Buy a Brick – and Help Us Build Our 25th Anniversary Commemorative Walkway

A fundraiser benefiting the Heart and Home Legacy Society, the PLACES endowment fund established through The Dayton Foundation

PLACES is commemorating its 25th anniversary in 2013 by building a commemorative walkway at Gascho Gardens, the 12-bed PLACES Residential Adult Care Facility on Dayton’s east side.

Gascho Gardens is still home for two of the original 12 PLACES residents, who began receiving housing and supportive services in 1988, the year PLACES was incorporated. Initially, these residents lived in four apartments at Lexington Lodge until they were relocated to Gascho Gardens in 1994.

Show your commitment to the mission at PLACES

As a friend of PLACES, you are invited to help us commemorate our 25th anniversary – and beautify one of our oldest Residential Adult Care Facilities – by purchasing a personalized, engraved paver in either an 8"x8" or 4"x8" size.

Consider having your name, your family members’ names or the name of a loved one engraved on your paver, which will become part of our permanent, commemorative walkway.

Order an 8"x8" paver for a $250 donation, or a 4"x8" paver for a $100 donation. Your gift will benefit the Heart and Home Legacy Society, the PLACES endowment fund established through The Dayton Foundation.

Giving to the Heart and Home Legacy Society helps to protect the future for our residents, clients and tenants and ensure that our quality programs are unaffected by government budget cuts. Our ultimate goal at PLACES is to reduce our dependence on public funding over time.

ABOUT GASCHO GARDENS

Walkway will beautify Gascho Gardens for our residents

The commemorative walkway at Gascho Gardens will feature laser-engraved, red clay pavers so PLACES residents can walk safely from the front door of their home to green space and a picnic area in the yard.

The new 300-square-foot walkway, to be constructed with approximately 800 to 1,000 pavers, will replace the home’s original concrete walkway built in 1955.

Other planned improvements at Gascho Gardens include a flowerbed with daylilies, lilacs and green velvet boxwood; a new concrete porch; and a new concrete pad in the picnic area.

The commemorative walkway will be constructed in May 2014, so order your personalized, engraved paver today!

PLACES is a 501(c)(3) organization, so contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

Thank you in advance for helping us to improve one of our original properties for our residents – and build our endowment fund for the future!

With gratitude,
Roy Craig, Executive Director, PLACES, Inc.

How to order and pay for your personalized, engraved paver

1. Download and fill out the order form. Then scan and email it to Kathy Nickell at PLACES.

  • Order an 8"x8" paver for a $250 donation.
  • Order a 4"x8" paver for a $100 donation.

Or, if you prefer, print out and complete the order form and mail it to:
Kathy Nickell, Office Manager, PLACES, Inc.
11 W. Monument Ave., 7th floor, Dayton, OH 45402

Important:

  • Enter “PLACES Legacy Fund – 3249” in The Dayton Foundation Fund Name field on the gift form.
  • Enter “PLACES 25th Anniversary Commemorative Brick Walkway” in the Additional Information field on the gift form.

Or, if you prefer, send a check to PLACES for the amount due along with your order form. Make checks payable to “PLACES Legacy Fund – 3249” and mail to:
Kathy Nickell, Office Manager, PLACES, Inc.
11 W. Monument Ave., 7th floor, Dayton, OH  45402