‘They gave me $40 and a bus ticket’ — founder of platform helping former prison inmates

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‘They gave me $40 and a bus ticket’ — founder of platform helping former prison inmates
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How one US company is using impact investing to get people back on their feet after release

Sitting in a small room in his apartment block’s co-working space in Yonkers, New York, Andre Peart joins a 10am call with his IT team halfway across the country. The 33-year-old chief executive and founder of Untapped Solutions is chatting to colleagues about technology updates to their free platform which, since 2020, has offered support to people coming out of prison — helping them to find jobs, and access healthcare and education.

“It’s taking those three things together and finding innovations to scale good policy or disrupt bad policy.” He believes there should be economic opportunities to create better business models and outcomes for vulnerable people involved in the criminal legal system.

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