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Meet the Founder
Ella Butcher - Founder & Treasurer
For over 25 years, Ms. Ella Butcher has been writing about and offering her services to the community of Greater Philadelphia and nationwide. She is a retired mortgage broker, founder, and President of Butcher Investers, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in business and personal development. The company also provides mortgages and real estate, housing, and credit consultations to its clients, as well as programs in credit education. Ms. Butcher’s belief in the importance of financial literacy led to her recent publication of a Personal Credit Diary (2009), which she taught for over 15 years before retiring in her course offered by Temple University’s Pan-African Studies Community Education Program. She is now passing the torch to her daughter
In 2004, Ms. Butcher founded the national women’s professional motorcycle organization Peaches and Cream Professional Women Motorcycle Organization (abbreviated as Peaches and Cream MC), with nationwide chapters. In addition to identifying as female professionals and motorcycle enthusiasts, members are deeply involved in their communities, organizing and participating in many community outreach events, including an annual charity ride to raise funds for lupus awareness.
For over twenty years, Ms. Ella Butcher has embodied her motto of “live to work; don’t work to live.” Known to the community as a tireless, passionate force with an energy that is almost “magical,” Ms. Butcher has dedicated her life to giving back to the city she grew to call her home, offering financial, political, and youth-based services indispensable to the community at large.
Ms. Butcher’s already expansive dedication to service and affecting change expands beyond Philadelphia. She is involved with politics at both national and state levels. Former Pennsylvania State Representative W. Curtis Thomas appointed Ms. Butcher in 2009 as the first Gaming Liaison for businesses wanting to do business with the casinos and Community Outreach Coordinator. In 2006, Ms. Butcher was appointed to the position of Executive Director (overseeing 67 counties) of the Pennsylvania New Majority Council for the Pennsylvania State Republican Deputy Chair, the late Renee Amoore, an organization that aimed to increase minority political awareness and participation. In 2013, Ms. Butcher was nominated as the first African-American Republican candidate for Philadelphia Traffic Court Judge.
In 2007, Ms. Butcher expanded the focus of her chapter of Peaches and Cream to provide youth services for a community in need. From her headquarters in Philadelphia, Ms. Butcher chartered a mentorship program for at-risk girls, ages 11-17. The program aimed to give girls valuable leadership, self-esteem, life and social skills resulting from instruction in music, modeling, personal development, and the development of a dance performance team. Since the organization’s registration as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Ms. Butcher has expanded her services to encompass youth counseling, academic tutoring, a summer academy, a youth entrepreneurship program, and an after-school program located within the Pennsylvania School Districts. Peaches and Cream Foundation’s South Philadelphia area, acts as a valuable community center, offering youth and family services to school-age children and their families, and needed services to the adult community.