Police, social service agencies, and local volunteers work with people identified as being at high risk of becoming perpetrators or victims.
Police Chief Jeff Bladel says shootings in the city dropped 18 per cent last year and homicides fell 55 per cent.
"By working together hand in hand, with our community, with our service providers, and standing and acting with the same message that violence will not be tolerated, that there's other pathways in life we can help support you and that law enforcement cares for you - those are huge concepts that come together with gvi."
Nicole Cisne Durbin, President and CEO of Family Resources, says the grant will allow her agency to dedicate one staff member to the violence intervention program.
"We want to make sure we have outreach to the population most affected by gun violence, including those who are participating in gun violence as well as those who are victims and survivors of gun violence. In our experience we know that an individual may be a perpetrator of gun violence one day but the victim of it the next day."
During its first year, the GVI program contacted 75 people in Davenport and so far only three of them have since been involved in gun violence.
It's based on similar programs in Chicago, South Bend, and Boston.
