Native skilled sports activities groups the Washington Capitals, Commanders, Nationals, Mystics, Spirit Wizards, D.C. United, DC Shadow and Capital Town Move-Move lately announce their renewed dedication to network protection as they get ready to put on orange on Gun Violence Consciousness Weekend. As a part of the 2023 marketing campaign, the groups have pledged an preliminary donation of $100,000 to native non-profit Peace For DC with further tactics for individuals of the general public to give a contribution.
“The pro sports activities groups of Washington D.C. are proud to come back in combination and say ENOUGH,” the groups stated in a joint commentary. “We ask our lovers and network companions to face with us as we paintings with Peace For DC to create a greater, more secure town for everybody.”
Peace For DC serves as a connector between the ones main violence prevention paintings around the town and the ones prepared and ready to supply help, corresponding to executive businesses and philanthropies. The group operates the DC Peace Academy, offering world-class coaching to the district’s Neighborhood Violence Intervention group of workers. Led through D.C.-area natives with deep, non-public stories hooked up to violence and a background in taking part with stakeholders at each and every degree, Peace For DC objectives to scale back gun-related homicides within the District through 60% in 5 years.
On Put on Orange Weekend from Friday, June 2 thru Sunday, June 4, native groups will display their improve in numerous tactics, together with dressed in orange warm-up shirts and sharing data on native gun violence statistics by the use of their social platforms.
This marks the second one consecutive 12 months that D.C. sports activities groups have come in combination to struggle violence within the subject, following closing 12 months’s unparalleled collaboration that raised greater than $100,000 for community-based violence intervention systems.
More information on how particular person groups are supporting gun violence consciousness on Put on Orange Weekend can also be discovered underneath.
- The Commanders group will improve Put on Orange Day through dressed in orange shirts emblazoned with “END GUN VIOLENCE” at the entrance all through this week’s OTA practices.
- The Commanders rookie category will attend the Saturday June 3 Washington Nationals recreation in improve of the Nationals’ popularity of Nationwide Gun Violence Consciousness Month.
- Later this month, the Commanders shall be saying further improve for a adolescence group and area people suffering from gun violence.
- At a regular-season recreation to be introduced this season, all proceeds from that recreation’s 50/50 raffle gross sales shall be donated to a Prince George’s County group supporting efforts to finish gun violence and improve gun violence sufferers.
- Washington Nationals gamers and on-field workforce will put on orange t-shirts with the phrase ENOUGH at the entrance all through warmups on Saturday, June 3.
- The Washington Nationals will acknowledge Peace For DC organizers and their community-based violence prevention companions all through the June 3 pregame ceremonies.
- All budget raised from the Nationals Philanthropies 5050 Raffle on June 3 will at once receive advantages Peace For DC. 5050 Raffle dealers will put on orange ribbons as a part of their uniforms on Saturday in popularity of the marketing campaign.
Washington Mystics, Wizards, Capitals and Capital Town Move-Move
- Mystics gamers will host their “Put on Orange” recreation for the 5th 12 months in a row on June 2. The group will:
- Commemorate Nationwide Put on Orange Day with ‘Mystics Put on Orange’ t-shirts worn through the gamers all through warmups and that can be purchased within the Workforce Retailer.
- Host a personal pre-game adolescence hospital, subsidized through Everytown for Gun Protection, for survivors of gun violence.
- Honor Mother’s Call for Motion founder Shannon Watts with the Mystics Sport Changer Award at halftime.
- Flip the Enviornment orange in a distinct second of cohesion & remembrance for family members misplaced from gun violence.
- Mystics’ guard Natasha Cloud will host a personal assembly post-game with Mother’s Call for Motion volunteers.
- To commemorate the twenty fifth anniversary of the Wizards converting their identify from the Bullets, the group partnered with the Alliance of Involved Males (ACM) all through the 2022-23 season, promoting “Peace Tees” to lift cash and consciousness for the nonprofit, which promotes figuring out, peace, and team spirit whilst running to stop gun violence in Washington, D.C.
- Huge Sports activities & Leisure groups have jointly made calls to motion for lovers to donate nationwide gun violence prevention teams in improve of Put on Orange efforts, broadcasted statistics and information at the impact gun violence has within the DC network and supported devoted projects all through video games in-season.
- D.C. United gamers will put on an orange ribbon at the entrance in their warmups on Wednesday, Would possibly 31.
- D.C. United will hang a second of silence in reminiscence of DC SCORES poet athletes Arianna Davis and Jefferson Luna-Perez, whose lives had been lately taken because of gun violence.
