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This St. Louis–based nonprofit has reduced Missouri’s reincarceration rates by more than 40 percent. Now it’s expanding to other states

Via St. Louis Magazine Next, Danny Ludeman’s Concordance Academy will replicate its first-of-its-kind program in Chicago. When thinking of incarceration in America, Danny Ludeman talks about Monica, a 20-year-old woman who was in the same prison at the same time as her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. “This is not atypical,” the former Wells Fargo CEO says. This story

David Steward leading $50M campaign to expand Concordance

Non-profit works to reduce reincarceration rates David Steward, chairman and founder of World Wide Technology, is leading St. Louis-based Concordance Academy’s First Chance capital campaign to raise $50 million to scale its model for reducing reincarceration rates nationally and to expand its programs to 11 other cities by 2025. Chicago will be the next city

First-of-its-Kind Nonprofit Plans to Take Proven Model to Reduce Reincarceration Rates Nationally

Concordance Academy of Leadership "First Chance" campaign to raise $50 million to expand to 11 new cities to prevent people from going back to prison, cut crime and save governments millions of dollars. 

The Fellows

In 2016, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner established a unique partnership with Concordance Academy of Leadership in St. Louis, a non-profit organization providing holistic re-entry services to individuals released from incarceration. Since 2016, Concordance Academy ("Concordance") has provided its quality, integrated services to more than 500 program participants, and in doing so, has proven to reduce recidivism by more than 38%.

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