Charlottesville, VA (WINA) – The Building Goodness Foundation dedicated its new Charlottesville headquarters Thursday morning. When BGF decided to construct its own building, it made a commitment to do so without negatively impacting other projects, and that effort was successful.

In addition to increasing local service hours to nearly 2,500 in 2015 and 2,600 to date in 2016, BGF volunteers also logged about 2,600 additional volunteer hours over the last two years building the new office.

BGF board members who were key volunteers included Architect Mike Stoneking of Charlottesville firm Stoneking/Von Storch, who designed the building, and Jack Horn of Martin Horn, Inc., who was the Volunteer Project Manager. Hundreds of other local builders and tradespeople also contributed.

BGF Executive Director Kelly Eplee said of the project, “We are so thankful to the BGF community for making this happen – both the dedicated volunteers and the many donors who specifically designated gifts of money or materials to the new space.

BGF is proud to have constructed this building without reducing funding or volunteer participation for BGF local and international work. The capacity created will establish and increase the kind of goodness we build for decades to come.”

The new Building Goodness Foundation office will host volunteer trainings, leadership meetings, and public forums, and we look forward to partnering with other Charlottesville nonprofits who need meeting and event space. The building will serve as a home base for BGF’s staff, as well as Field Managers when they are in the U.S.