The Suitcase Project

Witness to Mass Incarceration Receives

Matching Grant from The Good People Fund

For Immediate Release

Contact: Evie Litwok, witnesstoMI@gmail.com

New York — May 6, 2019- Witness to Mass Incarceration (WMI), a non-profit organization working to raise public awareness of conditions within the nation’s prisons and advance penal reforms, has received a major grant from The Good People Fund.

The matching grant, for $10,000, will support WMI’s efforts to increase its scope, reach and impact using documentation, leadership development, grassroots organizing, peer-to-peer support and community building.

WMI recently established a new initiative, the Suitcase Project, which gives those newly released from prison essential items such as a mobile phone, laptop computer, and gift cards to ease their reentry into society. The program focuses on women and members of the LGBTQ community, which WMI considers among the most vulnerable and least-supported populations both within and beyond prison.

“I am thrilled and proud, and also grateful, that WMI has received this generous matching grant from The Good People Fund,” said Evie Litwok, WMI Founder and Executive Director. “It will greatly boost our capacities to raise consciousness about mass incarceration and help those leaving the system transition back into society with support, dignity and community.”