25 Ways You Can Help the Osborne Association
1. Hire a former prisoner
2. Donate new or gently used business clothing for job-seeking clients
and casual clothing for teens.
3. Escort children to visit their mothers or fathers in prison.
4. Let your elected officials know you support vocational training and
higher education for people in prisons.
5. Volunteer to coordinate team sports and recreational activities for
people enrolled in our programs.
6. Tell your friends that you support drug treatment as an alternative
to incarceration.
7. Contribute photographic or videographic services.
8. Hang your art work on our walls.
9. Donate bedroom furniture for our model "living skills" apartment.
10. Send gift subscriptions to general interest magazines for our reception
area, and to trade magazines with job listings for our job-search area.
11. Answer phones at our toll-free hotline for prison families.
12. Conduct "mock interviews" to prepare our clients for job
interviews.
13. Give us a computer, printer, TV, VCR, scanner, or video camera with
tripod.
14. Use your expertise in psychiatry, psychology, counseling, or specialty
skills to provide therapy, assessments or group facilitation.
15. Let us train clients to meet your hiring needs.
16. Be an image consultant or "personal shopper" to advise clients
on selections from our clothing bank.
17. Imagine a world without prisons.
18. Help our clients learn to use the internet for job searches.
19. Donate a hundred-gallon fish tank.
20. Be a tutor - teach literacy skills.
21. Contribute new or used toys, books, and games (including Nintendo
and Play Station) for kids.
22. Provide space for a special event.
23. Believe that people can learn, grow and change.
24. Buy products and services from companies that train and hire former
prisoners.
25. Don't take your freedom for granted.