TODAY’S TRADEMARK – MATTHEW SHEPARD FOUNDATION EMBRACING DIVERSITY

The trademark of this company was registered in USPTO bearing registration number 2857898 on June 29, 2004.

The establishment of Matthew Shepard’s main goal is to intensify the tale of Matthew Shepard to rouse people, associations, and networks to accept respect and equity, everything being equal. Through local, territorial, and national outreach, this foundation engages people to get empowered and to make change and challenge communities recognize and address disdain that lives inside schools, neighborhoods, and homes. Their work is an extension of Matt’s passion who died at 21 years old, to cultivate a mindful and just world in the repercussions of Matt’s passing, his parents, Judy and Dennis Shepard began the Matthew Shepard Foundation to respect his life and goals. Roused by the misfortune they persevered through, the underlying reason for the Foundation was to show guardians with kids who might be scrutinizing their sexuality to adore and acknowledge them for what their identity is, and to not discard them. Through their foundations, the nation over and all over the planet, Judy and Dennis Shepard are changing hearts and psyches by sharing Matt’s story and featuring the significance of supporting the LGBT people group. The Foundation has assisted trailblazer the country’s first federal hate crimes legislation with the death of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009 and provided hate crimes training to 1,060 law enforcement officers and 76 prosecutors since May 2017; made exchange information about hate and acceptance inside communities all over the planet, and constructed a powerful assortment of assets to help the Laramie Project and other heritage works roused by Matt’s story.