Winning Home, Inc. pledges generous support to the Building Futures Campaign!

Winning Home, Inc. Board members Albert Curran, Jr., Tom Martin, and Mark Salvati visited James L. McKeown Boys & Girls Club of Woburn Board President, Michael Donaghey and Executive Director, Julie Gage at the construction site of the McKeown Boys & Girls Club to present a very generous gift of $500,000 to the Building Futures Campaign. Winning Home, Inc. provides services and support to disadvantaged children and their families have granted more than $3,800,000 million to organizations since 1998. Winning Home, Inc. has been a leading supporter of the McKeown Boys & Girls Club for decades. Many Club alumni fondly remember spending their summers at Winning Farm. Since the inception of the foundation’s grant program, the Club has received $1,600,000 including the new grant in support from Winning Home, Inc.

Albert Curran, Jr. said about their support of the project, “Winning Home is excited and proud to be a part the renovation project at the James L. McKeown Boys Girls Club’s by supporting the Building Futures Campaign. The positive impact the Club has had on Woburn area children since the Club was first opened in the early 1960’s is immeasurable. With this renovation the Club positions itself to continue for decades more to educate and nurture the children of our City. Winning Home encourages all citizens to donate and be a part of this historic and important project.”

The Building Futures Campaign aims nearly double the size of the Clubhouse and modernize the existing structure. The new and expanded building will allow the James L. McKeown Boys & Girls Club to serve more youth and expand its programming. The new facility will include an expanded pool and gymnasium, new exercise room and fitness center, new commercial grade kitchen with a café, new classrooms and a new teen center.

“We are so fortunate to have the incredibly generous support of Winning Home Inc,” said Club President Michael Donaghey. “They have been fantastic supporters of the Jamie McKeown Boys & Girls Club since the days of Winning Farm and this generous gift further demonstrates their commitment to the children in our community.” This pledge is especially critical because at the beginning of this calendar year, the Cummings Foundation challenged the James L. McKeown Boys & Girls Club to raise $1 million in leadership gifts for the Building Futures Campaign which they would match. This generous pledge from Winning Home, Inc. has now put the McKeown Boys & Girls Club just $100,000 away from meeting this challenge.

To learn more about the Building Futures Campaign at the James L. McKeown Boys & Girls Club of Woburn, please visit www.buildingfuturescampaign.org or contact Lytta Teta, Director of Development at (781) 935-3777 or l.teta@bgcwoburn.org.