Annie Comes Home: Now upgraded: 4X MATCH to end mass incarceration and more

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Now upgraded: 4X MATCH to end mass incarceration and more

TODAY ONLY: All gifts matched 4X for Giving Tuesday

Pamela, this is an important moment in our mission to end mass incarceration: A generous group of Vera donors has offered to automatically quadruple the size of all gifts for today only.

Here's why that's important. Nearly 2 million people are warehoused in prisons and jails. While incarcerated, people rarely benefit from things that could help them thrive when they return home, like education, health care, and job training. Vera has a plan to change that.

And with so many people experiencing the harmful conditions of imprisonment already, we must move quickly.

Your renewed support today will make a real-world impact. Vera's programs are expanding access to higher education behind bars; helping make prisons safer, more humane places to live; and opening doors to affordable housing for formerly incarcerated people. With so much on the line, and with this rare 4X matching gift, I'm asking you to renew your support today. When you make a tax-deductible gift now, your Giving Tuesday contribution will make FOUR TIMES the impact.

Your gift will have 4X the impact to: Transform prison culture by improving living conditions behind bars. Expand access to housing for formerly incarcerated people. End low-level traffic stops and develop community-based safety programs. GIVE NOW WHILE $1 = $4

I won't sugarcoat it. Based on trends from this recent election cycle—the scapegoating of immigrants and the broad support for more policing, among others—we have our work cut out for us.

But I'm optimistic. Our mission to end mass incarceration has always been hard, but we've made progress before, and we will continue to chip away meaningfully at mass incarceration and transform people's lives. What we can't do, though, is act alone.

Please don't miss this special opportunity to have your impact multiplied by four on Giving Tuesday. Make a generous gift today, before midnight tonight.