CAPITAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
Lucinda Emmett, Co-Chair
John Holmes, Co-Chair
Myrtis Bedolla
Jean Marie Clapper
Ruth Cogen
Lucia Effros
Bob Hisaoka
Michael Lerner
Shanti Norris
Janet Whitman
Jim Wilner
Don Zauderer

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Michael Lerner, Ph.D., President
Jeremy Waletzky, MD., Vice President
Myrtis Bedolla
Steven Bookoff
Charlotte Brody
Web Coleman
Diane Quale

Dear Friends,
In our 12 years of operation at 1632 U Street NW in Washington, DC, we have outgrown the second floor space and cannot support the demand for our programs. Thus, we are implementing very exciting plans to expand our facilities and services to the community. These plans will enhance our programs, increase participation, make programs accessible and increase our visibility in the community. We have added the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at the front of the first floor, and are now planning to build out the space at the rear of the first floor for a total of 2,000 square feet of additional program space. To do this, we are launching a campaign to raise $1.5 million to cover the renovation expenses.

What achieving our goal of raising $1,500,000 will mean.
The renovation will feature:

• Gallery space for formal exhibits and programs, (click here to see images of our new gallery)
• A large multi-purpose room for programs and workshops,
• State-of-the-art teaching kitchen for healthy cooking classes and demonstrations,
• A courtyard for quiet contemplation and expanded sculpture gallery
• A meditation and study space, and
• A reconfiguration of the upstairs office space and yoga room.

With the expanded space we will be able to:

• Give more programs and serve more people. The larger program space will mean more sessions in yoga, meditation, nutrition and healthy cooking, and creative arts as well as counseling and support sessions for patients, caregivers and health professionals,
• Provide full access for program participants, once all programs can be given on the first floor,
• Create new, dynamic art exhibition and event space in the U Street corridor, expanding the dynamic 14th Street art district,
• Host the first non-profit art gallery that is dedicated to promoting the arts as tools for healing,
• Create urgently needed additional office space for our hardworking staff and volunteers, and
• Do all of this in an atmosphere that is welcoming, safe and conducive to healing.
  
  

We do this with a commitment to environmental design.

Smith Farm is making environmentally sensitive choices an operating principle of this renovation. These choices include: natural lighting through skylights and glass walls; compact fluorescent lighting; waterborne coatings; donated reclaimed Brazilian cherry wood flooring; low-water flow toilets; energy efficient heating and cooling systems; “living plant walls”; and a fully sustainable green roof.