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 (81.53%): $10,842,835.00
  • Donations of Labor & Building Materials (12.79%): $1,700,502.00
  • Remaining Goal: $756,663.00

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. We have already added staff to serve the increase in patients coming to the Clinic.

While our building is complete, we are still accepting donations until the end of 2024 to help us reach our $13.3 million goal. The remaining funds will help us sustain our operations in our new home and provide essential resources to continue our innovative laboratory and research work. Thank you to everyone who helped us get this far, and we’re hopeful that we can reach our goal by the end of the year.

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.