We are excited to moving towards our goal of creating a child care facility that encompasses everything that we know about child development. We are working with the Southridge High School Students to start on the preliminary drawings of the new building so that our vision can be put on paper and shared with others. We are wanting to secure $300,000 over the next three years. We will begin our capital campaign next week looking for cash donations from individuals and businesses. We will also continue with fundraisers to go towards start up materials for the classrooms.
As a non-profit child care program, we can not rely on funds from our customers alone. Families are struggling to afford the cost of high quality childcare as it is. Typically when a business needs to upgrade, they pass the cost on to their customers. However, in our program we have recently grown and we have completed numerous quaflity improvement projects, with only increasing our full time families child care rates one time within the last five years. This while dealing with the Recession and the increase in minimum wage.
Our goal is to always provide the highest quality child care, while not overburdening families with a child care program that they love, but can not afford. With the generosity of Holland United Methodist Church, HUMmingbird has always been able to offer higher quality care at a lower cost because of their contribution to subsidize the cost for the familes. Now we are gifted an amazing opportuntiy from a community member, Jerry Bleush. His generous donation is just the start of our journey. With the support of others in the community, we will once again be able to make this growth and enhancement without adding the additional financial burden on the parents of weekly child care tuition increase. We need a villiage to help us raise the funds...to help us raise a child in the ways of Christ.
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