Someone gets out with something rare: momentum.

Maybe it’s college credits earned inside. Maybe it’s a plan to enroll. Maybe it’s the first time they can imagine a life built around classrooms instead of cages. Then reality shows up fast: an address you can’t secure, documents you can’t replace quickly, a phone you can’t afford, a job schedule that punishes class attendance, a transfer process that feels like a maze designed to make you quit.

Not because someone “lacks motivation.” Because reentry is a systems problem—and the systems don’t coordinate.

JSEI exists to be the missing infrastructure. We are a California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports formerly incarcerated and justice-impacted people through the fragile windows where progress is most likely to break: release, transfer, stop-out, re-enrollment, and relocation.

We do the unglamorous, high-impact work that keeps people enrolled and moving:

• Education navigation: enrollment, transfer planning, re-enrollment after stop-out, and problem-solving across campuses and agencies

• Housing stability: stabilization planning, documentation support, and coordination with housing partners

• Workforce pathways: job readiness and training navigation aligned with long-term education and stability goals

• Reentry navigation: barrier removal through coordinated referrals and structured planning

This work is grounded in social work principles: dignity, self-determination, and structural accountability. People don’t need a lecture about resilience. They need systems that stop sabotaging their progress.

Your donation funds the stability layer that turns access into completion. Because a person shouldn’t lose a semester—or a future—over a bus pass, a document fee, or a housing disruption.

Give today, and help convert momentum into mobility.
Justice Scholars Education Initiative (JSEI) — EIN: 87-2070894

“What your gift does”

Your gift supports stability work that reduces avoidable interruptions during reentry:

• short-term barrier removal (documents, transit gaps, technology access as eligible)

• education persistence navigation (transfer/re-enrollment problem-solving)

• housing stabilization planning and partner coordination

• workforce pathway navigation aligned with staying enrolled

• intake, planning, and follow-up support

Direct assistance is provided based on eligibility, capacity, and any restricted-funding rules. When direct aid isn’t possible, navigation and coordination still are.

Giving Levels

• $25 — Removes a small barrier (documents, supplies, transit gap)

• $50 — Supports education navigation during a key transition (enrollment/transfer)

• $100 — Supports workforce readiness steps aligned with staying on track

• $250 — Supports stabilization planning + structured follow-up

• $500 — Helps underwrite housing stabilization coordination (as eligible)

• $1,000+ — Sponsors a “stability pathway” for a scholar navigating a major transition