Read about Nancy's upcoming speech at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, plans for a new reentry room at the new Marion County Jail, and about other happenings at Unite Indy in our October 2022 newsletter.
Nancy Cotterill co-founded 2nd Chance Indiana (as UNITE INDY) in late 2016. She was editor and later publisher of Indianapolis Business Journal, and then created a not-for-profit online news outlet for the four million wheelchair users in the U.S. As an award-winning journalist, Nancy uses her talents to promote efforts to fight the causes of overall poverty throughout our area while working to spread the specific message that second chance employment is lowering recidivism, changing lives, and raising families out of poverty.
January 20, 2026
Transportation Poverty, Lite Program Accomplishments, 2CI Job Counselor Gives Hope, & More!
"Headlines around the U.S. are awakening communities to the problem of Transportation Poverty, which includes up to 67% of reentrants who don't have access to a car or truck. Without it they won't be able to apply for jobs, or get there every day so they can keep the job...."
December 19, 2025
"Thanks to 2nd Chance Indiana's Job Counselor, and it's Career Path Workshop, 85% of reentrants who took the Career Workshop are employed. THAT is an INCREDIBLE." - Julie Fidler, Program Director, Duval Work Release Facility
December 5, 2025
Jeremy Hayes is like many men who paid the price for a mistake and just wanted a better life. He wrote us recently and said, "A little over two weeks after I got out of jail, I was given a second chance , and that opportunity changed my life.
