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Philly creates new ‘network’ for grassroots criminal justice reform with $200k grant program
Gun violence continue to rise, but the city’s biweekly briefings may already be having a positive effect.
Community activist Isaac Gardner, shown here leading a march in October 2020, runs Unsolved Murders in Philly, one of the organizations in the new program
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Apr. 28, 2021, 4:20 p.m.
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Twenty Philadelphia organizations working on criminal justice reform will receive microgrants between $5k to $10k from a $200,000 pot. The groups will become part of an ongoing collaboration to help stop the rising violence in Philadelphia, the city announced Wednesday.