Welcome Home Outreach Foundation Inc.
"I was in prison and you came to visit me." — Matthew 25:36
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Since 2009, Dan Maloney has been walking into prison yards across San Diego County to visit individuals serving long-term and life sentences. Many of these men have spent decades behind walls. He writes letters of support for parole hearings, helps connect people to transitional housing and resources, and steps in for men who have no one else in their corner. As someone approaches release, Dan makes sure a full set of clothing is ready and waiting. It is a small thing that is not small at all. It is the difference between leaving like a number and leaving like a person.
For years, this work ran on personal finances, the support of his home church, and the quiet generosity of people who heard what he was doing and wanted to help. Dan carried out this outreach while serving on the board of Welcome Home Ministries, and when that organization suspended operations, he kept going. The men he was serving did not stop needing him.
What was always missing was the structure to make the work permanent.
In March 2026, our family built that structure. Welcome Home Outreach Foundation Inc. is a California nonprofit established by Dan, his wife Shellee, and their children AJ and DJ to provide faith-based outreach and practical support to individuals rebuilding their lives after incarceration. Clothing, resources, parole advocacy, and the kind of steady, dignified support that makes reentry survivable.
Dan has been doing this work since 2009. We built the Foundation so it never has to stop.
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Your gift covers two things at once. The ministry side: dress-out clothing and shoes for people releasing from custody, hygiene kits, bus passes, shipping costs to get supplies to individuals before they leave, and basic transitional support during the first critical days home. The foundation side: the organizational costs of getting WHOF properly established as a legitimate, accountable nonprofit.
If you believe every person deserves a real second chance, with someone genuinely in their corner, this is that work. We are just finally making it official.
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