Tyme To Thrive To Receive $100,000 Support Grant From Everytown Community Safety Fund
10.4.2024
Historic Investment in Community Violence Intervention Initiatives Will Sustain Critical Violence Interruption Programs in Atlanta
ATLANTA — Today, the Everytown Community Safety Fund (CSF), part of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, has announced $100,000 in funding for Tyme to Thrive to advance its work of ending gun violence in Atlanta and better position the organization to access federal funding. This grant is part of Everytown Community Safety Fund’s more than $2 million investment in 20 gun violence intervention organizations nationwide announced today. The Everytown Community Safety Fund (CSF), a program of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, is the largest national initiative solely dedicated to fueling the life-saving work of community-based violence intervention organizations in cities nationwide.
According to the U.S. Surgeon General, a public health approach to gun related injury and violence prevention requires immediate “investments in community‑based interventions and educational programs.” Tyme to Thrive Beyond Grief offers support services to families directly impacted by gun violence throughout the metro Atlanta area. Tyme to Thrive strives to break down barriers related to eligibility to ensure all survivors of gun violence have access to direct and comprehensive care. Some of their direct services provided include grief support, financial assistance, educational workshops, and life coaching for youth and young adults.
“We are proud to award Tyme to Thrive Beyond Grief a 2024 grant from the Everytown Community Safety Fund,” said Michael-Sean Spence, managing director of Community Safety Initiatives at Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund and creator of the Everytown Community Safety Fund. “Tyme to Thrive’s strategic approach to breaking cycles of violence in Atlanta is essential to the city’s comprehensive approach to reducing gun violence. With this grant, the Everytown Community Safety Fund will support Tyme to Thrive’s expansion of their grief support program, survivor education programs, and peer support advocacy in service of more survivors in need.”
“At Tyme to Thrive, we use community-based violence intervention and prevention initiatives to break the cycle of violence in Atlanta. The mission of my organization is to increase proactive and preventative measures against gun violence within our interconnected communities, while also providing essential support to survivors,” said Aaliyah Strong, founder and executive director of Tyme to Thrive. “This grant from the Everytown Community Safety Fund will enable us to expand grief and survivor programming, breaking down barriers related to eligibility to ensure all survivors of gun violence have access to direct and comprehensive care. Grief is a unique journey, and no grief experience is identical. Tyme to Thrive Beyond Grief creates a safe space that fosters healing, change, and transformation”
Since 2019, the Everytown Community Safety Fund (CSF) has granted over $13 million in support of 136 community-based violence intervention organizations implementing promising strategies, like street outreach, hospital-based violence interventions and youth development and counseling, in more than 69 American cities. This latest round of support grants, currently CSF’s largest grant offering, will provide grant recipients $100,000, in two disbursements over two years, as well as access to CSF’s quarterly calls, peer convenings, capacity-building trainers, national conferences, as well as support from Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and its grassroots networks Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, and national partners.
The full list of community-based violence intervention organizations currently supported by the Everytown Community Safety Fund and more information about the fund can be found here.
Gun homicide has significantly declined in cities across the nation from a post-pandemic spike — due in part to the scaling and city coordination efforts with community based violence intervention organizations working on the frontlines of the gun violence epidemic in cities across the country. And though local communities have seen a reduction in gun violence, data shows that gun homicide rates in the U.S. are still 26 times higher than in other developed countries. In the United States, every day, more than 120 Americans are killed with guns and more than 200 are shot and wounded.
About the Everytown Community Safety Fund
Everytown Community Safety Fund, a program of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, is the largest national initiative solely dedicated to fueling the life-saving work of community-based violence intervention organizations in cities nationwide. Since 2019, the Everytown Community Safety Fund has granted over $13 million in support of 136 community-based violence intervention organizations implementing promising strategies, like street outreach, hospital-based violence interventions and youth development and counseling, in more than 69 American cities.
About the Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund is part of Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organization in the country with nearly 10 million supporters. The Everytown Support Fund seeks to improve our understanding of the causes of gun violence and help to reduce it by conducting groundbreaking original research, developing evidence-based policies, communicating this knowledge to the American public, and advancing gun safety and gun violence prevention in communities. Learn more at www.everytownsupportfund.org.