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    Everytown For Gun Safety Announces $2.5 Million Grant Program to Support March for Our Lives “Sibling Marches” Around the Country

    3.2.2018

      Led by Our Nation’s Youth, Americans to Rally in D.C. and Local Communities and ‘March for Our Lives’ on March 24; They Will Demand Lawmakers Pass Common-Sense Gun Safety Legislation in the Wake of the Deadliest School Shooting Since Sandy Hook

      Find or Register a Sibling March at www.MarchforOurLives.com/events

      NEW YORK – Everytown for Gun Safety today unveiled a $2.5 million nationwide grant program to support sibling marches inspired by the March for Our Lives movement on March 24. In the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School – the deadliest school shooting since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook School in 2012 – students have banded together to lead marches in our nation’s capital and in communities around the country. They will demand that lawmakers make students’ lives and safety a priority and pass common-sense gun safety legislation.

      Everytown will make available up to $2.5 million – 500 grants of $5,000 – to support organic, local sibling marches in communities big and small around the country. The goal of the grant program is to ensure that sibling marches around the country have operational resources to organize these powerful events.

      Grant applications will be made available to registered sibling march organizers only. Organizers are encouraged to register their marches at www.MarchforOurLives.com/events

      STATEMENT FROM JOHN FEINBLATT, PRESIDENT OF EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY:

      “Students are making history and demanding that our elected officials protect them. Everytown is proud to help them make their voices heard on March 24, and we look forward to more Americans following their lead to forge meaningful change to our country’s gun laws.”

      Grant applications will be shared with registered event organizers and can be made to any affiliated nonprofit that will be supporting the registered local sibling march. The grants can be used to support operational needs for successful marches (i.e. permits, equipment rentals, signs and banners, and transportation).

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      Did you know?

      Every day, more than 120 people in the United States are killed with guns, twice as many are shot and wounded, and countless others are impacted by acts of gun violence.

      Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Underlying Cause of Death, 2018–2022; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) nonfatal firearm injury data, 2020; and SurveyUSA Market Research Study #26602, 2022.

      Last updated: 5.7.2024