Purpose Party TODAY!

Join us this afternoon to celebrate our new purpose statement!

Hello everyone,

This afternoon is our purpose party! We’ll gather on this Zoom link at 4 pm ET to celebrate our new purpose statement. We hope to get to be in community with you then!

All the best,

Transition Team

In case more details are helpful, here’s some more information, included again from a recent email, about this gathering & our new purpose statement!

Summary

• We have a new purpose statement!

• We’re having a party TODAY!

• Now is a great time to get involved!

Our new purpose statement is officially:

To spark & support meaningful connections between people inside and outside prison in a way that transforms us all, rooted in our abolitionist belief that no one is disposable.

Thank you to everyone who made this possible! We’d especially like to thank the members of the structures working group, especially Dr. Aisha Rios, Kelsey Westbrook, Kelly Parry-Johnson, Angela Thomas, Jaden Janak, Audrey Gow, Brendon Donoho, Dan Smolkin, and Lisa Humphries. We know it was a challenging and sometimes overwhelming process for many of us, and we are so grateful to be part of a community that brought such care to this transition work.

This Calls for Celebration!

This afternoon, we’ll gather to toast to new beginnings in style! *Bring a beverage to toast with and be ready for some fun!* As part of the celebration, we’ll also be doing some fun brainstorming activities to begin the process of choosing a new name for our collective! That’s right - now that we’ve aligned around a purpose statement, it’s time to pick a new name! We’ll have some fun kick-offs to this process at this party, but if you can’t make it, we’ll send out a form afterwards where you can participate.

There has never been a better time to be getting involved in this collective! While this transition has been challenging, we have made it through with even stronger relationships, practices, and sense of possibility. So we’d like to take a moment to invite everyone here - especially those who have never been to a gathering before - to attend one of our upcoming gatherings! This work truly requires all of us, so we’d love to be in community with you at one of these soon!

Upcoming Events

For a full list of all Zoom links & upcoming events – check out the Calendar on our website HERE!

• Here are our upcoming gatherings:

  • Purpose Party TODAY at 4pm ET at this Zoom link.

  • Supporting & Coordinating with Outside Penpals Discussion on November 14th at 7pm ET at this Zoom link:

    • Our network grew very quickly, and we want to take a moment to figure out how we might follow up with our outside penpals! Are people still penpaling? What challenges are people facing that we could collectively try to support? This will be a session to begin discussing this work. Any and all welcome!

  • Finances Discussion on November 15 at 8pm ET at this Google Meet link

    • This is an opportunity to get plugged into how finances work and gauge capacity/interest for taking on more projects using the money we bring in

  Thanks again for being part of this community, and we can’t wait to be in community with you at one of these upcoming gatherings!