Organizations for Volunteering Opportunities

Updated April 11, 2022

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Alabama
Advancing Adolescents
Alabama CURE
Alabama Prison Birth Project
Aid to Inmate Mothers
Faith Crusades Rescue Mission
Greater Birmingham Ministries
Kairos of Alabama
National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice
Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty
Renascence House
The Dannon Project
The Lovelady Center
The Women’s Fund of Greater Alabama

Alaska
Kairos of Alaska
Native American Rights Fund
Partners for Progress
Prison Fellowship Alaska

Arizona
American Friends Service Committee Arizona
David’s Hope
Justice That Works
Kairos of Arizona
Prison Fellowship
SouthWest Organizing Project

Arkansas
Arkansas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Criminal Justice Reform Clinic

California
Brilliance Inside
California Alliance Youth & Community Justice
Californians for Safety and Justice
California Reentry Institute
Children’s Defense Fund California
Delancey Street Foundation
Eckerd Connects
Fresh Lifelines for Youth
Homeboy Industries
Human Rights Pen Pals
Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County
Paws for Life Prison Program
Prison University Project
PRISON Yoga + Meditation
Project ReMADE
Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth
Root and Rebound
UnCommon Law
The Advancement Project
The Anti‑Recidivism Coalition
The Innocence Project
The Los Angeles Regional Reentry Partnership
Young Women’s Freedom Center’s Reimagine Justice campaign

Colorado
Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
Colorado CURE
Colorado Juvenile Defender Center
Community Reentry Project
Empowerment Program
Kairos of Colorado
Native American Rights Fund
Pendulum Foundation
Re-Entry Programs
Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center
Second Chance Center, Inc.
The Reentry Initiative
Words Beyond Bars

Connecticut
Community Partners in Action
Connecticut Criminal Justice Alliance
Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance
Family ReEntry
Malta Justice Initiative

Delaware
Delaware Center for Justice
In Her Shoes
Kairos of Delaware
Project New Start

Florida
Abe Brown Ministries
ACLU Florida
Alliance for Safety and Justice: Florida
Eckerd Connects
Florida Juvenile Justice Association
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
Human Rights Defense Center
Operation New Hope
Project 180
Spark of Light Prison Programs
The Lord’s Place
The Sentencing Project

Georgia
City of Refuge
Eckerd Connects
Georgia Justice Project
IMAN Atlanta
Southern Center for Human Rights
Step Up Savannah
Truancy Intervention Project
Voices for Georgia’s Children

Hawaii
Community Alliance on Prisons
EPIC Ohana, Inc.
Hale Kipa
Hawaii Youth Service Network
Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice

Idaho
Boise Bicycle Project
Diocese of Boise Reentry Conference
East Boise Community Reentry Center
Prison Fellowship Idaho

Illinois
Alliance for Safety and Justice: Illinois
BUILD
Cabrini Green Legal Aid
Center on Wrongful Convictions
Chicago Innocence Project
Chicago Urban League
Christian Community Development Association
Decarcerate Illinois
Education Justice Project
Freedom House Reentry
Green Reentry
Illinois Justice Project
Juvenile Justice Initiative
Moran Center for Youth Advocacy
Safer Foundation
Shriver Center on Poverty Law
St. Leonard’s Ministries
The Freadom Road Foundation
The Reentry Project

Indiana
ACLU of Indiana
Center for Community Justice
Indiana Legal Services
Prison Fellowship/Indiana
PACE
Sagamore Institute
The Polis Center
Victory Memorial United Methodist Church Prison Ministry (Call 317-637-2684)

Iowa
FAMM
Friends of Iowa Women Prisoners
InsideOut Reentry
Iowa CURE
Iowa Coalition 4 Juvenile Justice
Iowa Justice Action Network
Justice Reform Consortium

Kansas
ACLU Kansas
Bishop Sullivan Center
Council of State Governments
Kansans United for Youth Justice
Kansas for Smart Justice
Oxford Houses of Kansas
The Seed House

Kentucky
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
Kentucky ACLU
Kentucky Alliance Against Racist & Political Oppression
Kentucky Equal Justice Center
Kentucky KAIROS
Louisville Urban League

