OVERVIEW: The Hope and Heal Fund takes a community-based approach to preventing gun violence. The main geographic focus of its work is Southern California, but Hope and Heal works with national organizations as well.
IP TAKE: According to Hope and Heal’s impact statement, this funder has not only collaborated to decrease gun violence in California, but has also worked to “[c]hange the media narrative on trauma, injuries, and death as a result of firearms and lift up racial equity and local solutions.” It operates under the auspices of the New Venture Fund and does not run an application program. Networking with the organization’s partners may be the only way to gain its attention. Fortunately, Hope and Heal’s resources page shares multiple opportunities for getting involved with its efforts to prevent gun violence in California and across the U.S.
PROFILE: Created in 2016 in response to the San Bernardino shooting of the previous year, the Hope and Heal Fund, works to curb gun violence. This funder operates as a project of the New Venture Fund. Its mission is “to harness the collective power of individuals, communities, corporate leaders, government, and philanthropy to ensure homes and communities in California are safe and free from death, injury, and trauma due to firearm violence.” Specifically, the found works to “enhance efficiency, fill research gaps, build capacity, provide actionable data and change the narrative on gun violence.” Hope and Heal makes “strategic investments” in “innovative and proven solutions that not only promote gun violence prevention efforts, but can be replicated, tested and implemented in communities across California.”
Grants for Violence Prevention
The Hope and Heal Fund does not run any regular grantmaking programs, but it has invested in organizations that work to reduce gun violence in California and elsewhere. Funding is often paired with strategic support and collaborative research. Hope and Heal’s partners in this work include the Berkeley Media Studies Group, the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, Beyond Police Reform and Inland Congregations United for Change.
Important Grant Details:
Because the Hope and Heal Fund is part of a larger philanthropic entity, the sizes of its individual grants and investments is unclear.
Hope and Heal works exclusively with organizations working to prevent gun violence, although it works with organizations of all sizes.
Giving stays mainly in the Southern California region.
This funder does not run a grant application program and does not accept unsolicited proposals.
Information about past partners is available here.
Contact this funder via its contact page.
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