(The Center Square) – Continuing his bid to support initiatives he included in his 2025-26 budget proposal, Gov. Josh Shapiro visited Philadelphia on Friday where he spoke on the successes of one of the city’s violence prevention efforts.
Beyond the Bars, a music and leadership nonprofit, has received more than $530,000 through the state’s Violence Intervention and Prevention Program, for which Shapiro hopes to increase funding by $10 million this year for a total of $55 million.
Shapiro said that legislators were working “to make sure that when those dollars are divvied up that we’ve got our kids in mind whether it’s funding the work in their classrooms or funding the work in a place like this after school or they come during the summer.”…