Please Join Us As We Head To The Finish Line Of Our Campaign!

Poverty, hunger, and homelessness are just as much a part of life in St. Michaels and Talbot County as are the charming inns, quiet coves, and clear waters for which we are widely, and justly, known.
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Image Courtesy McInturff Architects
We're Renewing, Rebuilding, & Revitalizing Our Community Center
The time has come for our St. Michael's Community Center to become what our entire Bay Hundred community deserves, and for us to join together as we renew, rebuild, and revitalize our building to serve, empower, and connect our community. 

​We’ve launched our first-ever capital campaign to build a center where people of all ages will have a safe and comfortable place to be together. 
  • To give our neighbors the services they need in a facility designed to support that vital work
  • To give our community a building that can support much richer cultural programs that will engage the entire community 
​It’s an ambitious effort to make sure our neighbors have what they need—a real Community Center—a Community Center that will be environmentally sustainable and accessible by everyone.
Our Needs Are As Simple As They Are Urgent
We need a full commercial kitchen to continue to produce the number of meals we are distributing and to provide workforce training

​We need new and up-to-date classrooms to house our after-school programs
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We need a safe and accessible space for our seniors
Serving Our Community With A Modernized Building
Support toward this fundraising campaign will help transform our old lumber warehouse into a modern, ADA compliant, efficient Community Center whose vernacular architecture will harmonize with the historic Union United Methodist Church across the street.
It’s an ambitious effort to make sure our neighbors have what they need—a real Community Center, a Community Center that will be environmentally sustainable and accessible by everyone.
Empowering & Connecting Our Community With More Comfortable, Accessible Spaces
This is SMCC's first-ever capital campaign supporting a renovated building where people of all ages will have a safe and comfortable place to be together. ​
  • To give our neighbors the services they need in a facility designed to support that vital work
  • To give the Bay Hundred community a building that can support much richer cultural programs that will engage the entire community ​

Floor Plans & Architectural Renderings:
Click on any image to enlarge. Renderings courtesy McInturff Architects.

First Floor Plan
Image courtesy of McInturff Architects
Rendering - Renovated St. Michaels Community Center during the day
Architectural rendering of the renovated St. Michaels Community Center, expected to be completed in early 2024.

The Impact of Your Investment in our Capital Campaign

  • The St. Michaels Community Center provides more than 2,200 meals each week through our Community Café and Pantry. Our first-ever capital campaign will help us meet increasing numbers of participants once we are in the new building. 
  • SMCC also provides 70 meals delivered to neighbors in need each week and more than 200 meals each Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter.
  • We serve our neighbors in need, including our working poor, those facing mental and physical disabilities, and our senior citizens, with the area served spanning from the Oak Creek bridge to Tilghman Island.
  • SMCC's food distribution programs receive limited support from St. Vincent de Paul of Easton and the Maryland Food Bank and are supplemented to meet our community's needs through private, tax-deductible donations to our Annual Fund. 
Join Our Race to the Finish Line
Download our brochure here or click on the image below to see more. 

Recent Photos:
Renovations Underway

Updated November 27, 2023. Click on any image to enlarge.
Several photos are courtesy of Harper & Sons, Inc. Carpenter & Photographer Bryan Paul and McInturff Architects, The renovations are anticipated to be completed in early 2024.
Features of a renovated St. Michaels Community Center
The newly renovated facility will include a modern, well-equipped commercial kitchen, where we can train people for jobs in restaurants and hotels, and from which we can continue to serve tens of thousands of meals to those in need. 

A Technology Center where students can do their homework and with space for community gatherings is also included in our plans, along with classrooms where Chesapeake College and others can provide high-level instruction right in the middle of town. 
In The News/Updates:
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Downloads:
 - Frequently Asked Questions (May 2022)
 - Pledge Form
 - 2022 Year in Review
 - The Case for a Renovated Building ​


​Renovation Project Team:

Please Make Your Community Investment Today
Thank You!  

​Please consider making a gift or multiyear pledge to help close the gap in our fundraising to help our neighbors in need with this much-needed facility.

Our History And Humble Beginnings
For more than 30 years, the St. Michaels Community Center has been the heart of our community, providing an array of services—​from food assistance and distribution to after school and summer programs for children, from BINGO and exercise programs for Seniors to the popular Summer Concert Series—to any and everyone in our community. 

As the need for our services has grown over the past 30+ years, so has the St. Michaels Community Center.

Our first home was in St. Michaels Elementary School. In 2009, when we outgrew that space, we were able to rent a vacant warehouse in St. Michaels' historic commercial district that was built 80 years ago to store lumber. We purchased that space in 2015, and it is still our home today. 
The Time To Renovate Is Overdue
But that old warehouse was never intended to be used as a community center. We've done a very good job making do, but the time has come, and is in fact overdue, to renovate our physical home to match the high caliber of programs and services we offer and our community deserves.

Your Donations Help Make A Difference In The Work We Can Achieve - Thank You!