Organizations, funders and community groups working to reduce gun violence in Chicago gathered in a West Side park Tuesday morning to announce a new partnership focused on North Lawndale and to provide an update on a key violence prevention strategy. The event comes as gun violence is up for the year overall compared to last year, but down significantly in both April and May. A rally in Douglass Park, 1401 South Sacramento, featured representatives from READI Chicago, which serves young men at risk in three west side and two south side neighborhoods, Communities Partnering 4 Peace (CP4P), which includes 15 different community anti-violence groups active in 28 neighborhoods, Chicago CRED, which is also active on both the South and West Sides, and the Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities (PSPC), a coalition of Chicago funders. They spoke about the new collaboration, current gun violence trends, and also celebrated the passage of a new state law providing $100M to help violence prevention programs go to scale.