The Youth Justice Funding Collaborative (YJFC) is a national partnership founded in 2000 with the mission of funding the communications strategies of organizations that advance public discussion, add new information and ideas, and sow the seeds for real change within the juvenile justice system nationwide. Grantees include nonprofit service practitioners, advocates, allies in the courts, law enforcement officials, policy makers, parents, youth and other concerned citizens. In 2003, the donors to YJFC leveraged their support and progress to get a major grant from the Ford Foundation.