You run the largest crisis response system in America.

The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline — 5 million calls, texts, and chats in its first year. Over 200 crisis centers nationwide. Georouting, Spanish text/chat, LGBTQI+ subnetwork. You transformed a 10-digit number into something anyone can remember in their darkest moment.

You’ve built the infrastructure that catches people when they fall.

We’re building the community that wraps around them before, during, and after.

What if every neighborhood, every business, every guild had someone trained to recognize crisis and connect people to help? That’s what The Rally Group does — and we need someone who knows how to do it right.

My name is Jonathan Jones. I’m a 52-year-old father of eight, a U.S. Army veteran, and the founder of Liana Banyan Corporation — a cooperative commerce platform with sixteen charitable initiatives designed to be self-funding and sustainable.

I was a child of missionaries in Tanzania — we left on the last flight before Idi Amin’s invasion. Back in the States, my parents fostered children in our home when I was 8yrs old; for 5 years. I know the stories that they would never tell an adult. And the systems that didn’t just not help, but harmed.

That doesn’t make me an expert. It simply makes me aware. And sad. And enraged. And DETERMINED. AND COMMITTED. AND PASSIONATE. And persistently focused.

I run through that sequence every time I think about it. And I refuse to not be horrified and outraged and indignant and end with the resolve at the end. Every time. And with every new and somehow always still the same added injustices.

I’m not a billionaire. I’m not famous. Who I am really doesn’t matter, only what I’m trying to do. I’m just someone who wants what SHOULD be good to ACTUALLY be GOOD. The systems we have aren’t protecting or helping people well enough, and arguably are part of the problem. So I’ve designed different ones.

The Rally Group is a self-funding, sustainably charitable, cooperative crisis response initiative present on every page of Liana Banyan, and backed up by real local people anywhere Liana Banyan operates.

Our philosophy:

“We’d rather check on you 100 times for nothing than miss the one time you need us.”

Core Elements:

Integration Points:

• I.T. — Logistics and technology infrastructure
• Defense Klaus — Personal safety initiative
• Legal Defense — When protection requires legal action
• Harper Guild — HR/ethics oversight in every business

Person shows signs of crisis
        ↓
Harper or community member notices
        ↓
Rally Group Responder contacted
        ↓
Responder assesses and connects
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If needed: 988 Lifeline (your system)
        ↓
Follow-up and ongoing support
        ↓
Community wraps around the person

We’re not replacing 988. We’re creating the community layer that feeds into it and supports people after.

We’re asking you to serve as Responder General — the guiding voice of The Rally Group. This means:

• Setting standards for Responder training and certification
• Designing the “Oops” code system parameters (automatic false positives for training)
• Coordinating with local 988 centers (you have those relationships)
• Ensuring Harper Guild members are crisis-aware
• Overseeing Underground Railroad protocols
• Partnering with existing 988 infrastructure

Your involvement does not have to be exhaustive. You’re running a national crisis system — I know your plate is full. That’s why we’ve designed this to be systematic and automated where possible. You set the standards. We build the training. The platform enforces it.

You don’t have to answer every call. You guide. You set the standard. You mentor. That’s what Crowns do.

As Crown Holder of The Rally Group, you would receive:

Every initiative in Liana Banyan operates as a council. The Crown is the First Seat — the leader, the tie-breaker, the voice on our Steering Committee. As the council grows with workers and members, they elect their own representative to the Board of Directors. In the early days, that representative would likely be you.

I’ve also written to Ruth M. Glenn for Defense Klaus. You and Ruth would be natural partners — she’s building the personal safety initiative for domestic abuse survivors, you’d be building the crisis response layer that catches people before, during, and after. Two initiatives, one safety ecosystem.

The whole platform is designed so the initiatives support each other. Defense Klaus needs crisis response. The Rally Group needs personal safety protocols. The community needs both.

You wouldn’t be leading an isolated project — you’d be part of an ecosystem of hundreds that lead thousands to benefit millions. Check out the structure and connections at Cephas.LianaBanyan.com/The300.