Greater Future, NFP works directly with individuals at the highest risk of firearm violence — interrupting retaliation, influencing behavior change, and building safer communities across Chicago and surrounding suburbs.
Leading Community Violence Intervention in Chicago
Who We Are
Greater Future, NFP is one of Chicago’s leading Community Violence Intervention (CVI) organizations. Our team includes professionally trained outreach workers, case managers, and victim advocates who are both credentialed and street-experienced.
We specialize in engaging individuals at the highest risk of becoming victims or perpetrators of gun violence — at the moments when intervention matters most.
WHAT WE DO
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Our outreach workers engage individuals directly in neighborhoods most impacted by violence. By intervening at critical moments, we prevent retaliatory acts and de-escalate potentially deadly conflicts.
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Participants are connected to case managers who provide on-the-spot problem solving, behavioral guidance, and access to essential resources including:
Employment pathways
Continued education
Social services
Healthcare access
Housing support
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In addition to individual intervention, we facilitate:
Focus Groups for deep, cross-community dialogue
Peace Summits that mobilize broader community participation
These structured gatherings promote long-term behavior change and neighborhood-level stability.
LEADERSHIP & EXPERIENCE
For over four years, Greater Future leadership has served in every capacity within Chicago’s street outreach ecosystem — from frontline engagement to executive oversight. This experience allows us to offer comprehensive programming that includes:
Professional training
Data and program monitoring systems
Strategic partnerships
Community-centered collaboration
Youth Conflict Resolution & Leadership
Greater Future, NFP works with young people ages 16–24 to develop conflict-resolution skills, critical thinking, and leadership.
Participants take part in a unique learning experience hosted at the Jacob H. Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies at Northeastern Illinois University.
Through a Hip Hop studies course taught by Dr. Lance Williams, youth explore:
• The history of Hip Hop
• Its relationship to their communities
• Conflict resolution and self-expression
• How culture can influence positive change
For many participants, the program provides their first experience learning on a college campus and encourages them to envision new opportunities for their future.
“Programs that connect culture, education, and real conversation can change how young people see their future.”
— Greater Future Leadership
Featured in the Chicago Sun-Times
Sherman Moore, CEO of Greater Future, has been quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times for his leadership and frontline expertise in violence prevention.
Sherman Moore spent decades in prison for a nonviolent drug conviction and now works with Greater Futures, a community violence intervention group that steers young people from Auburn Gresham and other South Side neighborhoods away from that path.
“It’s not an easy process,” Moore said. “We’re starting to reach them, and that’s why the violence is going down, because they’ve seen through these organizations that people care about them.”
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