Transitional Apartments Campaign Draws Enthusiastic Response from BR Supporters
Released on: December 18, 2002

At Boys Republic, success is earned. From work experience to academic and athletic participation, students learn that successful lives are built on self-reliance.

This simple principle is nowhere more evident than in the lives of Boys Republic's homeless graduates. Their transition to adulthood is particularly at-risk for problems because they are entirely reliant on their own scant resources.

In an effort to appropriately prepare homeless students for life on their own, Boys Republic initiated a two-year campaign to fund the construction of transitional housing. The program would provide young graduates with an experience in maintaining an apartment and employment, while they accumulate the financial resources to establish themselves on their own

Transitional Housing Complex

To be constructed on the periphery of the agency's 200-acre campus, in Chino Hills, the complex will include four duplex-style student residences - enough to accommodate fourteen students - and a community building. Each apartment will consist of two small bedrooms with private study areas, a kitchenette and dining area, a living room, and a covered porch.

Student Residence

The community building (below) will provide a meeting place for group events, a laundry, storage, a kitchen and two counseling offices.

Community Building

Campaign Poised for Success

The price tag - including architectural design, grading, construction, landscaping and building furnishings - is an economical $1.8 million, a good investment considering California construction costs.

Apparently, Boys Republic supporters agree. Now, mid-way through the two-year campaign, generous contributors have helped the agency raise more than $800,000, toward a fund-raising goal of $1.1 million. Combined with $700,000 of agency reserves available for the project, the campaign is clearly within striking distance of fully funding the project.

Donor Hopes to Preserve
Boys Republic Funds

Ms. Marie Eckstrom, a long-time supporter of Boys Republic's capital projects and endowment goals, made the largest single gift toward the Transitional Apartments campaign, to date. With an unexpectedly large contribution of $182,636, she expressed the hope that her gift would attract other private support, while decreasing the need for Boys Republic to apply reserves toward the project.

Marie E. Eckstrom