Doug Bond, Chief Executive Officer: Mr. Bond transitioned into the role of CEO of Amity  Foundation in July 2018 following the secession planning with the Founder/CEO Rod Mullen  who served in the position for over 35 years. Mr. Bond first came to Amity in 1983 after being in  several foster homes and was reunited with his father who was incarcerated. His Father and  Sister spent two years at Amity and was one of the first children to be allowed to reunite with  this father while going through a reentry program. Mr. Bond’s mother Betty Garcia also came to  Amity after her release from prison in 1986 and later went on to help open the first in prison  program in California at RJ Donovan. Mr. Bond would reunite with his mother almost twenty  years later when he came to Amity as a student in need of services. He has lost several of his  family members due to the opioid crisis in America and he recently received custody of his  eight-year-old niece after his sisters’ overdose. His family experience with incarceration,  addiction, poverty, and violence has driven his commitment to creating safe teaching and  therapeutic environments for men, women, and children.  

Mr. Bond spent two years in an apprenticeship and joined Amity as an employee in 2008. Mr.  Bond has served in various roles for Amity Foundation including Housing Director, Facility  Director, Jail in Reach Director, and Director of California Services and Operations, Vice  President, COO, and Executive Vice President. Mr. Bond currently oversees multiple contracts  for Amity Foundation in California, and Arizona. including four residential campuses serving  over 500 people a day. He is currently developing 300 units of permanent housing and over  200 more beds for residential services. Under his leadership, in 2019 Amity was awarded the  Specialized Treatment for Optimized Programing (STOP) contract, which is the primary  contractor for LA County parole services funding over 80 reentry sites in LA. Most recently, 

Amity was awarded three regional contracts to provide In-Prison Substance Use Disorder  Treatment services spanning 18 prison locations throughout the state of California, which will  serve over 13,000 individuals per year. In 2020 Doug also let the implementation of the  Returning Home Well Initiative, a $30 million dollar private/public partnership to provide  coordinated reentry services for individuals reentering the community early from incarceration  due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, starting in May 2021, Mr. Bond will oversee the  largescale, $9 million renovation of Amity’s largest residential campus, Amistad de Los  Angeles.  

Mr. Bond has been instrumental in expanding the California services which has gone from  serving 2,000 people to over 13,000 people a year. Mr. Bond has been instrumental in  expanding Amity Foundation from an annual budget of $12 million and 150 employees to an annual budget of nearly $50 million and over 400 employees. He has helped to ensure that men  and women with lived experience have the same opportunities he has been given and has been a  champion in hiring those who have been formerly incarcerated. This includes employment  preparation and vocational training for Amity’s residential Teaching and Therapeutic  Communities. Amity’s employment services have been effective in serving the needs of nearly  500 people last year. He has also been part of the design and management team for the Just in  Reach (JIR) jail project funded through the Department of Health Services which works to serve  some of the most at risk for recidivism and homelessness. Just in Reach is LA’s first Social  Impact Bond project with the Department of Health Services. Mr. Bond is also leading Amity’s  efforts in our partnership with Kedren Community Health Center, Inc., to integrate our systems 

of care to develop a Health Neighborhood for the men, women, and families that we serve in our  community.  

Since 2008, he has also become a critical member of reentry services community-based groups in  the United States. Mr. Bond sits on the CDCR Director Service Advisory Group (DSAG). Mr.  Bond has chaired the California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation DSAG Housing  Committee, and is a member of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation  Integrated Care Committee, the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles Regional Reentry  Partnership (LARRP), the United Homeless Healthcare Partners (UHHP) and the advisory board  for the Center for Social Entrepreneurship and sits on the Board of Directors of the World  Federation of Therapeutic communities (WFTC), Treatment communities of America (TCA),  and the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Program Executives (CAAPDE). Mr. Bond  has been dedicated to systems change and collaboration with nonprofit agencies and is deeply  committed to helping those he serves move from a place of degradation to dignity.