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The Boston Home Awarded $250,000 Yawkey Foundation Grant for Improved, Safer Access to Mobility for Residents
Dorchester, MA November, 2021 – The Boston Home (TBH) is honored to be awarded a $250,000 grant through Yawkey Foundation’s Transformational Capital Grant Program. Established in 1881, TBH is an innovative community for adults with multiple sclerosis and other advanced neurological disorders. The Yawkey Foundation grant will support renovation of flooring throughout the facility including clinical care, residential and life enhancing program areas. Flooring is a critical need at TBH because all residents, and most day program participants, use power wheelchairs for mobility.
TBH serves residents and outpatients who have multiple sclerosis and other advanced neurological disorders, providing life enhancing programs, physical and occupational therapies, wheelchair repair and customization, arts and cultural programming, and the highest level of clinical care. 

On World MS Day, May 30, 2020, TBH launched the $2.5 million Compassionate Care Capital Campaign to invest in its facility, to enhance its ability to provide the highest level of clinical care, to expand its innovative life-enhancing programs, and to support its efforts to educate the next generation of caregivers and clinicians. With the Yawkey Foundation's generous grant, TBH has surpassed $2.25 million raised toward the Compassionate Care Capital Campaign goal, and will be able to move forward with interior renovations, following on building envelope improvements, roof replacement, and window replacement accomplished to-date through the campaign.

“Tom Yawkey and Jean Yawkey were deeply dedicated to helping individuals of all backgrounds and abilities to experience fulfilling, enriching lives,” said Maureen H. Bleday, CEO of the Yawkey Foundation. “Providing this grant to replace The Boston Home’s flooring for easier, safer access for both residents and staff will improve their quality of life, which is why this investment was so compelling to our Trustees.”

The Yawkey Foundation was established in 1977 by Tom Yawkey. During his lifetime, he and his wife Jean Yawkey gave regularly to causes and efforts related to health care and human services. Today, the Foundation Trustees continue the Yawkey legacy of giving by making meaningful contributions to those in need.
The quality of the home environment is tremendously important to the TBH community, where individuals often reside for 20 years or more; therefore, TBH has prioritized renovating its facility interiors in order to enhance living and working environments for residents and staff. Flooring has been identified as the most critical of TBH’s interior renovation needs, largely due to the tremendous wear and tear on floors impacted by daily traffic of more than 100 power wheelchairs. Yawkey Foundation's Transformational Capital Grant will make the replacement of outdated and worn flooring on all three levels of TBH's facility possible. TBH is deeply grateful for the longstanding support of Yawkey Foundation, which has contributed more than $875,000 to enhance the lives of TBH's community since its first grant to TBH in 2010. “We are extremely grateful for Yawkey Foundation’s partnership over the last 11 years,” stated Christine Reilly, Chief Executive Officer of TBH. “As we anticipate the evolving needs of our residents, Yawkey Foundation continues to support our organization’s capital priorities so that we remain at the forefront of care for adults with advanced neurological disorders like MS.” 
The Yawkey Foundation is dedicated to perpetuating the philanthropic legacy of Tom and Jean Yawkey, whose eight decades of quiet generosity supported individuals and families in the communities that were closest to their hearts – Massachusetts and Georgetown County, South Carolina. Having awarded more than $500 million to date in charitable grants to organizations focused on Health Care, Education, Human Services, Youth and Amateur Athletics, Arts and Culture, and Conservation and Wildlife, Yawkey Foundation is committed to preserving and sustaining the charitable values of the Yawkeys by investing in impactful nonprofits providing resources, opportunity, and dignity to the vulnerable and underserved. For more information, please visit www.yawkeyfoundation.org, or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook for the latest announcements.

Founded in 1881 and recognized by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society as a “Center for Excellence in Long-Term Care,” The Boston Home is a residence for 96 adults with advanced MS and other progressive neurological disorders. The Boston Home’s mission is to enable residents to live as independently as possible through exceptional clinical care, compassion, and innovative programs. Using state-of-the-art technology, residents have full access to the building, campus grounds, and beyond. The Boston Home offers rehabilitation services, customized wheelchair adaptations, a day program for outpatients, art and writing programs, spiritual services, and social outings. For more information visit: www.thebostonhome.org.
 
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