Adopt Branches of Soul Box Panels

Imagine The Soul Box Project as a Giving Tree grown huge with panels of Soul Boxes displaying the memories, love, and concern of everyone who has participated. This bountiful tree is overgrowing its space in Portland, Oregon.
It needs to stretch out NATIONWIDE by sending branches of Soul Boxes to other locations where they can take root and grow awareness, offer support and prompt action.
Any individual, group or organization can adopt Branches of the Project – free of charge – and be part of our This Loss We Carry–NATIONWIDE event in June 2023.
Get started now: Request your exhibit panels of Soul Boxes and other materials before January 31, 2023, and we will ship ASAP–while supplies last.
If you’re ready to adopt, go directly to the Panel Adoption Request Form.
Since 2017 The Soul Box Project has been raising awareness of the U.S. gunfire epidemic by counting and honoring victims in memorial exhibits, offering healing participation to those seeking solace, and providing dramatic visual support for all initiatives working for a safer, more civil society.
36,000 of the Soul Boxes sent to Portland from across the nation were assembled into lightweight, interconnecting panels like this:

- 1 panel = 98 Soul Boxes
- 4′ h x 2′ w (folds square for storage)
- Approximately 3 lbs.
- A convenient 2′ x 2′ x 2′ shipping carton contains 6 panels
Adopting Branches of The Soul Box Project is an easy, NO-COST opportunity to continue the work you’re already doing to reduce gun violence.
Use your Soul Box materials:
- for a dramatic visual at your events.
- to expand healing participation with Soul Box-folding as another tool to engage your community.
- to enhance media visibility.
- to display for an extended time in…a window, hallway, office, lobby?
- to lend out within your city, state, or region.
Thousands of hand-folded origami Soul Boxes were made by individuals and groups around the country. Our team assembled them into 365 panels of Boxes to span the width of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in October 2021. Over 5,000 visitors viewed the This Loss We Carry exhibit. Media reach was over 500 million.

Now, these art-filled panels of Soul Boxes are available for immediate adoption by organizations and individuals who can use this effective visual as a tool to support their efforts to reduce gunfire deaths and injuries.
- Are you part of an organization working to reduce gunfire trauma, injuries, and deaths by violence, accident, or suicide?
- Does your church, school, library or civic group want to raise awareness of how deeply gunfire affects communities?
- See where Branches have already been adopted.
There are endless ways for your branch of the Project to use panels of Soul Boxes however, whenever and wherever you wish.
We are specifically inviting all adopters to incorporate panels of Soul Boxes into your June 2023 plans for Wear Orange and Gun Violence Awareness Month. Having Soul Box Project events and exhibits throughout the U.S. – all at the same time – will help connect and amplify our shared pursuit of a safer society.

Laura Evans Media, the team that so successfully promoted our exhibit in D.C., is prepared to also publicize This Loss We Carry–NATIONWIDE as an impactful national event.
Plan to be a part of this important activist movement!
By joining us, participating entities will become an extension of The Soul Box Project with inclusion on our website and in nationwide publicity in June 2023. We would ask affiliates to:
- Honor the Project’s mission
- Participate in social media
- Meet virtually, perhaps quarterly, to tell us how the materials have been used and share ideas with one another
