Carl Brown: The Fountain Fund
Own It: Starting a Business after Prison
English - October 01, 2018 23:12 - 32 minutes - 14.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBusiness criminaljustice prison business entrepreneurship reentry Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Carl Brown is the program manager with The Fountain Fund in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Fountain Fund helps formerly incarcerated people by providing them with low interest loans that they can use to repay fees incurred during their involvement with the criminal justice system. https://www.fountainfund.org/
By helping them out with their immediate needs, The Fountain Fund can ensure that their clients have the necessary support from partner organizations and instill in them the entrepreneurial mindset so they can find their way to economic independence.