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June 25, 2025

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Fund for a Safer Future – Talia Wright, talia@fundforasaferfuture.org

Fund for a Safer Future Announces “Game Changing” New Investment That Will Expand Its Capacity to Advance Gun Violence Prevention Philanthropy

Commitment from Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation will expand the Fund’s capacity to invest in proven solutions to make communities safer

Boston, MA – The Fund for a Safer Future, the largest national philanthropic collaborative working to prevent gun violence, today announced a transformative $25 million grant that will allow the Fund to significantly expand its direct grantmaking for gun violence prevention and its field-building efforts. In addition to regranting funds to violence prevention and suicide prevention organizations, the grant will support research into the most effective violence prevention programs, increase coordination among aligned funders and organizations, and expand the number of funders who invest in violence and suicide prevention efforts. 

The grant from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation will deepen the Fund’s work on multiple levels, including support of proven solutions that help create safer communities:

• Field building to strengthen gun violence prevention 
• Community- and hospital-based violence intervention work that will save lives, make communities safer, and support front-line workers
• Communications and narrative change work to help broaden awareness that gun violence is a solvable public health crisis
• Prevention work to meet a growing firearm suicide crisis in America, one that’s responsible for nearly two-thirds of all gun deaths annually
• Research to better understand the causes of and solutions to gun violence in our communities

“We are honored to receive this transformative grant and excited to deepen our investments in organizations and solutions that are making our communities safer,” said Talia Wright, Executive Director of the Fund for a Safer Future. “Gun violence is a uniquely American public health crisis, but one that can be solved. This game-changing investment reflects a growing recognition that philanthropy has a vital role to play in reducing all forms of firearm violence.” 

The Fund for a Safer Future is a philanthropic collaborative that pools funds from more than 35 funders across the United States to invest in a wide range of violence and suicide prevention efforts. Reductions in firearm violence in recent years have been attributed to community violence interventions, extreme risk laws, and other solutions that the Fund has promoted and invested in for many years. Since its inception in 2012, the Fund and its members have made more than $250 million in aligned grants for gun violence prevention efforts.

“This investment from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation is a game changer,” added Tim Daly, Chair of the Fund for a Safer Future and Program Director at The Joyce Foundation. “Since the Joyce Foundation helped create the Fund for a Safer Future, we have seen a steady growth in membership and grantmaking capacity. This grant gives us the opportunity to build on the progress we’ve contributed to in recent years and realize unprecedented growth and impact on an issue most Americans agree needs to change.” 

“We are deeply honored to play a role in making our communities safer,” said Arthur M. Blank, Chairman of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation. “The Fund for a Safer Future has demonstrated that effective, evidence-based solutions to gun violence exist and deserve far greater investment. Expanding and accelerating this work is not just important, it is vital to creating the safer communities we all deserve.”

About Fund for a Safer Future

Founded in 2011, the Fund for a Safer Future is a funder collaborative that works to reduce gun violence in the United States by supporting advocacy, research, education, and community-based organizing. Since 2011, the Fund has made more than $25 million in grants and leveraged more than $250 million in aligned grantmaking by dozens of members. For more information, visit www.fundforasaferfuture.org or follow the Fund on LinkedIn. 

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