Just Beginnings Collaborative

Name

Just Beginnings Collaborative

Legal name

Just Beginnings Collaborative

Website

https://justbeginnings.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Philanthropic Intermediary Services

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Youth Justice, At-Risk Youth & Violence Prevention Nonprofits (BPAGADAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Community Foundations (BPAGAKAB)

Keywords

• Philanthropic intermediary services
• Child sexual abuse prevention
• Grassroots movement funding
• Community organizing grants
• Nonprofit donor coordination

Headquarters

HQ city

Oakland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: One-time and recurring gifts from individual donors ranging from $50 to $50,000, as well as smaller contributions from the general public.
2. Planned Giving / Legacy Gifts: Significant gifts through planned giving vehicles integrated with donors' overall financial, tax, and estate-planning goals.
3. Philanthropic Grants from Funders: Major grants and aligned investments from visionary philanthropies, channeled through JBC's funding pool and redistributed to grassroots organizations and activist-in-residence programs. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors administers these funds, retaining 7% for fiscal and administrative services.
4. Grantee Program Investments: JBC serves as an intermediary, aggregating philanthropic capital from multiple funders and distributing it as grants to survivor-led, community-rooted CSA prevention organizations. The model absorbs risk on behalf of individual foundations and provides a pooled funding mechanism.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Just Beginnings Collaborative is a survivor-centered nonprofit intermediary that bridges grassroots organizers working to prevent Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) with visionary philanthropists seeking to fund community-rooted solutions. It operates four interconnected programs (Source for funder engagement, Strategy for field-building, Story for narrative change, and Activist-in-Residence for sustained movement leadership support) alongside grantee cohorts, learning cohorts, national convenings, and capacity-building services. The organization channels philanthropic capital to grassroots CSA prevention efforts while providing field coordination, healing support, and narrative change resources.

Product overview

Just Beginnings Collaborative (JBC) is a survivor-centered intermediary organization that operates as a bridge between grassroots leaders working to end Child Sexual Abuse and philanthropic partners seeking to invest in community-rooted solutions. JBC's offering consists of four interconnected programs: (1) Source for resource mobilization and funder engagement; (2) Strategy for field-building and grassroots leadership development; (3) Story for narrative change and advocacy; and (4) Activist-in-Residence for sustained movement support. JBC does not offer a technology product but rather provides capacity building, field coordination, healing support, and funding coordination services. The organization is fiscally sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and was founded in 2015.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Source Program A resource mobilization and funder engagement initiative that organizes and realigns funding priorities for CSA prevention, creating safe spaces for funders to learn, convene, and hear directly from survivors and organizers about community-driven solutions.
• Strategy Program A field-building initiative that funds research and development of community-based, transformative approaches to CSA prevention, supports visionary leaders using healing-centered approaches, builds evaluation frameworks, connects leaders through national convenings, and provides hands-on support for designing prevention models.
• Story Program A narrative change initiative that transforms harmful narratives through storytelling, advocacy, and thought leadership, including narrative labs, story campaigns, and storytelling support for survivors and community leaders to shift public understanding of safety beyond punishment.
• Activist-in-Residence (AiR) Program A multi-year residency program that brings long-term, expert collaborators into shared work to end Child Sexual Abuse, providing competitive salaries, health and wellness benefits, and sustained support (3-5 years) to visionary movement leaders working on prevention and transformation.
• Grantee Cohorts Multi-year funding and capacity-building cohorts that provide grants and support to grassroots organizations advancing community-rooted strategies to end CSA, including organizations like Mirror Memoirs, Movement for Family Power, Mass Liberation Network, and Root Cause Collective.
• Mandatory Reporting Is Not Neutral Initiative A research and advocacy inquiry examining how mandatory reporting laws shape responses to CSA — often increasing harm, surveillance, and family separation rather than safety or healing. Led by Activist-in-Residence Shannon Perez-Darby through participatory research, political education, and storytelling.

Quantifiable outcome

• 85% of JBC Funders have shifted from responding to harm to investing in community-led work that addresses where harm begins.
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

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Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• INCITE! Women of Color Against ViolenceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJBC acknowledges INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence as a visionary predecessor organization whose anti-violence work by radical people of color informed JBC's philosophy and approach to ending violence without relying on punitive systems. This is an ideological/lineage relationship, not a formal partnership.
• Generation FIVEminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJBC stands on the shoulders of Generation FIVE, a visionary organization that showed violence can be ended without relying on carceral systems. JBC's approach to transformative justice is rooted in this lineage. This is an ideological/lineage relationship.
• Hollow Water First NationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJBC acknowledges the Hollow Water First Nation as a visionary predecessor whose community-based accountability approaches demonstrated that real safety comes from transformation rather than punishment. This is an ideological/lineage relationship.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Futures Without Violence: Futures Without Violence is a violence prevention organization working to end violence against women and children through policy, advocacy, and community-based intervention — directly comparable to JBC's focus on community-rooted, non-carceral violence prevention approaches.
• Darkness to Light: Darkness to Light is a leading CSA prevention nonprofit focused on training adults to protect children, making it a directly comparable CSA prevention peer with a similar mission of upstream prevention.
• Enough Abuse: Enough Abuse is a CSA prevention organization that mobilizes communities through education and advocacy to prevent child sexual abuse — directly comparable to JBC's grassroots organizing and community-led prevention approach.
• Stop It Now: Stop It Now is a CSA prevention organization that works to prevent sexual abuse before it happens through helplines, education, and community-based prevention — directly comparable to JBC's community-rooted CSA prevention mission.
• Borealis Philanthropy: Borealis Philanthropy is a movement-intermediary foundation that pools resources from multiple donors to fund racial justice movements — directly comparable to JBC's pooled-funding intermediary model connecting grassroots organizers with visionary funders.
• Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse: The Moore Center at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is a research-driven hub dedicated exclusively to CSA prevention, directly comparable to JBC's evidence-building and field-coordination role in CSA prevention.

Broad incumbents

• Open Society Foundations: Open Society Foundations is a large global philanthropy with a deep juvenile justice portfolio; OSF fellowships have supported JBC's Executive Director, making it a comparable broad funder in the CSA and justice reform space.
• Ms. Foundation for Women: Ms. Foundation for Women is a major public foundation funding movements led by women and girls of color; as JBC's other founding partner, it is a directly comparable broad funder operating in the intersecting gender justice and violence prevention space.
• NoVo Foundation: NoVo Foundation is a major progressive philanthropy and JBC's founding partner; it funds work to end violence against girls and women, making it a comparable broad funder in the CSA and gender-based violence prevention space.

Emerging players

• Liberation Ventures: Liberation Ventures is a small philanthropic intermediary funding reparations work; it is comparable to JBC as an emerging movement intermediary that aggregates and deploys philanthropic capital to under-resourced grassroots movements.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses2 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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