Mosaic Life Care Foundation Receives $500K Gift from Sunderland Foundation

The future Children’s Development Center in St. Joseph recently got a major boost financial with a half-million dollar donation.

The Mosaic Life Care Foundation say they recently received a $500,000 gift from the Sunderland Foundation.

Those funds will support the $19 million construction cost of the Children’s Discovery Center, which is funded by Mosaic Life Care Foundation, Mosaic Life Care, the City of St. Joseph, Buchanan County and $3 million in private donations.

Since the November 7 project launch donations have reached $1 million, a full one-third of the $3 million goal.

Once renovations are complete, the historic Plymouth Building in downtown St. Joseph will include more than 15 core exhibits, a traveling exhibit, birth to 18-month-old space, a rooftop exploratorium, gift shop and concessions.