Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is awarding $240,000 in microgrants to 26 anti-violence organizations working across the city.<\/p>\n
NBC10 joined Krasner exclusively as he visited several of the organizations receiving funding and learned more about their efforts to reduce violence.<\/p>\n
One of the recipients is Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Restorative Justice program, which works with people who have spent time behind bars and are looking for a second chance.<\/p>\n
A mural on Spring Garden Street was created by participants in the program. According to the District Attorney’s Office, efforts like it can contribute to reducing crime.<\/p>\n
Suave Gonzalez, who spent years behind bars and now helps others with similar experiences, said the program gave him skills he could use after returning home.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey showed me how to write proposals, they showed me how to write grants, and they showed me how to put my story together and speak to the people when I came home,\u201d Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez said the program’s work goes beyond creating public art.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important for people to understand that everyone deserve a chance, and we giving it through art and healing. It\u2019s not just about beautifying the community. It\u2019s about changing lives and making sure they are contributing to the public safety of the community,\u201d Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n
Krasner said investing in prevention can make a difference in communities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe difference between throwing more money at traditional solutions and this, is that this works. This makes a real difference. We have never invested in prevention in the US like we should,\u201d Krasner said.<\/p>\n
The funding is also going to Northwest Victim Services, which has worked with the family of Khyrie Isaac.<\/p>\n
Isaac was shot and killed in August 2021. Five years later, his family is still searching for his killer while receiving support from the organization.<\/p>\n
His father, Shane Isaac, described the difficulty of moving forward while keeping his son’s memory alive.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe part of moving on is the part where the guilt inside that you\u2019re forgetting your child. And that\u2019s the part we don\u2019t want to forget, and confused at, and they\u2019re the bridge to help get over that,\u201d Isaac said.<\/p>\n
The grants are aimed at supporting organizations working neighborhood by neighborhood, with community groups leading efforts to prevent violence and help those affected by it.<\/p>\n
This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC Philadelphia. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC Philadelphia journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is awarding $240,000 in microgrants to 26 anti-violence organizations working across the city.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-264826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}