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Origins of ICP
In the Fall of 1992, David Nee of the Ittleson Foundation and Luba Lynch of the A.L. Mailman Family Foundation, concerned by escalating rates of youth homicides and violence, convened a series of meetings with private foundations and public agencies that led to the development of a national conference on violence prevention. This meeting was held in 1993, and attended by 160 grantmakers, experts in violence prevention and research and community advocates. It resulted in the creation of the National Funding Collaborative on Violence Prevention (NFCVP)
NFCVP was formally established in 1994 as a partnership among public and private funders, experts in violence prevention and related disciplines, and community collaboratives with the purpose of stimulating local and national movement and foster the development of primary prevention strategies for community based violence prevention. Since that time, NFCVP set a standard of success in building the nascent field of primary violence prevention and peace promotion through community based action, training and technical support, and seminal research on the forces that cause and prevent violence and promote peace.
Successful work at the community level made it clear that abating violence was not enough to create sustainable peace, and NFCVP began to direct its resources to the discovery of the strategies needed at the local and national levels to promote peace. Signaling this shift in focus of the organization’s work was the adoption of a new name in 2003, the Institute for Community Peace (ICP). This moniker more directly reflects the totality of the work that needed to be accomplished nationally and locally if we are to sustain primary violence prevention.
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