Kresge Challenge Grant

The Health Center is honored to have been awarded a Challenge Grant from The Kresge Foundation. This $500,000 Challenge Grant, for the new building in Mashpee, requires that we reach the majority of our fundraising goal before the funds are provided. Our goal is $5.25 million. Thanks to generous support from many individuals, businesses and organizations, we exceeded our goal and raised $5.5 million.

About the Kresge Foundation

The Kresge Foundation is an international foundation with $3 billion is assets, whose mission “is to strengthen nonprofit organizations that advance the well-being of humanity”. In 2006, it awarded 205 grants for a total of $146,187,060 to organizations in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, South Africa, and Mexico. The Capital Challenge Grant program invests in non profits that The Kresge Foundation believes have the potential to become stronger through the Challenge Grant process.

In awarding the Challenge Grant to the Health Center, Rip Rapson, President, The Kresge Foundation, said “Your care for the poor and uninsured fills a critical gap in our national health system and by offering increasingly more comprehensive services you are providing a model for reaching the underserved”.

Joining Together

Joining Together was the community campaign to create awareness and raise funds to reach our goal and meet the Kresge Challenge. We appealed to all segments of our community – individuals, businesses, community groups, local and national foundations, as well as the Health Center family (Board of Directors, staff and volunteers).

Our thanks to our outstanding capital campaign committee who worked tirelessly to make the campaign a success. Our committee included: