Refoundry
@Refoundry
Refoundry is reintegration reimagined. Providing formerly incarcerated people with opportunities to build financial independence through craft entrepreneurship.
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http://refoundry.org 04-04-2015 19:22:26
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The elegance of Refoundry's program is that it allows people to participate in hands-on, interactive, and impactful criminal and economic justice reform by doing what they do everyday: Shop for what they need. #peoplenotprisons
Maker spotlight: Carla Sandoval was a participant entrepreneur in our inaugural LA cohort. As a Californian through and through, she loves going to the beach, riding bakes, and spending time with family. #everystoryhasvalue #peoplenotprisons
Refoundry is reintegration reimagined, where every story has value. #peoplenotprisons #reintegrationreimagined
At Refoundry, we provide participants the opportunity to create positive and empowering narratives about themselves, often with incarceration as just one part of that story. #everystoryhasvalue
We're sending a heartfelt congratulations to friend & long time supporter of Refoundry, Neil Stevenson. Neil celebrates his recent retirement from Lawyers Alliance where he stewarded LANY's Economic Opportunity program. We wish him well on this next, well-deserved chapter!
Our program sits at the cross section of #criminaljustice , #racialjustice , #socialjustice , & #economicjustice . We train formerly incarcerated people to repurpose materials into meaningful & functional home furnishings. #reentry
Our full-time, paid program offers 3 paths to #reintegration : placement in an upwardly mobile living wage job after 3 months; a career-track position after 7 months; business ownership after 12 months. #criminaljusticereform #reentry
The Refoundry team is hard at work organizing and preparing the design lab space for our next cohort of participant entrepreneurs. This is how we do #reintegration #teamwork #reentry #criminaljusticereform
Javier Medina is the walking portrait of a participant entrepreneur. An LA native, Javier has worked as a chef and owned his own food business. At Refoundry, Javier applies his creative, self-made mentality to the craft of upholstery. #everystoryhasvalue #peoplenotprisons