A Powerful Era

Posted on August 28, 2017
by Eileen Powers
  • Capital Campaign, “Building a Future…One Boy at a Time” raised $3.5 million, providing for a new Vocational training facility, Health Office and Primary/Middle School;
  • First Polo Classic hosted at Fieldview Farm in Pittstown, NJ;
  • Bill Powers was hired as CEO; capacity expanded from 53 to 80 residents and then to 97 young men;
  • 2005: the first transitional home in New Brunswick opened for 5 young men (The William M. Powers House);
  • Bonnie Brae Knights Drum Corps was formed and in 2009, marched in President Obama’s Inaugural Parade;
  • The Aftercare Program was established;
  • The Bonnie Brae Alumni Association was established.