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When you donate to the Alliance, you help build a community of practice that is increasing access, equity and quality among higher education in prison programs across the country.

Join us in making a meaningful impact in the field of higher education in prison. With your generous support, we are able to host the National Conference on Higher Education in Prison (NCHEP) and the Incarcerated Scholars Conference (ISC). In addition to centering the perspectives of incarcerated scholars through ISC, your support also helps us award NCHEP financial aid packages to people who are formerly incarcerated, ensuring their voices are heard and valued. Your support keeps our community conversations, Journal of Higher Education in Prison (JHEP), and initiatives like Education in Action (EiA) going, giving us the opportunity to foster collaboration with our community, share resources, and raise awareness about systemic inequities.

Join us in making an impact by clicking the donate button below or donating by mail.

“What I'm hoping that I can represent for other folks is that although I've had this experience in my life there's so much more that I can give. No one is their worst day. My grandmother was always very proud of the things that I was able to accomplish in prison, as well as post-release — earning degrees and fellowships and getting jobs in the field that I love to work in.”

Romarilyn Ralston, Program Coordinator, Project Rebound at Cal State University Fullerton

By clicking on the links above and below, you can donate via Stripe, which will allow you to pay by card, Apple Pay, Klarna, Link, or Cash App.

To donate by mail, please make checks payable to "Alliance for Higher Education in Prison" and mail to:

Attn: Alliance development staff
Alliance Office
1801 N. Broadway, Suite 417
Denver, CO 80202

If you would like to discuss leaving a gift for the Alliance in your will, an in-kind donation, or donating another way, please contact the Operations and Development Director, Allison Lopez, at: allisonlopez@higheredinprison.org

Why support increasing access to higher education in prison?

Higher education in prison contributes to a person’s sense of dignity and purpose and improves quality of life.
Higher education in prison can and must be a tool to abolish systems of power and oppression, including prisons.
The expansion of access to quality higher education in prison is critical to confronting the persistent inequality of opportunity in higher education, primarily for people of color and people who are economically disenfranchised.
Higher education in prison is a first chance to access quality education for many people who are currently incarcerated.
Higher education in prison can challenge the same oppressive structures that have enabled mass incarceration.
Higher education in prison can be part of the effort to challenge how the United States’ education system further stratifies marginalized communities, creating massive socioeconomic disparities while withholding resources and opportunities.
Higher education must be part of ensuring accountability and repair for the history of violence and oppression, and for the withholding of opportunities enacted on people and communities of color.

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When you donate to the Alliance, you help build a community of practice that is increasing access, equity and quality among higher education in prison programs across the country.

Why support increasing access to higher education in prison?

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