50 years, 50 stories: Story #23 Peace Neighborhood Center

Making Our Community a Better Place -  One Person at a Time

Peace Neighborhood Center has been serving Ann Arbor area children and adults for over 40 years, providing everything from hot meals, tutoring, and job training to summer camps, transportation, and emergency needs assistance. During any given week, the Center's staff and volunteers work with as many as 300 people of all ages.
 
Over the years, the Ann Arbor Community Foundation and its donors have contributed more than $176,000 in grants to support a variety of projects and programming at Peace Neighborhood Center. An endowment fund established at AAACF in 1998 supports the Center’s mission in perpetuity. In 2009 when Peace Neighborhood Center lost crucial funding with Pfizer’s departure, AAACF stepped in with a $15,000 bridge grant to help the Center maintain its youth programs and services - especially crucial for families who do not have the resources to pay for summer and after-school activities. 
 
"I hope the Community Foundation knows how much we appreciate their continued support," says Peace Executive Director Bonnie Billups. "It makes a big difference to the families we work with – and the thousands that have grown up and benefited from Peace Neighborhood’s programs and services."
 
One of the many ways the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation
supports all that is good in our community.

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