OpenDoors logoOpenDoors

841 Broad Street
Providence, RI 02907

Established 2002
Phone: 401-781-5808
Fax: 401-781-5361
Website: www.opendoorsri.org
Email: info@opendoorsri.org

OpenDoors demonstrationOpenDoors serves formerly incarcerated individuals and their families through our resource center, financial literacy, employment, and mentoring programs. In addition, we advocate for policy changes that improve community safety, reduce recidivism, and increase opportunities for formerly incarcerated individuals to improve their lives and become contributing members of our communities.

Fundraising & Administrative Percentage
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OpenDoors is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to strengthen communities by supporting the formerly incarcerated. The organization's goals are to:
  • Successfully reintegrate formerly incarcerated individuals by preparing them pre-release and supporting them during the post release period and beyond
  • Reduce recidivism by streamlining opportunities for ex-offenders to become integral members of the community and society
  • Stabilize families of ex-offenders by providing services that build on individual and family strengths and needs
  • Reinvest in communities and reduce incarceration rates by promoting investment in education, community development, and a smart-on-crime criminal justice approach
In 2006, OpenDoors (then known as the RI Family Life Center) ran the successful Rhode Island Right to Vote Campaign. As a result of the campaign, RI became the first state in our nation's history to restore voting rights to formerly incarcerated individuals through public referendum.

Mother gets right to vote

Due to the success of the Right to Vote campaign, over 6,000 formerly disenfranchised individuals in Rhode Island were registered to vote in the 2008 election. Koren (above) was one of them.