Why Volunteer
Volunteers make a significant impact in the work we do inside and outside the institutions. As a Freedom Project Volunteer, you join an active community that is intentional about its values to:
- Deepen our personal, organizational and systemic racial equity work
- Understand oppression and how it shows up in our lives
- Learn ways to connect to ourselves and others
- Contribute to creating systems change and mitigate the impact of mass incarceration
- Be the change we want to see: help create a culture shift from punishment to connection and community healing.
As an active Freedom Project Volunteer, you are supported with:
- Free trainings in racial equity and anti-oppression
- Ongoing race-based caucus and community circles
- Free trainings in Nonviolent Communication with a racial equity / social justice lens
- Free trainings in trauma-informed facilitation
- Trainings that deepen your understanding of mass incarceration and other social justice issues
- Access to volumes of training materials and curriculum in mindfulness, Nonviolent Communication
- A team committed to your success, in which ever way you want to contribute
