Throughout the year, GSA child care centers find special ways to give back to their local communities. No matter how big or small the gesture, teaching children to give back is a life long lesson they can carry with them forever.
Little Eagle Child Care Center in Martinsburg, WV makes it a practice to help others in need by adopting a different organization each month, at the national and local level. Recently, families and teachers of the center collected non-perishable food for the local BackPack Program. The program which supports school children who qualify for reduced price lunch, also provides backpacks with needed food to the children who would otherwise not have adequate access to food during the weekends or
school breaks.
Hunger exists in every community. To locate a backpack program in your area visit http://qa.feedingamerica.org/about-us/we-feed-children/
Giving Back to Others
The Centennial Mall Child Care Center
practiced the art of giving by hosting a bake sale to help the Bright Space
Foundation. Children of the center,
located in Lincoln, NE raised over $280 for the Bright Horizons Foundation which
provides warm, safe, enriching places in homeless shelters, domestic
violence shelters, and other agencies for children and youth experiencing
homelessness.
“We learned to demonstrate compassion and empathy
for familiar and unfamiliar people and intentionally impact the world and/or
others by helping raise money” stated center director, Tammi Brenn. “The children were excited in knowing the
money they raised will help supply new materials like
toys, books, and art supplies.”
For more information visit
http://www.brighthorizonsfoundation.org/what-we-do/bright-spaces/#sthash.QS7OZoqT.dpuf
This month BoardSource, an organization dedicated to advancing the public good by building exceptional nonprofit boards and inspiring board service, held it's Board Leadership Forum hosting more than 900 people from various Boards and Foundations across the country. Speakers at the Forum discussed the future of the nonprofit sector, the importance of advocacy, how to drive change, and many other issues affecting nonprofit board leaders.
The Impact of Nonprofit Boards was a key talking point. Boards really do matter!
Would you like to learn more? GSA Child Care is pleased to announce that we are starting a new Board Networking Group after many requests for both formal and informal Board training. This will be a quarterly Meeting Space call. The first conference call will be on Tuesday, December 8th from 1:00 to 2:00 pm EST. We will begin the agenda with a quick look at the key sessions from the BoardSource Conference. Then we will open up the call for your issues and questions.
Look for more information from your Regional Child Care Coordinator the week of December 1 and please plan to join us!
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