To transform the incarceration system by providing and supporting programming, advocacy and art that centers personal relationships, resilience, development and agency.
OUR MISSION
ENDGAME
Chris Wilson initially established The Chris Wilson Foundation in 2019 to provide support to justice-impacted individuals who struggled with the same barriers to opportunity, education and employment that he did after 16 years in prison.
To this day we continue to pursue Chris’s endgame as he wrote it in his book, The Master Plan:
To change the system for every young man and woman in the streets.
To support them to make something beautiful of their lives.
To let them know that all they have to do is reach out, and we’ll be there.
The Master Plan Program
In September 2022, The Chris Wilson Foundation launched the 13-week pilot of The Master Plan Program in prison and detention facilities in New Jersey and Maryland. So far, we have reached 140 students with in-person programming and over 2,100 students with our Workbook. The goal of the program is to promote resilience, agency and community connection for the individual in order to plan for a successful reentry into society.
