Jim Cotterill co-founded 2nd Chance Indiana (as UNITE INDY) in late 2016. After a decade as the founding president of National Christian Foundation Indiana following several years developing a chain of Business Journals across the country, he and his wife, Nancy, were led to serve those coming out of long term incarceration by helping them find and keep jobs that pay a living wage. Jim and Nancy believe that, through the dignity of work, reentrants' lives can be changed and their families can be lifted out of poverty.
June 14, 2025
Much news! From the South Bend Region that needs van transportation for reentrants to get back and forth to work, to meetings with new potential employer partners...Lots going on!
May 15, 2025
So much news: A big jobs expo attracts over 300 reentrants; 2CI's V.P. goes to college to teach some criminal justice students; and Fastenal's hiring people with no experience, will train! Plus Watch Netflix's UNLOCKED. Amazing! (So much more!)
April 15, 2025
A Pennsylvania prison put a bunch of mixed race, mixed conviction level felons into an experimental cell block that seems to have changed everything—themselves, the guards, and the future. This is the future!
Read all about it, and use the links to read this fascinating piece on how a change in how we run our prisons could be revolutionary. Also, today there's a waiting list of nine employers who need 12 vans now, with another 20 employers across the state who are in talks with our Transportation team regarding their coming needs. Grant money from the Federal Government is held up, plus, lots more.
