Urban Peace Institute

Urban Peace Institute (UPI) creates community safety and dismantles harmful systems to transform justice and ensure freedom from violence. Our grant enables its Los Angeles Peacemakers Initiative, which will create a professionalized workforce and set community safety standards for an expanded CVI (community violence intervention) infrastructure. UPI will also build capacity for CVI organizations, advocate for and shift the narrative on community-based safety, as well as develop a CVI evaluation and data platform.