Ellis Memorial, a little-known nonprofit in the South End, recruited a powerful group of Boston business leaders to fund the renovation of its new building on Berkeley Street and plans to tap the same group for the renovation of the building next door.
Boston’s oldest settlement house, Ellis Memorial — a nonprofit that runs a range of social programs from early childhood education, to those for youth and the elderly — was forced to find new space when it was notified that the building at 95 Berkeley St., where it had been leasing space, would be going on the market. …