Our Capital Campaign: The Space to THRIVE
As the anchor agency of the Island across all six towns, Martha’s Vineyard Community Services offers a steady heartbeat of comprehensive support from birth to advanced age. In this work, the right space matters. We proudly culminated the completion of the first phase of our Space to THRIVE Capital Campaign with the opening of the Paul & Sandra Pimentel Early Childhood Center.
We now turn our attention to our main campus. Built in the mid-1980s, our aging buildings are outmoded, flood-prone, and overcrowded. Our core facilities lack elevators, automatic doors, and wheelchair accessibility. Indoors, we lack modern ventilation and energy efficiency. Our walls are thin and insufficient for privacy. Outside, a confusing maze of buildings and uneven pathways provides a challenging entranceway for clients of all ages and abilities.
It is time to build for the future of community health and wellbeing.
Our proposed new Main Community Service Center will use best-practice design for comprehensive, behavioral health services. Our new facilities will house our Community Behavioral Health Center, dually licensed and nationally accredited outpatient mental health and substance abuse clinic, “open access” and other same-day behavioral health services, disability services, Veterans services, elder services and supplemental domestic and sexual violence services—all on campus.
Envision with us…
- Universally accessible space that welcomes every client arriving on campus.
- Private space that inspires safety, dignity, and confidentiality for every individual and family.
- Meeting space that fosters collaboration among service providers and community partners.
- State-of-art space that allows for hybrid staffing and telehealth-compatible infrastructure.
- Environmentally efficient space that offers durability for generations to come.
Envision with us a Space to THRIVE…a campus brilliantly designed to meet the evolving needs of our year-round and seasonal island community.
Our latest campaign milestone has been met. On May 2, 2025, MV Community Services convened a joyful Groundbreaking Ceremony—indeed, construction of our new facility is officially underway!—thanks to our wonderful donors and partners who helped achieve our $12.5 million ”shovel-in-the-ground” target. Over these past four years, this work has been propelled forward by one hundred percent (100%) of our Board members, who launched our Space to THRIVE drive by contributing the first $1 million cornerstone gift. That collective charitable investment has been magnified by the generosity of contributing Island families, including a record gift of $2 million by Jim & Susan Swartz, which named the Paul & Sandra Pimentel Early Childhood Center, and an historic $3 million by Jacqui Morby and her children, which will name the new Morby Family MV Community Services building, currently under construction. At the close of 2024, a wonderful $500,000 matching grant by the Martha’s Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation inspired significant year-end support, elevating a successful drive to fund and name a future wing of our new facility as the William & Rose Styron Center for Wellness & Recovery. With a $1 million “last-dollar-in” grant anticipated by the close of 2025, our goal-to-go, as of May 2025, is $3 million—our “capstone giving” goal to achieve full funding for our modern new building and greenspace.
We hope you will consider making your own capstone gift or pledge (payable over five years) to help complete this campus transformation on schedule for fall 2026. To join this community effort, please contact Campaign Officer Sandy Sedacca, (617)583-3848 (mobile), ssedacca@mvcommunityservices.org. Thank you!!
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Contact
Sandy Sedacca, Capital Campaign and Major Gifts Officer
617-583-3848
ssedacca@mvcommunityservices.org