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  March 21, 2022 LIC Post

  Long Island City Organization Gets $10 Million From MacKenzie Scott of Amazon Fame

  A Long Island City-based organization that helps people who have been incarcerated get back on their feet has received a $10 million award care of philanthropist MacKenzie Scott—of Amazon fame.

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  March 21, 2022 Patch

  Jeff Bezos Ex Gives $10M To LIC Nonprofit Amid Bail Reform Fight

  Mackenzie Scott, philanthropist and former wife of the Amazon CEO, channeled funds to a Queens organization fighting mass incarceration.

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  March 16, 2022 Indy Week

  Persons Instead of Prisoners: Durham Commissioners Approve ‘People-First’ Resolution

  The resolution encourages a new way of describing people who have had contact with the criminal justice system.

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  March 14, 2022 Patch

  Fortune Society Unveils 2022 Legislative Agenda

  Fortune's priorities include reforms that protect and support justice-involved individuals in housing, parole, incarceration, and the courts

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  March 02, 2022 I Love The Upper West Side

  VIDEO: Fortune Society Execs Field Questions — Some Heated — About 258 West 97th Street

  At Community Board 7′s housing committee meeting on Monday evening, executives from The Fortune Society presented the non-profit’s plans to convert 258 West 97th Street into supportive housing for formerly incarcerated individuals as well as low-income residents. The project will be called Castle IV.

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  March 01, 2022 West Side Rag

  The Community Responds to the Supportive Housing Program Coming to West 97th Street

  Residents of the upper west 90s expressed open-mindedness — laced with worry — about the new permanent supportive housing program being created at 258 W. 97th Street, which previously was an illegal hotel.

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