Who Donated Money To Support March For Our Lives?

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Organizers of the "March For Our Lives" mobilize in Washington put over the early cost estimation for the event at $5 million, and said they feature "several million dollars" left to continue to press for stricter gun laws and fight gun violence.

Deena Katz, a Hollywood producer who became involved in the early stages of preparation for the march, said fundraising efforts have been successful enough to ensure continued lobbying and early activism. She did not advert a specific amount, saying donations were silence being tallied.

"I know we've raised enough that these kids are gonna have several million dollars that they can start their fight after the march," Katz said.

The teenage survivors of last month's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., were the driving force back behind the march in the nation's great. Similar protests took place in cities around the area, and the world.

They put on the extremely choreographed issue in Washington, tended to by hundreds of thousands of people, in hardly fivesome weeks.

The March For Our Lives funding, according to organizers, came from crowdfunding and other donations — including from household name celebrities much A Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney.

The nonprofit organization board of the March For Our Lives Action Fund includes governmental figures and activists. It was formed to help direct the event, manage money and coordinate future lobbying efforts.

Cameron Kasky, a student at Stoneman Douglas, started the crowdfunding effort that had raised a total of about $3.5 million every bit of Monday afternoon. Much 40,000 donations had been made to the campaign. The vast majority were in amounts under $1,000. The highest was $50,000.

Half of the funds raised from that campaign volition go to remunerative for the border in Washington; the other half will provide financial support to the victims and families of the Parkland shooting, according to the website.

Some of the biggest contributors to the cause have been celebrities. Clooney and his wife, Amal, pledged $500,000, and Winfrey pledged to tally that. Director Steven Spielberg and Film industry manufacturer Jeffrey Katzenberg as wel donated half a jillio dollars each.

The young activists get emphasized that this is still their movement — despite new celebrity and big money contributions. Stoneman Douglas students Kasky and Jaclyn Corin made that indicate in a Now Show consultation endmost week.

"We don't accept influence. ... The s we let corruption, greed and money get involved with this in the wrong mother wit, we misplace track of where we're going," Kasky said.

"Politicians have tried to endorse us, but we're here to say you guys can support us all you want, but we're therein for ourselves," Corin added. "We get into't want to let any adults take over because we'Re kids that created this whole thing, and we don't want to let adults change that."

Jeri Cecil Rhodes, the fulfill fund room treasurer, said the young activists wanted to make sure they were detected, and they got assistanc from "people who get access to a large amount of money of money" and from "organizations and individuals who had done close to beautiful svelte productions."

"The students told us all what they wanted," Rhodes said, "and masses stepped forward."

Some Katz and Rhodes referred to lobbying efforts as "phase deuce" for the chemical group. Rhodes is an administrator at Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker lobbying group that "seeks to advance peace, Department of Justice, opportunity, and biological science stewardship."

According to the March For Our Lives website, the activists tell they will fight for "comprehensive gun safety device statute law at the local, state and federal level" and undertake elector Department of Education and ballot initiatives.

The Border district For Our Lives nonprofit has made clear that donations would fund those activities.

It's governed by the board comprised of adults. Organizers said that's because of legal restrictions on minors organism on boards of nonprofits. The control panel also includes Aileen Adams, former Los Angeles deputy mayor, and Nina Vinik, political program director for the Gun Violence Prevention Computer program at the Joyce Founding.

George VI Kieffer, chair of the Board of Regents of the University of California, is also on the display board, as are Melissa Scholz, principal attorney of Scholz Noncommercial Law of nature, and Venetta Walker, vice chairwoman of programs and chief governance police officer at BoardSource, a D.C. nonprofit organization executive training organization.