57+ Blocks Coalition

Community Advisory Board

The 57+ Blocks Coalition is steered by the Community Advisory Board which consists of community leaders and gun violence prevention advocates, including:

• Chantay Love, EMIR (Every Murder is Real) Healing Center
• Dr. Dorothy Johnson Speight, Mothers in Charge
• Reverend Jerome Fordham
• Reverend Jeanette Davis, DIVAS Ministry Group
• Nicole Levy, Public Banking Coalition and Philadelphia Neighborhood Networks
• Dr. Movita Johnson-Harrell, The CHARLES Foundation
• Paula Peebles
• Renee McDonald, Mothers in Charge
• Reuben Jones, Frontline Dads
• Reverend Robert Collier, Black Clergy
• Shane Claiborne, Raw Tools
• Wali Smith, Philadelphia Anti-Drug/Anti-Violence Network (PAAN)
• Tyrell Mann-Barnes, Research Project Manager, District Attorney’s Transparency Analytics (DATA) Lab
• Reverend Gregory Holston, Senior Policy Advisor District Attorney’s Office [Co-Facilitator]
• Dr. Oren Gur, Director of District Attorney’s Transparency Analytics (DATA) Lab [Co-Facilitator]

Member Organizations

The 57+ Blocks Coalition is a community-led partnership with over 60 community and faith-based organizations, non-profits, and counting. These groups include, but are not limited to:

• 12th & Cambria Advisory Board
• Anchor of Hope CDC, AHARI – A Home is A Right, Inc
• Baptist Pastors and Ministers Conference of Philadelphia and Vicinity
• Black Clergy
• Blackwell Culture Alliance, Inc
• Building B.L.O.C.S
• Ceasefire Pa
• Cedar Ave Community Outreach
• Ceiba
• Center for Policing Equity
• Community Healing 4 All
• Cookman Beloved Community Baptist Church
• Dignity & Power Now
• DIVA Ministries
• Donte Saves Lives
• EMIR Healing Center
• Evelyn Graves Ministries Outreach
• Esperanza
• Esperanza Health & Kensington Corridor Trust
• Father’s Day Rally Committee, Inc
• Free the People
• Frontline Dads Inc
• Galilee Baptist Church
• Gather the People House of Prayer
• GUCDII – Girl U Can Do it Two
• Heeding God’s Call to End Gun Violence
• Metropolitan Christian Council of Philadelphia
• Men Who Care of Germantown, Inc
• Mill Creek Community Partnership
• Money Talks Edu
• Mothers in Charge
• Mt. Calvary Holy Church of America
• Mt. Olive Church of Christ – Disciples of Christ
• National Action Network
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• National Homicide Justice Alliance
• New Beginnings
• Norris Square Community Alliance
• Philadelphia Anti-Drug/Anti-Violence Network (PAAN)
• Philadelphia Gospel Movement
• Philadelphia Interfaith Coalition
• Philadelphia Neighborhood Networks
• Philadelphia Public Bank Coalition
• Philly Bolt
• Philly Truce
• Presbytery of Philadelphia
• Raw Tools
• Reinvestment Fund
• Restorative Cities Initiative
• Revolutionary Vision
• Sisters with a Goal – SWAG
• Tenth Memorial Baptist Church
• The 7 G’s of Germantown
• The Charles Foundation
• The Growth Collective
• The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting
• The Philadelphia Masjid
• The Simple Way
• Unite Here
• Urban Health Lab
• We’re Seeking You
• Why Not Prosper
• Working Families Party
• Woodland Ave Community Outreach