Big milestone! We just shipped out our 🚀 10,000th 💥 delivery of education and job training content to people in prison! Just a few years ago, we started out serving a few facilities in one state. Today, Level can be found in 940 state, federal, county and military prisons in 49 states ⚡️ ! This is all due to word-of-mouth, grassroots demand among people in prison. They have transformative visions of a better future. This order went to "J.B." (we've anonymized her name for privacy). She's in a state facility northeast of Houston, TX. She's been learning with us since 2022. In this order, we're sending a certificate for our guide Computer Science Without A Computer as well as a copy of our newest guide How The Internet Works. As with many of the people we serve, JB is looking to increase her chances of success after release. She first contacted us from a county jail, and we were able to continue serving her as she moved to state facilities. Thanks to all the incarcerated learners like J.B. for building our program, our volunteers, our staff, board and funders 🎉 for making this community thrive. If you'd like to learn more or be a part of our community, leave a comment!
Level
Education
Austin, Texas 207 followers
Level creates and distributes free educational and job training content for people in prison.
About us
Level applies the power of education to break the destructive cycle of the American prison system. We offer educational, job training and personal development services for people in prison to convert otherwise wasted years of incarceration into an opportunity to prepare for a brighter, stronger future. It’s hard to overstate the costs of the American prison system. It shatters lives and dreams, and is upheld by the myth that our past has to define our future. Through the power of education, we can begin to break this destructive cycle. Access to education means a new hope for the future - not just for incarcerated people, but for their families and communities Level provides people in prison with modern educational, job training and personal development content that is custom created for their needs. Level’s program converts otherwise wasted years of incarceration into an opportunity to prepare for release. Level is the only nationally scaled provider of free job training and educational content for people in prison, filling a critical shortcoming and providing a lifeline to incarcerated people across the country. Learn more and get involved on our website!
- Website
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https://learnlevel.org/
External link for Level
- Industry
- Education
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Austin, Texas
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2019
- Specialties
- OER, publishing, education, prison education, GED, high school equivalency, Creative Commons, social innovation, nonprofit, job training, adult education, programming, and computer science
Locations
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Primary
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411 Monroe St W
Austin, Texas 78704, US
Employees at Level
Updates
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Updates from Level 💥 May 2024 This month, we're proud to break down one month of distribution to show how we serve people in #prison with #education and #jobtraining programs, even when they don't have access to computers or internet https://lnkd.in/g_97mf8N #PrisonEd #PrisonEducation #futureofwork
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Sharing what's new at Level's #prisoneducation program 🚀 - 963 incarcerated learners served in the first three months of 2024 and 4,731⭐️ incarcerated learners served in total! - 1,001 educational and job training guides sent directly to people in prison in the first three months of 2024, 9,485⚡ in total - 337👏🏽 certificates sent to people in prison in the first three months of 2024 See more ➡️ https://lnkd.in/g_97mf8N "I have been incarcerated for over 29 years. This computer science guide has helped me gain a better understanding to the type of world I’m about to enter. I knew nothing about computer science or technology, except for what little I have been exposed to or told about. This guide was enlightening. Thank you!" – Orlando, incarcerated in Illinois
What's New At Level - Prison Education Updates
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The team at Level is so thrilled that Sarah Pollock, MPA has joined our team as a Program Manager overseeing our novel (and very quickly growing) prison education program. Sarah has served for the past year and a half on our distribution and fulfillment team. With her contributions, our program has grown to serve over 900 state, federal, county and military prisons in 48 states. Now that Sarah has come on as Program Manager, she'll be working on growing our volunteer and family services program as well as continuing to serve more people in prison across the country with transformative adult education and job training programs.
Non-profit program manager, elections administration nerd, and aspiring Texas policy wonk.
I'm thrilled to share that I began serving as Program Manager at Level this month! Working for the last year and a half to distribute Level's educational content to people in prison has been instructive and deeply rewarding. I'm so grateful for this chance to grow with and within this organization, and I look forward to the new challenges and opportunities our work will doubtlessly bring.
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Level will be taking the ⚡ Philanthropitch⚡stage in just under 2 weeks here in Austin. Come out to hear a fast shark tank style pitch for a new #prisoneducation project we'll be releasing next year. 5 innovative nonprofits up on stage each pushing their important work, and the judges, supporting partners and 💥YOU💥 will decide who gets the gold 🥇 Get your FREE tickets here: https://lnkd.in/gnQQUqNM Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gURiUyi
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Level is 💥⚡THRILLED 💥⚡ to be a 2023 Philanthropitch Finalist taking the stage at Zach Theater on October 3 to pitch a transformative new project that will bring even more education and job training opportunities to people in prison across the country so they can thrive when released! We’re honored to be part of this year’s event along with The Arc of the Capital Area, Jail to Jobs, Keep Austin Fed and Second Day. We all hope you will come out to hear and support these innovative social entrepreneur organizations on October 3rd in #Austin - imagine the impact we can achieve when passionate individuals like 🔥🌈 YOU 🌈🔥 rally behind us! Grab a ticket on the Philanthropitch website, and we'll see you there.
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