Invest in our future
Help that starts inside and follows people home
Our Ready for Reentry course runs free on prison tablets across the country. Everyone who takes it can ask us for help when they come home. Your gift helps us answer each of them.
On the card form, choose Embraced:Fully Program in the Fund menu.
Gifts made by December 31 are tax-deductible for 2026.
7,615
people have started Ready for Reentry since it launched in June 2026
- 1,090correctional facilities offer the course
- 1,467finished all 22 lessons
- 4,724asked us for support as they plan their return
- 51,983hours of learning
From Edovo course data, updated . See where people are going home on our Reentry Tracker
Where your gift goes
A year of support for 100 people a month
In 2027 our pilot becomes the Reentry Partnership Program. Each person who joins gets a year of support that starts 90 days before release, coordinated by a Reentry Navigator.
- Feedback on their written Reentry Plan
- A Correspondence Partner who writes to them, if they want one
- Help finding housing and work where they are going
- A phone and text line for their first year home
We will grow first in California, Texas, Illinois and Florida, where many of our learners are going home.
Give
$25 a month gives someone a year of support.
Monthly gifts help us plan ahead and say yes to more of the people who ask. A gift of any size helps.
The monthly form opens with Embraced Fully already chosen. On the card form, choose Embraced:Fully Program in the Fund menu.
A year of support
- $25 a monthfor one person
- $100 a monthfor four people
- $3,000for ten people
- $30,000for 100 people
Monthly gift
A gift from your bank account on the 15th of each month. It has no card fees and lets us plan ahead, so it is the most helpful way to give.
Give monthlyOne-time gift
Give any amount by credit or debit card. You can choose to cover the card fee, and a card gift can also repeat each month.
Give onceBy check
Make it payable to The Principle Foundation and write Restricted – Embraced:Fully Project in the memo. Mail it to 8101 College Blvd, Ste 100, Overland Park, KS 66210.
Other ways
Our fiscal sponsor also accepts gifts from an estate or trust. Name Embraced:Fully as the program you want to support.
See the optionsBoth online forms belong to our fiscal sponsor, The Principle Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (tax ID 43-0816306). Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent the law allows, and monthly bank gifts get a tax receipt for the year each January.
Embraced:Fully is also a California nonprofit corporation, and our own federal 501(c)(3) application is in progress.
Ready for Reentry
What learners say
Anonymous reviews from people taking our course inside.
This was hands down one of the best courses that I took on Edovo. I want to thank all of the individuals in the videos. They are all truly an inspiration, and I wish them all well on this journey.
Extremely helpful preparation for release from prison. Now I have an assured plan for reentry into the Free World once again. May our Lord Jesus Christ lead and bless your life.
Best course I have found so far. I have recommended it to everyone I know that is currently getting close to parole. Thanks for a lot of great information.
Thanks to you all and Leticia for being such a great and open speaker. She inspired me to tell my story in my speech class.
You were so thorough! You thought of everything! The reentry plan you help us make is a powerful tool to help ensure our success!
What we’ve built
Four connected tools, built by a small team
We built each of these with AI-assisted workflows, which keeps our cost per person low. Together they carry a person’s plan out of prison and into the community.
Ready for Reentry
22 lessons on Edovo tablets, built on the Risk-Need-Responsivity model. Each lesson adds to a written Reentry Plan, and people who have been to prison tell their stories throughout.
ReentryDB
When learners ask for help, their requests, plans and release dates arrive here with their consent. Automatic checks of state corrections records tell us when someone is close to release.
Reentry Partnership
Our online training platform. Correspondence Partners take a free two-hour training, pass a background check, and then write to one person who is preparing for release.
ReentryMap
A free, mobile-friendly directory of more than 5,700 reentry services in all 50 states and DC, so help can be found close to where each person is going.
An AI reentry companion
More people ask for help each week than we can match with volunteers. We are building a phone and text companion that already knows each person’s plan. It finds local help on ReentryMap and brings in a volunteer or navigator when a person is needed.
Safety and research
Crisis messages will reach a person right away, with 988, 911 and 211 shared at once, and the companion will not give legal, parole or medical advice. We plan an outcome study with our Scientific Advisory Board so the field learns who needs a person, and when.
Who we are
Six years of welcoming people home
Embraced:Fully started in 2020, welcoming people home through small teams of local volunteers. About 150 people came to us by mail and referral in those years. The course now lets us reach thousands.
Thank you to everyone who already gives. The Principle Foundation, The Isabel Foundation, the Doris di Stefano Legacy Fund in Solvang, and many individual donors, churches and associations have made this work possible.
Scientific Advisory Board
Ten reentry scholars, convened with David Harding of UC Berkeley, with members at Arizona State, Cornell, CU Boulder, Maryland, NC State, Northeastern, Penn State, UCLA and the University at Albany.
Partners
Edovo carries the course on its tablets. CEO Works is a partner in Colorado, and we host the annual Embraced & Empowered conference, held in Boulder in 2026.
Team
Gabriel Serafini, co-founder, leads technology and operations. David Fowler, DMin, co-founder, hosts our Voices of Reentry interview series. AmiLynne Carroll, our Reentry Navigator, works with participants and volunteers.
Help us say yes to everyone who asks.
Your gift helps someone come home with a plan and people on their side.
Download our one-page overview (PDF)
You can give your time too. Become a Correspondence Partner
Talk with us about a larger gift or a grant
