Giving Compass' Take:

• Governing magazine reports on a new organization called Stand With Parkland, which was started by the families of those killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. The main goal of the nonpartisan org is to promote school safety, mental health support and "responsible gun ownership."

• While this effort seems to be separate from the March for Our Lives movement, it's worth looking how the two groups may be intertwined. More importantly: How can those in the education sector support sensible safety reforms?

• Here's more about the generation of changemakers from Parkland and beyond.

The families of all but two of the 17 teens and faculty killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland have formed an advocacy organization pushing for school safety, mental health reform and gun control.

Together, the families launched Stand With Parkland, described as a nonpartisan national organization. They said the goal is to advocate "for practical public safety reforms focused on the safety of our children and staff at school, improved mental health support, and responsible firearms ownership."

"The Parkland families are inspired by the love and support of millions of people who have reached out, the courageousness of the surviving students who have spoken out, and the millions who have marched," the group said in a press release. "As the families who have suffered the loss of a loved one in this tragedy, we are banding together to do something about violence in our schools so that no other families have to experience the pain that we have had to endure."

Fifteen families have joined the effort.

Read the full article about Parkland parents forming a school safety organization by David Smiley at Governing magazine.