Gun violence in America is a public health crisis that is worsening with pandemic-like speed
So says Steve Ballmer, the billionaire philanthropist whose nonprofit is devising a new remedy to address it.
To help those communities, the Ballmer Group donated $18 million to the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention, the Community Based Public Safety Collective, Cities United and the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform to jointly establish community-based solutions to gun violence.
Dreier, of the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention, said the Ballmer Group's donation will help the entire “community violence intervention ecosystem” in the cities that these four organizations operate in together. It’s an ecosystem that has grown for years, yet not in any closely coordinated way.
Where groups have been able to work together, community violence intervention has shown some success.
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