Give once. It works for years.
After Incarceration is run by people who came home. We built our programs from nothing: Pilgrimage to Peace, a bilingual journey and Kingian Nonviolence training, and Freed to Feed, fresh produce delivered to parole offices every week. We have managed state grant funding before, and larger grants are now within reach.
That funding comes with a catch. Most government grants pay after the work is done. We spend first. They reimburse later. A small organization without cash on hand can't take that money, no matter how good the work is.
The Seed Fund fixes that.
How your gift works
- You give. Your gift goes into the Seed Fund.
- We spend it on the work. Trainings, produce deliveries, travel, staff time.
- The grant pays us back. Reimbursement returns the money to the fund.
- We spend it again. The same dollars go back out the next month.
Over a three-to-five-year grant, your one gift cycles through the program again and again. A $100 gift doesn't pay for $100 of work. It keeps paying for work for the life of the grant.
Why now
This March we brought our community to Selma and Montgomery for Kingian Nonviolence training. We studied where the movement was won, stood at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and gathered by the Edmund Pettus Bridge. That is the work: people learning to fight injustice without destroying each other.
We've shown we can carry state-funded work. The next grants are larger, and they're within reach. What they require is cash to front the work. Our goal is $20,000.
Who we are
Our staff carry more than a century of combined lived prison experience. Our founder, Jose Pineda, served 21 years in New York State prisons. We don't speak for people coming home. We are them.
Give once. Watch it work for years.
After Incarceration • Newburgh, NY • Fiscally sponsored by Movement Strategy Center
