system that promotes healthy and safe communities.
5-year Strategic Goal 
OTF will support the criminal justice ecosystem in Ohio to transform the state of Ohio into a national leader in collateral sanctions reform. 
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Our History & Values
Formed in April of 2015, the OTF is driven by the experience and interest of national and Ohio-based funders and practitioners to address economic and social justice issues in Ohio. Currently the OTF's focuses on the damaging and complex impact of the current criminal justice system. 
Our Values
  • We center the leadership of those most affected by the issues.
  • We learn from people with lived experience.
  • We seek transparency and accountability from the criminal legal system for its actions and impacts.
  • We prioritize transforming the systems that disproportionately harm persons historically marginalized by official public systems and practices.  
  • We seek to practice allied donorship.
  • We trust and respect practitioners. ​

About Us

Through a collaborative funding approach, the Ohio Transformation Fund aims to strengthen practitioners working in the field, address key capacity gaps, and engage other Ohio-based and national funders. 

Members of the OTF believe that stable families, economic security, and access to health care and education are the basis for safe and healthy communities. Based on those beliefs, the OTF’s vision is a criminal legal system that promotes justice, fairness, equity, and dignity that is based on policies that support racial justice, healing, and positive growth for youth, individuals, families, and communities. 

Such a system will be based in policies that support racial justice, healing, and growth for youth, individuals, families, and communities.