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When John Bigler's friends and peers returned from the Vietnam War, the 23-year-old went to the hospital to talk to them about their substance use, especially when psychedelics were involved.
So Bigler, now 77, helped launch Foundation 2 Crisis Services in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1970, with a $30,000 annual budget.
Now, more than 50 years later, the nonprofit runs on a $10.536 million annual operating budget and has responded to more than 87,700 crisis contacts and provided almost 3,000 in-person mobile crisis outreach dispatches between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023, reports the Gazette.
Foundation 2 marked this growth Tuesday with the opening of its new headquarters after a $5.4 million renovation of the Witwer Building.
The historic facility had served as a courthouse and post office, a bus station, senior day center, grocery store, restaurant, and more since the 1880s.
The new headquarters consolidates what used to be five office spaces spread out between Cedar Rapids and Hiawatha.
The organization's move into the building also gives a boost to downtown, bringing employees there at a time when COVID-19 has left many offices largely void of workers and some employers have left the city center.
It also allows Foundation 2 to be closer to other providers, such as Way Read the Entire Article
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