A small but steadily growing prison education program continues to expand with the help of some big foundations...
Who is providing the philanthropic support? That would be the David Rockefeller Fund, the Ford Foundation, the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Teagle Foundation. The Ford Foundation is one of the usual suspects in criminal justice reform; the David Rockefeller Fund also works in this area, including its support for the Bard Prison Initiative. The Teagle Foundation focuses on college readiness for kids in New York City, so its involvement in P2CP isn’t surprising, even though the foundation doesn’t focus on criminal justice reform more broadly.
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