Galilee Center Receives $ 500,000 Private Donation to Build New Emergency Shelter

It is with joy and humility in our hearts that we announce that Galilee Center has received a $500,000 private donation towards the expansion of our emergency shelter. This is not only the largest single gift in support of our current expansion campaign but also the largest historical contribution ever bestowed on our organization.

In late 2021, Galilee Center embarked on a capital campaign to raise funding to add a 6, 000 square footexpansion to its Emergency Shelter to address increased service needs. The anticipated shelter expansion will allow Galilee Center to, almost, double its emergency housing capacity as well as continue to host humanitarian efforts in a sustained mission to support the essential needs of the working poor and migrant families in the East Coachella Valley.

Bob & Connie Lurie’s generous $500,000 dollar contribution has placed Galilee Center’s capital campaign goal at 95% of its financial target.

We would like to give special thanks to Bob & Connie Lurie for their amazing gift. The Emergency Shelter expansion will offer dignity, safety and well-being to the working poor, immigrants and farming families who gather here. We are so blessed to have such patrons as Bob & Connie, who have not only committed to helping our campus expansion project come to fruition, but have shown a kindness beyond all of our expectations. We are so very grateful.

To learn more about Galilee Center’s pending expansion, please go to expansion.galileecenter.org. You may also call (760) 396-9100 for more information, progress updates and news.

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