New Venture Fund
For Research On Gun Violence Prevention
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Amount$250,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/14/2015
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Term12 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The Joyce Foundation, with support from New Venture Fund, recently established the Fund for a Safer Future aimed at collaboratively supporting research and developing strategies to reduce U.S. gun violence. Since the mid-1990s, U.S. government-sponsored research on gun violence has been effectively banned. The lack of empirical evidence—on issues ranging from risk factors for gun violence, to the efficacy of proposed federal and state policies, to gun dealer behavior—hampers efforts at reducing gun violence. With this grant, New Venture Fund, with strategic oversight from the Joyce Foundation and other experts, will fund additional studies aimed at improving the evidence base to help understand the sources of and, eventually, to reduce U.S. gun violence.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.newventurefund.org
Address
1828 L Street NW, Suite 300 – A, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of The League
This grant will support The League, which uses narrative and culture change campaigns to create a cultural environment supportive of reproductive rights and justice. Using audience segmentation and other research, they identify “persuadable” groups with targeted campaigns designed to shift perspectives and support of issues related to gender justice, including reproductive rights. (Strategy: U.S. Reproductive Equity)
for the Bristol Bay Defense Fund
New Venture Fund’s Bristol Bay Defense Fund works with Alaska Native communities, fishermen and women, sportsmen and sportswomen, and others to protect Bristol Bay, Alaska, the world’s largest salmon fishery. (Substrategy: Defend Conservation Protections)
