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Changes in the Rockefeller Drug Laws: New Opportunities for Investment with a National Impact
January 26, 2010 - A Philanthropy New York Members Briefing, sponsored by the Daphne Foundation, New York Foundation, and Open Society Institute, with Philanthropy New York's Special Committees, Increasing Diversity in Philanthropy and Philanthropy Connects.
This briefing explored new opportunities in New York, highlighting interventions that are more effective and less expensive than incarceration for reducing the death, disease, crime, and suffering associated with drug abuse and addiction.
Materials
- Program Summary
View a summary of the program. - New York’s Rockefeller Drug Laws: Explaining the Reforms of 2009 [PDF]
A fact sheet from the Drug Policy Alliance. - Speakers' Bios: Hiawatha Collins, Ruth Finkelstein, Glenn E. Martin, and Gabriel Sayegh [DOC]
Brief biographical sketches of the speakers and moderator. - Changes in the Rockefeller Drug Laws: New Opportunities for Investment with a National Impact [PDF]
View the slides that Gabriel Sayegh, Director of State Organizing and Policy Project at the Drug Policy Alliance presented.
Links
- Blog Posting: The Rockefeller Drug Laws: New Opportunities for Investment with a National Impact
Gabriel Sayegh, the program's moderator, shares his thoughts with Smart Assets.