Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program - Services and Programs

Grant pushes organization into home stretch
of fundraising for new building

Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) has received a $2 million challenge grant from the highly respected Kresge Foundation to help fund the renovation of its new home.

The award is one of the largest grants the foundation gave out this round, and distinctive because the biggest grants typically go to large institutions like universities and hospitals.

“Boston Health Care for the Homeless illustrates Kresge’s commitment to supporting organizations that work on the front lines, often against great odds, to pursue new and better forms of service,” said Kresge Foundation President Rip Rapson in the foundation’s press release announcing the grants. 

The Kresge grant brings BHCHP closer to its goal of creating a new home to house its central clinic, respite care unit and administrative offices.  The organization is currently renovating a four-story building at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Albany Street in Boston, the former site of the city morgue. The building is slated for completion in the summer of 2008.

The Kresge award is a challenge grant, meaning BHCHP has to raise the final $6 million of its $42 million capital campaign goal by December 2008 in order to receive the money.