About Us

promoting self-sufficiency and positive community involvement

Our Mission

Peace Neighborhood Center’s mission is to provide programs for children, families, and individuals who are affected by social and economic problems. Peace helps people discover options, enhance skills, and make choices that lead to self-sufficiency and positive community involvement.

Our Vision

A community where personal growth, opportunity and diversity are constant; the cycle of poverty and social and economic inequality has been broken.

Our Locations

We’re in your neighborhood!

Front of Peace Neighborhood Center building

Main Facility

1111 N. Maple Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48103

A red building with a large tree in front

Wellness Center

1111 N. Maple Rd
Ann Arbor, MI 48103

A line of yellow and blue buildings on a green lawn with picnic tables.

West Arbor Satellite Center

657 N. Maple Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48103

Maple Meadows Satellite Center

794 S. Maple Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48103

Baker Commons Satellite Center

106 Packard St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Peace HUB Community Resource Center

1515 S. Harris Rd.
Ypsilanti, MI 48198

Guiding Principles

  1. We value openness, consultation, diversity and inclusion.
  2. We are not impulse-driven. We prioritize our programs. We create and implement new ideas for optimum effectiveness.
  3. We focus on nurturing our clients to reach their highest potential.
  4. We employ competent, motivated people. We provide them with the training, tools, environment, and opportunities to succeed with our clients.
  5. We focus on what we do best and collaborate with others who are “best in class”.
  6. We value involvement and inclusion by donors, sponsors, and stakeholders.
  7. Issues of inequality are addressed in a way that helps the community learn, heal and change.
  8. We change people’s lives.

Peace Neighborhood Center’s Five Rules of Success

  1. Respect Everyone and Everything
  2. Listen
  3. Follow Directions
  4. Cooperation
  5. Think and Respond Appropriately

Peace Neighborhood Center’s Youth Services Pledge

I Promise

I Will Love and Respect My Family.
I Will Respect Others and Myself.
I Will Honor and Respect the Elders in My Community.
I Will Strive to Keep Learning.
I Will Take Responsibility for My Actions.
I Will Work to Become More Honest and Express My Feelings and Needs.
These are the Promises I Make to Myself Because I Create My Present and Future.

Organizational History

2017
Creation of the Monty Vincent College Assistance Fund

Peace hires a full-time staff member to oversee the College & Career Prep Club and increases its scope and effectiveness.

2015
The Ninth Grade Academy is officially added to Peace’s Youth Services

Providing programs and support for kids during the difficult transition between middle school and high school.

2014
Peace forms a subsidiary nonprofit

Known as Peace Neighborhood Center Maple Road Corridor, this new addition to Peace’s programs was created to focus specifically on the needs of children in identified census tracts in the community with the help of our school partners in the area.

2013
Long time Executive Director Rose Martin passes

Peace Community celebrates her memory and continues to give life to her values.

2011
The Family Enrichment Program is launched

Part of Peace’s wrap-around approach to providing necessary support to all members of a household involved in Peace programs

2009
The Peace House Transitional Housing Center opens

Allowing Peace to provide temporary supportive housing to clients in need

2006
Executive Director Rose Martin retires
rose

Bonnie Billups, Jr., Program Director for 15 years, replaces her.

2003
2001
2000
Zion and Trinity Lutheran Churches donate the building and land

Donated to PNC as a leadership gift for the “A Home for Peace” Capital Campaign

1999
1998
1997
PNC joins BUILD and CAP begins

BUILD (Building, Unity, Independence, Leadership, and Development), a substance abuse prevention collaboration, and CAP (Computer Access Program)

1996
1995
Peace Neighborhood Center expands programs to all of Washtenaw County

PNC joins F.U.N., Families of United Neighborhoods

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1971
1970
Tension in the community divides the neighborhood

Public housing residents and private homeowners need a place to meet and discuss concerns.

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