Quincy Medical Group Partners with 2×4’s For Hope to Build Home for a Local Veteran

November 11, 2021

Quin­cy Med­ical Group (QMG) and the QMG Foun­da­tion have part­nered with 2×4’s For Hope to build a tiny home for a local vet­er­an. The orga­ni­za­tions host­ed a ground­break­ing cer­e­mo­ny at the site of the new home on Vet­er­ans Day on Thurs­day, Nov 11, 2021.

QMG and the QMG Foun­da­tion are pro­vid­ing finan­cial sup­port for the com­ple­tion of the home. Quin­cy Park Dis­trict donat­ed the land for the home in ear­ly 2021.

In addi­tion to the dona­tion from QMG and the QMG Foun­da­tion, sev­er­al QMG employ­ees donat­ed boards for the home, each with a spe­cial mes­sage. In March of 2021, QMG chose 2×4’s For Hope as the recip­i­ent of the organization’s month­ly Acts of Kind­ness ini­tia­tive. Par­tic­i­pat­ing QMG employ­ees donat­ed $5 for two 2×4 boards to be used to build a home for home­less and at-risk veterans.

QMG Direc­tor of Com­mu­ni­ty Rela­tions Mor­gan Park­er said the mis­sion of 2×4’s For Hope is one QMG and the QMG Foun­da­tion is hap­py to support.

“Being part of a build day has been some­thing QMG has want­ed to do and be involved with for a long time. The oppor­tu­ni­ty pre­sent­ed itself with our Acts of Kind­ness pro­gram to sup­port the work of 2×4’s For Hope,” she said.

2×4’s For Hope, a 501(c)(3) glob­al orga­ni­za­tion found­ed by Mark and Chris Lawrence in May 2015, helps build homes for home­less and at-risk vet­er­ans. Each home (576 square feet) costs approx­i­mate­ly $65,300 to con­struct, and all of the labor is pro­vid­ed by about 100 com­mu­ni­ty vol­un­teers, as well as the vet­er­an who will receive the ful­ly fur­nished home. The exte­ri­or of the home is typ­i­cal­ly built in two days, and takes about sev­en to com­plete the entire project, with a rib­bon-cut­ting cer­e­mo­ny on the eighth day.

“To be involved with this project means so much know­ing that we are able to house an at-risk or home­less Vet­er­an and pos­si­bly a few fam­i­ly mem­bers after every­thing they have done for our coun­try,” Park­er said.

Build day for the home is sched­uled for June 11 – 12, 2022.