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Community Safety & Violence Prevention Challenges:

I challenge you to design a community campaign and program that amplifies the existing strengths and beauty of New Orleans’ neighborhoods as a counternarrative to the historical spring and summer upticks of community violence.

Marlon Peterson

I challenge you to develop actionable solutions to combat gun violence in your community by creating a program that encourages safer schools and neighboorhoods.

Brandon Wolf

I challenge you to create a youth-led campaign — focused on equity and social justice — that demands a public-health approach to ending gun violence.

Rashaad Abdur-Rahman

I challenge you to use art to raise awareness about the school-to prison pipeline in your community and promote restorative justice and education over incarceration.

Jane Golden

I challenge you to improve community safety and trust, in partnership with the Dallas Police Department.

Lonzo Anderson

Community Safety & Violence Prevention Solutions:

Marlon Peterson

Operation Hope 4 NOLA

To counter the narrative of violence in New Orleans by creating a safe space for opportunity and exposure for teens, further amplifying the existing talents within our city.

Brightside

A community that believes in itself, supports itself, and provides & utilizes resources and mentorship to provide career opportunities and ample chances for success. We will bring the community together to help change the way that people see New Orleans, the 9th Ward, and Carver.

Get It Ready NOLA

Get it Ready NOLA aims to create and enhance the culture of our city to decrease violence and uplift the skills and creativity of the city's youth.

New Orleans’ Crime Amelioration (NOLACA)

NOLA’s Crime Amelioration (NOLACA) will allow all young people, particularly those who are at risk of being entrapped by violence, to experience their full potential as productive, responsible, and successful citizens without being exposed to or contributing to New Orleans crime.

A.L.L.I.E.S.

Creating or promoting a safe and comfortable environment for minorities.

I challenge you to develop actionable solutions to combat gun violence in your community by creating a program that encourages safer schools and neighboorhoods.

Brandon Wolf

I challenge you to create a youth-led campaign — focused on equity and social justice — that demands a public-health approach to ending gun violence.

Rashaad Abdur-Rahman

J.M. Atherton High School

We offer enriching out-of-school activities that promote hobbies and peer-to-peer engagement and provide an alternative to violent culture.

Butler Traditional High School

We engage with our Butler community to help prevent gun violence, hate crimes, and social injustice and to promote a sense of safety and tranquility.

I challenge you to use art to raise awareness about the school-to prison pipeline in your community and promote restorative justice and education over incarceration.

Jane Golden

YESPhilly

We will design and install visual art projects and deliver perfomances in schools to create a safe, united community and break down barriers between school officers and students.

wholeheARTed

wholeheARTed is disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline through education, mentoring, and collaborative artistic expression. Utilizing mobile, student-created art installations, and social media, we engage the larger community in restorative justice.

Give Us Our Crowns

We educate the southwest Philadelphia community about the entry points to the school-to-prison pipeline and the impact of this epidemic by creating origami cranes and displaying them throughout the community.

A Butterfly's Change

A Butterfly’s Change will prevent students from entering the school-to-prison pipeline by using art and personal experience to educate and to provide a creative outlet for self-discovery.

Sherim Shokan

We will promote restorative justice practices at our school by creating an after-school art program for students at risk of entering the school-to-prison pipeline.