Dalio Education outlines GBPA method and capacity-building supports for four Connecticut cities

Adler Coffey, senior portfolio director at Dalio Education, presented the Connecticut Opportunity Project’s approach to supporting municipal violence-prevention efforts, emphasizing data-driven GBPA (gun‑violence problem analysis), ecosystem assessments, and capacity building for local community organizations.

Coffey said the GBPA work combines qualitative focus groups, intervention-level data dictionaries and an ecosystem assessment to map assets and identify where investments can be most effectively deployed. "The empirical work needs to be validated by those folks who are closest to it and who are living through it on a regular basis," he said, describing partnerships with local offices of violence prevention and municipal staff.

Coffey highlighted variation across cities—Hartford’s intervention-based data dictionary, New Haven’s GBPA validation, Bridgeport’s readiness to apply for DPH funding, and Waterbury’s granular local‑PD data processing—and said tools and benchmarks will be left behind for municipalities to adapt. The presentation stressed coordinating philanthropic capacity-building with public-health investments and local law enforcement data to make interventions more operational and measurable.