With one week till the deadline, Corner House has $20,000 to go on a $1.3 million fund-raising campaign.
Board vice-president Basil Kessler said he was confident the remaining money would be raised before the end of the month through a combination of gifts and “in-kind” donations by contractors. A couple of requests to foundations and trusts are still outstanding as well.
“I have every confidence that we will make it,” Kessler said.
The money raised will be used for a new 11,000 square-foot drug and alcohol treatment center. Corner House has been a “halfway house” in Emporia since 1974 and is one of the few residential treatment programs in Kansas. The agency gives recovering addicts a place to stay, group and individual therapy, legal services and help with employment.
“It’s great that we have this support and that we have people concerned about the welfare of the community as a whole,” Kessler said.