Zion Lewis 

Ariana Simms

 

Organizations Blog Post 9/28

Multilateral Organizations-

  1. Partner to form a union of countries dedicated to keeping police interactions healthy and non-violent. Once formed, create a program and training that officers can participate in.
  2. Interact with multilateral police brutality organizations/ race reform that will enable us to obtain and compare data from other countries about the amount of violent police encounters experienced typically.

 

Government Agencies-

  1. Review the processes by which the government can call for mandate’s to be issued about certain behavior. Consider the framework of the police system nationally, and attempt to realign it to modern times and the issues most prevalent that we see.
  2. Partner with mental health agencies to advocate for added mental health awareness in the justice system’s interactions (commercials, government advertisements)

Non-Profits-

  1. Use the space of a non-profit to create a division for giving training sessions as well as distributing informational packets and materials for people interested in our mission.
  2. Run a fundraiser with a non-profit focused on police brutality. Being that the fundraiser wouldn’t be paying for people’s salaries, the money made during the fundraiser would allow for spending on informational materials or even developing further advancements.

Foundations-

  1. Partner with the Police Foundation (1970), learn how they plan on using tech and other things to advance the mission of improving policing for all. By learning from them, we can use things from their business model in order to advance our venture in regards to different ways that we may be able to improve policing in abstract ways. As the Police Foundation was primarily focused on improving policing with technology.
  2. Collaborate with the Chales Koch foundation which is a foundation dedicated to eliminating over policing, policing, due process, and sentencing.

Academia

  1. Work with a research university similar to Lehigh to discover more about the region-specific data regarding police stops to analyze any patterns existing or anything that is experienced on college campuses that is different from any other area of society. (big population, small, majority race, etc)
  2. Use a local University (Lehigh) space to give a talk about the work that we’re doing and to encourage people to participate in whichever capacity they find comfortable.

Startups

  1. Partner with a tech startup looking to develop applications in order to develop a technological aspect to our project that can be accessed by all therefore making it  more accessible, and more known.
  2. Create a symbiotic relationship between the venture and a startup, where in return for advertising and utilizing their good/product, they would use ours thus allowing both of our products to grow considering their respective markets are close in identity.

Social Ventures

  1. Partner with a venture focused on similar goals but within a different branch of the overarching systemic issue.
  2. Work with a closely related venture to develop a product that would encapsulate both of our projects while keeping our original goal paths in mind.

Think Tanks

  1. Send our ideas to a think tank dedicated towards working the inner makings of police brutality and ultimately find a solution for a centuries old issue.
  2. Using grant money or other funding, pay for our project’s potential solutions to be discovered and published by a think tank team.

K-12 System

  1. Use a system of local public schools (separated by school district or region) to hold a series of awareness talks about the realities of police brutality as well as the way in which we plan on combating it and can change it. Discuss the systemic aspects as well.
  2. (Includes another partner) However work within the government to at least have Critical race theory continued to be taught in schools as well as units about the systemic history and effects of the policing system in America.

Corporations

  1. ‘Sell’ our idea to a corporation, hoping they can either sponsor our project in whichever capacity it is. Consider the typical market for this brand and how they would react to our partnership.
  2. Utilize a corporation that cares about our project’s goals, and offer them the opportunity to take aspects of our projects as their likeness so they can make money in return for their name and passive advertisement.

Consulting Firms

  1. Contact a social consulting firm like ERPI that would be able to point us in the direction for the goals and desires of our project.
  2. Use a business consulting firm to help us discover the most profitable ways to finalize our project in regards to the actual product and the way that police brutality is disencourage and ultimately decreased as a result.

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