The Fund was established when the Anna Botsford Bach Home closed and its Board of Directors voted to transfer an endowed fund and proceeds from the facility's sale  to the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation.  

 

 

 

 

Anna Botsford Bach was the third wife of a local businessman and former  Ann Arbor Mayor Phillip Bach. In 1900 Anna and a group of local women formed the Old Ladies Home Association to raise money to open the retirement facility later known as the Michigan Women’s Home and the Aged People’s Home.  Anna served as the Association’s president until her death in 1915.  Two years later, the Home was subsequently renamed in her honor.