Across California, community organizations are turning local leadership into lasting public investment through the Community Economic Mobilization Initiative. LIVE FREE California serves as the statewide power-building convener, supporting regional anchors and...
More than 8,300 Californians joined faith leaders, descendants, and community advocates in calling on state leaders to move from apology to meaningful repair. The statewide action demonstrated the growing power behind California’s Road to Repair. LIVE FREE California...
LIVE FREE California’s Community Violence Intervention work combines street outreach, life coaching, credible messengers, crisis response, and healing-centered support to create safer communities without expanding punishment. In Berkeley, the local violence...
Impact doesn’t happen in isolation.
It happens when people organize.
In 2025, thousands of people stepped up—and it changed policy across the country.
In a year when public investment in care was being reduced, redirected, or cut, something remarkable happened Communities fought back—and won.
Across the country, where investments were made in Community Violence Intervention (CVI)—violence dropped.
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