Every Conversation Has a Community Behind It.
When people think about mediation or restorative justice, they usually picture the people sitting around the table. What they don't see are all the people and resources that made that conversation possible.
Your support helps CJAM train volunteer mediators, provide compassionate case management, coordinate services, and ensure that people throughout our community have access to constructive ways to navigate conflict.
WHAT'S BEHIND A CONVERSATION?
What does it take to make one conversation possible?
A mediation or restorative conversation may happen in a few hours. The work that makes it possible happens long before anyone sits down together.
Behind every conversation is...
Someone who answers.
Staff and volunteers help community members understand their options, access resources, and determine whether CJAM can help.
Someone who coordinates.
Cases require outreach, scheduling, preparation, documentation, technology, and follow-up.
Someone who is prepared to listen.
CJAM recruits, trains, and supports community volunteers who give their time to help others navigate conflict.
Someone who makes it sustainable.
Donors provide the reliable resources that allow all of this work to continue.
You can be part of that community.
CHOOSE HOW YOU GIVE
Be Part of the Community Behind the Conversation
Why Monthly Giving Matters
Conflict doesn't happen on a fundraising schedule.
Throughout the year, people turn to CJAM when they are navigating housing instability, repairing harm, resolving disputes, or trying to find a constructive path through conflict.
Monthly giving gives CJAM something especially valuable: reliable support we can count on.
That support helps us maintain the staff, trained volunteers, technology, coordination, and organizational infrastructure necessary to respond when our community needs us.
Choose an amount that works for you.
$10/month
$120 over a year
$25/month
$300 over a year
$15/month
$180 over a year
$50/month
$600 over a year
$100/month
$1,200 over a year
You can change or cancel your monthly gift at any time.
Your Gift Supports More Than a Moment
CJAM's services are powered by people. Our trained volunteers provide more than 1,000 hours of direct community service each year, but volunteer-powered work still requires infrastructure behind it.
Your generosity helps support
Trained Community Volunteers
Recruiting, training, and supporting the mediators and facilitators who give their time to our community.
Responsive Client Support
Answering questions, coordinating cases, scheduling conversations, and helping people understand the resources available to them.
Accessible Services
Keeping mediation, restorative justice, eviction prevention, and conflict-resolution resources available regardless of someone's ability to pay.
The Infrastructure Behind the Work
The technology, communication systems, case management, administration, and organizational leadership that connect it all.
OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT CJAM
Other Ways to Give
Give by Check:
Checks may be made payable to the Community Justice & Mediation Center and mailed to:
Community Justice & Mediation Center
205 S. Walnut Street, Suite 16
Bloomington, IN 47404
Make a Larger or Special Gift
Considering a significant gift, planned gift, stock contribution, or another way of supporting CJAM? Contact us to talk about the best way to make your gift.
Indiana Neighborhood Assistance Program (NAP) Tax Credits
When credits are available, eligible CJAM donors may be able to receive an Indiana state tax credit for qualifying gifts.
Questions about giving?
Contact CJAM at cjam@cjamcenter.org