We rent umbrellas to build one.
A covenant of protection over the innocence of every child — for kids caught in high-conflict custody battles, dangerous households, untreated crises, and the cracks of a system that too often loses them.
Your gift funds independent guardians — trained, paid, and free to speak without fear for their careers — plus safe reporting channels for kids, community safe grounds, rapid community case review by retired judges and law students, and the campaign to put cameras in courtrooms. The covenant: no child returns to a home they were abused in.
Every level of shade counts. Choose yours.
Stocks art, journal & play materials for one child at a community-center kids' corner — the safe ground where guardians get to know kids by name.
Sponsors a child's whole day at the lake — activities, a meal, and shade — inside a community that's watching out for them.
The price of one all-day umbrella rental funds one hour of a trained guardian who watches the system from outside it.
Covers consent-based intake, documentation, and review of one child's report through the Guardian of Innocence channel — so it can never be lost or buried.
Funds a professionally facilitated community story circle with aftercare — where survivors are witnessed, stories are documented with consent, and cracks get mapped so they can be sealed.
A monthly stipend for a trained guardian whose paycheck doesn't depend on the institutions they watch — free to monitor the system and tell the truth.
Powers the Ashé Justice Center's review bench — retired judges, experienced litigants, and law-student stipends — assembling the evidence in 24–72 hours, before damage becomes permanent.
Endows one independent guardian embedded with a local rec center — a permanent, professional protective presence in one Oakland neighborhood.
Funds a rec/community center's guardian staffing, safe-reporting infrastructure, kids' programming, and mandated-reporter ally network for a full year.
Seeds the permanent fund: a network of guardian posts across districts, the Guardian of Innocence dashboard for every active case, and the Cameras in Courtrooms campaign — 50,000 Oakland voices strong.
The complete ecosystem: the Ashé Justice Center fully operational, guardians in every district, community centers powered citywide, the technology stack, and the policy playbook — a replicable model for any city that decides its children come first.
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The Umbrella Covenant Fund is received by the Ashé Sanctuary & Empowerment Foundation (nonprofit), 500 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA 94610 — the charitable arm of the 500 Grand Live family. Secure online giving is coming online now; until then every pledge is confirmed personally by our team with giving details and a written receipt. Impact descriptions are illustrative program designations based on our published program plan; funds are applied where the need for children's protection is greatest. For tax questions, please consult your advisor — documentation is provided with every gift. The Ashé Justice Center provides rapid community case review and advocacy; it is not a court and does not provide legal representation.