Abe Brown Ministries, a Hillsborough County nonprofit with a mission to help released inmates break the cycle of incarceration and build a new future, is one of a handful of organizations across the country to win funding through a new initiative focused on reentry housing programs.
In late 2024, national nonprofit Impact Justice awarded a combined $800,000 to the six organizations through the National Housing Incubator Award. The program, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance, received 128 applications from 26 states.
“Our proposal to Impact Justice was to provide bridge housing to formerly incarcerated people,” says Abe Brown Ministries President Robert Blount, III…