Join Us
We rely on the support of volunteers, donors, sponsors, partners, and our community to make this important work possible. Some of the ways that you can get involved are posted regularly below. We hope that YOU will be a part of the innocence movement!
Be sure to subscribe to our e-newsletter and be the first to know when have a client coming home, an upcoming event, or other news to share. We send group emails about twice per month, so we won’t flood your inbox!
You can browse a few of our most recent e-newsletters at this link.
We Need Your Support!
Please show your support for our incarcerated, freed, and exonerated clients with a gift to the Pennsylvania Innocence Project today!
Despite the unexpected loss of our significant $600,000 federal grant this past spring, we are working hard to maintain critical legal and reentry services across Pennsylvania. With your help, we will welcome more wrongfully convicted clients home and walk with them throughout their reentry journeys into a rapidly changing world.
We are proud to join as a charity partner with the Love Run again next year, coming to Philadelphia on March 29, 2026!
We're starting to form our team of runners ready to raise funds and raise the profile of the Project in and around the city. Team members register for the race for free and choose to run (or walk!) the 7k or half marathon.
Interested in joining us? Send a note to development@PAinnocence.org. Let's get ready to train for a great race!
Save the Date: Love Run Philly
If you are an attorney interested in volunteering with us, please contact us at info@PAinnocence.org. Volunteers interested in other roles with our organization are welcome to contact us as well; however, we are a small staff with limited capacity to manage new volunteers at this time.
Undergraduate and law student volunteers help us with screening cases in the early stages of review, and gain valuable training on post-conviction work. We also host formal externship programs with most Pennsylvania law schools: Temple University, Drexel University, Villanova University, Duquesne University, and the University of Pittsburgh.
Internship and Volunteer Opportunities
Events: Thank you for joining us in Pittsburgh
Thank you to everyone who joined us in Pittsburgh for a special presentation on The Impact of Wrongful Convictions. Many thanks to our host, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC for helping to cultivate an engaging space full of supporters.
Every spring, the Innocence Network hosts an important annual gathering of freed and exonerated people, the professionals working to provide legal and reentry services, and advocates for the prevention of wrongful convictions. Every October we mark Wrongful Conviction Day - a day to raise awareness of the causes and remedies of wrongful convictions and to recognize the tremendous personal, social, and emotional costs of wrongful convictions for innocent people and their families. The coalition effort offers a wealth of resources each year for those looking to learn more about this issue area and to get involved with innocence organizations.
The Innocence Movement
The Pennsylvania Innocence Project is a part of the Innocence Network - a coalition of organizations dedicated to freeing the innocent and preventing wrongful convictions worldwide. The Network was established in 2005 and is now more than 70 members strong. Member organizations have achieved more than 700 exonerations.