Dear friends -

As we usher in the holiday season, let’s remember those communities who are in great need this season. Despite an ongoing global pandemic, gun violence has reached devastatingly high levels nationwide and Black and Brown communities have been hit the hardest.

Gun violence takes lives or leaves long-lasting scars for those impacted. Too many Black and Brown Americans don’t feel safe in their own communities - fearing an encounter with a neighbor or the police could turn deadly. This is not ok!

Together we can end the crisis of gun violence. Please donate to Community Justice today for Giving Tuesday!

Since our inception, CJAF has set out to reverse the unfortunate and often overlooked impact of gun violence on communities of color by:

Changing the conversation around gun violence prevention through educational and media campaigns that highlight the root causes of violence in our communities.
Advancing community-based approaches that empower communities, by securing increased government resources and building a holistic political approach to gun violence prevention not rooted in increasing law enforcement.
Strengthening the political power of the Black and brown communities most impacted by gun violence to advocate for solutions to end gun violence.
Transforming how lawmakers approach gun violence prevention and ensure our communities have a seat at the decision-making table.

We believe we can end gun violence in Black and Brown communities by organizing neighbors, building coalitions and making investments in more community support, not more police. We believe in investing in communities hardest hit by gun violence, not criminalizing them.

And most of all, we believe that by listening to and learning from the voices and needs of those most affected by gun violence, we can move beyond conventional approaches and focus on solutions that effectively tackle the root causes of that violence.

This #GivingTuesday we are asking you to support our work to build power in communities of color to end gun violence.

What your #GivingTuesday Donation Will Support:

Growing Our Advocacy Staff In Key States
Training Activists And Survivors To Fight For Change
Funding Awareness Campaigns To Address Violence
Supporting Policymakers pushing policy to address violence
Funding Policy Research and Creating New Policy Approaches
Providing Advocacy Support for Community Violence Intervention Organizations
Organizing Communities To Turn Out the Vote in 2022

We have an ambitious month ahead of us to close out 2021, and even more we want to accomplish in 2022. We need your support more than ever.

Will you invest in our efforts to end gun violence this #GivingTuesday?

Thank you all for being our partners in this fight.

In solidarity,

Greg Jackson Jr.

Executive Director