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Jessica Mindich is a former lawyer and the founder and CEO of the Caliber Collection (FKA 
Caliber Collection website
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Jewelry for a Cause Caliber Collection (formerly Jewelry for a Cause) is an online company that was founded by Jessica Pollack Mindich, an American jewelry designer, in December 2008.
History
In 2008, Mindich launched Jewelry for a Cause, with the idea of making an ...
), which takes guns off streets and transforms them with bullet casings into jewelry and nonprofit donations.
Caliber Collection
The Caliber Collection began in January 2012 in collaboration with the Mayor of Newark, NJ,Cory Booker
Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician and attorney who has served as the junior United States senator from New Jersey since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Booker is the first African-American U.S. se ...
, as a way to turn illegal and unwanted guns into jewelry. 20% of the net proceeds are to fund voluntary gun buyback
A gun buyback program is one instituted to purchase privately owned firearms. The purported goal of such programs is to reduce the number of guns sold illegally. A buyback program would provide a process whereby civilians can sell their privately ...
and amnesty programs. Since then, Caliber has partnered additionally with San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
, Detroit
Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at t ...
, Hartford
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, and most recently North Miami Beach. To date, the programs have taken 2,500 illegal guns off the streets of those cities and has raised over $165,000 for police departments.
Gun Buyback and Amnesty Programs
In 2013, Jessica Mindich was able to present the Mayor Booker of Newark, NJ with a check for $40,000, as a result of nine weeks of sales, to fund her first gun buyback and amnesty program in Newark, NJ. A second buyback was funded in Newark by Mindich's company in 2014 and collected 185 guns ranging from sniper rifles to assault weapons. In 2016, Mindich donated $25,000 to the Wayne County Sheriff's Office in Michigan to buyback 500 guns.Caliber Foundation
The Caliber Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) organization that supports victims and communities affected by illegal gun violence.Notable Contributors
In 2014,Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American inactive professional tennis player. Considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for ...
and the Serena Williams Fund announced a grant to the Caliber Foundation to prevent young people from experiencing the same pain Williams' had through the murder of her sister in 2003.
In 2016, street artist Shepard Fairey
Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is an American contemporary artist, activist and founder of OBEY Clothing who emerged from the skateboarding scene. In 1989 he designed the "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" (...OBEY...) sticker campai ...
donated 20% of sales from his art exhibit at the Library Street Collective in Detroit
Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at t ...
, MI. In July 2016, Fairey also dedicated a portion of the proceeds of the sale from his gun control American Civics collaboration with photographer Jim Marshall to the Caliber Foundation.
Raise The Caliber
Mindich is also the founder of the Raise The Caliber initiative, a national advocacy campaign to end illegalgun violence
Gun-related violence is violence committed with the use of a firearm. Gun-related violence may or may not be considered criminal. Criminal violence includes homicide (except when and where ruled justifiable), assault with a deadly weapon, and ...
. Proceeds from partnerships under Raise The Caliber are donated to the Caliber Foundation.
Journalism
In 2016, Mindich became a frequent Huffington Post journalist creating a series of interviews under the title YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Interviews included men and women who are leaders, activists and influencers on the subject ofgun violence
Gun-related violence is violence committed with the use of a firearm. Gun-related violence may or may not be considered criminal. Criminal violence includes homicide (except when and where ruled justifiable), assault with a deadly weapon, and ...
in America.
References
External links
Caliber Collection website
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