Caliber Collection (formerly Jewelry for a Cause)[1] is an online company that was founded by Jessica Pollack Mindich, an American jewelry designer, in December 2008.[2]
In 2008, Mindich launched Jewelry for a Cause, with the idea of making and selling jewelry to raise money for both foreign and domestic causes.[3]
On the weekend of April 27, 2013, the Newark Police Department in New Jersey[4] and Jewelry for a Cause hosted a gun buyback. Police recovered 210 weapons, including eight assault rifles. The weekend event was fully funded by Mindich's company by providing $60,000, from the sales of the Caliber Collection bracelets, in total to the cause.[5]
Captain Michael Perry, of the Pittsburg Police Department in California, shipped Mindich disabled guns from the department's buyback program in 2013[6] to create the Caliber San Francisco jewelry line. A privately funded buyback[7] had collected 291 weapons, including assault rifles, handguns, shotguns and rifles.[8] "San Francisco" is stamped on the inside of the bracelet to represent the Bay area as a whole. A portion of the sales goes towards future gun buybacks in Pittsburg, California.[6]