Life After Hate

Life After Hate is a nonprofit organization founded in 2011 by Arno Michaelis, Sammy Rangel, Angela King, Christian Picciolini, Tony McAleer, and Frank Meeink. The organization was named after an online blog entitled "Life After Hate," created by Michaelis.Its stated mission is to "build a safer society by making it possible for people to break free from lives of violent hate and extremism through evidence-based interventions.” In January 2017, the Obama administration awarded the group $400,000 as part of a grant from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Countering Violent Extremism Task Force. However, DHS advisor Katharine Gorka and other aides of President Donald Trump decided to discontinue the grant in June 2017. A crowdfunding campaign established after the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally has raised $429,500 to go towards the organization.