From one foundation to another, it just made sense.
That’s the word from Hugh Logan, executive director of the Chatham-Kent Community Foundation (CKCF), after the CKCF pledged $100,000 over multiple years to the Butterfly Build Fund for the Children’s Treatment Centre of Chatham-Kent (CTCCK).
“This is a project the whole community supports. This was something we had to support,” he said. “We’ve supported the treatment centre on numerous occasions in the past.”
The CKCF donated nearly $21,000 in funds July 10, the first in the multi-year commitment for the $100,000 total.
Mike Genge, executive director of the Foundation of CTCCK, said they have raised about $4 million of the $6 million needed for the centre’s new home on McNaughton Avenue West in Chatham.
Half the funds will be used for the build while the other half will go towards equipment. The CKCF money will be earmarked for equipment, Logan said.
“This will provide them with the opportunity to expand programs,” he said.
Genge said support for the build project has been incredible.
“There has been widespread community support. We love getting partners involved,” he said. “We’re hoping by the fall, God willing, we’ll be done (fundraising).”
The new centre will be located on McNaughton Avenue West, northeast of St. Clair College. It will be double the existing centre’s size, to 50,000 square feet.
