Helping Prisoners Make the Transition Back to Society: Recent Grants
June 27, 2002 | Read Time: 2 minutes
Jessie Ball duPont Fund (Jacksonville, Fla.): To provide child-rearing advice and counseling to help prisoners prepare to rejoin their families: $100,000 to the
Osborne Association (New York).
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.): To monitor long-term prisoners who have mental-health problems that could affect them after they are released: $325,000 over three years to the Osborne Association (New York).
Joyce Foundation (Chicago): For a new program to help former prisoners find jobs and press government agencies to ease restrictions on employment of former prisoners: $335,000 to the Chicago Jobs Council.
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): For training, job placement, follow-up help, and legal services for former prisoners, as well as child-rearing workshops for low-income fathers who are former prisoners: $750,000 over three years to the Center for Employment Opportunities (New York).
Open Society Institute (Baltimore): For an employment program for women who have left prison: $200,000 over two years to Maryland New Directions (Baltimore).
— To provide operating funds and to support advocacy projects for ex-prisoners, and for long-range organizational planning: $159,500 to Prisoners Aid Association of Maryland (Baltimore).
— For a pilot study on the experiences of recently released prisoners and the impact of their return home on their families: $100,000 to the Urban Institute (Washington).
— To create a coalition on justice issues affecting adults who have left prison, with an emphasis on bringing together ex-offenders and others interested in advocating in behalf of former prisoners: $11,500 to Center for Poverty Solutions (Baltimore).
Public Welfare Foundation (Washington): For general support to finance programs that help prisoners rejoin society, such as counseling, legal services, substance-abuse treatment, vocational training, and advocacy: $105,000 over two years to Mothers (Fathers) for the Advancement of Social Systems (Dallas).
— For a program to ensure that women have access to the services they need after their release from prison: $60,000 over two years to Women in Transition (Cranston, R.I.).
Woods Fund of Chicago: For advocacy and policy work in behalf of ex-inmates, development of job-training programs, and publication of a booklet that directs ex-prisoners to government and nonprofit services: $103,000 over two years to the North Lawndale Employment Network (Chicago).
— To hire a policy director and to create an Illinois advocacy program designed to help recently released former prisoners improve their job prospects: $50,000 to the Safer Foundation (Chicago).
