Membership

Join 100+ CBOs making a difference in California’s prison system. Any Community-Based Organization offering restorative and transformative programs to people incarcerated in California state prisons is eligible to join us. As we know from our years of work together, we’re stronger and smarter together. Our previous wins and current goals were all born from the needs and voices of our members. We are committed to fighting for you, and lifting up the voices of those who are system impacted. Let’s put our heads and our hearts together to plan for precise, collective impact, and have some fun while we’re at it!

Some of our recent victories include:

  • Creating the CARE Grants within CDCR which started in 2019 and has distributed over $XX to date.

  • Creating the RIGHT Grants within CDCR which started in 2021 and have distributed over $40 million to date.

  • AB1104: Changing legislation so the punitive goal of sentencing is achieved through loss of liberty and that the goal of incarceration should be rehabilitation, making program accessible to all people living in CA state prisons.

  • Changing legislation to say that program providers are not just volunteers, we are

  • AB581: Changing legislation to standardize and streamline the clearance process for all program providers, particularly those who are formerly incarcerated, statewide.

Benefits of Membership

Collective Wisdom

Gain access to forums for 100+ Community Based Organizations and be able to both gain and share resources, information, and opportunities to expand this life changing work while identifying common challenges in specific institutions or statewide to overcome challenges and hold people accountable.

Funding

Funding: We created and secured the RIGHT grants for equitable funding for those offering prisons in CDCR and continue to advocate for and secure funding from the CA legislature.

Community Building

Convening, special events, and regular virtual meetings to deepen connection within the field. Connect with like minded people, gain access to a large community of lived experience, vast expertise, shared goals and missions, and so much heart.

Direct Line to CDCR

We have spent years developing relationship with the leadership in CDCR which gives us the ability to garner responses and support in ways program providers never had access to before, in addition to hosting several forums each year for members to have direct Q&A sessions with CDCR leadership.

Collective Advocacy

We advocate on behalf of members with CDCR, state legislature, and budget advocacy. We know it can be hard to square off with the CDCR leadership or any of the prisons when they hold the key to both your funding and your ability to offer your programs. We take on the tough conversations so you don’t have to. We’ve spent years developing relationships with key staff who respect our goals and are working with us to meet your needs. Advocacy and lobbying

Technical Support/Assistance

We facilitate opportunities for capacity building and technical support or assistance in navigating CDCR logistics and procedures, lobbying and advocacy activities, state grant applications, and more.

 

Interested in Joining?

Schedule an interview with our Membership Manager to so we can learn more about each other.

email: membership@thetpw.org

call: +1 (833)-243-1053

FAQs

  • Any person. group, or counity-based organization offering transformative, healing, restorative, rehabilitative, or community programs inside California prisons is eligible to join.

  • The TPW works hard to provide value for our members. Between advocacy, training, fundraising, and more - our mission to support CBOs providing transformative and restorative programs to people in CA state prisons requires a lot of expertise, relationship building, and people power. Contritions from our members help ensure we can keep the fight alive.

    We recognize that we operate within current systems and structures that perpetuate and create scarcity. This is one of the reasons why we’ve built the TPW - to break down isolation and competition and unite us towards our goal of bringing healing into prisons. We acknowledge that while we work to shift culture and policy, we too must operate under these systems and need to maintain financial stability in order to do this work. We have a suggested contribution based on a sliding scale of your organizational budget, through either a recurring annual payment or monthly payment plan.

    -Under $50,000 Budget: $60/annually or $5/month

    -$51,000 - $150,000: $300/annually or $25/month

    -$151,000 - $250,000: $60/annually or $50/month

    -$251,000 - $500,000: $900/annually or $75/month

    -$501,000 - $999,999: $1,200/annually or $100/month

    -Over $1 Million: $1,800/annually or $150/month

    *This may be your organization’s annual budget or a departmental budget allocated for in-prison programming. We leave it up to your organization’s discretion to choose.

    Paymentinformation can be found at FlipCause.

  • We exist to advocate for and build capacity for our member organizations. As such, you can engage as much as is useful to you. We identify our advocacy strategies/goals, forum topics, and capacity building based on what we hear from our members. So, help us help you by participating! That said, we know many of our members are short staffed and underfunded but doing amazing work and you can’t always participate. So we all do the best we can with the time we have.

    We have a monthly virtual membership meeting, a member email group, a private member web portal, periodic Zoom forums/trainings, and occasional in-person gatherings. You can choose to get the info/notices to your email, or you can choose to check the web portal at your convenience.