Gov. Wolf announced $4.5 million in new funding for the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency’s Non-Profit Security Grant Program that provides funding to churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, and other non-profit organizations which face bias and are targets of hate crimes.
Gov. Wolf announced $23 million in funding for 25 projects to create local strategies to stop gun and group violence across Pennsylvania.
Following the PA Senate’s passage of House Bill 979 today, Gov. Wolf vowed to continue vetoing every piece of legislation that ignores the need for commonsense gun violence solutions and jeopardizes the lives of Pennsylvanians.
Gov. Wolf announced $8 million in competitive grants has been awarded to 303 local education agencies to increase school safety.
Gov. Wolf was joined by state Senate Democratic Appropriations Chairman Vincent Hughes in Philadelphia to announce a $15 million increase in funding to further support grassroots gun violence prevention efforts through the Pennsylvania Commission for Crime and Delinquency’s Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention program.
