Colin Kaepernick’s Million Dollar Pledge Tracker: $920,000

10K a day for TEN DAYS!

Day TWO Of Ten:

Colin Kaepernick and Jesse Williams will donate $10,000 each to ‘The Advancement Project’

Colin Kaepernick’s Donation: $10,000

Celebrity Match: Jesse Williams ($10,000)

Organization: The Advancement Project

Advancement Project is a next generation, multi-racial civil rights organization. Rooted in the great human rights struggles for equality and justice, they exist to fulfill America’s promise of a caring, inclusive and just democracy. They use innovative tools and strategies to strengthen social movements and achieve high impact policy change.

Founded by a team of veteran civil rights lawyers in 1999, Advancement Project uses the same high quality legal analysis and public education campaigns that produced the landmark civil rights victories of earlier eras. Advancement Project works in deep partnership with organized communities of color to dismantle and reform the unjust and inequitable policies that undermine the promise of democracy through the development of community-based solutions to racial justice issues.

Total Amount: $20,000

Both Colin Kaepernick and Jesse Williams are donating $10,000 to ‘The Advancement Project’! Their donations will specifically pay for:

• $10,000 for Advancement’s Project’s Action Camp
  • Training program for youth organizers to reform policing policies and practices.
  • 100-150 people will be trained in how to effectively advocate at community level for police reform
• $10,000 for public education videos and Action kit.
  • Public education videos and an Action Kit (online tool kits) to equip communities with policy solutions for achieving police accountability.
  • the donation will help with the filming and editing of a video series to educate the public about policies that permit for unaccountable police departments and policy solutions, as well as graphics for the Action Kit, an online roadmap for policy demands communities should pursue.

For more action, check out their website: www.advancementproject.org