Joyce Foundation Grants – Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform Program

The private nonpartisan Joyce Foundation “invests in public policies and strategies to advance racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation in the Great Lakes region.”  One of the Foundation’s six Grants program areas is the Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform Program, which seeks to build safe and just communities, focusing on “reducing gun violence in the great Lakes region; reforming the justice system in the areas of policing, and alternatives to arrest and incarceration; and advancing violence intervention policy and practice as a gun violence prevention strategy, and an alternative to arrest and incarceration.”  The Foundation’s state and local work is concentrated in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, but it also funds national proposals likely to have an impact on the Great Lakes region.  The next grant proposal deadline is April 5, for consideration at the Board of Directors meeting in July 2023.  See the Foundation’s How to Apply page for more information on the application process.