ZeroNow unites stakeholders from across education, technology, and public safety to make a collective impact on school security.
With your help, there’s nothing stopping us from getting to zero.
ZeroNow was born from a powerful vision rooted in the aftermath of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, a tragedy that deeply impacted Joe Samaha and inspired his commitment to making schools safer. Joe recognized that true, lasting safety in schools would only be possible if all stakeholders—educators, law enforcement, technology providers, designers, and policymakers—came together in collaboration.
Driven by this mission, Joe partnered with school safety technology pioneer Ara Bagdasarian, and award-winning designer Jeff McWeeney who shared his passion and helped turn this vision into reality. Together, they founded ZeroNow, a community dedicated to uniting school safety professionals and innovators to prevent harm and ensure safe learning environments for all.
As pioneers and creators of education safety technology and programs, we have the responsibility to work towards finding new ways to prevent harmful events, more quickly mitigate the scope of harm and ultimately achieve the complete absence of harm to our most valuable asset.
Through community we have the potential to align around one bold and simple goal. Now we must come together as one to achieve zero.
This unique mix of nonprofit, and for-profit sponsors, share a common stake in making schools safer for good. Each was seeking a way to contribute more meaningfully, and create a collective impact on school security. They're also driven by the belief that real change can be achieved through collaboration. And, no one is as effective as all of us in the pursuit of the innovation, policy, and commitment required to reach our goal of zero victims.
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