Partner Spotlight - Community Justice Action Fund: Implementing community-led policies that reduce violence

Community Justice Action Fund is a survivor-led, Black-led national advocacy organization that engages and empowers impacted communities to implement community-led policies that reduce violence.

This year has been an unprecedented challenge for our communities. As the COVID crisis continues, gun violence has reached historic highs across the country, and communities of color have been hit the hardest

Greg Jackson, Executive Director

Despite the challenges, Community Justice made impressive progress in the movement to end gun violence and invest in community-based violence prevention and intervention programs. Some of their achievements include:

• Releasing the first City Violence Prevention Index Report, which assessed the top 50 cities most impacted by violence and their approach to ending gun violence

• Leading community responses in Buffalo and Uvalde after the tragic mass shootings that occurred in those cities

• Securing $14.2 billion in community violence intervention funding at the federal, state and local level

• Helping pass the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the first gun violence prevention bill passed in nearly 30 years which will allocate $250 million over five years to community violence prevention and intervention efforts

“At our core, our organization serves as a bridge between communities and Congress, and we engage in education awareness activities to create a diverse coalition of leaders that can carry the weight of working to end the gun violence that has been present for far too long,” Jackson says.

We are proud to support Community Justice in holding elected officials and community leaders accountable and treating gun violence as a critical public health issue.

Learn more about their policy agenda and community building work at cjactionfund.org.