Beginning at the age of 22, Ed spent over 13 years on death row for 2 murders that he did not commit.

Ronald says, “Working 7 hours a day, and then having to walk a mile after getting off a bus just to get home … this means I don’t have to do that no more.”

StepUp Durham is real serious about helping people.

I heard about StepUp Durham in April 2023, shortly after coming home from prison.

Durham program providing stipend to ex-offenders sees success

Nonprofit StepUp Durham provided data on how its guaranteed basic income program doing since launching in March.

Tyler Brackfield is one of the participants who was selected for the program. While Brackfield said he is on the right track now as he is working for a company that specializes in electrical automation, he said it wasn’t always been this way.

More than 100 formerly incarcerated Durhamites receive universal basic income deposits