Vote With HB Gives Texas Voters a Clear Plan to Register, Prepare, and Vote
Vote With HB gives Texas voters a clear, trusted plan to register, verify their status, prepare their ballot, and turn individual participation into lasting community power.
Jabee Williams and LIVE FREE Oklahoma Turn Credibility Into Community Safety
Jabee Williams and LIVE FREE Oklahoma turn trusted relationships, cultural leadership, and grassroots organizing into practical strategies for community safety and opportunity.
Teresa Gonzalez and LIVE FREE California Build Community Power for Safety and Justice
Teresa Gonzalez and LIVE FREE California unite faith leaders, impacted families, and community partners to advance community safety, justice, and lasting public investment.
Josh Riddick and LIVE FREE Indiana Organize Faith Into Public Power
Josh Riddick and LIVE FREE Indiana organize congregations and residents into a strong public voice for safer neighborhoods, accountable leadership, and durable community power.
Faith-Rooted Organizing Turns Moral Vision Into Measurable Change
LIVE FREE began with a conviction: faith communities can do more than respond to tragedy. They can organize people, change policy, and help build the conditions for communities to live free from violence and mass incarceration.Since 2011, LIVE FREE has trained clergy and grassroots leaders, supported local violence-prevention campaigns, moved public resources into community-based solutions, and built a national network across [...]
Rev. Ciera Bates-Chamberlain and LIVE FREE Illinois Build a New Model of Community Safety
Rev. Ciera Bates-Chamberlain and LIVE FREE Illinois bring faith, lived experience, and Chicago community leadership together to build a stronger model of public safety.
From $14 Million to More Than $200 Million: Organizing Changed California’s Safety Budget
Budgets are moral documents. California’s growth in Community Violence Intervention funding shows what can happen when organized communities insist that prevention deserves public investment. LIVE FREE and its partners helped move state support for Community Violence Intervention from $14 million to more than $200 million after years of organizing by faith leaders, survivors, credible messengers, practitioners, and residents. The funding helped [...]
8,300 Californians Turned a Policy Deadline Into a Moral Demand for Repair
In October 2025, more than 8,300 Californians sent a message to Governor Gavin Newsom: an apology without action is not repair.LIVE FREE USA helped lead a statewide campaign of faith leaders, descendants, and community advocates urging the governor to sign reparations bills addressing homeownership, racially motivated eminent domain, higher-education opportunity, genealogy infrastructure, and a bureau dedicated to descendants of American slavery.Organizers [...]
Prevention Works: Communities Report Historic Reductions in Violence
Communities that invested in prevention saw historic reductions in shootings and homicides, offering powerful evidence that community violence intervention works.LIVE FREE's 2025 Impact Report documents a 100 percent reduction in shootings and homicides in Berkeley, California, alongside a 37 percent reduction in shots fired. In Orlando, Florida, homicides declined by 88 percent over three years.Community-led safety saves livesThese outcomes grew from [...]
Voters Across Party Lines Support Community Violence Intervention
Community Violence Intervention is often discussed as a partisan issue. National polling commissioned by LIVE FREE suggests the public sees it differently.The 2022 survey, conducted by Lake Research Partners, asked voters whether they supported federal funding for state and local governments to implement community-based intervention services aimed at reducing gun violence. After respondents heard arguments and concerns, support stood at 71 [...]