Entire generations of Americans are caught in a

poverty to prison cycle, funneled from low-performing schools

to a cycle of joblessness and prison:

68%

2.3M
America has the highest
incarceration rate in the
world2.3M Americans are
living behind bars.

One in three black men will

spend time incarcerated-
one in two in urban
neighborhoods.

68% of those leaving

prison are rearrested
within three years.

Over half of
people in prison
are parents.

With government agencies spending an average of $30,000 per yearand more than $100,000 in some
casesto house a person in prison or jail, our prison system is unsustainable. Current interventions bring
education programs into the existing prison environment; their impact is inherently limited, however, by
the hostile setting in which they operate. To enable individuals and communities to break free of this cycle,
we need an new approach.

We propose an entirely different approach

one focused on building lives and bettering communities.
By creating an experience centered on learning, education, and reentry, we empower sentenced individuals
to reset their life trajectoriesto envision and achieve futures of meaning, opportunity, and purpose. We
put parents back in the home to raise healthy, educated children. We improve the vitality and safety of
communities. We give a chance to generations.
The idea is simple: instead of serving time in a dehumanizing prison environment, a sentenced young adult
lives at a Reset campus, focused entirely on academics, career, and healthy living. Our program has three
key components:

24/7 Learning
Environment

Reentry from
Day One

Engaging
Education

Our positive learning culturewith

rigorous programming and a
supportive residential environment
is the key factor in enabling student
achievement

Students plan for and transition

to the community across three
stages (Ready, Reset, Reenter) and
are supported through their
transition home

We integrate five RESET pillars

Relationships, Education,
Social-emotional supports,
Employment, and Timeinto an
engaging program designed
for each student

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The five RESET pillars are the core of a students experience at a Reset campus:
RELATIONSHIPS: We deliberately foster long-lasting relationships between students, sta, and

community members to create a vibrant culture and to enable transformation. Mentoring, cohorts, and
other relationships are a core component of campus life & the transition back home.

EDUCATION: Our project-based academic program looks dramatically dierent from the negative

high school experiences that often did not serve our students well. We focus on basic literacy and math,
integrate career skills and community action projects, and prepare students to succeed in college.

SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL SUPPORTS: Each participant develops critical life skills and a healthy

emotional well-being through individually tailored emotional supportsincluding mental health, life skills,
gang violence prevention, and addiction recovery supports.

EMPLOYMENT: Students begin pursuing careersnot just jobs, but meaningful careersthrough
career readiness and skill mastery. We work with both the employer and the employed to provide
opportunities in demand industries.

TIME: Our program is 24/7 and oered year-round. This significant amount of time accelerates student
growth and prepares students to succeed academically, professionally, and personally.

Reset campuses serve as a model for the justice system, demonstrating that a new mindset and approach can
increase public safety, reduce costs, and improve lives. We are currently opening two pilot campuses, the first in the
Bay Area of California (opening fall 2014), and the second in New York City.

Resets approach to the system is similar to charter schools in the public education system. From our government
partners, we are given the flexibility & funding to operate our campuses, and, in turn, are held accountable for
improved outcomesacademic growth, lifetime earnings, reduced recidivism. Our full-size campuses are cost-neutral
to governments in the short term, and promise significant cost savings in the medium termreduced victim costs,
decreased public spending, and increased personal income.

By resetting what takes place in prison, we can reset the life trajectories of those
involved in the criminal justice systemin turn freeing their children from
the poverty to prison cycle and improving communities for generations to come.

The RESET Community

Leadership Team
Jane Wilson Mitchell, CEO & Co-Founder
Jen Porter Anderson, COO & Co-Founder

Partnerships & Sponsors (selected):

Open Society Foundations
Echoing Green
Tipping Point Community
Peery Foundation
Westly Foundation
Columbia Law School
Kaye Scholer LLP
New Profit Inc. (fiscal sponsor)
Verity Consulting
Winston & Strawn LLP

Board

Lisa Jackson: Co-Founder & Principal, Jackson-Ellis Associates; Senior

Advisor, New Profit Inc.
Glenn Martin: Founder, JustLeadershipUSA, former VP of Fortune Society
Sherif Nahas, Director of Private Equity & Real Assets, Ford Foundation

Advisory Board

Laura Abrams: Associate Professor of Social Welfare, UCLA

Christine Cole: ED, Criminal Justice Policy & Management, Harvard Kennedy
School
Lowell Dashefsky: Partner, Kaye Scholer, LLP
Robert Hood: Former Federal Warden, US Department of Justice
Michael Jacobsen: Director, CUNY Institute for State & Local Governance,
former President and Director of Vera Institute
Je Mellow: Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, John Jay College/
CUNY, Evaluation Advisor, Urban Institute
Tom McKenna: Former Managing Director, ROCA Massachusetts
Debbie Mukamal: ED, Criminal Justice Center, Stanford Law School
Jennie Singer: Assoc. Prof. of Criminal Justice, Sacramento State
Jeanne Woodford: Senior Distinguished Fellow, Chief Justice Earl Warren
Institute, UC Berkeley School of Law

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