Capacity-Building and Convening
The Everytown Community Safety Fund strives to deliver much more than a check. Through our Community Training Institute, we support the growth of our grantees through specific skills training and capacity development in collaboration with national experts. The Community Training Institute connects with grantees to understand their needs and deploys training opportunities and cohorts in response to assessments of the grantee cohort.
Brown Bag Sessions
The Everytown Community Safety Fund co-develops capacity-building trainings in partnership with national subject matter experts in support of continued grantee development via access to individualized and group-based training on topics such as grant writing, developing data-driven problem statements, engaging research partners, developing logic models and leading impact evaluations.
CPTED Technical Assistance
In partnership with leading subject matter experts, the Everytown Community Safety Fund provides 100 hours of training and technical assistance on place-based gun violence prevention projects every year. All Wear Orange CPTED grantees receive ten hours of technical assistance from national partners, tailored to support the successful implementation of their project.
Assessment & Coaching
The Everytown Community Safety Fund collaborates with national subject matter experts to help grantees assess their organizations and identify areas of need. Our subject matter experts co-deliver training with the Everytown Community Safety Fund to help grantees enhance their program administration and implementation to increase impact.
Training Cohorts
The Everytown Community Safety Fund partners with national subject matter experts to offer grantees bespoke training cohort opportunities, tailored to the implementation of an effective, hyperlocal strategy or approach to reducing gun violence. Training cohorts are limited to five or less current support grantees, each from a unique or shared city, participating in practitioner-led, in-person and remote workshops, cross site visits and continued learning labs over the course of a year. Participating grantees build their capacity to design and support a similar strategy or approach in their own communities.
Convenings
Everytown grantees joins a peer network of over 82 community-based violence intervention organizations, in attendance at gatherings of experts, practitioners, and Everytown staff. Everytown Community Safety Fund staff organizes convenings of grantees to elevate their incredible life-saving efforts and deliver practical tools and tips that fuel their work.
Quarterly Calls
Everytown Community Safety Fund grantees participate in quarterly calls featuring updates on emerging trends related to community gun violence, skill-based training, and peer-to-peer sessions where grantees share best practices, learn, and network with each other. Each quarterly call is themed in response to the needs expressed by grantees. Previous calls have been themed around supporting the resiliency of frontline practitioners, state advocacy campaigns, and resource mapping and engaging youth to reduce gun violence.
Grantee Orientation
At the end of every summer, the Everytown Community Safety Fund hosts their annual orientation to welcome newly awarded grantees to Everytown, share more about the Everytown Community Safety Fund program, and the tools and resources available across Everytown’s teams.
Pre-Institute @ Cities United
The Everytown Community Safety Fund’s annual in-person, half-day Pre-Institute is attended by all current grantees ahead of the annual Cities United conference. At our Pre-Institute, grantees can learn from each other, and our Advisory Board. Each year, the gathering draws more than 50 attendees for panels featuring guest speakers from government, CVI leaders, academics, and other national stakeholders. The Pre-Institute also creates space for our grantee leaders to share their expertise and experience with their fellow grantees.