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Do You Know a Family with White-Collar Incarceration Issues?
Help is in This Email!
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Progressive Prison Project/
Innocent Spouse & Children Project
Jeff Grant, JD, M Div, Director, Lynn Springer, Founding Advocate
White-Collar Ministry I Advocacy I Service
Faith & Dignity for the Days Ahead
The first ministry in the United States created to provide confidential
support and counseling to individuals, families and organizations with
white-collar and other nonviolent incarceration issues.
June 2016. In this issue:
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Significant Outcomes: Since Jan. 2015, We have Served Over 59 Individuals and 30 Families in 25 States:
Since Jan. 2015, we have served individuals and families in
twenty-five states, including:
Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.
We typically communicate with these individuals families before, during and upon reentry from prison in person or by phone, email, Skype, FaceTime, GoToMeeting or, if in a Federal prison, via CorrLinks.
Please click image for our information package.
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Video: We Will Be Interviewed By Jennifer Crumpton for the Huffington Post & Patheos
Please click images to watch our
June 7, 2016 video interview with
Jennifer Crumpton, author of the book Femmevangelical, and religion columnist for The Huffington Post and Patheos.
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Video: We Co-Hosted "Why Ex-Offenders Need Virtual Internships"
Thank you to Super Julie Braun for inviting us to co-host on her Superinterns.com video show, original air date May 26, 2016. Click image to view the program on Blab.Original air date:
May 26, 2016.
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Cover Story: Jeff Featured in Men of Faith Magazine
Click image to read Men of Faith Magazine:
Interview with Rev. Jeff Grant,
by Hurley Morgan,
Senior Managing Editor (pg.8 - 11). We are so grateful to Elissa Gabrielle, Cheryl Lacey Donovan, Hurley Morgan, Cee Cee H. Caldwell Miller and all at Real Life Real Faith Media for allowing us the opportunity to reach out to individuals and families with white-collar and nonviolent incarceration issues who are suffering in silence. Issue release date
May 18, 2016.
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Article: Lynn Featured in Women Walking By Faith Magazine
Click image to read the Women Walking By Faith May/June Edition, Women's Ministry/Organization Highlight: "A Chat With Lynn Springer (pg. 24-25). Issue release date
May 16, 2016.
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Article: Our Ministry Featured in The Weston Forum
Click image to read Gregory Menti's article
"Former White-Collar Criminal Turns Focus to Spirituality and Helping Others" that appeared in The Weston Forum newspaper on May 12, 2016.
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Radio: We Will Talk White-Collar Crime With Babz Rawls Ivy on Her Show, FM 103.5, WNHH, New Haven, CT
We have been invited back by Babz Rawls Ivy to appear on her Love Talk radio show,
June 3, 2016, 10 am. Please listen in if you are in the New Haven area, or click image
to listen via live stream on the air date or the archived show anytime thereafter.
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Grant: ABCUSA Has Awarded Us A Grant To Help Struggling Families & College Scholarships. Apply Now!
We are so grateful to the American Baptist Churches USA for awarding us a Matthew 25 $2000 grant to provide one-time stipends to individuals or families with white-collar or nonviolent incarceration issues to be used for short-term expenses. We will be setting aside $500 to be used as a college scholarship. Please feel free to email us if you require assistance. The funds will be administered by Jeff's Supervising Minister, Rev. Hopeton Scott of the First Baptist Church of Bridgeport. Click image for more information.
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Event: Family ReEntry Spring Event At Grace Farms. Keynote By NY Times Best-Selling Author, Shaka Senghor!
Please join us on Fri.,
June 10, 2016, at Grace Farms, New Canaan, CT, for "An Evening Focused On Advancing Justice In Our Community," keynote by NY Times best-selling author who survived seven years in solitary confinement, Shaka Senghor, to benefit Family ReEntry (Jeff is on the Board of Family ReEntry) and the Connecticut Legal Rights Project. For tickets, information and sponsorship opportunities, please click one of the images or contact Family ReEntry's Jeffrey Earls, 203-290-0865, [email protected].
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Event: We Will Guest Preach at the Unitarian Church in Westport, CT
We are honored to be invited to guest preach on Sun.,
July 3, 2016 at this wonderful church dedicated to social justice. 10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT. Please join us! Click image for more information.
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Donations: Thank You For Your Support & Generosity!
We are grateful for all donations made to our ministries. Donations can be made by
Credit Card/PayPal or by sending your check payable to:
"Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc." P.O. Box 1232, Weston, Connecticut 06883. We are a CT Religious Corp. with 501(c)(3) status - all donations are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.
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Contact Information:
If transformation and redemption matter to you, a friend or a family member with a white-collar or nonviolent incarceration issue, please contact us and we will promptly send you an information package by mail, email or via Dropbox. The darkest days of a person's life can be a time of renewal and hope.
Blessings, כן, מאוד
Jeff & Lynn
Prisonist.org: Progressive Prison Project/Innocent Spouse & Children Project are missions of Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc.
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 1232
Weston, Connecticut 06883
(o) 203-769-1096
Rev. Jeff Grant, JD, M Div, Director
Lynn Springer, Founding Advocate, Innocent Spouses & Children
(m) 203-536-5508
George Bresnan, Advocate, Ex-Pats
(m) 203-609-5088
Jim Gabal, Development
(m) 203-858-2865
Babz Rawls Ivy, Media Contact
(m) 203-645-9278
Faith & Dignity for the Days Ahead
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