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2023 WINNER

Bianca Tylek

Worth Rises

Bianca Tylek    

Worth Rises is a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of those it impacts through extensive advocacy and systems change efforts.

ABOUT Worth Rises

ABOUT

  • ISSUE AREA: Prison Abolition & Criminal Injustice System
  • ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET: $2,700,000
  • GEOGRAPHY: United States

KEY FINDINGS

  • Has helped pass 9 bills targeting prison labor profiteering, saved $200 million in communication-related costs for families facing the incarceration of a loved one, and convinced 12 states to consider bills making prison telecommunications entirely free in 2023 and 2024
  • The organization is ready to activate a campaign against other sectors of the prison industry: financial services, electronic monitoring, and prison construction
  • Financial stability for the organization means raising as much as the organization needs currently, not an eye towards everlasting growth since they are laser-focused on fair compensation and generous benefits packages for employees
  • Worth Rises underwent an expert-led branding and communications update early 2022, so the opportunity with Elevate would be around campaign-building, awareness, and storytelling
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WHAT’S THE PRIZE?

Our mission is to amplify the work of impact leaders for social good, drive change together, and awaken the hero in all of us

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