The 2000 Roses Foundation was founded in 1999 by Dallas entrepreneurs Alonzo Harris and Kelly Wiley, who to this day remain motivated by a deep personal understanding of the challenges that inmates face as they leave prison and transition to society.

The mission of the Foundation is to provide transitional rehabilitation for women whose backgrounds include substance abuse or domestic violence and who are re-entering the community after incarceration by providing housing, continuing education and life-skills and job-skills training.