It was established in 1948 by Beatrice Joyce Kean, the sole heir of the successful Joyce family of Clinton, Iowa.
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A $250,000 grant to the UCLA School of Public Health resulted in a special edition of Evaluation Review that focused on gun violence.
The primary foundation donor to the VPC is the Joyce Foundation, which also supports other gun violence prevention organizations including the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence and the American College of Preventive Medicine.
James Joyce | National Science Foundation | Ford Foundation | Rockefeller Foundation | Joyce Carol Oates | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Joyce | New York Foundation for the Arts | Mozilla Foundation | Guggenheim Foundation | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | Wikimedia Foundation | Apache Software Foundation | Joyce Kilmer | foundation | Make-A-Wish Foundation | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | Clinton Foundation | Open Software Foundation | Konex Foundation | Foundation series | Joyce Meyer | Joyce Grenfell | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Carnegie Foundation | Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation | McKnight Foundation |