Mattie J.T. Stepanek Foundation
Browse the sections below to learn more about how to #MakePeaceTheNews and #CelebratePeace in our own community. We welcome hearing from you about your efforts!
Save the date of Saturday, October 2, 2021! We hope you will join us at Lenny’s Market in Americus for our 2nd annual Georgia Peace Day event, “Celebrating Sumter County’s Multigenerational Mosaic of Gifts”!
Find out who our “Celebrating Heartsongs” Contest honorees and special recognition winners are, and view a one-hour special about them that includes birthday messages for Mattie & Jeni!
Our 2021 Birthday Campaign ended on July 25, the birthday of Mama Peace. We surpassed our campaign goal and are so very grateful for your support! Thank you for choosing peace!
Americus campers recently learned about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and how to seek, make, and bring peace to themselves and their community.
Allison Bond, a 24-year-old young woman from Lincoln, Arkansas, first learned about Mattie Stepanek when she saw award-winning music artist Billy Gilman pay tribute to the late best-selling poet and peacemaker on the Jerry Lewis
Peace Certified School Furlow Charter School awards the 2021 Mattie J.T. Stepanek Peacemaker Award to senior scholar Jaylynne Ruckman, learn more about the award here.
Albany, Georgia teenager Preet Jani recently partnered with Mattie’s Foundation to bring aid to those suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic in India.
Sacred Heart School is the most recent school to achieve Peace Certification by the Mattie J.T. Stepanek Foundation. Learn more about their ongoing commitment to peace!
The Mattie J.T. Stepanek Foundation had a very productive February! Find out more about the people, events and partners who are helping to #MakePeaceTheNews!
Alba Romero has been bringing Mattie’s messages of hope and peace to children at Morningside Elementary School in California since 2014. Learn more about what they are doing to cultivate peace.
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