The Breaking New Ground Campaign was launched in 2006 with a goal of securing $5.5 million in philanthropic support to help fund Griffin’s ambitious campus expansion and renovation plans. With the construction of the three-story, 49,000 square foot Hewitt Pavilion and Center for Cancer Care at Griffin Hospital on the hospital’s Derby campus, these plans set the stage for the most substantive changes in patient care services offered by Griffin in a generation.

The Center for Cancer Care will allow patients facing a cancer diagnosis, for the first time ever, to receive a full range of integrated and coordinated services close to home, including radiation therapy, a service that our community has been requesting for years. And by creating the opportunity to relocate growing outpatient departments to the new facility, the project allows for the expansion and improvement of existing services in the main hospital building, including expansion of the Emergency Department, the addition of inpatient beds, expansion of the surgical suite and radiology departments, and relocated of the laboratory.

Chaired by Alan Mathog, the Breaking New Ground Campaign challenges our community to provide philanthropic support at a level unprecedented in this region. To reach our $5.5 million goal, we must rely not only generous support from our most stalwart friends, but also the investment of new benefactors. Already, commitments received from board members, employees, local companies, foundations, and members of the community total over $4.2 million. In June, the hospital was awarded a $500,000 Kresge Foundation* challenge grant, which the hospital will receive if it can reach $5 million in total gifts by December 31, 2008.

Gifts may be made online or through the mail by completing a pledge form (pdf file - requires Adobe Reader) and mailing it to:

Griffin Hospital Development Fund
130 Division Street
Derby , CT 06418

For more information on the capital campaign, including how you can make a gift to the campaign in memory on in honor of a loved one, please call (203)732-7504.

*The Kresge Foundation is an independent, private foundation created in 1924 by the personal gifts of Sebastian S. Kresge. The Kresge grant to Griffin Hospital is made under their Challenge Grant Program, which is designed to assist nonprofit organizations as they work to strengthen leadership and financial support through challenge grants for capital projects. In 2007, The Kresge Foundation approved 442 grants across the United States, Canada, the U.K. and South Africa, totaling $178 million.