Capital Giving Opportunities

Knight Children’s Center

The Home’s signature facility, the Knight Children’s Center is located Jamaica Plain and dates back to 1914, when it was opened as an orphanage. Over the course of time, as policies shifted the nature of child social services away from orphanages, the facility underwent various transformations. A wing was added to the Center in 1958 to house the increasing demand for foster care, adoption and clinical services. As educational requirements and service demands also grew, The Home transformed the original orphanage into the educational facility it is today, and in 1987 built a separate residence to house the students in need of residential care.

Today, the Knight Children’s Center specializes in residential, clinical and educational services for emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children between the ages of five and 13. In addition, The Home’s, Adoption and Intensive Foster Care programs are headquartered at this location.

Unfortunately, due to advancing years and heavy utilization, the 1914 building has deteriorated beyond reasonable repair. While serviceable, it is ill suited for its current educational purpose. Its capacity is greater than its use and is not easily modified to improve its function, consistently failing cost benefit analyses to do so. The Home is exploring options for the facility and is committed to drastically improving the environment for the many children and families that utilize the building each year.

To learn more about supporting the Knight Center capital improvement effort, please contact:
Marcia Allen
Director of Individual Giving
617-927-0670
mallen@thehome.org

The Baird Center Renovation Campaign

While the Baird Center’s programs and services have grown dynamically in response to increasingly complex human service needs, campus facilities have not kept pace. The Home launched the Baird Center Renovation Campaign to meet the growing demand for short-term preventative placements and residential after-care. Through donor support, The Home built a new Respite Center and residence. The May 2007 ribbon cutting for the new Bilezikian Respite Center and The White House marked the completion of Phase I. The Home is now proceeding to Phase II, replacing the remaining four summer camp cabins with modern year-round residences.

Naming opportunities are available for gifts in excess of $10,000.

To learn more about supporting the Baird Center Renovation Campaign, please contact: