Youth Opportunities Unlimited has announced that an anonymous donor has committed to matching $1.5 million in donations for its Joan's Place campaign.

Officials with Great-West Life, London Life, and Canada Life were on hand at YOU's Cornerstone headquarters at York and Richmond streets for the announcement.

A proposed housing complex for youth, expectant teen mothers, young mothers, and babies in London's downtown core is $1 million closer to reality thanks to a generous gift from the family of Joan Smith, the province's first female solicitor-general.