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| Formation | 2015 |
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Dream.org is a non-profit organization co-founded by Van Jones, Jessica Jackson, and Matt Haney. It focuses on issues such as mass incarceration, climate change, and poverty by advocating for new legislation, creating green jobs, and teaching low-income children about computer programming.
Jessica Jackson and Matt Haney met Van Jones during a chance meeting and began talking with him about criminal justice reform. [1] Over breakfast they scribbled ideas on a napkin which later led to the formation of #cut50. [1]
In 2015, Jackson, Haney, and Jones joined to co-found #cut50, an organization focused on bipartisan solutions to criminal justice reform issues. [2] [3] [4] [5] As #cut50, Dream Corps worked alongside members of Congress, and the Trump Administration to develop and pass the First Step Act of 2018. [1]
In 2021, Jeff Bezos reportedly gave Dream.org $100,000,000 (USD) as a donation. [6]
Dream Corps TECH started as #YesWeCode in early 2015 alongside Rebuild the Dream. [7] The organization works to teach low-income kids how to code. [7]
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