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.
[2] Advance Peace was founded in 2010 by DeVone Boggan, who had previously been the director of Richmond's Office of Neighborhood Safety.
Here the organization reaches out to gang members in order to mentor them in neighbourhoods seen as hot zones for gun violence.
In 2020 Advance Peace began the process of adding an office in the City of Fresno.