Keystone Courage

Keystone Courage

Keystone Courage 2026

The 2026 Keystone Courage Awards will be held on Thursday, April 30 at The Lucy in Center City Philadelphia. This year we are honoring Mayor Cherelle L. Parker, Mayor of Philadelphia, Chairman Tim Briggs, PA House Judiciary Committee, Jefferson Center for Injury Research and Prevention, and this year’s Deadly by Design storytellers.

Past Keystone Courage Awardees

2025
Congresswoman Madeleine Dean
Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon
Penn Medicine
Deadly by Design Storytellers

2024
Lieutenant Governor Austin Davis
Sheriff Sean Kilkenny
Deadly by Design Storytellers

2023
Representative Joanna McClinton
Hogan Lovells
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Center for Violence Prevention

2022
Senator Vincent Hughes
Nancy Gordon (inaugural Guiding Light Award)

2021
Senator Bob Casey

2020
Ed Stack, CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods

2019
Fred Guttenberg

Accomplishments

courtroom in Scranton

Disarming abusers

Led efforts for landmark legislation to take firearms away from perpetrators of domestic violence.

hands exchanging money for a gun

Tracking Illegal Firearms

The Track & Trace program helps identify sources of crime guns–and cut them off.

Governor Wolfe talks about community violence prevention

Investing in Community Violence Prevention

Won $65 million in new funding for local organizations to interrupt and prevent violence in 2021.

Take a Stand

We’ll never stop fighting for a safe, gun violence-free Pennsylvania. If you share that goal, power our efforts today.

Facing the truth about gun violence in PA