At a May 12th Town Hall Meeting the Good Grief Board of Trustees announced a new center initiative to raise $3 million dollars in 3 years to fund a Center of Our Own. 

First Gift Received towards new center

The Thomas Glasser Foundation of Westfield, New Jersey, a philanthropic organization set up in memory of Thomas Glasser who was a victim of the 9/11 attack, made the first gift towards the center of $50,000 to match the boards challenge.

Brian Paul McKelvey Fund makes major gift towards future center

In June at our 5th Annual Good Mourning Breakfast (see below) a gift of $100,000 from the Brian Paul McKelvey Memorial Fund was announced.  The Teen Room at the new center will be named in memory of Brian McKelvey, who died in 1990.  The McKelvey Fund which had already committed to $10,000 per year through 2010, donated an additional $25,000 matching gift to enable another family to name a room at the new center.  Over the years the Brian Paul McKelvey Fund's total contributions to Good Grief has exceeded $175,000. 

5th Annual Good Mourning Breakfast - A Center of Our Own -