| American Association of Suicidology (AAS)
AAS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the understanding and prevention of suicide. Their website is designed as a resource for anyone concerned about suicide, including AAS members, suicide researchers, therapists, prevention specialists, survivors of suicide, and people who are themselves in crisis. Americans for Gun Safety (AGS)
AGS is a non-partisan, not-for-profit, advocacy organization that supports the right of individuals to own firearms and urges responsibility in keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and children.
Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG)
BMSG's mission is to work with community groups, journalists and public health professionals to use the power of the media to advance healthy public policy.
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
The Brady Center is dedicated to creating an America free from gun violence, where all Americans are safe at home, at school, at work, and in their communities. The Brady Campaign is the lobbying arm of the Brady Center.
Children's Defense Fund
Among its many initiatives, this national child advocacy organization is committed to giving children in the United States a safe start through youth development and violence prevention activities.
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV)/Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence is a unique coalition of more than 40 religious, labor, medical, educational and civic organizations. CSGV engages in a vigorous and strategic program of lobbying the U.S. Congress and state legislatures. In addition, CSGV provides technical support to activist organizations across the country and maintains the grassroots publication Stop Gun Violence News. CSGV's sister organization, the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, is an educational nonprofit dedicated to stopping gun violence by fostering effective community and national action.
Doctors Against Handgun Injury
Doctors Against Handgun Injury is a coalition of twelve clinical and professional medical societies, organized and sponsored by The New York Academy of Medicine. Members of this coalition have come together in an effort to bring a medical perspective to the problem of handgun injury.
Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF)
The FVPF is a national non-profit organization that works to end domestic violence and help women and children whose lives are devastated by abuse, because every person has a right to live in a home free of violence.
Firearms Law Center
A national project of the Legal Community Against Violence, this website provides information for the public, policymakers, advocates, and others about firearms laws at all governmental levels.
Gun Free Kids
GunFreeKids.org is an Internet action center, sponsored by New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, that exists to make it easy for its users to ask their national and local elected officials to support legislation that will keed guns away from children. The site offers a complete legislative directory and action alerts targeted to users' legislative districts. Handgun Epidemic Lowering Plan (HELP) Network
The HELP Network is an international network of medical and allied organizations and individuals dedicated to reducing the epidemic of handgun violence.
Join Together
Join Together, a project of the Boston University School of Public Health, is a national resource for communities working to reduce substance abuse and gun violence. Its website contains daily gun violence news and comprehensive resources and information for gun violence prevention advocates. Its online service, "JTO Direct," delivers daily information via email, including news and research headlines, grant announcements, action alerts, and more.
Legal Community Against Violence (LCAV)
LCAV was founded in 1993 in response to an assault weapon massacre in San Francisco, CA. LCAV is a non-profit organization committed to reducing gun violence through education and regulation. LCAV's primary project is the Firearms Law Center, which provides education and assistance regarding the local, state and federal regulation of firearms in the U.S. Million Mom March
A national grassroots organization committed to preventing gun death and injury and supporting victims and survivors of gun violence. On October 1, 2001, Million Mom March merged with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
National Rifle Association (NRA)
The National Rifle Association is the nation's largest association of gun owners. The NRA promotes the self-defense use of firearms, firearm safety training, and legislation that protects the private ownership of firearms.
Pacific Center for Violence Prevention
The Pacific Center for Violence Prevention, a project of the Trauma Foundation, works to prevent youth violence in California. Located at San Francisco General Hospital, the Center serves as the policy headquarters for the Violence Prevention Initiative funded by The California Wellness Foundation.
PAX
Through innovative public health campaigns, PAX promotes practical, non-political solutions to gun violence that all Americans can embrace -- solutions that help to protect our families and children and work immediately to save lives.
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)
PSR represents more than 20,000 physicians, nurses, health care professionals, and concerned citizens devoted to nuclear disarmament, violence prevention and environmental health. PSR's Violence Prevention Program is building a national Violence Prevention Network of physicians, public health professionals, PSR staff and supporters working to reduce firearms and domestic violence.
States United to Prevent Gun Violence (SUPGV)
The SUPGV Research and Education Fund is an independent association of state-wide, single issue, multi-project gun violence prevention organizations. SUPGV aims to support, enhance and maximize the ability of its member organizations to work effectively with each other and the citizens of their states to prevent gun deaths and injuries. Through this site, visitors can find the contact information for their local gun violence prevention group.
Stop Handgun Violence
Stop Handgun Violence is a non-profit organization committed to the prevention of gun violence through education, public awareness, effective law enforcement and common sense gun laws.
Violence Policy Center (VPC)
The VPC is a national organization working to reduce firearm violence through research, education, and advocacy. The website includes summaries of original VPC research reports.
Women Against Gun Violence (WAGV)
A coalition of individual members and over 100 organizations throughout the state of California, and particularly in the county of Los Angeles, WAGV is dedicated to preventing gun violence by educating individuals and policymakers about the human, public health, and financial costs of this epidemic, and by mobilizing our communities to take decisive action against the dangers of firearms. Top | 
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