Cure Violence

What Cure Violence does

Cure Violence Global is a Chicago-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1995 by Dr. Gary Slutkin, a former World Health Organization epidemiologist, that treats violence as a contagious public health issue and deploys trained community members — "violence interrupters" and "outreach workers" hired from affected neighborhoods — to detect and mediate conflicts, work with high-risk individuals, and shift social norms around violence. The methodology is a three-pillar approach: detecting and interrupting potentially violent conflicts, changing the behavior of highest-risk individuals, and mobilizing communities to change norms supporting violence. The organization also operates a Hospital Response Program that partners with trauma centers to intervene during the retaliation-risk window after violent injuries, and has adapted the methodology to contexts including gender-based violence, prison violence, post-conflict violence, and school shootings.

Name

Cure Violence

Legal name

Cure Violence Global

Website

https://cvg.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cure Violence Global is a Chicago-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1995 that trains community "violence interrupters" to mediate conflicts, work with high-risk individuals, and shift norms, operating in 100+ communities across 15+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Violence Prevention Services

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Social Assistance (624)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Youth Justice, At-Risk Youth & Violence Prevention Nonprofits (BPAGADAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Gun Violence Prevention & Public Safety Policy Advocacy (BPAGAFAM), Threat Assessment, Violence Prevention & Behavioral Intervention Support (EDAEACAH)

Keywords

• Violence prevention services
• Community violence intervention
• Public health methodology
• Violence interrupter training
• Hospital violence response

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Government Grants and Contracts: Primary funding source from federal, state, and local government grants. New York City is the largest Cure Violence site with annual investment of $22.5 million. The Trump administration withheld hundreds of millions in federal funding for violence intervention programs in 2025, causing organizations to pause or dismantle programs.
2. Individual and Corporate Donations: Donations from individuals and corporations supporting the violence prevention mission. The organization is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with tax-deductible donations accepted.
3. Foundation Grants: Support from foundations including MacArthur Foundation (100&Change competition finalist) and others supporting violence prevention work.
4. Partnership Funding: Funding from partnership programs such as AAA-ICDR Foundation partnership to develop next generation trainings for community-based violence intervention.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Cure Violence Global delivers a public health, epidemic-reversal methodology for violence prevention. The core offering trains and supports community-based violence interrupters and outreach workers (credible messengers) who detect and interrupt violent conflicts, change behavior of highest-risk individuals, and shift community norms. The organization also operates a Hospital Response Program, provides training and technical assistance, conducts community assessments, and licenses its methodology to cities and partner organizations across 50+ US sites and 15+ countries.

Product overview

Cure Violence Global offers a unified violence prevention methodology centered on treating violence as a contagious health issue using epidemic control strategies. The core offering consists of the Violence Prevention Methodology, which operates through trained Violence Interrupters and Outreach Workers who detect and interrupt conflicts, work with highest-risk individuals, and mobilize communities to change social norms. The organization also provides a Hospital Response Program as an integrated module, along with Training and Technical Assistance services and Community Assessment services for organizations seeking to implement the Cure Violence approach. Additionally, founder Dr. Gary Slutkin has published 'The End of Violence,' a book documenting the methodology and evidence base.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cure Violence Violence Prevention Methodology Public health epidemic-reversal approach treating violence as a contagious disease; detects and interrupts violent conflicts, identifies and changes behaviors of highest-risk individuals, and mobilizes communities to shift norms that support violence. Provided to city governments and partner organizations seeking to reduce shootings, homicides, and retaliation violence.
• Violence Interrupter Program Program of trained credible messengers (violence interrupters and outreach workers) recruited from the same communities as those at highest risk of violence. Interrupters identify and mediate potentially lethal conflicts, prevent retaliation, and maintain ongoing relationships with high-risk individuals. Delivered to city governments and local partner organizations.
• Hospital Response Program Partnership protocol with hospital trauma centers that activates a comprehensive Cure Violence response whenever a gunshot, stabbing, or blunt trauma victim arrives, intervening during the critical window after violent incident to prevent retaliation. For hospital trauma centers and city partners.
• Training and Technical Assistance In-person and online training and ongoing technical assistance programs covering street-level conflict resolution, risk reduction, hospital-based violence prevention, trauma care, and site management. Provided to cities, community-based organizations, and frontline violence prevention professionals seeking to implement the Cure Violence approach.
• Community Assessment Services 2-3 day community assessments that familiarize stakeholders with the Cure Violence Model, determining target areas, partnerships, worker profiles, and program structures prior to implementation. For city governments and local organizations seeking to launch a Cure Violence site.
• The End of Violence (Book) Book by Dr. Gary Slutkin presenting the case that violence is contagious and preventable, offering a roadmap using evidence-based health approaches to violence prevention.

Quantifiable outcome

• 63% reduction in shootings in New York City South Bronx
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and minor.

