Dear colleagues,

The University of Washington Firearm Injury and Policy Research Program (FIPRP) is committed to sharing timely, actionable information on gun violence prevention with our communities. Below you will find a collection of opportunities, resources, and news. We hope you find them helpful!

June is Gun Violence Awareness Month

• Wear Orange originated on June 2, 2015—what would have been Hadiya Pendleton’s 18th birthday. Today, National Gun Violence Awareness Day takes place on the first Friday in June and marks the beginning of Wear Orange Weekend. The 11th National Gun Violence Awareness Day is June 6, 2025.
• What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.

Funding for Community Violence Intervention

• Read: DOJ Funding Update: A Deeper Look at the Cuts
• Read: Trump decried crime in America, then gutted funding for gun violence prevention
• Read: To keep communities safe, fund the work that prevents violence
• Read: Nationwide Coalition Sues To Stop Trump-Vance Administration Cuts to Local Programs that Save Lives and Make Communities Safe
• Attend: Decoding the Moment: Cuts to Violence Prevention Programs - Presented by Penn LDI and Tradeoffs
• June 6, 2025 @ 9am PDT, register HERE

Washington state enacted permit-to-purchase firearm legislation and legislation to improve developmentally appropriate alternatives for youth outside the formal court process.

Read: Defining harmful news reporting on community firearm violence: A modified Delphi consensus study

This study identifies key characteristics of harmful news reporting on community firearm violence, including sensationalism, lack of context, and reinforcing stereotypes. The findings offer guidance for journalists and advocates seeking to promote more accurate, respectful, and community-informed media coverage.

Read: "It's a mass shooting in the hood everyday": Black and Latine youth organizers' reflections on structural racism and community gun violence

This study investigated young Black and Latine organizers' perceptions of how mainstream narratives of gun violence relate to and influence their antigun violence organizing work. Findings amplify young Black and Latine gun violence prevention organizers' experiences with gun violence and their frustrations towards the discriminatory media portrayals of gun violence in their communities, as well as recognize the importance of their organizing work.

Together We End Gun Violence Crisis Responder Summit
June 5, 2025, South King County, Register HERE

Gun Lock Box Giveaways

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation RFP – Systems for Action: Community-Led Systems Research to Address Systemic Racism
Due: June 4, 2025 at 12PM PST
This call for proposals (CFP) will provide funding for a new cohort of community-led pilot studies to produce new, actionable evidence about how to help medical, social, and public health systems work together to address forms of systemic racism. This CFP focuses specifically on systems alignment (SA) interventions that have the potential to dismantle or disrupt the health effects of systemic racism and to positively affect the health and wellbeing of communities that experience systemic racism.

King County Best Starts for Kids RFP – Investing Early Together: Community-Based Parenting Supports, Home-based Services, and Universal Developmental Screening and Promotions RFP
Due: June 20, 2025 at 2pm PST
The RFP seeks partners who are reflective of and rooted in the communities they serve to offer strengths-based services that center relationships and trust to pregnant individuals, families, and children under the age of six. Partners will implement one more of the following areas: (1) Community-Based Parenting Supports, (2) Home-Based Services and (3) Universal Developmental Screening & Promotion

Action for Transformation Fund – Rapid Response Grants
Due: Rolling basis
As we witness the rise of authoritarianism and increased backlash on Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ communities, in particular attacks on trans communities of color, Emergent Fund and the Transgender Law Center are partnering to move resources to trans-led organizing, healing, and power-building efforts.

Community Action Fund – Community Action Fund Grants
Due: Rolling basis until October 31, 2025
This grant supports Indigenous frontline, grassroots, community-based groups and organizations, Tribes, communities and villages, and individuals leading direct action or movement-building work in their effort to DEFEND Indigenous People’s rights, and protect their land, air, water, and natural resources.