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Nine years ago, Lisa Molock founded Let's Thrive Baltimore in her neighborhood to keep young people off the streets and out of the line of fire. She started by building a Healing Garden in a neighborhood devastated by daily gun violence, creating a safe space for survivors to heal and for community members to gather, garden, and thrive.
The project has since grown to provide many critical services to community members—including job programs and mentoring for young people, financial literacy and therapeutic programs for families, and housing and cash assistance for survivors of violence.
Read more about Let's Thrive Baltimore's approach to community violence intervention and learn how you can support their work.
Organizations like Let's Thrive Baltimore have been delivering critical community support for decades, healing families and neighborhoods while preventing future gun violence.
This work, known as community-based violence intervention, is focused on providing long-term support and care to communities that have been systematically underserved. When local leaders are empowered to develop their own playbook for addressing gun violence, they're able to take a specialized approach that makes sense for their community.
But these organizations are often under-resourced, and require stable, sustainable funding to continue serving their communities. That's where the Everytown Community Safety Fund comes in: Since 2019, we've granted $8 million to 72 organizations in 57 cities who are leading innovative, promising programs to reduce gun violence in their communities.
Take a moment to learn more about the programs the Everytown Community Safety Fund supports.
Thank you for your support,
Everytown Community Safety Fund Team