Louisiana
ACLU Louisiana
Capital Area Reentry Coalition
Cornerstone Builders
Connections For Life
Court Watch NOLA
Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children
Innocence Project New Orleans
Lift Louisiana
Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights
Louisiana Youth Justice Coalition
SPLC Louisiana
One Touch Ministry
Voices of the Experienced

Maine
Maine Youth Justice

Maryland
ACLU of Maryland
Alternative Directions Inc.
COIPP (Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership)
Goucher Prison Education Partnership
Justice Policy Institute
Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform
Maryland CURE
MD Justice
Tears of the Fruit
Vera Institute of Justice

Massachusetts
Boston Reentry Initiative
Citizens for Juvenile Justice
Coming Home
Criminal Justice Reform Initiative
Criminal Justice Policy Coalition
Delancey Street Stockbridge
Dismas House
EPOCA
Gavin Foundation
Inner City Weight Lifting
Jobs Not Jails
Lionheart Foundation
Massachusetts Community Action Network
Neighbor to Neighbor
Restorative Justice Task Team
Roca
Prison Book Program
Span, Inc.
St. Stephen’s Youth Programs

Michigan
ARRO (Advocacy, Reentry, Resources and Outreach Northwest Initiative)
Alliance for Safety and Justice: Michigan
American Friends Service Committee
Chance for Life
Citizens for Prison Reform
Hope Network Prisoner Reentry Services
ISAAC (Interfaith Strategy for Advocacy and Action in the Community)
LUCK, Inc.
Michigan United
Prisoner Advocacy

Minnesota
180 Degrees
Amicus
Children’s Defense Fund Minnesota
Community Justice Project
Innocence Project: Minnesota
Minnesota CURE (Email: MNCURE@go.com)
Prison Fellowship
Wilder Foundation

Mississippi
Children’s Defense Fund Southern Regional Office
City of Refuge
Mississippi Access to Justice Commission
One Voice
Southern Echo
The John and Vera Mae Perkins Foundation
The Winter Institute

Missouri
Center for Women in Transition
Community Action Agency of St. Louis
Concordance Academy
Connection to Success
Criminal Justice Ministry
Criminal Justice Task Force
Families Against Mandatory Minimums Missouri
Kairos of Missouri
Let’s Start
Midwest Innocence Project
Missouri CURE
National Juvenile Justice Network

Montana
ACLU Montana
Montana Innocence Project
Montana Legal Justice
National Juvenile Defender Clinic
Partners for Reintegration Missoula
Prison Fellowship Montana
SouthWest Organizing Project
Western Native Voice

Nevada
Friends and Family of Incarcerated Persons
Hope for Prisoners
Nevada CURE

New Hampshire
Citizens for Criminal Justice Reform/New Hampshire
New Hampshire CURE (Email Julien Olivier at juolivier@aol.com)
New Hampshire Juvenile Justice Coalition
Prison Fellowship/New Hampshire
Reclaiming Futures of New Hampshire

New Jersey
Advocates for Children of New Jersey
Eckerd Connects
New Jersey Institute for Social Justice
New Jersey Reentry Corporation
Volunteers of America Delaware Valley
Youth Justice New Jersey

New Mexico
ACLU New Mexico
Best Chance
Corinne Wolfe Center for Child and Family Justice
Crossroads for Women
Kairos of New Mexico
HopeWorks
New Mexico Voices for Children
SouthWest Organizing Project
Young Women United

New York
Adolescent Reentry Task Force
Center for Community Alternatives
Center for Court Innovation
Challenging Incarceration New York
Children’s Defense Fund New York
Common Justice
Delancey Street New York
Eckerd Connects
Focus Forward Project
Fortune Society
Gathering for Justice
Harlem Children’s Zone
Judicial Process Commission
Legal Assistance of Western New York
Music on the Inside
New Hour
New York CURE
Prison Reentry Ministry: Rochester
Releasing Aging People in Prison
Spiritus Christi Prison Outreach
The Center for Law and Justice: Albany
The Children’s Aid Society
The Innocence Project
The Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College
The Robert P. Patterson Jr. Mentoring Program at The Bronx Defenders
Trinity Alliance
Vera Institute of Justice
Young New Yorkers
Youth Represent

