To be paid in 2014. This Dunham Fund grant will support the construction of a 47,000-square-foot facility on the current Wayside Cross property on East New York Street in Aurora. Two of the current 100-year-old WCM buildings will be demolished to accommodate the new four-story facility, which will include the second-floor Dunham Educational Center.

The organization has raised $4.5 million to date of a $7.9 million Bridge to Life campaign goal from other funding sources and anticipates receiving an additional $1 million dollars in 2013. Building will commence in mid-summer 2013 as WCM reaches its $5.5 million threshold for construction. From its timely beginnings in 1928 as a rescue mission for transient men, Wayside Cross has developed transitional ministries for men, women and their children, at-risk youth, the incarcerated, and ex-offenders. Current programs include Master’s Touch men’s residential life transformation program, Lifespring women’s residential program, Hope Outreach, Elgin Wayside Center day facility and support program, the DuPage Initiative for the homeless in DuPage County, New Life Corrections for youth and adult offenders in Illinois prisons and Urban Youth Ministry for Aurora’s youth in at-risk areas and circumstances.