How You Can Help
The Rusty Keeble Foundation (RKF) defines grassroots advocacy as building and maintaining a permanent network that unites people affected and/or concerned by gang violence as voices for change to develop grassroots skills, cultivate local leadership around gang issues and empower individuals for collective action. You can get involved with our grassroots efforts by doing one or more of the following:
Get Informed
Learn about what we and our advocates can do at the local, national and global level:
- Local – Contact or Sign-Up to be a local GANGFREE Project Leader in your area.
- National - Find out more about what we have done and are currently doing at the national level.
- Global - Learn more about our Global GANGFREE Project Campaign and how you can help make gangs a global priority.
Get Connected
Stay connected with the RKF by:
- Signing up for the GANGFREE Project e-Newsletter
- Reading the GANGFREE Project Blog (in development)
- Adding us as a friend on Facebook and/or MySpace.
- Following Rusty Keeble and/or the GANGFREE Project on Twitter.
Be Heard
Utilize the following tools to get your voice heard:
- Action alerts — send an email to your elected official in support of important legislation.
- Understanding and influencing policies — find information and worksheets on current and/or proposed local, state, or national policies and attend town hall meetings and get your voice heard.
Get Active
It is through the active participation volunteers and advocates, together, we will be able to make gangs a global priority. Below are ways you can get active today.
- Become a leader in your community - Local GANGFREE Project Leaders engage friends, families and community members in collective action to make gangs a priority. Led by gang violence survivors and supporters, leaders work within their local communities to raise awareness, reduce denial and generate funding for the fight against gangs. Sign up today to become a leader or find one in your community to support.
- Become a volunteer - Volunteers are critical to the mission and growth of the Rusty Keeble Foundation. Much of our success will solely rely on the personal contributions of our volunteers. Volunteers will be core to the values and philosophies of our initiatives. The initiatives rely on teams of dedicated volunteers to carry out much of their work, both overseas and in the United States.
GANGFREE PROJECT VOLUNTEER FORM
- World G-Day – GANGFREE Day (G-Day) is the RKF's one-day initiative to unite people affected and/or concerned about gangs in raising awareness of gang issues on a global level and in communities across the country.
WORLD G-DAY TOOL KIT
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