Our Mission:

Help people in the community realize their potential for becoming self-sufficient

2025 Champions of Diversity
Annual Report 2025
2024 Community Needs Assessment Onondaga County
2024 Community Needs Assessment Onondaga County

Programs and Services:

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Big Brothers Big Sisters

Department of Energy and Housing Services

Head Start program

Head Start – Early Head Start

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Family Services

Free Tax Prep Program

AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program

Senior Nutrition Program

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Senior Supports Program

Frank DeFrancisco Eastwood Community Center

Our Impact On The Community in 2024

PEACE, Inc. Family Resource Centers provided 17,802 in the last year.

93,409
Senior Meals were prepared and distributed.

Head Start families received 20,181 services throughout the 2023-2024 school year

$ 2,672,725
was returned September 2023 and August 2024.

Ways To Help

From mentoring, donating money, volunteering and more, there are many ways you can help.

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Your donative help people as they strive to support themselves and their families.

Latest News & Stories

Building a Bus While Building Bonds

Building a Bus While Building Bonds

PEACE, Inc.'s Head Start programs are always looking for ways to integrate parents into their practice. Recently, kids were enjoying a gross motor skills class, learning all the things one can do and make with boxes. Some very imaginative parents swooped in and built...

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Planning for a Healthier and Wealthier Future

Planning for a Healthier and Wealthier Future

PEACE Inc.'s Eastside FRC recently hosted a session called "Protecting Assets from long-Term Care Costs" or -- as one attendee put it afterwards -- "saving us from money surprises and heartache later on." Emily from Bousquet Holstein was the perfect guide through...

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Rainy Days Vs. Brilliant Art

Rainy Days Vs. Brilliant Art

This past month must've been the dreariest, rainiest, muckiest May in memory. But the budding artists at Merrick Head Start were undeterred! They leaned into their creative sides, making artwork that ranged from self portrait to collage to rocks and pebbles painted to...

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Exploring Nature at Merrick Head Start

Exploring Nature at Merrick Head Start

PEACE Inc.'s Merrick Head Start brought the outdoors indoors! While the last month has been unseasonably rainy, that didn't stop our teachers from facilitating an outdoors experience inside their classrooms! Kids got to huddle inside a tent and practice their s'mores...

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This website is supported by Grant Numbers C1002756 and C1001476 from the Office of Community Services and Grant Numbers 02CH011394-05-03 and 02CH013040-01-00 from the Office of Head Start within the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Neither the Administration for Children and Families nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse this website (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided). The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed are those of PEACE, Inc. and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Administration for Children and Families, the Office of Community Services, and the Office of Head Start.

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