With under $8 million in funding, a little-known White House initiative tried to connect small nonprofits that fight gun violence with public funds. It ended in December with big hopes that it started a shift in how public safety is defined.
were being shot daily, as the jump in gun homicides that started in 2020 across the country continued.coronavirus relief funds to strengthen public safetyCVIC was another part of this public safety plan aimed to prepare grassroots groups to be accept more public funding by strengthening their infrastructure and sharing best practices to design programs.
If people agree to participate, the programs often also provide economic aid like paying for food or rent and connecting them to job trainings or other skills development — interventions that reveal the close connection between poverty and violence. Alex Johnson, of the California Wellness Foundation, which funded early models of violence interruption in the 1990s, said many officials who control local budgets still do not understand the value of the approach.
Some CVIC participants said they expected more money to come to them through the initiative. Dujuan Kennedy, who leads the violence interruption work for FORCE Detroit, felt Biden wasn’t sincere in his support.
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