Hoover: Vacuum Cleaner For The Joyce Foundation Cash

From BFA here is another report about another "grassroots" anti Second Amendment organization - in reality just a gravy train for those who run it.

Exposed: Ohio anti-gunners' 2006 & 2007 IRS returns

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The Joyce Foundation's last grant to Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence occurred in 2004, in the amount of $200,000, and was earmarked as a two year grant "for continued support of its efforts as a statewide resource on gun violence prevention, and to build its organizational funding and membership base". Hoover paid nearly half of that to herself, and at the end of the two years, had nothing to show for herself as far as achieving either one of the goals the Joyce Foundation set out for her.

"If we have more use of guns, then we're going to have more people who are injured and die."
-- Toby Hoover, Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, when asked in April 2004 about her predictions about Ohio's newly-implemented concealed carry law

The rest here

Toby Hoover:what a predestined name! Somebody at the Joyce Foundation should have thought of that.

Oh No, So Sad! No More Money...Honey?

After the Heller decision some speculated the anti-Second Amendment groups will start to lose credibility and funding. This is the first confirmed victim and it has folded up based on losing funding from probably the primary source of anti-gun funding - The Joyce Foundation.
H/T Hoffmang

Gun control group disbands after losing funding
Monday, July 6, 2009, 8:50 AM
By Pat Curtis

An Iowa group once active in lobbying for gun control has disbanded after losing a major grant. The November 1st coalition began after the November 1, 1991 shootings on the University of Iowa campus and was later renamed Iowans for the Prevention of Gun Violence.

U-I professor Rex Honey served on the board of directors and hopes to revive the group. "I will try in autumn to get some students involved at the University of Iowa, given that the campus was what started our organization in the first place," Honey said. "So, it's not that we don't think there's an issue any longer."

No more money...Honey?

Honey says most recently the group has relied on volunteers to lobby the legislature. "There was a grant with the Joyce foundation for a period of close to a decade from the mid 90s well into this decade, and that funding did end," Honey said.

"That meant we could no longer hire staff, so everything was done on a volunteer basis." The organization recently helped stop a bill to loosen restrictions on county officials who issue gun permits.
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