Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to continue to support a degree-granting partnership between the University of New Haven and the Yale Prison Education Initiative for incarcerated students in Connecticut

University of New Haven/Yale Prison Education Initiative Degree Granting Partnership – Phase II

to continue support for Visualizing Abolition

Visualizing Abolition

to support the La Brega, Suave, and All-Stars: The Fania Story podcasts

Futuro Studios Storytelling Projects

to support the Washington Prison History Project

Washington Prison History Project

General Operating Support

to support a national convening on ethics and practices related to carceral archives

Carceral Collecting Convening

to continue to support the Education Preparedness Program and expansion of the McNeely Prison Education Consortium

Education Preparedness Program Phase II

Envisioning Justice

Prisoncast!

to support the Stories of Freedom collaboration with StoryCorps

Stories of Freedom

to support research and national organizing around best practices in prison education for students serving life sentences

More Than A Degree: College Education and the Life Sentence in Carceral America

to support a cohort-based general education and support program for students recently released from South Dakota carceral facilities

SDSU Post-Carceral Educational Opportunity Program

to support the Valuing Incarcerated Scholars through Academia program

Valuing Incarcerated Scholars through Academia (VISTA)

to support Drapetomania, an Abolitionist Project

Drapetomania

to support the Galaxy Leader Fellowship at Galaxy Gives

Galaxy Leader Fellowship

to support strategic planning needs for future installations of 1-800 HAPPY BIRTHDAY

1-800 Happy Birthday

to continue to support prison education and reentry programs for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students through engagement with faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students at research universities

Education Justice Project - Phase III

to support Formerly Incarcerated, Radically Empowered with development of research and resources that address the well being of formerly incarcerated people

Post-Carceral Trauma

to support the Tennessee Arts & Humanities Initiative

Tennessee Arts & Humanities Initiative

to support the Center for Art and Advocacy

Center for Art and Advocacy

Freedom to Grow planning grant

to support the premiere of "On the Eve of Abolition"

On the Eve of Abolition

to support career pathway programs for formerly incarcerated people to work in museums and historic preservation, along with general operating support

Organizational and Programmatic Development 

Ear Hustle

to provide major renewed support to Freedom Reads as it scales its library installations and expands organizational capacity

Freedom Reads

to support the Movements Against Mass Incarceration Lab

Movements Against Mass Incarceration

The Graterford Archive

to support capacity building for the Returning Artists Guild

The Returning Artists Guild

to support the UC Sentencing Project, a collaboration between UCSD, UCLA, and members of the California Coalition of Women Prisoners

UC Sentencing Project

to support Zealous's storytelling initiatives

Zealous Inc.

to support production of the film "Paint Me a Road Out of Here"

Paint Me a Road Out of Here

to continue support for a research and training initiative devoted to building capacity for prison library services

Bridge Grant: Expanding Information Access for Incarcerated People

to support a culturally sensitive and trauma-informed higher education in prison program

Chaminade University Higher Education in Prison Program

to support the promotion of higher education in prison programs and partnerships in Southern Illinois

Illinois Coalition for Higher Education in Prison: Downstate Expansion of HEP Programs

to support the Justice Scholar Strategy Network

Justice Scholar Strategy Network

to support the Turning Graduates Into Instructors Initiative

Turning Graduates into Instructors Adams State University Prison Education Program

EJP Bridge Funding

to continue to support prison education and reentry programs

Prison Education Program - Phase III

School Justice Project

Righting the Scales Toward Abundance

Museum of Broken Windows

to support Represent Justice's Ambassadors Program

Represent Justice Ambassador Program

to support a remount of The Gathering: A Sonic Ring Shout at the Kennedy Center

The Gathering 

Restore Your Vote

to support the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison’s efforts including an internship program for currently incarcerated students and alumni and an annual online conference for currently incarcerated students to be held inside multiple carceral facilities

Alliance for Higher Education: Shifting Narratives through Experiential Learning

to support a research base for emerging statewide efforts to expand and improve access to higher education among incarcerated people in Louisiana

Building an Evidence Base and University Resources for Expansion of Higher Education in Prison in Louisiana

to support the creation of a Critical Justice Education program incorporating the five undergraduate Claremont Colleges, the Claremont Graduate College, Norco Community College, and nearby carceral facilities

Enhancing Justice Education Programs

to support the creation of a Pennsylvania consortium of higher education prison programs in addition to college preparatory education courses and the expansion of the Bachelor of Arts program in a Philadelphia prison facility

Expanding Access to Higher Education in Pennsylvania State Prisons

to support the expansion of the Louisiana-based College in Prison Program for incarcerated women, and establish post-release leadership development opportunities

Operation Restoration Tulane College of Professional Advancement College in Prison Program

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 