Housing Expansion Project

MVOC has our sights set on expansion. We have acquired the vacant Streeter and Poland School buildings in Winchendon, MA and will be repurposing them into low-income apartments for veterans- and we need your help! Within this housing project, 44 new veteran apartments will be created. Veterans in these apartments will have access to long-term, supportive housing designed to age with them, and access to all other MVOC supports.

We have been hard at work on this project for over 4 years, partnering with Anser Advisory and Barbara Sokoloff & Associates to assist us in secure funding and plans, Jones Whittsett Architects to design the buildings, the veteran-led Commodore Builders to lead construction, and Valley Affordable Housing to assist in property oversight. We have secured funding from both private and state sources and are now looking to you to help us reach the finish line for our funding goal.

OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT THIS PROJECT

  • To donate to this project right now, click HERE.
  • To sponsor a brick for the veteran’s patio, click HERE.
    • You can sponsor a memorial brick for a fallen veteran, or a brick that indicates your family’s support of veterans.
  • To buy a shirt or hoodie in support of this project, click HERE.

There are also a variety of sponsorship options within this project and each permits the opportunity to name an area of the building after a loved one, organization, business, group, or club. 

Donation Requested # Available Benefit
$250,000+ 1 Name building after veteran of choice
$20,000+ 1 Day room name designation (1st floor)
$15,000+ 1 Clinic name designation (1st floor)

  • claimed! Thank you Rollstone Bank!
$15,000+ 2 Common area name designation (2nd and 3rd floors)
$15,000+ 2 Floor name designation (2nd and 3rd floors)
$10,000+ 6 Gathering space name designation (all floors)

  • 1 claimed! In memory of PFC Keely Walsh
$5,000+ 3  Laundry area name designation (all floors)

  • 1 claimed! Thank you Fire & Iron MC Station 857!
$3,000+ unlimited Entryway donor wall recognition

      • 3 claimed! Thank you to the family of Peter Griffis, Gardner Elks Lodge 1426, & Ashby Fire and EMS Association.
$1,000+ 36 Shade Tree
$500+ 20 Flowering Shrub
$300+ 225 Screening or Foundation Shrub

  • 1 claimed! Thank you Curt & Denise Fitzmaurice.
$250 unlimited 8×8 Memorial/Support Brick: ORDER YOURS HERE
$100 unlimited 4×8 Memorial/Support Brick: ORDER YOURS HERE
$30-45 unlimited “I helped build veteran housing” attire: ORDER YOURS HERE.

To discuss any of these options further, or to learn more, please contact Stephanie Marchetti (Executive Director) at 978-630-7435 or smarchetti@veterans-outreach.org. 

NOTE: If you are a post, legion, club, or group that would like to host a fundraiser or event in an effort to pursue one of these options, we are happy partner with you on that venture as well.

  • Want to see some details about the project layout and design? Check out the Winchendon Project Brief.
  • Looking to read more about funding sources and project progression? All press stories for the project are organized HERE.