It costs us $500 to recruit, pair and launch each
One Parish One Prisoner team.
Your partnership at $40/month ($500/year) UNLOCKS:
1 community to embrace someone releasing from the tombs of prison each year
2 years of trust-building, release planning, and reentry accompaniment
7 personal relationships with no expiration date
Dozens of new connections to employment, childcare, education
100s of local people cheering and praying for a former prisoner
1000s of hours of local volunteer reentry support
1 thriving local employee instead of a surviving “ex-convict” on the streets
1 parent in their children’s lives, interrupting the generational cycle
1 indispensable member of the community home where they belong, writing a better story with their family and region
How many of these stories
do you want to unlock each year?
Your gift vs. the cost of mass incarceration
$35,000 / incarcerated person / year
Mass incarceration costs include:
Human warehousing
Broken families
Severed community ties
Trauma from prison violence & prolonged isolation
Increased alienation and despair
An on-going cycle of barriers, unhealed lives, new crimes, new victims
Other ways to give
Thrivent members can now choose this avenue to help this movement thrive as well.
Some of our donors give through their employers’ matching funds program via Benevity or other such programs. We’re cool with it.
Shop on Amazon? Might as well go through Smile.Amazon.com, select “Underground Ministries” (WA) as your charity, and your shopping pushes a few of their pennies into this work. Thanks.
Underground Ministries is a 501c3 nonprofit (Tax ID: 61-1850476)
Get in touch with us to chat: info@undergroundministries.org .
Frequently Asked Questions
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Checks–one-time or bank-automated–can be mailed to
Underground Ministries
PO Box 174
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Yes. This page is secure and your donation information will be encrypted and sent securely to Underground Ministries. We don’t share your information.
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Of course. Underground Ministries is a 501c3 nonprofit (TaxID: 61-1850476). Keep your email receipt as your official record to claim your donation as a deduction on your U.S. taxes.
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Giving Receipts are mailed out every January.
Our digital fundraising platform, Funraise, has created a user-friendly app called “Giving by Funraise” for all of our donors so you can easily view and download your tax-deductible donation statements or adjust your monthly gift. This feature is only available as an app at this time and will be available soon as a web version. You can download the app for your iPhone or Android (Search Funraise in the App Store).