Learning Lab #1, Healing with Communities and Intergenerational Organizing, explored healing-centered strategies rooted in cultural strengths and “relationships as medicine,” while uplifting youth-led and intergenerational organizing approaches to advance community-driven violence prevention.

Learning Lab #2, Strategic Fundraising, Partnering with Philanthropy, Sustaining the Work, Focused on principle-driven fundraising, relationship-building with philanthropy, and practical tools to help CBOs craft compelling Stories for Impact to sustain and grow community safety efforts.

Learning Lab #3, Telling Compelling Stories of Hope and Healing, strengthened CBOs’ evaluation and storytelling capacity by introducing best practices and six data-informed story types to measure impact, demonstrate value, and fundraise effectively.

Learning Lab #4, Community Safety and Economic Justice, explored the ways in which economic injustice drives violence and how economic justice creates safety and healing.