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Visionary Freedom Fund

The Visionary Freedom Fund (VFF) seeks to ensure that Black, Brown, and Indigenous (BIPOC) youth impacted by the youth justice system on the frontlines have the resources, capacities, infrastructure, and relationships they need to develop and implement inspiring long-term, visionary change in their communities.

January 15, 2021
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Podcast: The Million Book Project - No Boring Books

Our host Reginald Dwayne Betts chops it up with Jason Reynolds, a beloved author of young adult fiction and poetry. Jason has won all the prizes that dope writers get, including the Kirkus Prize and the Coretta Scott King Honor. In the inaugural episode of The Freedom Takes, Dwayne and Jason discuss their common roots in PG County, Maryland; the importance of literature in the lives of young people; and Jason’s book Long Way Down, of which the Million Book Project has sent 900 copies to readers in juvenile detention centers across the country.

December 28, 2020
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"The Writing On The Wall' Finds Poetry Behind Bars, Projects It Onto Buildings"

"The Writing On The Wall" art installation projects writings by incarcerated people onto the sides of buildings.

October 20, 2020
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New Netflix Series - Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices

A 2020 Netflix series in which celebrity readers share children's books by Black authors to spark kid-friendly conversations about empathy, equality, self-love, and antiracism.

September 11, 2020
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Illuminating the Darkness: Our Carceral Landscape

The culmination of a two-year project sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, Illuminating the Darkness: Our Carceral Landscape brings together a diverse selection of work made by twenty-five artists for exhibition at the UCF Art Gallery. Associated online programming includes a For Freedoms Town Hall and panel discussion with system-impacted artists and activists.

August 25, 2020
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Florida Prison Education Project / University of Central Florida

Collective Leadership Supervisor Training with the John Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity (the Institute)

The John Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity (the Institute) will offer a Collective Leadership Supervisor Training entirely online this fall.

August 21, 2020
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Project Rebound (CSU Northridge) is hiring a Program Coordinator

The Project Rebound Consortium is launching new programs at additional CSU campuses. One of these programs is at CSU Northridge, one of the largest universities in the state, which is hiring a Program Coordinator to help found their program. Please share this opportunity throughout your networks, particularly with individuals who share these values, have an incarceration experience themselves, and have overcome barriers similar to the population that Project Rebound serves.

August 10, 2020
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Mississippi Freedom Winter's Study and Struggle Program

Mississippi Freedom Winter addresses the humanitarian crisis occurring throughout Mississippi's prisons and immigrant detention centers. Their Study and Struggle program is the first phase of an ongoing project to organize against incarceration and criminalization in Mississippi through four months of political education and community building.

August 7, 2020
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Project Rebound (CSU Bakersfield) is hiring a Program Coordinator

The application period is open now until August 11, 2020.

July 24, 2020
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Partners for Justice is hiring a Regional Director position

July 24, 2020
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The Million Book Project is hiring a Project Manager

July 24, 2020
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Equal Justice USA (EJUSA) is hiring a Director of Narrative Shifting & National Organizing

July 24, 2020
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Clark College is hiring an Education Program Director at Larch Corrections Center

July 24, 2020
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College Behind Bars DVDs Available for You Higher Education in Prison Program

College Behind Bars (originally on PBS) is now streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime and can be sent to your program.

July 24, 2020
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Get Copies of "The Warbler" for Your Higher Education in Prison Program

The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project newsletter, The Warbler, is available to anyone interested in being on their weekly distribution list.

July 24, 2020
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Alabama Prison Arts + Ecucation Project

Yoga For A Healthy Immunity

Download this printable Yoga and meditation manual developed for people who are currently incarcerated by Yoga Behind Bars (YBB).

July 24, 2020
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Yoga Behind Bars (YBB)

Tips to Support Children When a Parent is in Prison ​​​​​​

Having a parent in prison is an adverse childhood experience, a childhood trauma that can lead to poor health and wellbeing as an adult. Yet, these children can thrive if they build resilience​.

July 24, 2020
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By: Rosemary Martoma, MD, FAAP

Gulf Stream Summer Contest

The program offers emerging writers an opportunity to have their work read by published poets and authors. The contest is open now and runs until August 30, 2020.

July 24, 2020
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National Study on Black Student Loan Debt

The Education Trust is conducting research, and inviting survey participation, which will center on the voices of Black borrowers.

July 24, 2020
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Call for Proposals: The Future of Higher Learning in Prison

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invites proposals from organizations and programs in the United States and its territories that focus on the future of higher learning for incarcerated students.

July 24, 2020
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Cities Addressing Basic Needs for Postsecondary Students—the National League of Cities (NLC) is launching a new initiative

Support for postsecondary institutions and community partners to remove barriers to: food, housing, childcare, mental health services, transportation, or digital access for postsecondary students.

July 24, 2020
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What Policing Costs: A Look at Spending in America’s Biggest Cities

Report on data collected showing the cost of policing around the United States.

July 24, 2020
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The Vera Institute of Justice

The Covid Collection (Exchange for Change)

The Covid Collection, a one-time literary journal publication, seeks compelling prose, poetry and art from incarcerated writers residing in a state or federal facility.

July 24, 2020
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A State-by-State Look at Coronavirus in Prisons

The Marshall Project is collecting data on COVID-19 infections in state and federal prisons.

July 24, 2020
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