Contact Jacqueline Flynn at jflynn@pec-cares.org to learn about our sponsorship opportunities.

Join us on Thursday, November 3, 2022 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM to celebrate 50 years of putting people first with People's Emergency Center at the Penn Museum. Click the above buttons for details and to purchase tickets or become a sponsor.​

Remarks by
Nikki Johnson-Alfano, Esq.
Ms. Universe 2021-2022
Homelessness Advocate
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​Music by 
Bill Jolly
3x Emmy Award Winner 

Celebrate 50 with Us!

People’s Emergency Center (PEC) was founded in 1972 in West Philadelphia to nurture families, strengthen neighborhoods and drive change. PEC offers more than 235 affordable housing units, job training, parenting and early childhood education, financial education and planning, life skills and technology classes for families, children, and youth experiencing homelessness. PEC and its affiliates (PEC Community Development Corporation and Youth Service, Inc.) uplift our community by providing housing, social services, and quality of life supports that empower people, and promote more prosperous neighborhoods for all.

We have so much to celebrate, like:

• 2 M + safe nights for 20,000 parents, youth and children housed at PEC, while they built skills essential to thrive.
• $1.5 M in financial assistance that helped families secure or keep a home. 
• 3 M+ healthy meals for families, youth, and children.
• 235,000 hours of teaching computer skills for new learners. 
• 40,000 books for children to build their own libraries at home.​​

Become a Sponsor

Awardees

LANCASTER AVENUE IMPACT AWARD

Destiny Jackson
Levine Youth Legacy Award

Diane Mapp
Rowan Rise Award

Joe Willard
Mission Excellence Award

​Thank You to our Sponsors
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Presenting Sponsor

Market Street

Lancaster Avenue

Baring Street

West Philadelphia offers a vibrant artistic, economic, and historic landscape, often captured by Street Art, emotively bookending neighborhood blocks. PEC’s 50th anniversary imagery marries the open, dynamic, inspirational street art essence, with world-renowned, timeless artifacts displayed at neighboring Penn Museum. PEC celebrates the diverse tapestry of people, cultures and thought throughout our neighborhoods, and embraces the opportunities this uniquely provides to build equity.

Please join us.