About Us
UP End Hate is an initiative of the Eradicate Hate Global Summit in partnership with Community Matters, The Reilly Group, and Moonshot.
UP End Hate Youth Advisory Council
The UP End Hate Youth Advisory Council (YAC) helped make this project a reality and provided their support and expert knowledge from start to finish. The YAC is made up of youth of all ages from across the country who are passionate about putting an end to hate-based violence and want to make a difference in their communities. Take a minute to meet them!
About Eradicate Hate Global Summit
Eradicate Hate developed the most comprehensive anti-hate program in the world in response to the 2018 attack on three congregations worshiping at the Tree of Life Synagogue. The organizers refused to merely be defined as victims of hate. Instead, they resolved to use the attack as motivation to drive the development and deployment of effective approaches to reduce all forms of hate-fueled violence.
Eradicate Hate started with a Global Summit in 2021, and participants formed working groups to create concrete deliverables to share at the next annual Summit. The Fall 2023 Summit welcomed 1,110 in-person attendees, 347 virtual attendees, and 350 speakers in plenary and working group sessions.
Eradicate Hate formed a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation in January 2023, and welcomed Brette Steele as its new President in March 2024. Steele, a renowned expert in the prevention of targeted violence, brought her talented team and federal grant-funded initiatives to Eradicate Hate. These initiatives include Invent2Prevent (an experiential learning program for high school/college students), Prevention Practitioners Network (an interdisciplinary network), and SCREEN Hate (a national campaign).
The Board of Directors draws from local leaders, and the Board Co-Chairs are Mark Nordenberg and Laura Ellsworth.
The Community Matters Safe School Ambassadors Program® is a vital partner of this project.
The Safe School Ambassadors® Program (SSA) is an evidence-based program that harnesses the power of students to prevent and stop bullying and mistreatment. It is considered a social-emotional learning program (SEL) and has been approved by many school districts as meeting their required SEL criteria.
The SSA Program is a student-centered model that educates diverse social leaders with the skills to prevent and reduce bullying. It is the nation’s most effective student-led bullying prevention program.
The Safe School Ambassadors® Program relies on the “inside-out” approach to improving school climate. Student bystanders see, hear, and know things adults don’t, can intervene in ways adults can’t, and are often on the scene of an incident before an adult. They are a critical and necessary resource for positively impacting the crisis of bullying in our schools.
The Safe School Ambassadors® Program harnesses the power of the socially influential leaders of a school’s diverse cliques; the ones who shape the social norms that govern other students’ behavior. These leaders are carefully identified through student and staff surveys. They are selected based on specific criteria, such as strong position and influence in their peer group, good communication skills, and a history of standing up for friends.
The recruited students participate in a two-day interactive training along with several adults who serve as program mentors. The training gives student Ambassadors the skills and tools to resolve conflicts, defuse incidents, and support isolated and excluded students. After the training, small group meetings of Ambassadors are held every few weeks. These meetings, led by the adult mentors, provide time for strengthening skills, support data collection and analysis of Ambassador interventions, and help sustain student and adult commitment to the program.
80% of trained Ambassadors report a gain in confidence and competence in their ability to intervene and speak up when they witness bullying, harassment, and cyber-bullying in their school.
The Reilly Group
The Reilly Group (TRG) is a full-service corporate social responsibility and public affairs firm focused on impacting some of our greatest societal challenges. The Reilly Group works with a variety of organizations, foundations, NGOs, government, and multi-national businesses to improve health and well-being with an expertise in communications, marketing, policy, capacity building, collective impact work, and strategic initiatives and campaigns.
The Reilly Group helps public and private sector clients move the dial on issues, policies, or products through powerful engagement, evidence, and connections. TRG is nationally recognized for generating innovative solutions that clients are proud of.
The Reilly Group (TRG):
- Creates, drives and manages solutions from concept to fully scaled initiatives at the community, national and international level
- Provides insights and intelligence
- Builds alliances and strengthens collaborations with stakeholders and between sectors
- Educators and communicators at heart, inspires knowledge and supports advocacy across multiple platforms
- Helps clients be a catalytic force that moves the dial from goal to tangible, sustainable impact
- Provides national platforms and safe spaces for youth to share their opinions and thoughts on the issues that impact them directly
For this project, TRG worked closely with our National Youth Advisory Council to develop the campaign website and amplify the campaign’s message on a national level.
About Moonshot
Moonshot is a social enterprise working to end online harms, applying evidence, ethics and human rights. Our team of prevention practitioners, analysts, engineers, and project managers use fresh thinking and decades of cross-sector experience to respond to some of the world’s toughest problems with effective, scalable solutions.
Our offices in Washington, D.C. and London deliver work to understand and prevent violence across the United States. We work in all 50 states and all 3,143 counties, supporting Federal, State, and local government and community partners to lower risks of violence. Our work ranges from leading online counter-messaging and intervention campaigns to offline prevention capacity building, both in the United States and internationally. We design new technologies and methodologies that enhance our ability and that of our partners to detect and respond effectively to a variety of emerging threats online.
Moonshot keeps the people behind the data in mind at all times. We are industry leaders in protecting privacy and developing ethical campaigns that provide real alternatives to populations vulnerable to exploitation, radicalization and crime. Working to end online harms means making communities safer, both online and off, around the world.
This project is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, opportunity number DHS-23-GPD-067-00-01.
Eradicate Hate Global Summit
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