Dear Graduates, Customers, Funders, Colleagues and Other Friends,
The Board of Make Piece/Peace met recently and voted to dissolve the organization.
The poor economy greatly impacted us through lower sales and fewer grants and contributions. Equally importantly, family and personal health challenges over the last twelve months reduced management’s ability to work at the pace sustained during some ten years of Make Piece activity. This too impacted our sales and other donations. We have searched for other leadership who might reinvigorate the organization, but a suitable candidate has not emerged.
We have thus concluded that we need to celebrate our achievements with joy and close down gracefully. We take great comfort in knowing that our graduates, many of whom keep in touch regularly, will continue to carry Make Piece values into the wider community. In fact, one of them is forming a business to teach jewelry entrepreneurship in the space the organization has been occupying at the Perry School. The food service also operated in that space by one of our grads will also continue, to the delight of those who work at Perry.
I want to express again, in the strongest terms, how much the students, graduates, Board and I appreciate your kind and generous support over the years. Together with you, we have been ‘making peace :: changing lives’. And we couldn’t have done any of it without your steadfast support.
Sincerely,
Maureen Ward
