Wear Orange: National Gun Violence Awareness Day - June 2nd, 2017. Last year more than 500 influencers, corporations, non-profit partner organizations, elected officials, iconic landmarks and hundreds of thousands of Americans participated in the second annual National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Wear Orange was inspired by friends of Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old Chicago high school student killed by gunfire, who decided to honor her life by wearing orange – the color hunters wear in the woods to protect themselves and others.
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America works to implement common sense gun legislation. Their programs include:
- BeSMART campaign to help parents and adults prevent child gun deaths and injuries,
- The Everytown Survivor Network brings together Americans who have been personally affected by gun violence to work to reduce gun violence.
- Survivor Engagement Leads are the main point of contact for survivors of gun violence in their communities, and host regular in person meetings for survivors to be together, connect, and find peer-to-peer support.
- Gun Sense University: activist and organizing skills trainings that run year-round throughout the country.
- The Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund improves our understanding of the causes of gun violence - and the means to reduce it - by conducting groundbreaking original research, developing evidence based policies, and communicating this knowledge in the courts and the court of public opinion. Learn more at: https://everytownresearch.org/