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A New Way of Life — Community Education and Voter Registration

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  • Focus Area: Criminal Justice Reform
  • Category: Global Health & Wellbeing
  • Organization Name: A New Way of Life
  • Amount: $200,000

  • Award Date: November 2019

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    Los Angeles communities learning about criminal justice reform issues. (Photo courtesy of ANWOL.)

    Grant investigator: Chloe Cockburn

    This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. A New Way of Life staff also reviewed this page prior to publication.


    Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $200,000 to A New Way of Life (ANWOL) to support its work registering formerly incarcerated voters and educating Los Angeles communities about criminal justice reform issues. ANWOL, founded by formerly incarcerated leader Susan Burton, organizes and mobilizes formerly incarcerated people as advocates for social change and personal transformation.

    This falls within our focus area of criminal justice reform.

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