Dear Friends and Colleagues,

The Bowen Center is facing exciting and challenging times. In the transition of Directors from Dr. Kerr, I am committed to extending theory through exchanges with scientists and the scientific community, as well as to maintaining the institutions and traditions of the Bowen Center that have made it the leader in developing Bowen theory throughout the world. We will continue to have Symposia featuring the best of Bowen thinkers, publish Family Systems, and attract trainees from across the US as well as Europe, Central and South America, Asia, and Australia. Through the Bowen Center, Bowen theory will continue to become a voice in the fields of medicine, mental health, clergy education, and financial planning.

We will webcast programming, sponsor stimulating Spring Conferences, hold nine Clinical Conferences a year, and maintain our goal of community service with the sliding fee scale clinic, staffed by interns and associates.

This work will continue with the commitment of a volunteer Director, eighteen volunteer faculty, and a very small staff. The Center is supported by fees from conferences, tuition from postgraduate training, and sales of educational materials. This income has never been sufficient to entirely support the staffing, programming, and upkeep of the Center. As with most educational institutions, we must turn to our supporters for funds to insure the continuation of quality programming and publications. We need your help!

The Bowen Center is initiating a five year fundraising campaign,
The Campaign for the Future. The campaign has both annual and capital goals:

(1) Seek funds for the maintenance and ongoing operation of the Center.
(2) Regularize the income of the Center and stabilize its financial operation overall.
(3) Secure the future of the Center through capital improvements to better accommodate the teaching atmosphere and the technological capacity of the Center, and through long-term financial planning

We hope that you will participate generously with us in this campaign.

Sincerely,

Anne S. McKnight, EdD
Director of the Bowen Center