Kurt M. Danysh

Kurt Danysh is the Founder and Executive Director of Tomorrow’s Neighbors, a nonprofit reentry organization in Central Pennsylvania.  Kurt founded Tomorrow’s Neighbors while serving a 24-year prison sentence.  He was released in 2020.  In 2022, Tomorrow’s Neighbors was named Nonprofit of the Year and awarded a $1 million grant from Cumberland County to open The Cumberland House; a 13-bed reentry housing solution.  Specializing in long term incarceration, the “Cumberland Model” provides peer-facilitated reentry support.

The Cumberland House is presently being studied by Penn State University to determine precisely why/how its model has produced such positive outcomes.   Kurt sits on various Committees, Coalitions, and Boards, sharing his lived experience to improve our criminal justice system.  Kurt was recently named a “Catalyst for Change” by the Commonwealth Prevention Alliance.