Advance Peace loses $2 million grant in Trump Administration's federal spending cuts

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- When Fresno EOC Advance Peace programme manager Aaron Foster learned the group's $2 cardinal national assistance had been revoked, helium didn't judge it.

"Devastated, didn't spot it coming. I thought it was a scam," said Aaron Foster.

But it was real. The chopped represents astir fractional of the program's budget.

It was a three-year grant, and little than fractional of it had been dispersed.

Over the past fewer years, Advance Peace has grown successful the Fresno Community, and truthful has its enactment helping trim convulsive transgression successful Fresno.

"We scope retired to the radical that are astir apt to settee disputes with violence, and we springiness them alternatives, and it's been successful," said Foster.

The 18-month programme targets apt shooters and helps pb them distant from unit and towards a much productive lifestyle.

A extremity that's idiosyncratic for Foster.

"It was a calamity that brought maine here. Both of my children were killed the aforesaid day, the aforesaid way, truthful Memorial Day is large for maine due to the fact that some of my children died connected Memorial Day," said Foster.

The national assistance wasn't Advance Peace's lone root of funding, which is wherefore Foster says the enactment continues adjacent arsenic they impulse the Trump Administration to reconsider.

"It's not over. We started retired with zero, we didn't person backing astatine the precise beginning. So this won't interruption us," said Foster.

Advance Peace is moving with Congressman Jim Costa's bureau to effort to get this wealth reinstated.

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