January 26, 2026: Monday

Corporate Partnerships

Today, we took another step in strengthening the long-term sustainability of Prison Professors.

If you visit our Donate page, you’ll notice a new addition: a second button labeled Corporate Donations. That button leads to a new page we began developing over the weekend. We designed the page specifically for businesses, family foundations, and mission-aligned organizations that want to support this work in a thoughtful, recurring way.

This new page is not a general donation page. It is a partnership invitation.

• Corporate Partners Page

New Corporate Donations Page

Prison Professors exists to provide free resources—without charge—to people who want to work toward the best possible outcomes, at every stage of the journey, from before the charge to after release. We want people to learn how to prepare for success, document the ways that they’re leading an “extraordinary and compelling” adjustment strategy.

That commitment has not changed, and it will not change.

At the same time, building and maintaining a national platform requires resources. The technology that supports profiles, leaderboards, courses, data reporting, and advocacy does not operate on goodwill alone. If we want to remain credible, transparent, and effective, we must think carefully about how we invite support.

Individual donors and organizational partners are motivated by different considerations. Individuals often give because they connect personally with the mission. Organizations tend to think in terms of systems, outcomes, accountability, and scale. The new Corporate Donations page allows us to speak clearly to each audience, without blurring those distinctions.

How We Build

The Corporate & Foundation Partnerships page explains, in one place, the system we are building:

• We offer self-directed lessons people can use to develop comprehensive mitigation strategies.
• Prison Professors operates a Profiles platform where people in federal prison document their work through biographies, journals, book reports, and release plans.
• That documentation creates a verifiable record of effort, growth, and readiness.
• The system incentivizes disciplined self-development in an environment that often discourages it.
• Recurring organizational support helps us scale access, strengthen incentives, and build evidence that supports work-release and reentry advocacy.

We deliberately avoided grant jargon, transactional language, or advertising-style appeals. This page is about values-based partnership, not one-time transactions.

Recurring Support

One of the most important design choices on this page is its emphasis on recurring commitments, rather than one-time gifts. Recurring support allows us to plan responsibly, maintain the platform, improve our tools, and continue offering all core resources free of charge to people in prison and their families. It also reinforces a powerful message to participants inside: if you work hard on yourself, society will meet you halfway.

That message is central to our advocacy.

Transparency, Recognition, and Collaboration

We also designed the page to respect choice.

Organizational partners may choose to be recognized publicly through logos or short statements—or they may choose to support the work quietly or anonymously. Recognition is always optional. Sponsorship does not imply endorsement, and partnerships are reviewed carefully.

For those who want deeper engagement, the page also invites optional CEO or founder interviews. These conversations, when aligned with our values, may become part of our curriculum—helping participants learn from leaders who value accountability, discipline, and earned opportunity.

Mission Consistency

Every design decision behind this page reflects a balance we work hard to maintain: free access for participants, and responsible stewardship for supporters.

We are building systems that reward effort, document progress, and create persuasive evidence for reform. Doing that well requires both discipline and support.

This new page helps us invite that support with clarity, professionalism, and integrity—while staying true to our commitment to provide free resources to every member of our community who is willing to do the work.

As always, thank you for walking this path with us.