Isabel McDevitt is the Executive Vice President of The Doe Fund. As we recognize the anniversary of the attacks on September 11th, we remember those who lost their lives and honor the extreme acts of heroism exhibited that fateful day. Their loss will not be in vain if we maintain focus on altruism and…
Our partnership with The Bentley was a model of integrating the men we serve into the larger community, without local resistance. Here’s how.
Alexander Horwitz is Executive Director of New Yorkers United for Justice, a bipartisan coalition of local and national organizations working together to deliver common sense criminal justice reforms to New York State. New York’s parole system is broken. It sends people back to prison at a blistering rate, usually with no benefit to public safety….
This guest post was contributed to The Doe Fund’s blog by Dave Long, Executive Director of The Liberty Fund. Even though I first met George McDonald just five years ago, in many ways he and I ran parallel lives. When George helped found The Liberty Fund—NYC’s first and only citywide charitable bail fund—our lives converged,…
Harriet McDonald is the President of The Doe Fund and Co-Founder of Ready, Willing & Able. It has become a cliche to call the pandemic “unprecedented” and 2020 the most challenging year America has faced in decades. Unemployment reached the highest levels we’ve seen since the Great Depression, and homelessness is expected to rise by…
Isabel McDevitt is an Executive Vice President at The Doe Fund. At the start of 2020, a global pandemic was inconceivable. Yet here we are, one year into what is no longer the “new” normal. Through this shocking, tragic, and life-altering time, COVID-19 has shown us the best and worst of our society, our institutions,…
This guest post was contributed to The Doe Fund’s blog by Henry Butler in celebration of Black History Month. Butler is the State Committee Member and District Leader of Brooklyn’s 56th State Assembly District. The past twelve months have been an unprecedented time, both in NYC and the country. A pandemic has devastated the economy,…
This guest post was contributed to The Doe Fund’s blog by Anthony Isaacs in celebration of Black History Month. I was incarcerated for 25 years. In that time, I took advantage of dozens of educational, vocational, and skill-building programs offered in prison. Most important of all, I took incarceration as an opportunity for deep self-reflection and…
This guest post was contributed to The Doe Fund’s blog by the Harlem Historical Society in celebration of Black History Month. Violence in our community is not inevitable. To say that violence spreads like a disease is not a metaphor—it is what the science now shows. Violence meets the dictionary definition of a disease, and…
This guest post was contributed to The Doe Fund’s blog by Justin Smith in celebration of Black History Month. When we talk about homelessness, we often talk about its causes: lack of employment, opportunity, and housing; experiences with addiction, incarceration, or mental illness. One thing missing from the conversation is a characteristic that all…
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