The Foundation seeks a dynamic individual interested in working with a leading private foundation to assist with program administration and communications efforts.

Job Summary The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) is a leader in developing and disseminating research and other knowledge to examine and address enduring and urgent problems of violence to drive meaningful change. HFG seeks a dynamic Senior Communications Manager (SCM) to design, manage, and implement the Foundation’s communications activities to ensure that HFG knowledge […]

Notice anything different? HFG.org has a fresh look with a newly designed homepage, a dedicated events section, and improved navigation and search functionality throughout the site. These changes, led by the talented team at Design for Progress, support new programming, including our expanded HFG Speaker Series, new multi-media projects, such as our Violence, Politics & […]

The eminent criminologist long associated with the University of Missouri-St. Louis, was a civic-minded scholar, a master of quantitative analysis, and a great friend to many.

HFG has launched a three-year project with Salzburg Global Seminar to explore violent threats to democracy worldwide. Polarization and Violent Threats to Democratic Systems: Assessing the Threats and What We Can Do About Them aims to develop a network of researchers and stakeholders examining rising polarization and political violence; define objectives for shaping a new research agenda on the rise of polarization and political violence; understand how to assess escalating threats; and posit recommendations for addressing threats effectively.

(NEW YORK) — As shocking events in the US and elsewhere show, political violence is real. The scope of the threat is unclear, as are the motivations that drive people to harm others they disagree with and the effects of such violence on the outcomes of elections and the health of democratic institutions. While media […]

(NEW YORK) — The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation today announced the election of two new members to its board of directors: Andre M. Davis, a former judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and former city solicitor of Baltimore, and Jacqueline Jones, former president and CEO of the Foundation for Child Development […]

This fall, the Foundation will host three Knowledge Against Violence conversations titled, “Global Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence.”  Gender-based violence, defined by the United Nations as “harmful acts directed at people or groups based on their gender,” is a pervasive global problem. The UN estimates that 30% of women 15 years and older“have been subjected to […]

(NEW YORK)  —  After fifty-two years of leadership, Peter O. Lawson-Johnston is retiring as chair of The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Board of Directors. Lawson-Johnston remains a member of the board and assumes the new title of chair emeritus. The board has elected longtime director Peter Lawson-Johnston II, to succeed him.   Peter O. Lawson-Johnston, former […]

February 6, 2023  (NEW YORK) —  With renewed focus on U.S. crime rates and the complex reporting systems that often impede understanding, the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ), an HFG partner, is forming a Crime Trends Working Group to collect, analyze and decipher U.S crime data. The group will “probe the nation’s changing crime trends, […]