Executive Summary

OR was built to shift resources from incarceration to community. We provide critical infrastructure that deconstructs the systems that dispense injustice. We provide 15 distinct programs that focus on employment, housing insecurity, education, training, advocacy, and a community bail fund that disrupts the entry point into the legal system to address systemic inequities for women and people of color. In the last three years alone, OR has served 2,298 clients across all programs and provided 17,639 services.

Since 2017, OR has successfully advocated to pass 17 pieces of legislation across the country. One of the most important pieces in Louisiana prohibits public colleges from asking about criminal history for purposes of admissions. Louisiana was the first state to pass Ban the Box in Higher Education. Since the passage, OR has trained and supported advocates on the ground in seven additional states to pass similar legislation.

OR fiscally sponsors 26 other programs and organizations nationwide that are led by people of color impacting their communities. OR believes that scaling is not creating more OR’s but scaling OR’s impact through execution, back office support and building infrastructure for organizations.

Operation Restoration IS community. We support currently and formerly incarcerated women and girls. 98% of our staff identify as women, of which 70% are directly impacted by incarceration. We work with the women we were incarcerated with and work in the places we were incarcerated. We do not just speak for the communities we serve- our work is built by them.

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