North Carolina
Center for Death Penalty Litigation
Delancey Street North Carolina
Eckerd Connects
Emancipate NC
Human Kindness Foundation
NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
NC Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities
North Carolina Justice Center
Repairers of the Breach
Southern Anti‑Racism Network
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

North Dakota
ACLU North Dakota
Free Through Recovery
Centre
Heart River Bridges of Hope
Warriors of the 21st Century Reentry

Ohio
ACLU Ohio
Alliance for Safety and Justice: Ohio
Children’s Defense Fund Ohio
Greater Cleveland Congregations
Juvenile Justice Coalition
Lighthouse Youth Services
Ohio Justice and Policy Center
Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Volunteers of America Greater Ohio

Oklahoma
OK Messages Project
Oklahoma CURE
Oklahoma Policy Institute
Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform
Passport to the Future

Oregon
ACLU Oregon
MercyCorps Northwest
Oregon Innocence Project
Oregon Justice Resource Center
Partnership for Safety and Justice
Resolutions Northwest

Pennsylvania
American Friends Service Committee
Eckerd Connects
Human Rights Coalition
The Center for Returning Citizens
The Lewisburg Prison Project
The Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project
The Pennsylvania Prison Society
Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project
Village of Arts & Humanities

Rhode Island
Center for Justice
Justice Assistance
Open Doors Rhode Island
Rhode Island KIDS COUNT

South Carolina
ACLU South Carolina
Alston‑Wilkes Society
Eckerd Connects
Justice 360
Palmetto Innocence Project (Call 803-779-0005)
South Carolina CURE (Call 803-276-8602)

Tennessee
ACLU Tennessee
Coming to the Table
No Exceptions Prison Collective
Project Return
Tennessee Coalition for Sensible Justice
Tennessee Justice Center

Texas
Alliance for Safety and Justice: Texas
Austin Justice Coalition
Children’s Defense Fund Texas
Gulf Coast Trades Center
Houston Justice
Oasis Center
Restoring Justice
Texans Care For Children
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Texas Criminal Justice Coalition
Texas Inmate Families Association
Texas Jail Project
Texas Offenders Reentry Initiative
Voices of Pretrial Detention in Texas

Utah
ACLU Utah
Golden Spike Outreach (Call 801-489-9870)
Utah Harm Reduction Coalition
MentorWorks
Prison Fellowship Utah
SouthWest Organizing Project
Voices for Children Utah

Vermont
Community Justice Network of Vermont
Justice For All
Mercy Connections
Peace & Justice Center
Vermont Works For Women
Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform

Virginia
Assisting Families of Inmates
Kairos of Virginia
Legal Aid Justice Center
National Juvenile Justice Network
OAR of Arlington
OAR of Fairfax
OAR of Richmond
Prison Fellowship
Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged and the Disenfranchised
RISE for Youth
Virginia CARES
Virginia CURE
Virginia Reentry and Assistance
Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

Washington
Catholic Diocese of Spokane
Center for Children & Youth Justice
Columbia Legal Services
Faith Action Network
F.I.G.H.T.
Freedom Project
Interaction Transition
Jewish Prisoner Services
MUST (Mentoring Urban Students & Teens)
Prison Scholar Fund
Spokane County Detention Services
Spokane County Jail Ministries
The If Project
The Post-Prison Education Project
The STAR Project
Washington Community Action Network

Washington, D.C.
Campaign for Prison Phone Justice
Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth
Campaign for Youth Justice
Children’s Defense Fund
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative
Reunion DC
The Sentencing Project
Welcome Home Reentry

Wisconsin
Clean Slate Milwaukee
MOSES (Madison Organizing in Strength, Equality and Solidarity)
Project RETURN Milwaukee
ROC Wisconsin
Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
Wisconsin Juvenile Justice Network
Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
Youth Justice Milwaukee

Wyoming
ACLU Wyoming
Bethel Outreach Ministries
Better Wyoming
Prison Fellowship Wyoming
Second Chance Ministries
SouthWest Organizing Project
Volunteers of America Northern Rockies
Wyoming Pathways from Prison
Wyoming’s Children’s Law Center

Nationwide
Prisoner Visitation and Support
Youth First Initiative

 

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