Causes: Community & Neighborhood Development, Economic Development, Human Service Organizations, Human Services, Personal Social Services
Mission: PEP unites executives and inmates through entrepreneurial passion and servant leadership to transform lives, restore families and rebuild communities.
Results: AEI President Arthur Brooks and Harvard competitiveness professor Michael Porter both recognize PEP as the #1 reentry program in America. - 3,000 Graduates - 400 Businesses Started - 100% Employment - True pathway to the middle class - 8% Recidivism (Program Graduates); 2% Recidivism (eSchool Alumni) - $4.3 million tax savings and a 794% ROI on donations of time and money
Target demographics: Incarcerated men in Texas prisons develop the life skills and knowledge to be successful and productive citizens upon their return to society
Direct beneficiaries per year: 1,100 participants on our 4 in-prison campuses, 500 returning participants reentering society, 1,200 volunteers investing their time in our participants
Geographic areas served: The state of Texas
Programs: Character Development, Leadership Training, Toastmasters, Accelerated Masters-Level Entrepreneurship Education. This enables our participants to productively re-enter society. This includes a five-month business plan competition in prison and a range of post-release programs, including housing assistance, work readiness services, continuing education, executive mentoring and business start-up assistance. We operate 5 transition houses in Houston, Dallas, and Austin and have offices in all 3 cities to provide full reentry services.
Mission: PEP unites executives and inmates through entrepreneurial passion and servant leadership to transform lives, restore families and rebuild communities.
Results: AEI President Arthur Brooks and Harvard competitiveness professor Michael Porter both recognize PEP as the #1 reentry program in America. - 3,000 Graduates - 400 Businesses Started - 100% Employment - True pathway to the middle class - 8% Recidivism (Program Graduates); 2% Recidivism (eSchool Alumni) - $4.3 million tax savings and a 794% ROI on donations of time and money
Target demographics: Incarcerated men in Texas prisons develop the life skills and knowledge to be successful and productive citizens upon their return to society
Direct beneficiaries per year: 1,100 participants on our 4 in-prison campuses, 500 returning participants reentering society, 1,200 volunteers investing their time in our participants
Geographic areas served: The state of Texas
Programs: Character Development, Leadership Training, Toastmasters, Accelerated Masters-Level Entrepreneurship Education. This enables our participants to productively re-enter society. This includes a five-month business plan competition in prison and a range of post-release programs, including housing assistance, work readiness services, continuing education, executive mentoring and business start-up assistance. We operate 5 transition houses in Houston, Dallas, and Austin and have offices in all 3 cities to provide full reentry services.
Economic Development
Houston
