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Keynote Speaker and Founder, Mindshare Summit. Jayson Gaignard. Founder, MasterMind Talks. Leigh Tucker. Lauren Shippy. Palm Beach Women's Network. Download the Forgiveness Pledge. Cookie Use. It has been described by many as a mini-MBA for the depth of business information it delivers and the rigorous pace the students experience. To be successful, students must be willing to learn new skills, think hard, work hard and be open to transformation. Upon release, PEP supports its alumni with a comprehensive slate of re-entry services including case management, transition housing, assistance in finding employment and connecting to social services.

We work to ensure every returning citizen can maximize his or her potential and avoid any of the pitfalls that might send them back to prison. PEP is more than building business skills and acumen.

It is designed to bring positive, transformative changes to the students, their families and communities. We begin to engage family members as soon as their loved one is involved with PEP and try to get as many as possible to attend the class graduation. We love to see families reunited and empower our men to rise up and become better husbands, fathers and sons,.

We rely on the generosity of individual and corporate donors to help deliver our program to inmates. In PEP expanded into two new prisons and launched its program for women. Donate Now. Join us so that together we can reduce recidivism, bring hope to families, rebuild communities, and give a second chance to those willing to embrace transformation, responsibility, and love.

Learn More. Read Our Blog. But it was not until I received a postcard to the Prison Entrepreneurship Program PEP that I truly felt in my heart that the chance I had been praying for all this time was within my grasp. I was transferred to the Cleveland Correctional Center and that is when the truth in transformation became my living reality. PEP provided me with the tools of 10 Driving Values, effective leadership skills and character assessments to apply and stand on in my quest for change.

I am thankful PEP chose me and grateful to those who make this life change possible for men like me. And I would guess that if you are reading this, you are one of those people. So, from the bottom of my heart, I thank you.

I continue to stay in contact with many of my PEP family because I love them and because they keep me grounded without ever even having to say a word. Just seeing pictures of them brings back the thoughts of how we all banded together to build one another up so that we would never fall again.

I will know these people for the rest of my life, and I am truly thankful for that. I am a success because I am a small part of something much greater than myself. Edison Nguyen IT Specialist. Oliver J. Kappie Boles. Jack Browder.

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