Web3 Community Support

Over the past several weeks, I have been in dialogue with members of a Web3 community that organized independently to support Prison Professors:

• PrisonProfessorsToken.com

This independent community expressed alignment with our mission, pledging to provide resources that we could use to build solutions for people in prison, people preparing for prison, people returning home, and families who want to support loved ones through the process.

I am grateful for that support. As anyone can see from our concept paper, our mission is clear:

• We create and distribute free learning resources to help people prepare for success before, during, and after prison.

• We want to reduce intergenerational cycles of recidivism and poverty by encouraging self-directed education, personal accountability, and documented preparation.

As the founder of Prison Professors, I have a responsibility to be a good steward of every dollar, every relationship, and every opportunity that comes to our nonprofit. When people choose to support our mission, I want them to know that I take that responsibility seriously.

Our Commitment

I served 26 years in federal prison. During those years, I learned that a person could either complain about struggle or build a record showing how he responded to struggle. I chose the second path.

I studied leaders, read books, wrote about what I learned, documented progress, and made plans. Those decisions helped me come home with a clear sense of purpose. With Prison Professors, I try to share those same lessons with others, encouraging members of our community to write their own curriculum to prepare for success. My commitment is simple:

• I will always be honest with the people we serve.

• I will offer guidance based on lessons that helped me through 26 years in prison.

• I will continue building tools that encourage people to prepare, document progress, and work toward lives of meaning, relevance, and contribution.

• I will work for Prison Professors without compensation.

That pledge shows my commitment to this mission. Rather than working for a salary, I work to make a positive impact on society. People in prison will have a better chance of thriving if they get inspired to use free resources that can help them succeed upon release.

Stewardship of Support

The Web3 community that organized around Prison Professors expressed a commitment to support our initiatives and help ensure that we have funding to reach our goals. I have a responsibility to prove worthy of their trust.

We have sufficient funding to carry our work through the next year; we are building for the many years ahead. For that reason, I pledge to leave all donations from the BNB community in place until we have a full plan for how those resources can best advance our mission.

• We will not use any of those resources until the summer of 2027, at the earliest.

This period gives us time to grow carefully. It gives us time to evaluate needs, build systems, strengthen infrastructure, and make decisions that align with our mission. We will not spend resources simply because they are available.

People who donate to Prison Professors deserve to know how we think, how we plan, and how we make decisions. They deserve to know that we are in the building stage, not rushing. We are considering long-term impact rather than short-term attention.

With the full transparency of blockchain, anyone who reviews the digital ledger will see that all donations will remain in reserve while we continue building a responsible plan to advance the mission.

As a nonprofit organization, our role is to create and distribute free educational resources that help people prepare for success. We are expanding our curriculum and building systems that will allow more people to create profiles, write journals, publish book reports, develop release plans, and document the work they are doing to prepare for success.

The Web3 community at PrisonProfessorsToken.com has been generous in building support for us. I appreciate the encouragement, and I am grateful for the trust. My responsibility is to ensure that we continue building with integrity. We will continue focusing on the people we serve, creating and distributing free learning resources that people can use to build better outcomes.