Membership is open to residents of New Jersey who are 60 or older (however, we accept volunteers of any age). The Center is staffed and managed entirely by unpaid volunteers.  It was the first such community center in the nation.

The Wayne Adult Community Center came into existence through the unremitting efforts of several dedicated people, and it prospers thanks to the volunteers and core members who donate their effort and their time to its well-being.

We were incorporated officially in March of 1996. That summer, we received notice of a New Jersey state grant (the result of work by then Senator Joseph L. Bubba). The grant served as critical seed money.

In the autumn of that year, we celebrated our grand opening in a single room in an elementary school. The Center operated there for three years, until we moved to our current accommodations, a suite in a building on the Schuyler-Colfax Middle School Campus.

The Wayne Adult Community Center is operated by the Wayne Adult Community Center, Inc, a not-for-profit corporation under Internal Revenue Code sections 501(a), 501(c)(3), 509(a)(1) and 170(b)(1)(A)(vi).

Day-to-day operations are governed by an Executive Committee consisting of the organization's officers and other key individuals. Advice is provided by a Board of Trustees, whose members include prominent people from the area. The current trustees and Executive Committee members are listed below: