OUR HISTORY

Another Way To Go started as The End Violence Project, a non profit organization created by  Mahin Bina  and a group of people with diverse backgrounds and nationalities with the shared vision of ending violence without violence.

In 1990 Mahin was invited by Jerry Mims, a Lifer at Graterford Prison in Pennsylvania, to work with Lifers Inc. After working with the Lifers, Mahin created a new program inside Graterford. Jerry Mims and the first group of participants were strong partners of the End Violence Project for the invention of a new, transformational program inside the walls of prison.

The End Violence Project has been running continuously since 1990 and is currently the longest running Department of Corrections program in Pennsylvania. EVP expanded to other stats including Tennessee and Florida, and in 2012 a New England branch was launched, with has led programs in 6 prisons in Massachusetts.

Thousands of participants have completed our in-prison programs, titled Another Way To Go and Leadership Training and Transformational Thinking.

We also lead a program outside the walls in halfway houses, called Freedom By Design.

The success of our work is best summed up in the words of one Pennsylvania prison official: “The guys who complete The End Violence Project program don’t come back to prison.”