Peter Paul is a community center that serves youth, families, and senior citizens in the east end of Richmond, VA. Its mission is to support the surrounding community by educating its students and equipping them to serve as positive contributors to their family, community, and society. By educating children, engaging families, and empowering the community, the organization seeks to serve as a change agent.

The organization’s programs are essential in fostering an environment that creates an opportunity for children and families to thrive. To offer and operate these programs, volunteers are a critical component to the organization’s success, which is why they use TraxSolutions’ family center data management software, in particular, leveraging the VolunteerTrax module to collect and manage volunteer information. The tool saves them time and money, so they can focus on furthering programs by proving outcomes to secure additional funding. Using data collected from TraxSolutions, the organization is able to show how its programs provide participants with the tools needed to be productive contributors to society. Through the use of our software, the organization has been able to demonstrate that it supports 350 students in grades 2-12 across its five locations. Further data shows an 87% improvement in academic performance.