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The decision to launch the initiative came after the pandemic gave way to a spike in gun violence, leading to a flood of public dollars that some nonprofits and community groups were ill-equipped to handle.
Reader: Akron should research whether costly violence prevention programs work.
Men who went through the program were two-thirds less likely to be arrested for a shooting or murder and nearly 20% less likely to get shot or killed themselves than men who did not take part.
Also, the American LGBTQ+ Museum has hired its first executive director, and Greenpeace U.S. has appointed a new chief program officer.
Provisional data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics suggest the homicide rate for the United States rose 30% between 2019 and 2020.