PACE Center for Girls earns ‘Accelerating Change Award’

The Center for the Study of Social Policy recently awarded the PACE Center for Girls with its inaugural “accelerating change award.”

PACE was recognized for its record of serving young women and girls of color who are at high risk. PACE was founded in Jacksonville in 1985 and serves 2,300 girls annuals in 19 centers, including in Manatee County.

While in Washington, PACE also partnered with the White House on the historic United State of Women Summit, attended by President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Jill Biden. The event took place in mid-June.

“PACE is proud of the impact we have made in Florida in creating opportunity for more than 37,000 girls who needed our support to succeed,” PACE President and CEO Mary Marx said in a statement. “As we look to the future, we are working to make the PACE impact accessible to girls across this nation and it is recognitions and opportunities like this that pave the way to making that possible.”

This story was originally published August 11, 2016 at 2:35 PM with the headline "PACE Center for Girls earns ‘Accelerating Change Award’."