Wilder Center features a welcoming campus focused on accessibility, sustainability, and community engagement. The four-story, 99,953 square-foot Wilder Center, located at the corner of Lexington Parkway and University Avenue in Saint Paul, is a vibrant, community campus. The vision for the new Wilder Center emerged as the result of intensive planning and analysis of Wilder services and the community's changing needs. It became vividly clear during this process that a new center was needed to provide greater efficiency, maximize service potential, and enable the Wilder Foundation to reach its full leadership capacity.

Wilder Center is setting new standards of sustainability for all human service organizations. With innovative strategies for sustainability, including water savings, energy efficiency, and improved indoor environmental quality, Wilder Center received LEED Gold certification under the U.S. Green Building Rating System called Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).

Wilder Center Features

• A vibrant, welcoming campus
• Improved access for clients
• Strengthened connections between the Wilder Foundation's direct service, research and policy work
• Tremendous new opportunities for community engagement
• The revitalization of a highly visible, distressed commercial corner
• The replacement of an aging facility that does not allow the flexibility to create or adapt programs to meet evolving community needs
• The ability to accommodate 22,000 client visits and 10,000 community visits each year
• Office space for approximately 300 Wilder Foundation staff, including case workers who will conduct thousands of home visits per month from the new facility

Wilder Center Programs and Departments

CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES

• Child Guidance Clinic
• Southeast Asian Services

SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES

• JobsFirst
• Project Quest
• ROOF Project
• Supportive Housing Management

WILDER CENTER FOR COMMUNITIES

• The James P. Shannon Leadership Institute
• The Neighborhood Leadership Programs
• The Youth Leadership Initiative

WILDER RESEARCH

CORPORATE ADMINISTRATION