Anti-Violence Group Sandy Hook Promise Launches With Help From Tech Industry
A Newtown, Conn., non-profit organization seeking to combat violence, launched today, drawing on the help of several technology companies and individuals in the industry.
A Newtown, Conn., non-profit organization seeking to combat violence, launched today, drawing on the help of several technology companies and individuals in the industry.
Sandy Hook Promise, which has applied for 501(c)3 status, will focus initially on helping those affected by the December 14 shootings heal, but will expand its mission to include work to alleviate violence in American culture. The group is made up of Newtown “community members, victims’ families [and] first responders,” it said in a tweet, but its website suggests that it got significant help from the tech industry to launch so quickly with a polished presence on social networks.
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