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John,
In a moment, I’m going to ask you to join me in supporting the Innocence Project — but first, I want to tell you why this work is so important to me.
I got involved with the Innocence Project after learning about a man named Kenny Waters, who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
In 2001, he was exonerated with the help of the Innocence Project and his sister, Betty Anne Waters, who put herself through college and law school for the sole purpose of helping her brother. That kind of love, faith, and determination blew me away and inspired me to make the 2010 film “Conviction” based on their story. And that’s when I started diving deep into the world of wrongful convictions and really getting involved with the Innocence Project.
Since then, I’ve become incredibly invested in this work, and I’m proud to serve as an Innocence Project board member. Every single day, the staff here fight to free innocent people from incarceration — and to me, there’s no more just cause than that.
We’re about to come up on a big deadline as an organization: the end of the fiscal year. This is the time where we finalize our plans and our budget for the next 12 months, so it’s an important time to take stock of the funds we have and know that we have our base of grassroots supporters behind us for the year to come. So before the end of the month, will you make a donation to help ensure we have all the resources we need for the next year?
Thanks to a generous supporter, all gifts up to $75,000 will be matched, dollar-for-dollar, until June 30 — so this is a great time to make an impact.
For more than 30 years, the Innocence Project has been fighting to free innocent people and transform our criminal legal system through policy advocacy — and we’ve had tremendous success.
The staff here have helped free or exonerate 243 people who spent a collective 3,777 years wrongly incarcerated. The policy team has fought to pass more than 200 transformative state laws and federal reforms. Together, we’ve built a coalition of more than 70 independently funded organizations that provide investigative support, legal representation, and assistance to people with claims of innocence in 50 states and 12 countries outside of the U.S.
This is a long-lasting, impactful legacy — and it’s a legacy worth supporting. I know that working to transform a system may seem insurmountable, but together we can create a united front to fight for the innocent and let them know that we will not stop until they see the justice they deserve.
Please, make a matched donation before the end-of-fiscal-year deadline and let’s keep fighting for justice side by side.
Thank you for your support,
Tony Goldwyn
Board Member and Ambassador
Innocence Project
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