Advancing Community Excellence, formerly Williamsburg-James City County Community Action Agency, is deeply rooted in assisting the community with supports that encourage self-sufficiency. The organization aims to support the whole family in an effort to strengthen entire community. For 50 years the agency has responded to continually changing community needs, while retaining a fundamental commitment to individual empowerment and social justice; and serves individuals, families, neighborhoods, and the larger community in seeking to relieve the causes and to diminish the effects of social injustice and poverty.