• MISSION
• PROGRAMS
• ORIGINS
• DONATE
• CONTACT

OUR MISSION

H.O.P.E. will provide assistance to graduates to find appropriate clothing, housing and job placement.

• Expected success rates of 90%
• Less than 10% recidivism rate
• Reduction in number of inmates and their families receiving public assistance

OUR PROGRAM

The H.O.P.E. Foundation's mission is to provide entrepreneur training to prison inmates, increase the number of prison inmates that start their own successful business ventures, and to reduce the number of inmates and their families that live on welfare.

ORIGINS

The Executive Director and Founder of H.O.P.E. Foundation, Megan Lounder, has been led by a true passion for helping the human beings that have been incarcerated by the prison system. With a goal to bring entrepreneurial training to the Los Angeles County Prison System, Lounder is building a team of...

DONATE

The H.O.P.E. Foundation is a non-profit organization that relies on the support of people like you to make it work. Please consider donating to this worthy cause today.

You can donate right now by:
Mailing a check, or
Donating by credit card

Engineering Lives for a New Future

Self-employment is one of the few viable options for most prison inmates upon their release. Without adequate training, parolees can easily get caught up in the same routines that landed them in prison in the first place. It's a vicious cycle that can and should be broken.

The H.O.P.E. Foundation exists to aide our prisoners educate themselves to a better way of life. Through our comprehensive system of classroom-style training, inmates receive the skills they need to be productive and self-sufficient upon release while learning in a shared-environment setting. Studies focus on the areas of computer and Internet literacy, computerized accounting, business plan development, and the opportunity to expand skill sets through frequent workshops.

Training will take place five days a week for four hours per day. Entrepreneur training will be supported with Internet and digital tutorials that will provide reference and lecture reinforcement and text books.

Graduates from our entrepreneur-training program will be provided with business plan funding assistance.