Dream.org explained
Dream.org is a non-profit organization co-founded by Van Jones, Jessica Jackson, and Matt Haney. It focuses on issues such as mass incarceration, climate change, and poverty by advocating for new legislation, creating green jobs, and teaching low-income children about computer programming.
History
Jessica Jackson and Matt Haney met Van Jones during a chance meeting and began talking with him about criminal justice reform.[1] Over breakfast they scribbled ideas on a napkin which later led to the formation of #cut50.[1]
In 2015, Jackson, Haney, and Jones joined to co-found #cut50, an organization focused on bipartisan solutions to criminal justice reform issues.[2] [3] [4] [5] As #cut50, Dream Corps worked alongside members of Congress, and the Trump Administration to develop and pass the First Step Act of 2018.[1]
In 2021, Jeff Bezos reportedly gave Dream.org $100,000,000 (USD) as a donation.[6]
Since 2021, Dream.Org Justice (formerly known as #cut50) has advocated for passage of the Eliminating a Quantifiably Unjust Application of the Law (EQUAL) Act to eliminate sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine.[7],[8]
Dream Corps TECH
Dream Corps TECH started as #YesWeCode in early 2015 alongside Rebuild the Dream.[9] The organization works to teach low-income kids how to code.[9]
Notes and References
- News: Canon . Gabrielle . Jessica Jackson, a single mom from California, took on the prison system — and changed her life . 30 January 2021 . USA Today . November 29, 2019 . 3 February 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210203163434/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/29/single-mom-took-prison-system-changing-narrative-cut-50-kim-kardashian/4002583002/ . live .
- Web site: Jessica Jackson Sloan - Marin Magazine - June 2016 - Marin County, California. www.marinmagazine.com. 23 May 2016 . en. 2017-05-25. 2017-06-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20170605003042/http://www.marinmagazine.com/June-2016/Jessica-Jackson-Sloan/. live.
- News: Going local is the solution for the justice system reform. 28 April 2017. MSNBC. October 20, 2015. 16 September 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170916140143/http://www.msnbc.com/changing-america/watch/localizing-justice-system-reform-548084291933. live.
- A Republican Governor Is Leading the Country's Most Successful Prison Reform. New Republic. 2017-05-25. en-US. 2017-05-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20170517134836/https://newrepublic.com/article/121425/gop-governor-nathan-deal-leading-us-prison-reform. live.
- News: This Millennial Activist Believes Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform Will Happen, Even Under Trump. Hecht. Jon. Bustle. 2017-05-25. en. 2017-04-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20170419142019/https://www.bustle.com/p/this-millennial-activist-believes-bipartisan-criminal-justice-reform-will-happen-even-under-trump-51377. live.
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/van-jones-jeff-bezos-dollar100m-man-pushed-out-of-his-non-profit
- https://www.npr.org/2023/01/09/1147909174/a-bill-that-would-have-impacted-racial-disparity-in-cocaine-crimes-died-in-the-s
- https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/4079252-justice-for-all-its-time-to-end-the-discrimination-between-crack-and-cocaine-sentencing/
- News: Guynn . Jessica . Program teaches low-income kids to code . 13 April 2021 . USA Today . January 19, 2015 . 13 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210413183023/https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/01/19/van-jones-yes-we-code-diversity-technology/21889543/ . live .
