The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls is a U.S.-based advocacy and membership organization founded in 2010 by women incarcerated at Danbury Federal Prison. Led by directly impacted women, its mission is to end the incarceration of women and girls, reduce family separation, build community-based alternatives to imprisonment, and advance leadership and policy change through organizing, public education, movement lawyering, and international solidarity.
Criminal justice reform and decarceration focused on women and girls, gender-responsive alternatives to incarceration, reentry supports and economic stability programs (including guaranteed income pilots), family reunification, ending harmful carceral practices (e.g., shackling of pregnant people, lack of dignity items), public awareness and leadership development for formerly incarcerated women, and international advocacy to reduce female incarceration globally.
Primarily philanthropic grants and donations, including foundation grants and major gifts (e.g., Open Philanthropy, Ford Foundation, New Venture Fund), contributions via donor-advised funds and charitable giving platforms, and individual grassroots donations and program-specific partners.
Andrea C. James (founder and executive director), Fund for Guaranteed Income (F4GI), Families for Justice as Healing, New Venture Fund, ActBlue Charities, Open Philanthropy, Ford Foundation
Non-profit (501(c)(3))
