There are the 215,000 women currently incarcerated in the United States, and millions more entangled in the criminal justice system. Over the last three decades, the number of women imprisoned has increased 750 percent – double that of men. The vast majority of these women are mothers, and their crimes are non-violent. Once tagged with a criminal record, women face staggering barriers to successfully reintegrating into their families and communities.
Project Liberation provides a space for women at all stages of criminal justice involvement to feel safe, supported, empowered, and part of a community again.
Project Liberation is fiscally sponsored by Coaching The Global Village, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. All donations are tax deductible.
We doubled our impact by serving over 300 women directly and positively reaching hundreds of thousands more! We continue to disrupt pathways to prison and open doors to dignity and sustainable freedom for ALL women, as they discover that their greatest and most powerful resource is themselves. When we invest in women, there is a powerful ripple effect: they find their own voices and power, they are able to support their families, give back to their communities, and transform the larger systems that hold women back. Through advocacy and … [Read More...]
Three years ago, we met Jessica in a shelter with her daughter Victoria. Today, she is reunited with her son also, and living in her own apartment. In late July, she came to the Center for Social Innovation with other women who had graduated from the Spring ’18 Project Liberation cohort and they shared stories of life, and love and resilience. Myra sang a song of gratitude...and spoke of gaining the courage to go for her dream job...and Bernadette shared her renewed spirit and ability to make a choice to take a chance to make a change. … [Read More...]
The driving purpose of Coaching the Global Village is to work with social change agents to use coaching to create innovative solutions to pressing global challenges. In the emerging international context new approaches to development are needed to increase sustainability. The coaching … [read more]
The world needs global warming . . . not the environmental kind, but the relational kind!!!! Every day in the news we see articles about the rapid increase of global warming and its disastrous effects on the environment. What if we begin to see a quickening of global warming in the way people, … [read more]
