Our Partners
VOTE
VOTE is an organization founded and run by formerly incarcerated people, dedicated to restoring the full human and civil rights of those most impacted by the criminal justice system. VOTE gives our clients opportunities to get involved with advocacy and organizing.
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FIT Clinic
Upon release, Tulane University School of Medicine provides an initial evaluation and ongoing transitional healthcare through their "Formerly Incarcerated Transition" Clinic (FIT Clinic).
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Thrive New Orleans
Thrive provides workforce training for our clients through their landscaping certification program.
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The Fountain Fund
The Fountain Fund provides low-interest loans and financial coaching to formerly incarcerated people, helping them build credit and achieve their self-determined goals.
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NOLA To Angola
An annual three-day, 170-mile bicycle ride fundraiser. Participants bike from Orleans Parish Prison in New Orleans to Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary, biking each mile in solidarity with families who travel long distances to connect with their incarcerated loved ones.
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Office of Jonathan Tate
The Office of Jonathan Tate (OJT) is an architecture, design, and consulting practice based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Since 2017 OJT has provided architecture and design services to The First 72+ to help us plan and build our dream transitional house, now affectionately known as “The Ben Smith Welcome Home Center.”
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Avodah
The Avodah Jewish Service Corps is an immersive service year program for individuals ages 21-26 who are passionate about social justice and Jewish community. Corps members are matched with nonprofits in New Orleans, Chicago, DC, and New York City, where they work full time for one year. Two corps members work with The First 72+ every year.
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Justice & Accountability Center
The Justice & Accountability Center provides legal aid and education to formerly incarcerated people through expungement and reentry civil legal support such as child support, traffic tickets, driver’s licenses, TWIC appeals/denials, and consumer debt.
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Orleans Public Defenders
The Orleans Public Defenders Office (OPD) is one of the premier public defenders offices in the country, providing free legal services to more than 80% of the people prosecuted in New Orleans. OPD refers clients to The First 72+ both pre-trial and upon release from incarceration. Together with their Client Services Division we also work to address barriers that impede our clients success.
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Grow Dat
Grow Dat Youth Farm seeks to nurture a diverse group of young leaders through the meaningful work of growing food. They operate a two-and-a-half acre sustainable farm in New Orleans’ City Park, with a CSA farm share program. They help with the plant beds outside of our office.
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Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (CADA)
CADA promotes a safe and healthy community by providing prevention, treatment and recovery support services that foster well-being and resilience. We refer our clients to CADA to receive substance abuse and mental health services.
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Orleans Parish Criminal District Court
The First 72+ provides case management services to people sentenced to "Reentry Court,” an innovative program that makes education, workforce development, and healthcare central to the incarceration and post-release systems.
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Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office
The First 72+ provides reentry planning and case management services to people released through the conviction and sentencing review efforts of the Civil Rights Division at the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office.
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- The Promise of Justice Initiative (PJI)
- The Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design at Tulane School of Architecture
- Civil Rights Division of the District Attorney's Office
- New Orleans Public Library
- Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center (LFHAC)
- Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO)
- Job1
- New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice
- The Vera Institute (New Orleans)
- Operation Restoration
- Step Up Louisiana
- St. Charles Center for Faith + Action
- CBNO (Committee for a Better New Orleans)
- Disability Rights Louisiana
- Southeast Louisiana Legal Services
- Louisiana Department of Health
- The Visiting Room Project
- Ubuntu Village
- Daughters Beyond Incarceration
- SisterHearts
- Free Dem Foundations, Inc.
- PDM Nola
- REMILA
- Solitary Gardens
- Louisiana Center for Children's Rights
- Louisiana Parole Project
- Formerly Incarcerated Peer Support Group
- Our Fortune
Stand Together Foundation
Michael Jordan and Jordan Brand Community Foundation
United Way
Kellogg Foundation
Baptist Community Ministries (BCM)
Public Welfare Foundation
Jewish Communal Fund
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Louisiana Asset Funders Network
Entergy
AT&T
Capital One
Ella West Freeman Foundation
Foundation for Louisiana
