A New Building for the Clinic for Special Children

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Waiting Room
Adult Exam Room
Laboratory
Fundraising Goal
Total Campaign Goal: $13,300,000.00
  • Cash Donations & Pledges (84.44%): $11,230,383.00
  • Donations of Labor & Building Materials (12.79%): $1,700,502.00
  • Remaining Goal: $369,115.00

We are deeply grateful.

We launched the Keeping the Promise: Building Hope capital campaign in July 2022 filled with cautious hope and optimism. The new building project represented the goal to ‘keep our promise’ to care for children as they age, seek the promise of life-saving therapies, and be here for families when they need us for generations to come.

Because of over 2,800 generous supporters, we were able to build our new facility. In April 2024, we moved operations to our new, 28,000 sq ft home in Gordonville, PA. It’s been inspiring to see the real differences the building is making for families – a fully accessible playground greeting children at our entrance, more space and resources to provide compassionate care, and an integrated laboratory to find answers more quickly, to name a few.

With the overwhelming support we received, even as costs ran higher than expected, we were able to fully fund the entire cost of purchasing the land and building the new clinic, and closed active outreach for our capital campaign at the end of 2024. Thank you to everyone who helped us achieve this milestone in the Clinic’s history – as always, we cannot do our vital work without you.

As an element of the campaign, the Clinic endeavored to secure funds to permanently cover the additional operating costs of the new building. Thanks to an innovative and generous partnership, a fund seeded with a $250,000 gift from Ephrata National Bank has been established, and donors who would like to contribute to the fund are invited to consider a gift for the benefit of the Clinic in perpetuity.  For more information, please contact our Development Team at 717-687-9407 or giving@clinicforspecialchildren.org.

With gratitude,

Herman Bontrager, Board Chair

Adam Heaps, MS, MBA, Executive Director

Changing Lives

Building Hope

Project Budget
Total Budget: $13,300,000.00
  • Construction (55.47%): $7,377,000.00
  • Site Work (13.3%): $1,769,000.00
  • Land (7.92%): $1,054,000.00
  • Sustainability Fund (7.52%): $1,000,000.00
  • Professional Fees (6.35%): $845,000.00
  • Furnishings and Equipment (5.68%): $755,000.00
  • Innovation Fund (3.76%): $500,000.00

Campaign Leadership

Capital Campaign Committee

Herman Bontrager | Chair
Jan Bergen | Vice Chair
Elam Esh | Vice Chair
Leon Hoover | Vice Chair
Mark Martin | Vice Chair
Rick & Maureen Finkel
Terence R. Flotte, MD
John J. Herman
Lori Maley
Isaac Nolt
Melvin Stoltzfus
Glenn Zimmerman

Campaign Committee Honorary Members

Kenneth & Mary Ann Burkholder
Samuel & Verna Hahn
Joseph B. Martin, MD, PhD
Clark McSparren, Jr., MD
Robert Scala, PhD
Richard & Melissa Stamps
John Thackrah
Martha Thornton

Staff

Adam D. Heaps, MS, MBA | Executive Director
Kevin A. Strauss, MD | Head of Therapeutic Development

Gifts-in-Kind Committee

Glen Zimmerman | Chair
Jacob Petersheim | Co-Chair
Elam Stoltzfus | Owner’s Representative
Delmas Fox
Delmar High
John Kauffman
John Kauffman
Christ King
Crit Lapp
Nelson Martin
Dale Nolt
John Smucker
Elmer Stoltzfus
John Stoltzfus, Jr.
Levi Stoltzfus
Nathan Zimmerman

This project is funded in part through an ARPA grant from the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners.