Pennywise is pleased to announce our new partnership with the Last Prisoner Project:,  a coalition of cannabis industry leaders, executives, and artists dedicated to bringing restorative justice to the cannabis industry. Over 40,000 cannabis prisoners in the United States alone are waiting to be decarcarated for convictions on activities that are no longer crimes, while countless others languish in jails and prisons worldwide. 

Mass incarceration has left prisons and jails highly susceptible to an outbreak given overcrowding, lack of resources, and little access to medical care. To address this situation public officials need to take steps to reduce overcrowding and ensure access to medical care. Founder, Steve DeAngelo, outlines steps that correctional institutions should be taking to protect our nation's incarcerated population from Covid-19,  Click HERE to learn what you can do to help. 

In the heart of the Amazon rainforest youth activists, indigenous leaders, scientists and forest dwellers are building a new alliance and demonstrating that the rainforest is central to life.

​"Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake." — Sara Raasch
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Together, let us be the storm that brings positive change to the world around us. Peace and light from the Pennywise Foundation.

​Pennywise will continue our Giving Tuesday tradition of making small, unsolicited grants to uniquely effective non-profits so that they can spend a little less time fundraising and more time advancing their critical missions. Some of their priorities include reproductive rights, immigrant rights and climate change.

What are your priorities?
Whatever they are, give what you can! Every penny adds up to change for a better world.

“Our lands are being invaded, our leaders murdered, attacked and criminalized, and the Brazilian state is abandoning Indigenous peoples to their fate with the ongoing dismantling of environmental and indigenous policies.” -The Association of Brazilian Indigenous Peoples 

Paulo Paulino Guajajara was murdered during a hunting trip with a friend in the Araribóia reserve on Friday by a group of five loggers working illegally in the area. The murder is one of a string of losses for Brazil’s indigenous communities, as miners and loggers make more and bolder incursions into Indigenous territories and other protected areas. " -Manuela Andreoni and Letícia Casado
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We must react with clear strategies to protect the land and the people of the Amazon. Amazon Hope joins together the specialists most intimately engaged with the Xingu and the diverse indigenous peoples who call it home.  It aims to jointly consider the current crisis – the hardest hit portion of the Amazon – and communicate its vitality and importance to interested partners, potential donors and the public.

​Through Amazon Hope, scientists, artists and indigenous leaders are working to devise solutions. The creation of a southern Amazon indigenous “firewall,” will be used as a tool to protect the lands, forests, waters and cultural heritage. Technology will empower indigenous people themselves, who constitute a veritable army of committed individuals, zealously looking for solutions to defend against the decimation of their lands and livelihoods. 

​Pennywise is pleased to announce our newest partner in positive change - Kantora Action for Green (KAG)!  KAG is a registered environmental nonprofit organization in the Gambia that seeks to educate and empower young people to act towards caring for the environment through sports. They use the power of sports to bring young people together to actively participate in the rehabilitation of the depleting vegetation in the Kantora district of Upper River Region in The Gambia. 

​Our thoughts are with the people of Haiti and SOIL, our grantee partner there, as that nation confronts an economic and political crisis. Access to water, food, electricity, fuel and transportation have all become a challenge. Schools are closed and supplies at hospitals are dangerously low. For families already struggling to get by on a day-to-day basis, the challenges caused by dramatically increased costs for basic necessities are unspeakable. People from all walks of life have been in the streets almost daily for weeks calling for accountability and political change in the face of an uncertain future.