Advance Peace

Advance Peace is a charitable organization based in Richmond, California, which administers a program with the goal of reducing gun violence in American urban neighborhoods. The program involves giving cash stipends to individuals identified as likely to commit violent crimes, but who police have not been able to arrest. The stipends are given to participants as a reward for their desisting from crime. The organization invests in the development, health, and wellbeing of those at the center of this crisis.[1] The size of the stipend varies for each participant depending on how successful they are in the program.[2]

History

Advance Peace was founded in 2010 by DeVone Boggan, who had previously been the director of Richmond's Office of Neighborhood Safety.[3][4] In December 2017, the city of Sacramento, California signed on to implement the program. The initial version of the program there is planned to focus on about 50 participants across the city.[1][5] In 2018 the organization expanded to Sacramento, where it received a four-year $1.5 million contract with the City of Sacramento. Here the organization reaches out to gang members in order to mentor them in neighbourhoods seen as hot zones for gun violence.[6] They also have offices in Stockton[7] and Oakland. In 2020 Advance Peace began the process of adding an office in the City of Fresno.[8]

References
  1. Lillis, Anita Chabria And Ryan (1 December 2017). "Sacramento hopes program will persuade 50 'shooters' to change their violent ways". The Sacramento Bee. ISSN 0890-5738. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  2. "Sacramento City Council Approves 'Advance Peace' Program". FOX40. 30 August 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  3. Picard, Jen (6 September 2017). "Advance Peace Shares Strategies To Reduce Gun Violence". Capital Public Radio. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  4. "About - Advance Peace". www.advancepeace.org. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  5. Gonzalez, Vicki (12 December 2017). "Sacramento hopes to curb gun violence through paid incentives". KCRA. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  6. "Advance Peace Sacramento Fights to End Gun Violence • N&R Spotlight". 9 May 2019.
  7. Rosales, Betty Márquez (27 July 2020). "In Stockton, a Powerful Program to Prevent Violence". The New York Times.
  8. The Fresno Bee (subscription required)


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