SUPPORT CPO TODAY!
The generous contributions of our supporting community are essential to meeting our operating needs. Our volunteers depend on your support to provide the program materials and services that are so beneficial to our incarcerated neighbors. We appreciate your generosity, and we are ever grateful for your support.
Holiday Gift Bag Project 2024
For decades, Concord Prison Outreach has sponsored this vital project, supporting incarcerated individuals throughout Massachusetts by providing a bag of simple, useful gifts.
Providing Holiday Gift Bags for incarcerated individuals is an act of kindness. The cost of supplies and assembly for one gift bag is $16. Your donation could be the most appreciated gift you give this holiday season.
Other Ways to Give
Tribute Gifts
Give a tribute gift to honor or memorialize a special person. (by mail or online).
CPO will let the recipient or recipients’ family know of this special recognition.
Give through your Donor Advised Fund!
What Is a Donor-Advised Fund? A Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) is a philanthropic giving vehicle that provides an immediate tax benefit to you, and allows you to grant funds to charities of your choice
How to Recommend a Gift to CPO:
-Request a grant distribution through your DAF sponsor.
-Be sure to use EIN# 04-3439438
-Indicate that your gift is intended to support Concord Prison Outreach
Matching Gifts
A matching gift from your employer is an easy way to double (or even triple!) your impact. Ask your HR department if your company provides matching gifts.
Additional information that may be helpful when completing your matching gift form:
Concord Prison Outreach
100 Main Street, Suite 130, Concord, MA 01742
Tax ID / EIN 04-3439438 / Contact Sam Williams – Executive Director
Planned Giving
Create Your Legacy – Your legacy gift to CPO will help us realize our vision to enable all people who are incarcerated in Massachusetts to have access to meaningful educational and personal growth opportunities.
To make a gift in your estate plans to support CPO, contact your attorney or financial planner.
Your previous gifts have allowed:
- 72 men read aloud a children’s book on video to be sent home to their child–a way to be “present” although far away.
- 115 men had the opportunity to read and discuss works of literature and spiritual healing in small book groups.
- 75 men learned horticultural skills, planted and maintained gardens, both flower and vegetable, in both Concord prisons.
- 1400 men and 200 women received a gift bag of stationary and toiletries during the holiday season.
- *200 people benefited from emotional literacy classes.
- 120 children receive a backpack containing back to school supplies.
