THE NOAH BENARDOUT FOUNDATION
A registered Non-Profit 501(c)(3) Corporation for the prevention of DUI tragedies.
MISSION STATEMENT
The Noah Benardout Foundation’s primary goal is to advocate immediate education and habit-forming skills to end the tragedies of Driving Under the Influence (DUI) which are 100% preventable. Direct engagement with robust awareness HAS to change the narrative.
We have partnered with The California Highway Patrol, Los Angeles Police Department, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the California Office of Traffic and Safety and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration among others, for rapid traction through the media ecosystem.
NOAH BENARDOUT
27 March 1995 - 1 August 2019
On August 1st, 2019 my beautiful, talented brother Noah Benardout was tragically killed by the recklessness of a drunk driver. Noah was waiting on the sidewalk to cross the street when his killer drove through an intersection, at high speed, smashing into another vehicle and sending that vehicle spinning into a traffic light where Noah was waiting. Noah died instantly at the scene. At just 24 years old. A phenomenal musician, on the verge of deserved success that he had tirelessly worked toward with integrity and patience for many years as the artist LOVR®. His brand new EP, Loners was finished the day he died. He will never ever get to enjoy the benefits of his hard work but now it is my mission not only to bring his music to the world but importantly to bring awareness through music to stop DUI for ever. Join me in supporting his foundation through fundraising events to lobby for an end to DUI.
- Lily Benardout
CONGRATULATIONS ORANGE COUNTY SOCCER CLUB
ON BEING HONORED BY MADD AS THE 2024 SPORTS CHAMPION AWARD FOR ADVOCACY IN THE COMMUNITY.
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DRUNK THAT KILLED NOAH
Due to be released on 23rd March 2023
Jacob D Gralitzer
Today, you will be released from the Male Community Reentry Program, having served only 13 weeks behind bars and less than a third of your criminal sentence for murdering our son. And whilst you may think that you have gamed the criminal justice system, the civil system can and will always find killers like you guilty.
Through the staggering work and success of our attorney Spencer Lucas and the team at Panish Shea Boyle Ravipudi LLP, the implications of your ignorance and irresponsible behavior is now etched into California’s legal history in one of the largest wrongful death results obtained for the parents of an adult child ever reached, with a $200 million judgment on your head for the rest of your life.
Your crime of driving drunk, driving egregiously over the speed limit, and killing an innocent human being can never be commuted. Instead, your name, Jacob D. Gralitzer has been recorded in the Superior Court of the State of California, charged with the wrongful death of our beloved son, Noah Benardout.
Your recklessness has set a precedent, and raised the bar for the value of human life, highlighting the strength of our relationship with our beautiful son, who you so callously killed.
So as you sit down for dinner on your first night out as a free man, with your parents, who, like you, have shamefully never ever reached out to apologize, mark our words, you will be forced to acknowledge your crimes. Because, from hereon in, the name Jacob D Gralitzer, will always be associated with the reprehensible crime of driving drunk and wrongful death.
Marc, Marie & Lily Benardout
To contact the Foundation with Donation Enquiries please email : lovr@noahbenardoutfoundation.org
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