nlindahl at jjay.cuny.edu
03-22-2007, 04:06 PM
Entrepreneurship as a Strategy to Facilitate Prisoner Reentry
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Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
An Initiative Funded by the Kauffman Foundation
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For the past year, the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice has been working to explore whether and how entrepreneurship can facilitate successful prisoner reentry.* In undertaking this project, we convened national experts from the fields of microenterprise development, criminal justice, and workforce and economic development to participate in two facilitated meetings in New York and San Diego in the Fall of 2006.* The meetings were rich and productive, and helped us identify the underpinnings of a national initiative to promote entrepreneurship as a reentry strategy.* We will be sharing these findings and recommendations in a monograph we are developing and intend to release in May 2007.*
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In preparation for the meetings in New York and San Diego, we were encouraged to learn that throughout the country, programs have begun to work both inside and outside of prisons to promote self-employment among people with a criminal record (a list of these programs is included below).* However, in conversations at the two meetings and with microenterprise professionals since then, it has become clear that additional programs exist of which we are still unaware.*
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As part of the monograph, we intend to include profiles of existing programs that have extended their services to this population, as well as successful businesses run by formerly incarcerated individuals.* If you cater your services to currently or formerly incarcerated individuals, know of MDOs that do, and/or could refer a formerly incarcerated client who runs a successful business, please contact us.* We would be happy to set up an informational interview, and we can also email profile templates if you would prefer to provide the information through email or regular mail.*
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Thank you in advance for your time.*
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Best,
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Nicole Lindahl
Prisoner Reentry Institute, Assistant Director
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
555 West 57th Street, Room 601.05
New York, NY 10019
(646) 557-4534
nlindahl@jjay.cuny.edu
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Programs We Currently Intend to Profile:
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5 O’ Clock Club – New York, NY
Central Ohio Regional Ex-Offender and Family Reentry Program – Columbus, OH
Coffee Creek Prison Project (founded by Mercy Corps Northwest) – Portland, OR
Self-Education Economic Development at Clinton Correctional Facility – NY
Men’s Employment and Business Ownership Program (MEBOP) – Chicago, IL
New Visions, New Ventures – Richmond, VA
Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) – TX
Project Enterprise/Trickle Up Initiative – New York, NY
Rising Tide Capital, Inc. – NJ
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Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
An Initiative Funded by the Kauffman Foundation
*
For the past year, the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice has been working to explore whether and how entrepreneurship can facilitate successful prisoner reentry.* In undertaking this project, we convened national experts from the fields of microenterprise development, criminal justice, and workforce and economic development to participate in two facilitated meetings in New York and San Diego in the Fall of 2006.* The meetings were rich and productive, and helped us identify the underpinnings of a national initiative to promote entrepreneurship as a reentry strategy.* We will be sharing these findings and recommendations in a monograph we are developing and intend to release in May 2007.*
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In preparation for the meetings in New York and San Diego, we were encouraged to learn that throughout the country, programs have begun to work both inside and outside of prisons to promote self-employment among people with a criminal record (a list of these programs is included below).* However, in conversations at the two meetings and with microenterprise professionals since then, it has become clear that additional programs exist of which we are still unaware.*
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As part of the monograph, we intend to include profiles of existing programs that have extended their services to this population, as well as successful businesses run by formerly incarcerated individuals.* If you cater your services to currently or formerly incarcerated individuals, know of MDOs that do, and/or could refer a formerly incarcerated client who runs a successful business, please contact us.* We would be happy to set up an informational interview, and we can also email profile templates if you would prefer to provide the information through email or regular mail.*
*
Thank you in advance for your time.*
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Best,
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Nicole Lindahl
Prisoner Reentry Institute, Assistant Director
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
555 West 57th Street, Room 601.05
New York, NY 10019
(646) 557-4534
nlindahl@jjay.cuny.edu
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Programs We Currently Intend to Profile:
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5 O’ Clock Club – New York, NY
Central Ohio Regional Ex-Offender and Family Reentry Program – Columbus, OH
Coffee Creek Prison Project (founded by Mercy Corps Northwest) – Portland, OR
Self-Education Economic Development at Clinton Correctional Facility – NY
Men’s Employment and Business Ownership Program (MEBOP) – Chicago, IL
New Visions, New Ventures – Richmond, VA
Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) – TX
Project Enterprise/Trickle Up Initiative – New York, NY
Rising Tide Capital, Inc. – NJ
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