The Power of HOPE

HOPE is our pathway to…

Your gift gives system-impacted individuals a safe home, career training and a platform to be heard.

Four pathways

Every gift opens a pathway.

The LOHM walks with individuals through four phases of HOPE. Your gift makes the next step possible for someone else.

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Help & Healing

HOPE is our pathway to healing.

Visits that reunite incarcerated mothers and fathers with their kids.

$1200 reunites one family for a visit.

Our family visitation grants cover travel so children can see their incarcerated mothers and fathers, keeping families connected while a parent is inside.

Learn more about Family Visitation
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Optimism & Opportunity

HOPE is our pathway to opportunity.

Job training, Grow with Google and fellowships through Pathways 4 Equity (P4E).

$1600 funds 5 months of job training.

Pathways 4 Equity (P4E) offers digital skills training, Grow with Google career certificates, a paid Career Ready Fellowship and fair chance employer partnerships.

Learn more about Pathways 4 Equity
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Progress & Power

HOPE is our pathway to progress.

Individuals once silenced, now speaking to lawmakers through Faces of Women Imprisoned.

$1000 helps an advocate share her story.

Faces of Women Imprisoned (FOWI) trains justice-impacted women as professional speakers who share their stories with lawmakers, media and communities to change policy.

Learn more about Faces of Women Imprisoned
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Empowerment & Exit Planning

HOPE is our pathway to empowerment and independence.

Transitional housing and rapid rehousing in five cities.

$500 covers emergency move-in supplies.

Hope House and Rapid Rehousing provide safe, trauma-informed reentry housing in New York, Maryland, New Orleans, Miami and Detroit, with support for planning what comes next.

Learn more about Hope House

Ways to give this season

Pick a campaign. Make it personal.

Honor someone you love, give every month or give from your donor-advised fund. Every gift helps someone begin again. Join us at an event or sponsor a project that speaks to you. Each campaign funds a different part of our work.

This season of giving

Wrap your generosity in HOPE.

Make a gift to The LOHM in someone's honor and help someone begin again.

In honor or in memory

Celebrate someone special or remember a loved one with a gift that carries their legacy forward.

Give HOPE every month

$41.67 a month

Just $1.37 a day

Give HOPE
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Donor-advised funds

Give from your donor-advised fund

A donor-advised fund is a charitable account you can grant from to support the causes you love. DAF Direct lets you recommend a tax-deductible grant to The LOHM straight from your fund.

Works with Fidelity Charitable, DAFgiving360 and BNY Mellon.

Give with DAF Direct

Prefer to mail or wire your gift? Mail a check payable to The LOHM to 8 W 126 Street, New York, NY 10027, or contact us to wire your gift.

This month's HOPE story

“Grief is not only the loss of someone you love, but it is the loss of many significant things we lose in our lives, such as our freedom.”

Ayana Thomas, FOWI alumna and grief and bereavement counselor

Ayana served three years in the Federal Bureau of Prisons and joined our Faces of Women Imprisoned (FOWI) program in 2021. She went on to found The Ayana Thomas Initiative, helping others impacted by incarceration through their own healing journeys. Your gift helps the next person reclaim their purpose.

Help someone take their next step

Share your HOPE

Everyone has a HOPE story. Finish the sentence in a post or short video, and tag us.

“HOPE was my pathway to…”

@thelohm · #LOHMHope

From our founder

Hope is in our name.

“When you give a woman a voice, and when you give a woman a chance, you’re changing the world.”

Dr. Topeka K. Sam, founder of The LOHM

The Founder’s Circle

Stand with Dr. Topeka K. Sam as a Founder’s Circle member. Your annual gift sustains The LOHM’s work all year long.

Join the Founder’s Circle
Dr. Topeka K. Sam, founder of The Ladies of Hope Ministries

Give a gift

Shop a wish list.

Send items individuals need for a new job or a new home.

Opportunity

The Power of HOPE: Opportunity

Supplies for individuals in P4E, Pathways for Economic Empowerment.

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Empowerment

The Power of HOPE: Housing

Essentials for individuals moving into transitional housing and rapid rehousing.

Two women sitting at a table in discussion by a window; one woman is handing a key to another. A laptop is open on the table showing an email screen. Text on black background reads: 'THE POWER OF HOPE HOUSING HOPE is our pathway to empowerment and independence. Text LOHMHOPE to 41444.'