Success Stories

Students all over the country are contacting their elected officials urging them to take action to stop and prevent genocide. Through writing letters, calling 1-800-GENOCIDE, or showing up in person to lobby, we are letting our government know that ending and preventing genocide must be a priority.

Check out some of the advocacy success stories below from students across the country...or submit your own!

Have a question? Get in touch with STAND's Advocacy Coordinator at advocacy@standnow.org

"Our hope was 30 letters, we had no idea what to expect, and we ended up mailing 130! It was a huge success. Students learned about Darfur from our volunteers. At any given time, there were at least 3 of us recruiting writers, helping them find who their member of Congress is and also informing them about what's going on in Darfur." - Inver Hills Community College

 "The first thing they asked is if we were the people who had called them 100 times a month ago, so they clearly remembered that we had done that and it had impacted them.” - Washington University in St. Louis, MO

 "When I mentioned that Stark had only earned a "B" on his Darfur Report Card, Joe Cazenave, the district director, told me to call the office whenever Darfur legislation was introduced so that Stark could co-sponsor each one and get a better grade. Our meeting went incredibly well; I'm excited to go back!" - De Anza College, CA, reporting on a meeting with Congressman Pete Fortney Stark

"We held a call-in day where people could call in to Kit Bond, the Missouri Senator and chair of the Foreign Appropriations Committee, send letters, sign a petition, find out more information, look at pictures, buy t-shirts, and chat. It went very well--we got over 80 letters signed and quite a few calls in."- Missouri State University, MO

"We had over fifty people make pledges to call. We sent over 100 letters to each of our Senators and our Representative. We raised $75 for Doctors without Borders by selling the Darfur poster that was featured in Business Wire for $1." - Fordham University at Lincoln Center, NY

"We tabled at our campus and gave out free brownies to students who called their senators. Wellesley students made 56 phone calls to senators in MA, NY, CA, MN, IA, NJ, OR, TX, VA, and WA."- Wellesley College, MA

“Seventy two letters were signed and 13 calls were made to New York representatives that were listed with grades from B to D over a 5 hour slot of time where I sat in the Juilliard School Lobby." - The Juilliard School, NY

"We had one table at our Student Union, and we logged 68 calls to Senators, as well as sent 5 post cards, gained 10 new members for our organization, and started a petition for divestment on our campus. We also brought a lot of awareness to the issue and the organization, as many of our members were asked about the event throughout the day." - University of Arkansas, AR