Our story
We started this because of Parkland.
We live here. On February 14, 2018, the shooting at Marjory Stoneman
Douglas was not a story on the news — it happened down the road from
our families. In the weeks that followed, we asked a question that a
lot of parents were asking: if the building had been harder, would
the day have looked different.
We chose to answer by building. On August 7, 2018, the Broward
County School Board formally accepted the donation — item JJ-17 on
the agenda — and Heron Heights Elementary, a few minutes from MSD,
became our first installation. No invoice. MSD followed in 2019,
again donated. Eagles' Haven — the community wellness center for
families affected by the shooting — followed through a partnership
with JAFCO and the South Florida Jewish community.
We established the Ballistiglass Charitable Foundation
in 2019 to make that kind of work repeatable, so the next school or
sanctuary that calls does not have to choose between doing the install
and making payroll.
Everything we build — BallistiMAX, the RetroKIT, BallistiSCAN — is
engineered for the places those families gather. That is the work.
That has not changed since the first donation.
