CROP Organization

The CROP Organization was founded while our leadership team was incarcerated within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).F aced with the unique challenges presented by an antisocial and self-destructive prison environment, our team created programs that helped transform our prison culture into something truly restorative. It was through this new framework of possibility that we invited incarcerated men to begin supporting the best in each other rather than the worst. Throughout the years spent inside the CDCR, our team successfully trained hundreds of people in personal leadership development and created programs within CDCR, such as Alcohol and Other Drug state certification program.

With our team back in the community, CROP brings our innovative programs to scale and has established a blueprint for successful reentry. CROP’s mission is to reimagine reentry through a holistic, human-centered approach to advocacy, housing, and skill development for the future of work. We do this through CROP’s Ready 4 Life program which is designed as a holistic one year experience that integrates re-entry and housing supports with robust workforce training for jobs in technology. Our impact goal is for people with conviction records to secure new pathways to economic mobility and to be valued by society. For this impact to be realized, CROP deploys three strategies: direct-service programming for people who are formerly incarcerated; fair chance hiring education and job placement programming; and policy advocacy to remove barriers for holistic and effective reentry.