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 The North Carolina Peace Corps Association
           "Bringing the World Back Home"

The North Carolina Peace Prize

The Peace Prize Presentation and Reception Sunday, 3 March 2013 Pullen Memorial Baptist Church 1801 Hillsborough Street Raleigh, NC  27605 3:30 pm

The North  Carolina Peace Prize recognizes a non-profit agency in
the Tarheel  state which promotes peace and cross-cultural understanding and shares the "helping others to help themselves" ideology of the Peace  Corps.

In 1996, the Director of Latin American Affairs at the Carter Center,  Bob Pastor, presented the first annual Peace Prize to Student Action with Farmworkers.  

Winners in years since then include My Sister's House, Center for Participatory Change; High Country Amigos; Durham-San Ramon  Sister Communities; North Carolina Partners of the Americas; El Centro Hispano; SEEDS; Friends of the Glenwood Library; and Student Action for Farm Workers.

     Previous Winners and Photos: 
             * 2012 - Achievement Academy of Durham
             * 2011 - Uniting NC
             * 2010 - USCRI - the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
             * 2009 Source Force
             * 2008 Nourish International
             * (no award given in 2007)
             * 2006 My Sisters House