The Believing is Seeing Campaign for
St. Joseph's Villa
We’re not just changing our campus – we’re changing lives
As we celebrate more than 175 years serving the community, the Board of
Trustees has taken on the responsibility of ensuring the Villa will remain
a responsive community resource for generations to come. The Believing Is
Seeing Campaign, in conjunction with public grants and organizational funds,
supports the redevelopment of our historic 82-acre campus.
Since the campaign began in 2009, our campus has seen dramatic change and
revitalization in order to create a more therapeutic environment that will
enhance safety and learning for the more than 500 children and families
we serve each day.
Our
new perimeter road with a new entrance on Parham Road separates
the 450+ vehicles that enter the Villa’s campus each day from pedestrians,
wheelchairs, and outdoor learning and play areas. We have also enhanced
wheelchair accessibility with improved sidewalks and the new covered drop
off zones facilitate smoother transitions for our students.
The new pedestrian avenue links all the Villa’s services.
It provides an ideal space for outdoor play with enhanced playgrounds, picnic
pavilions, and gathering spaces to promote teamwork, confidence-building,
environmental stewardship, and programmatic excellence in outdoor learning.
These spaces and the restored gardens also foster the therapeutic healing
which is critical to those we serve.
The repair of shared spaces at the Villa has included renovations
of our administration building and the gymnasium. All campus improvements
and new infrastructure help ensure that the Villa can accommodate changing
needs in the community and support any future new buildings.
The Villa’s improved infrastructure and technology
provide for a more sustainable campus. Our new steam heat distribution system
supplies the entire campus with secure, efficient heat. To promote state
of the art assistive technology in classrooms we have installed new phone
and network technology campus-wide.
This unique project will build capacity, increase environmental efficiency,
restore the natural features of our therapeutic setting, and enhance the
impact and scope of our programs, which serve nearly 1,000 of the community’s
most vulnerable children and families each year.
Please click HERE to learn
about the construction projects which are in the process of transforming
the Villa campus.
To complete this exceptional and transformative project we are seeking support from the community the Villa has served for 175 years. Over 420 gifts and pledges have been committed so far with $9,193,438 raised towards our $10 million goal. We are 92% of the way there and YOU can help us raise the remaining 8%. Please join the 420 others in making an impact.
See who has given by clicking HERE.
For more information on the Believing Is Seeing Campaign, contact
the campaign office at 804.200.1618. If you wish to download a pledge card
you may do so HERE. Or
to make a onetime gift with a credit card you may do so below. Working together
we will all see it realized.
