Mission Statement
Dover Children's Home is dedicated to enriching the lives of adolescents and strengthening their family relationships through the highest quality residential treatment services and educational programs. Our commitment to evolving and designing new treatment programs must set the standard for excellence in the field and enable those children facing life's most difficult challenges with the means to grow and live healthy, productive, and independent lives.
GoodSearch: A Free and Simple Way to Support Dover Children’s Home
What if Dover Children’s Home earned a donation every time you searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support our cause? Well, now it can!
GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up!
GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 30 percent of each purchase to your favorite cause! Hundreds of great stores including Target, Gap, Best Buy, Macy’s and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you’ll be supporting Dover Children’s Home.
If you download the GoodSearch – Dover Children’s Home toolbar, our program will earn money every time you shop and search online – even if you forget to go to GoodShop or GoodSearch first! Please take a moment today to add the Dover Childrens Home toolbar at: http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/dover-childrens-home
Golf Tournament 2011
On June 26, 2011, the 4th Annual Dover Children’s Home Golf Tournament at The Links at Outlook in South Berwick, Maine raised $10,300 in much needed funding for the Home. Thank you to our sponsors, volunteers, golfers, and raffle prize and auction item donors.
Wine Tasting 2011
Over $14,000 was raised during the 4th annual Vineyard Tour at Blue Latitudes on April 28th. Thanks to all our generous underwriters and to everyone who attended this event.
Bowl-a-thon 2011
A tremendous $33,000 was raised during the 3rd Annual Dover Children’s Home Bowl-a-thon on February 27th. A HUGE thank you to the 248 bowlers, everyone who made pledges, our wonderful volunteers, and our generous underwriters: Liberty Mutual Foundation and Dover Rotary.
Thank You Dover Moose
The Dover Moose Lodge Murder Mystery dinners raised just over $4,000 for the Home during the Halloween weekend. Thanks to the cast, guests, and our wonderful Moose friends for creating such a fun, entertaining fundraiser. Now we all know “who did it”! A special thanks goes out to Caren for using her creative costume to generate even more support for the Home.




