United Black Family Scholarship Foundation

From Prison Leadership to Nonprofit Careers: How the In-Building Self-Help Program (IBSHP) Creates a Pipeline of Community Leaders Inside California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facilities, rehabilitation programs often focus on individual...

Creating My Own Opportunities : Building a Pathway to Gainful Employment From Inside Prison By Ivan Kilgore When people ask me how I prepared for gainful employment after prison, I tell them something many people do not expect to hear : opportunity is not something...

Building My Lifeline: The First Time I Negotiated With Prison Administration to Start a Program By Ivan Kilgore I landed on B-facility at CSP-Sac in 2011 with the kind of quiet dread you don’t always admit out loud. It wasn’t just a housing move from C-yard to B-yard;...

Intersectionality Behind Bars By Isabella Cain Women’s History Month calls us to remember, celebrate, and amplify the voices of women who have shaped our world, often against extraordinary odds. Yet too often this recognition excludes one of the most marginalized and...

Women’s History Month: Memory, Movement, and the Responsibility of Truth By Ivan Kilgore Every year, Women’s History Month invites me to pause and reflect not only on the victories that have been won, but on the work that still remains. For me, it is a time to...

Redefining "Rehabilitation" By Isabella Cain, UBFSF Media & Marketing Director The word “rehabilitation” implies restoration. It suggests healing, renewal, and reintegration, however, in the context of incarceration, rehabilitation has often meant something very...

Care & Cooperation: Leadership Rooted in Humanity By Ivan Kilgore, UBFSF Founder When I first began reflecting on this month’s theme—care and cooperation—the answer came to me almost immediately. What surfaced was not a theory, framework, or abstract leadership...

Expanding Leadership Education for America’s Incarcerated By Ian Wilson, UBFSF Project Manager My name is Ian Wilson and I serve as the Project Manager for Nonprofit Coaching and Leadership Training for America’s Incarcerated (NPCLT), working under Ivan Kilgore and...

On Sustaining Collaborative Partnerships By Zebulon Miletsky, PhD Considering this year’s theme of “Care and Cooperation: Partnerships that Work” leads me to meditate on my own methods to sustains collaboration—and our larger effort to create such a thing at the...

Successful Inside-Out Restorative Justice Programs Are Possible By Isabella Cain For decades restorative justice programs within the United States have focused on outside-in tactics. How can people or groups outside of the system help those individuals inside, where...

Making Charitable Donations to Non Profits By Desiree Cain, CP Making charitable donations is a wonderful way to support causes you care about. What many people don’t realize is that the IRS offers tax benefits that can make your gift even more impactful....