Partnerships
Everyone Benefits When Community Leaders Work Together
Collaboration among community leaders is key when it comes to sharing the message about the importance of secure gun storage. Be SMART partners with organizations at the national, regional, and local levels to help spread the word. Since 2015, Be SMART has collaborated with educational organizations, medical associations, departments of health, law enforcement associations, and public safety coalitions. When leaders across communities come together to create a safer environment for young children and teens, the entire community stands to benefit. Because no one is truly safe unless our children are safe.
Our Partners
Organizational Partners
Injury Free Coalition for Kids: Be SMART is a proud founding partner of Injury Free Coalition for Kids’ National Injury Prevention Day. Every year, we come together with other leaders in injury and violence prevention to raise awareness about the burden of injury, violence and the need for change.
National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE): Be SMART and NOBLE have joined forces to distribute Be SMART palm cards and gun locks in communities. Nearly 20 NOBLE members across the country have pledged to join the program in their city. More information and resources are available here.
National PTA: Since the launch of the program in 2015, Be SMART has had a long and fruitful partnership with the National PTA. The organization has consistently amplified information about secure firearm storage and shared secure firearm resources with its membership.
Presbyterian Church (USA): Keeping guns out of the hands of children and those at risk of harming themselves or others is the focus of a new partnership between the Presbyterian Office of Public Witness and Be SMART. The over one million Presbyterians nationwide and other members of the public can access educational materials and volunteer training from Be SMART on a new section of OPW’s website.
Safe Kids Worldwide: Be SMART and Safe Kids Worldwide work together to find opportunities to connect Safe Kids and Be SMART networks in communities across the country to maximize their joint interest in education and awareness raising activities at the grassroots level and the goal of strengthening local partnerships.
Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic: In medical schools across the country, Be SMART volunteers and SAFE chapters have opportunities to team up to work together on one of our nation’s most pressing public health issues.
White Castle: White Castle has integrated Be SMART resources into their employee Wellness Resource Guide and will be having in-person Be SMART events in the areas they serve that are hardest hit by gun violence. White Castle’s headquarters are in Columbus, OH.
On Earth Peace is an independent nonprofit organization developing leaders for justice and peace using the discipline of Kingian Nonviolence and are a recognized agency of the Church of the Brethren, a “Historic Peace Church.” They will be sharing Be SMART educational materials from Be SMART with their members.
