Darrill Henry leaving the Orleans Parish Criminal Court in January 2023. (Image: Claire Bangser/Innocence Project)
Five Reasons to Become a Monthly Donor With the Innocence Project
Your ongoing support makes an impact to help free the innocent and transform justice.
02.14.25 By Abbey McHugh
After nearly 40 years, Robert DuBoise, 59, hugs his mother Myra DuBoise minutes after being released from Hardee Correctional Institute after compelling evidence that points to his innocence is presented with assistance of The Innocence Project on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020 in Bowling Green, Fla. (Casey Brooke Lawson/AP Images for The Innocence Project)
At the Innocence Project, our monthly donors play an integral role in driving lasting criminal and racial justice reform. Their steady support ensures we can keep freeing the innocent, preventing wrongful convictions, and creating fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone.
By becoming a monthly donor, you’ll not only help us sustain our work long-term and plan further ahead, but you’ll also gain access to premium experiences that bring you closer to the people whose lives you’re changing.
Here are five reasons to start donating monthly today:
1. By chipping in what you can every month, you can power our work for the long haul.
Monthly donations are vital to our ability to represent our clients without interruption and provide us with the stability we need to plan for the future. With your consistent support, we can take on more cases and continue to provide resources, like housing and healthcare, to our freed and exonerated clients.
2. Our monthly Speaking of Innocence series lets you hear directly from exonerees and experts.
Speaking of Innocence gives you the exclusive opportunity to engage with our work every month. These webinars typically feature conversations and Q&A with exonerees and subject matter experts centered on a particular aspect of our work, like race and the death penalty, false confessions, and police misconduct. There, you will see how your donation impacts every facet of our work.
Peter J. Neufeld, Barry Scheck, and Christina Swarns are joined my Innocence Project client Marvin Anderson for a Speaking of Innocence webinar.
3. You can enter all sweepstakes with your monthly donation.
Every year, the Innocence Project holds multiple sweepstakes to give away premium experiences. In 2024, we partnered with United Airlines to give away first-class tickets, Lollapalooza to give away VIP passes, and the New York Jets to give away suite tickets. As a monthly donor, you have the chance to win incredible prizes throughout the year without having to make an additional gift to enter.
2024 Lollapalooza sweepstakes winner Libby and her guest won VIP passes to the festival in Chicago
4. Every donation helps — no matter the amount.
No matter how much you donate, you are part of a community fueling our life-saving work! Because of this community’s generosity, the Innocence Project can continue to free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and support our freed or exonerated clients without disruption.
Norberto Peets walking outside a Bronx courthouse with his attorney Jane Pucher following his exoneration on May 9, 2023 (Image: Elijah Craig II Innocence Project)
5. With a donation today, you join a new community.
When you become a monthly donor, you join an exclusive community of dedicated supporters whose steady contributions are crucial to freeing the wrongfully convicted and transforming our criminal legal system.
Donors can set up an automatic monthly donation through our online giving platform. Pledge monthly today to help us continue our work.
Innocence Project client Perry Lott exonerated on Oct. 10, 2023 in Ada, Oklahoma (Image: September Bottoms/Innocence Project)
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