Gun violence is a preventable public health crisis, but the data needed to understand and stop it are often slow, incomplete, or underfunded. Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund has opened a new grant opportunity that helps close this gap by supporting research with EveryShot, an AI-powered, near real-time database of gun violence incidents across the United States.
What is EveryShot?
EveryShot is a data tool that tracks shootings nationwide using news coverage, combining over 80 structured data points about incidents, victims, and shooters with about 300,000 linked news articles. This makes it possible to study both the numbers and the stories: who is harmed, how incidents are described, and whose voices are heard, or left out, when gun violence is reported.
Learn more about the tool:
EveryShot overview: https://everytownresearch.org/labs/everyshot/
The new grant opportunity
Everytown is offering three grants of up to $20,000 each to support 12‑month research projects that use EveryShot data. The goal is to generate rigorous research that can inform gun violence prevention policy and practice in real communities.
Priority areas include:
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Policy analysis (e.g., background checks, licensing, Child Access Prevention laws, Extreme Risk Protection Orders, assault weapons bans, concealed carry).
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Validation studies comparing EveryShot to other datasets like CDC WONDER, FBI NIBRS, Gun Violence Archive, or local police/medical examiner data.
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Text/news coverage analysis: what kinds of gun violence are visible or invisible, how risk and responsibility are framed, and whose perspectives are amplified.
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Other creative uses of EveryShot that can move gun violence prevention research forward.
Full RFP details and link to apply:
RFP: Expanding Gun Violence Prevention Research with EveryShot
https://everytownresearch.org/everyshot-request-for-proposals/
Who can apply and key dates
Eligibility
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Eligible: Faculty, postdoctoral researchers with faculty sponsors, and research staff at academic, research, or nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations.
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Not eligible: For-profit entities, unaffiliated individuals, or organizations with firearms-industry conflicts of interest.
Timeline
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RFP released: January 15, 2026.
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Optional Q&A webinar: February 2, 2026.
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Applications due: February 28, 2026, at 11:59 PM ET.
Why this matters for schools and communities
For those of us working in schools and public health, gun violence is not theoretical—it affects students, families, and staff right now. This RFP is a chance to connect that lived experience with strong research that can guide prevention, policy, and resource decisions, especially for the communities most impacted.
If you are a researcher in nursing, public health, education, social work, or a related field, please consider whether your work could make use of EveryShot. If you are a school nurse, educator, or advocate, sharing this opportunity with your academic partners, doctoral students, and research networks is a powerful way to support evidence-based gun violence prevention.
Closing thoughts
This new EveryShot RFP is more than a funding announcement; it is an invitation to build the evidence base that students, families, and communities urgently need. By connecting near real-time data and rich narrative information to rigorous research questions, this opportunity can help move gun violence prevention work from rhetoric to action.
Dr. Sonali Rajan’s leadership as Senior Director of Research at Everytown Research reflects a deep, long-standing commitment to understanding how gun violence affects young people, schools, and communities. Her role in shaping and stewarding EveryShot is a powerful example of how scholarship, public health, and advocacy can come together to support data-driven solutions that center those most impacted by this crisis.
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