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      The Everytown Community Safety Fund (“CSF”) supports 501(c)(3) organizations implementing community-based violence intervention (CVI) programs in cities nationwide—advancing a core component of a comprehensive approach to reducing gun violence in America. We invest in the people and strategies driving this work, delivering resources that help organizations sustain and scale their lifesaving impact through direct funding, capacity-building training, peer convenings, and coordinated advocacy opportunities that align with strategic priorities and elevate grantee voices.

      Our Story

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      The Everytown Community Safety Fund has provided a critical lifeline to community-based violence intervention programs nationwide, helping them sustain their life-saving efforts at the intersection of community and public safety.

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      Our Work

      Direct Investment
      Since 2019, Everytown for Gun Safety Community Safety Fund has granted $15.7 million in support of 141 community-based violence intervention programs implementing promising strategies in 72 American cities.
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      Capacity-Building and Convening
      After joining our network, grantees complete a self-assessment that shapes their participation in cohort-based and customized training through our Community Training Institute. Training topics vary annually, are co-designed by CSF, and led by subject matter experts—connecting leaders to shared learning and collaboration to help sustain and scale their work.
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      Connection and Strategic Support
      Grantees are offered opportunities to deepen connections with Everytown’s staff and volunteer networks, strengthen their education efforts, and engage in priority campaigns—amplifying locally led work and shared priorities with decision-makers.
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      Our Grantees

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      Everytown Community Safety Fund is the largest grant program dedicated to enhancing community-based violence intervention programs in cities and communities across the nation. Since 2019, Everytown has granted to 141 organizations in more than 72 cities to implement promising, community-based strategies to reduce gun violence as part of our effort to support, sustain, and scale their life-saving work.

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      Our Team

      Staff

      Michael-Sean Spence (He/Him), Managing Director

      Jaunita Pye (She/Her), Associate Director of Programming and Administration

      Advisory Board

      Anthony Smith, Executive Director, Cities United

      Dr. Caterina Roman, Professor, Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University

      Dr. Chico Tillmon, Director, Community Violence Intervention (CVI) Leadership Academy, University of Chicago Crime Lab

      Erica Atwood, Senior Director, Office of Policy and Strategic Initiatives for Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Philadelphia

      Amber Goodwin, Founding Director, Community Justice Action Fund

      Marcus McAllister, Violence Prevention Consultant, McAllister Consultancy & Training LLC

      Dr. Shani Buggs, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis Violence Prevention Research Program

      Anne Marks, Violence Prevention Consultant

      Our Grantee Portal

      The Everytown Community Safety Fund regularly develops tools, fact sheets, reports, training, and other unique offerings in response to grantee needs. Additionally, we record our remote trainings, convenings, and quarterly calls to allow later viewing by our grantees. Current grantees can access this additional content via the Everytown Community Safety Fund Grantee Portal below. In addition to reviewing prior content, which grantees are encouraged to share with their staff, grantees are also able to sign up for future training opportunities and complete surveys, which inform our program development.

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      Did you know?

      Every day, nearly 130 people in the United States are killed with guns, twice as many are shot and wounded, and countless others are impacted by acts of gun violence.

      Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Provisional Mortality Statistics, Multiple Cause of Death, 2020–2024; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project nonfatal firearm injury data, 2020; and SurveyUSA, Market Research Study #26602, 2022.

      Last updated: 1.15.2026