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We are a message based organization assisting the world to END interpersonal violence, promote forgiveness and presencing love.
In 2013, our Executive Director, Buck Blodgett, lost his only daughter, Jessie, to rape and murder. The murderer was close friend of Jessie and the Blodgett family. Buck immediately choose love over hate for the murderer and his family. His forgivenss and mention of "Love is greater than hate" at Jessie's funeral sparked a movement of inspiration on how forgiveness allows us to always choose love in a world that can be consumed with darkness. Here is our most watched YouTube video: Us thereafter
Currently, we have live programs in schools, organizations and the Wisconsin prison system. Buck presents all over the US. Jessie's story has been seen and heard on 5 continents. We have documentary specials on Dateline NBC and True Crimes. We reach about 3 million people per year. We have a social media following of about 27,000.
We have launched our pilot Chapters progam. This will allow us to have L>h chapers all around the world. We have six ways for people to be involved with our project; 1. Follow us on social 2. Share your story (of interpersonal violence) 3. Start a chapter 4. Volunteer 5. Donate 6. Share ideas (what can we do to create greater impact.) We have also introduced a new events program this year to help message and educate on prevention. We work with different agencies to be a clearing house for our surrounding communities.
We have an annual poster project that is FREE for businesses/organizations can participate in. We design, distribute and place posters within Washington County and surrounding areas. We have a goal of 500 businesses for this year. There are 2 posters. 1 poster is designed for victim/survivors. This poster has information for receiving help. The other poster is for offenders to receive help if they hurt anyone. We have local and national information on all posters.This year we introduced Spanish posters to reach a wider audience.
Our vision is to end violence by the end of the century as best we can by loving one person at a time. We are unique in offering assistance to offenders. Most organizations are trying to prosecute offenders. We believe that people can make good and bad choices. We see humans as humans and humans make mistakes. And if a human seeings their mistake and consciously chooses to change their life, we want to be an advocate for that change. We believe in order for us to do what we do, we must start with culture change. It will take thinking differently, acting differently and loving differently. This is what makes us a mission to stand behind.
