In 1990, The Mount Ararat Community Activity Center, Inc. (MACAC) was formally established as a 501 (c) 3 tax exempt organization.   MACAC is dedicated to helping East End individuals and families through outreach. The Center has a governing board which includes an executive director, with a balanced representation of service, community and church interests.

MACAC provides an array of programs and services available to the community and promotes collaborative efforts with entities that are vital to the community.  Our vision is to strengthen fundamental family values to keep them functioning in a healthy and empowered manner.  We believe that by removing the traditional barriers, families and ultimately communities will be strengthened.  The specific mission of MACAC is to improve the quality of life of families throughout the East End and Greater Pittsburgh Communities by:

1. Empowering individuals and families to become productively independent.
2. Foster conditions that assure economic stability of individuals and families.
3. Provide programs that support and encourage functional family values.

MACAC focuses on the family as a comprehensive unit and has an ideology that this can promote fundamental change in the conditions that limit the quality of life for those we serve. MACAC focuses on prevention and intervention with problematic issues, primarily through its outreach to youth as means of breaking the cycle of disadvantage.