Signed by 100-plus leaders of local nonprofits, the letter lists eight demands for addressing police brutality and increasing police accountability, including banning chokeholds and reallocating police department funding toward community health and crisis response.

Five other demands call for tackling the Greater Memphis’ stifling-high poverty rates.

Embedded in the letter is a challenge: that city and county mayors, legislative bodies, law enforcement heads, the district attorney and the Greater Memphis Chamber (among other recipients) “respond to recent events not only with words but with clear actions for positive change by June 26, 2020.”

Cardell Orrin, Memphis director for Stand for Children, signed the letter.

“All of us felt the challenge of responding to the issues of police violence, related protests, and what we can do as a community to develop and change,” he said.