Peacehaven Farm Inc.
Peacehaven Farm Inc.
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About this organization
Mission
Our mission is to connect people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to the larger community through shared living and the work of a sustainable farm. Our vision is to be a destination for learning and growth for people of all abilities. Our core values are community, relationships and growth. To live out these core values we focus on the practices of compassion, sustainability and servant leadership.
About
On a chilly January morning in 2007, a group of eight friends––including Buck and Cathy Cochran and Tim and Susan Elliott––met at the Grove Park Inn to dream about a brighter future for people with disabilities. The Cochrans and Elliotts have children of their own with intellectual and developmental disabilities and found community with each other imagining a place where people of all abilities could live in relationship, work together, and support one another. Susan Elliott presided over this first Peacehaven meeting, sharing her story as a parent of a child with a disability. Gail Haworth, who later led our first board, remembers, “Susan had the passion and concrete ideas to support her dreams not only for developing the farm but also enabling us to envision the home that would provide a place for special-needs residents to live and perhaps develop their own dreams.” By the end of that first meeting, Buck recalled, “We knew we were all in, even though the exact path ahead was not very clear.” They named this dream Peacehaven Community Farm. Two years later in 2009, Peacehaven found a permanent home on 89 acres of rolling hills, pastures and woodland in Whitsett. We began hosting community work days to live out the social good of sharing the work of gardening with people with and without disabilities. Cathy Cochran remembers, “Coming over the hill on the first workday in the fall of 2009, it took my breath away. . . It was just amazing . . .” To this day, we continue to gather in the gardens on Saturday workdays––growing relationships and vegetables. In 2014, Peacehaven fulfilled Susan’s vision of opening an affordable supportive-living home for adults with disabilities. The home was fittingly named “Susan’s View.” Currently three adults with disabilities––our Core Members––and two Home Life Leaders reside there. The residents of Susan's View live in a family-style environment where they support, accompany, and care for one another throughout the events of daily life. Looking towards the future, Peacehaven plans to build additional homes for adults with disabilities as well as a community center to continue Susan Elliott’s vision.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The purpose of the non-profit is outlined in the filing as “To provide permanent housing and work opportunities on farm operations for adults with intellectual and physical disabilities.”.
When discussing its operations, they were defined as: “To provide permanent housing and work opportunities on farm operations for adults with intellectual and physical disabilities.”.
- The state where the non-profit operates has been legally reported as NC.
- The filing indicates that the non-profit's address in 2020 is located at 1458 NC HWY 61, WHITSETT, NC, 27377.
- The non-profit has reported 13 employees on their form as of 2020.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are between $500,000 and $1,000,000+.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $828,962.
- The organization has 7 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 2007.
- The organization pays $344,476 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $51,636 in fundraising expenses.
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