• AAA-ICDR Foundation (American Arbitration Association)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 October 2022Partnership to develop next generation trainings for community-based violence intervention. Will create trainings on street-level conflict resolution, risk reduction, hospital-based violence prevention, trauma care, and site management. Project engages with network of 800+ violence prevention workers to ensure trainings are responsive to their needs.
• UNICEFcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Partnership with UNICEF's Spotlight Initiative to address gender-based violence in Latin America. Recuparando Mi Comunidad project in Honduras targeting 25 communities in 4 cities. Violence interrupters interrupted 1,770 violent incidents including 724+ incidents against women and girls.
• World Vision InternationalmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Cure Violence selected as partner for World Vision's 'Hope at Home' project - finalist in MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition. Project aims to mitigate migration from Central America by addressing violence factors.
• USAID Peace ExchangeminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2019USAID's Peace Exchange featuring webinars on crime-sensitive approaches to prevent organized crime and violence. CVG's Chief Program Officer presented on disease control methodology.
• Cities UnitedminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Cities United organization focused on supporting cities in violence prevention efforts.
• NNSC (National Neighborhood Safety)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with NNSC communities organization for neighborhood safety initiatives.
• John Jay College Research and Evaluation CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerConducted extensive evaluations of Cure Violence programs in New York City, documenting 63% reduction in shootings and improvements in police-community relations.
• CDC/Johns HopkinscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner2012 CDC/Johns Hopkins evaluation of Baltimore program found 56% reductions in killings and 34% in shootings in one community.
• NIJ/Northwestern UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner2009 NIJ/Northwestern evaluation of Chicago program found 41-73% reductions in shootings across 7 communities.
• MOMUCLA (Movimiento de Mujeres de la Colonia López Arellano)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerHonduran women's rights organization implementing violence interrupter program in Choloma. Team of 18 violence interrupters reduced women's deaths from 38 to 13 in one year.
• First Community Resource CentrecoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerLocal partner implementing Cure Violence in Hanover Park community, Cape Town, South Africa. Independent evaluation found 53% reduction in shootings and 31% reduction in killings.
• Surviving our StreetsminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerUK partner implementing Cure Violence model in youth prison. Independent evaluation found 51% reduction in overall violence and 95% reduction in group attacks.
• RedThreadminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerUK nonprofit implementing hospital-based violence prevention throughout London and Great Britain. Partnered with CVG on movement to make violence a health issue, conducting trainings and speaking to Parliament.
• Save the ChildrencoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPartnership with Save the Children and APRODEHNI in San Salvador, El Salvador. 64% of responding clients reported decrease in violent behavior.
• Hachette Book GroupminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPublisher of Dr. Gary Slutkin's new book 'The End of Violence' - a case for why violence is contagious and preventable.

Scale indicators15 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Roca: Roca is a Massachusetts-based nonprofit working with high-risk young people impacted by violence, using street-outreach, behavioral change, and education programming—a directly comparable community violence intervention operator.
• Cities United: Cities United partners with municipal leaders to design and implement violence prevention strategies (especially affecting Black men and boys), operating in the same municipal space as Cure Violence Global and sharing CVG as an explicit partner.
• National Network for Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs (NNHVIP): An umbrella network of hospital-based violence intervention programs operating with the same public-health model that Cure Violence uses, including engagement of credible messengers in trauma centers. Directly comparable as a peer in community/hospital violence-interruption methodology.
• Safe and Sound (formerly SAFE Streets) Baltimore: A Baltimore-based community violence intervention program using violence interrupters and outreach workers; explicitly referenced in CVG's own impact documentation as a parallel implementation of the Cure Violence model.
• BUILD Chicago: BUILD Chicago is a community-based violence prevention and youth-development nonprofit on Chicago's west side, founded in response to the same gun-violence epidemic Cure Violence addresses—sharing geography, methodology, and target population.
• NNSC (National Network for Safe Communities): NNSC promotes the Group Violence Reduction Strategy (formerly Operation Ceasefire) as a focused-deterrence alternative to traditional law enforcement—a directly comparable peer that, like CVG, is a named partner and a parallel violence-reduction model.
• Advance Peace: Advance Peace provides violence intervention by hiring and deploying "fellowship" credible messengers from neighborhoods highly impacted by gun violence—directly mirroring the Cure Violence interrupter model in California and other geographies.

Regional players

• Gang Rescue and Intervention Team (GRIT): A regionally recognized violence intervention nonprofit using credible messengers in Chicago-area neighborhoods—an adjacent community violence intervention peer with significant geographic and methodological overlap with Cure Violence.

Emerging players

• UNICEF (Spotlight Initiative): A strategic multilateral partner of CVG implementing gender-based violence programming in Central America; comparable as a funder and co-implementer of violence-prevention methodologies in similar geographies and populations.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/CureViolence
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cure-violence
• Instagraminstagram.com/cureviolence
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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles21 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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