Concord Prison Outreach

Name

Concord Prison Outreach

Legal name

Concord Prison Outreach

Website

https://concordprisonoutreach.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1968

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Prison Education and Rehabilitation Services

NAICS

Educational Services (611), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Reentry & Justice-Involved Support Services (BPAGAEAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Community Corrections (Probation, Parole & Reentry) (BPAIAFAE), Forensic & Correctional Behavioral Health Services (HLAFACAM)

Keywords

• Prison education programs
• Reentry support services
• Restorative justice programs
• Incarcerated individual rehabilitation
• Correctional volunteer services

Headquarters

HQ city

Concord

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Contributions: Individual donations from community members, volunteers, and supporters who contribute financially to support CPO's programs and operations.
2. Foundation Grants: Grants from foundations including Cummings Foundation ($150,000 over 3 years), Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation, Metrowest Women's Fund, Mass Humanities, Sudbury Foundation, Concord Carlisle Foundation, The Boston Foundation, The New Commonwealth Fund, Freedom's Way National Heritage Area, State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB), and Concord Community Preservation Fund.
3. Faith Community Support: Private funds from nearly 40 supporting faith communities throughout Concord and surrounding towns for program materials and volunteer support.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Concord Prison Outreach delivers free educational, vocational, socio-emotional, restorative justice, and family support programs to incarcerated individuals across Massachusetts correctional facilities. Programming is facilitated by trained volunteers recruited from a network of nearly 40 faith communities and is delivered directly inside 8 Massachusetts Department of Correction sites plus the Middlesex Jail & House of Correction. Special initiatives include a Holiday Gift Bag Project, a reentry WelcomeBackpack program, and the Naming the Unnamed cemetery memorial project.

Product overview

Concord Prison Outreach operates as a single unified nonprofit organization offering multiple program categories focused on education, personal growth, and opportunity for incarcerated people and their families. The core program portfolio includes five main categories: Arts & Humanities (Poetry/Creative Writing, Book Discussion, Music Theory), Families & Children (Read to Me Dad/Mom, Kids' Corner, Parenting), Socio-Emotional (Restorative Justice, Meditation, Mindfulness & Yoga, Path of Freedom), Vocational Skills (Horticulture, Entrepreneurship, Money Smart), and Restorative Justice Recovery Circles. Additional special programs include the Holiday Gift Bag Project, WelcomeBackpack Program for reentry support, and the Naming the Unnamed Project documenting the Concord Reformatory Cemetery. The organization also provides resources including a CPO Podcast and Continuous Education Dialogue virtual events. Programming is delivered across 8 Massachusetts Department of Correction sites and Middlesex Jail & House of Correction.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Arts & Humanities Programs Arts and humanities programs including Poetry as Healing/Creative Writing, Book Discussion Group, and Music Theory/Keyboard Skills that provide positive emotional outlets and build self-worth for incarcerated individuals inside Massachusetts correctional facilities.
• Families & Children Programs Family support services including Read to Me Dad/Mom (recorded readings sent to children), Kids' Corner (activities during prison visits), and parenting classes designed to help incarcerated parents maintain family connections and support their children's well-being.
• Socio-Emotional Programs Emotional and personal growth programs including Restorative Justice, Meditation/Healthy Living, Mindfulness & Yoga, Cognitive Skills, and Path of Freedom (a Mindfulness-Based Emotional Intelligence course) for incarcerated individuals.
• Restorative Justice Program A philosophy and set of practices aimed at repairing harm through accountability, healing, and transformation; includes facilitator training and inside-prison reading groups for incarcerated individuals.
• Restorative Justice Recovery Circles Facilitated circles providing a safe space for reflection on substance use and recovery, with an 8-week curriculum covering addiction, neurobiology, and holistic healing for incarcerated individuals.
• Vocational Skills Programs Employment preparation courses including Horticulture, Entrepreneurship (12-session business planning program), and Money Smart (FDIC financial education program in 10 classes) for incarcerated individuals preparing for reentry.
• Holiday Gift Bag Project Annual holiday program providing gift bags containing toiletries, writing materials, a pocket calendar, and greeting cards to each incarcerated man in Concord's two state prisons.
• WelcomeBackpack Program Reentry support partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Correction that provides essential items to people released from prison, addressing resource disparities at the moment of release.
• Naming the Unnamed Project Multi-faceted community memorial project honoring 218 men buried at the Concord Reformatory Cemetery between 1878 and 1996, featuring interactive maps, online galleries, MassArt student illustrations, and contemplative spaces along the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 100 programs delivered annually engaging thousands of individuals
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

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Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered significant, core and minor.

• Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt)significantStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021MassArt Professor Lisa Kennedy collaborated with CPO on the Naming the Unnamed project. Students created individual illustrations for all 218 men buried at the Concord Reformatory Cemetery as a class assignment.
• Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCPO works cooperatively with Massachusetts DOC to offer educational programs at 8 state correctional facilities including MCI-Concord, North Central Correctional Institution, Northeastern Correctional Center, MCI-Shirley, Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, MCI-Framingham, MCI-Norfolk, and Pondville Correctional Center. Programs focus on skill-building and personal growth.
• Middlesex Sheriff's OfficecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCPO provides programming at Middlesex Jail & House of Correction in Billerica, a county jail housing men awaiting trial and serving sentences up to 2.5 years.
• William Munroe Special Collections at Concord Free Public LibrarysignificantStrategic or Co-development PartnerArchives and hosts the Naming the Unnamed Online Gallery, shedding light on researched biographies of each man buried at the cemetery, plus art panels and digital images of markers.
• West Concord Union ChurchcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvides office space for CPO and is among the nearly 40 faith communities supporting the organization. Historical partner since the organization's founding.
• Nearly 40 Faith CommunitiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFaith communities from Concord and surrounding towns providing volunteers and private funds for program materials. Includes churches, temples, mosques, and interfaith organizations.
• Dee's Funeral HomeminorOthersConcord funeral home that handled burial arrangements for unclaimed bodies with dignity for decades as entrusted by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• Fenn SchoolminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerConcord school that partnered with CPO on restorative justice education. Ninth-grade class created capstone project exploring RJ principles and educational materials.
• Concord Free Public LibraryminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHosts William Munroe Special Collections featuring the Naming the Unnamed archive.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Fortune Society: Fortune Society provides reentry support, education, housing, and employment services to currently and formerly incarcerated individuals in New York. Comparable to CPO in combining in-prison programming with reentry and family support services through a nonprofit model.
• Root & Rebound: Root & Rebound provides legal education, reentry support, and advocacy for people who have been incarcerated, particularly in California. Comparable to CPO in offering both direct program services and broader community-education components around justice-involved populations.
• Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO): CEO provides immediate employment services to people returning home from incarceration across multiple states. Overlaps with CPO's vocational training and reentry focus, with a similar mission of reducing recidivism through post-release opportunity.
• Defy Ventures: Defy Ventures runs entrepreneurship and employment-readiness programming for currently and formerly incarcerated people, overlapping with CPO's Entrepreneurship and Vocational Skills program categories. Both are nonprofits delivering in-prison programming focused on post-release economic opportunity.
• College Initiative: College Initiative supports currently and formerly incarcerated individuals in pursuing higher education, particularly in New York. The mission overlap with CPO's education-and-reentry focus makes it a direct peer in the prison-education nonprofit space.
• The Petey Greene Program: Petey Greene recruits and trains volunteers to provide tutoring and other educational support to incarcerated people, mirroring CPO's volunteer-driven education model. Both organizations leverage trained volunteers to deliver in-facility programming and operate as 501(c)(3) nonprofits.
• Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison: Hudson Link provides college education, life-skills training, and reentry support to incarcerated individuals in New York State prisons, similar in mission and operating model to CPO's Massachusetts prison education programs. Both are nonprofit, volunteer-supported, prison-education-focused organizations operating inside state DOC systems.
• Mount Tamalpais College (formerly Prison University Project): Mount Tamalpais College is a nonprofit accredited college operating inside San Quentin and other California state prisons, providing higher education to incarcerated students. Comparable to CPO in delivering accredited-equivalent educational programming inside state correctional facilities through nonprofit structures.
• Osborne Association: Osborne Association delivers a broad portfolio of services to people affected by the criminal justice system, including education, family support, and reentry programming inside New York state prisons. The integrated education-plus-reentry-plus-family model closely mirrors CPO's program structure.

Broad incumbents

• National Institute of Corrections: NIC is a federally funded center that provides training, technical assistance, and resources to corrections professionals across the U.S. Comparable to CPO as a broad operator in the corrections-education and training space, though NIC focuses on staff training and CPO focuses on incarcerated-person programming.

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Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

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Profiles12 records

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