321ACTION: Ask your members of Congress to take action on gun violence prevention!
Your civic action to-do list for April 4, 2022
Ready to make a difference? Here are three ways to get started:
Join JWI for Advocacy Day
Do you live in (or have a strong connection) to California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas? Join JWI this Wednesday, April 6th for our semiannual Advocacy Day! You will have the chance to meet face-to-face (virtually) with senate offices to discuss pressing issues and legislation impacting women and girls. Advocacy Day will take place between 10:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. ET (you will join us for a 30-minute time slot based on the senate office you will speak with).
Ask Congress to Help Prevent Gun Violence
Gun violence and domestic abuse have yet again impacted the Jewish community. Yesterday, at the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center (a member of JWI’s Here for You Initiative), a woman in the community was shot and killed by her husband. Read JWI’s statement here.
The White House and Congress need to take commonsense actions towards preventing gun violence – funding research into prevalence and prevention strategies; increasing resources for community violence intervention programs; and better funding the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. Email your members of Congress and tell them to make this a priority.
Participate in Sexual Assault Awareness Month and
Financial Literacy Month
For Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) - Join JWI on April 13th from 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET for our National Alliance webinar, “Title IX: How the Campus Process Differs from the Criminal Process,” which will provide a brief explanation of how Title IX governs college campuses' responses to dating abuse, sexual assault, and stalking. With a new version of Title IX coming out this month, a better understanding of this rule can make you a more effective advocate for the rights of survivors on college campuses.
For Financial Literacy Month - Consider purchasing your Mother’s Day Card through JWI’s Flower Project which provides flowers and financial literacy resources to women in domestic violence shelters (more details below in “What’s Happening at JWI”).
What’s happening at JWI?
JWI Mother's Day Flower Project
This Mother's Day - we invite you to send more love. Choose a card to send to your mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, niece, daughter, in-law, or friend. JWI will use proceeds from this project to send beautiful bouquets, empowering financial literacy materials, and meaningful children’s craft projects to 250 domestic violence shelters in all 50 states.