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January 8, 2020 Giving Guide 2019

Rainbow Child Development Center

Future Goals

1. Sustain a leadership position in providing high-quality early education and care programs for children that are research-based, successfully implemented, and culturally appropriate.

2. Elevate the community’s understanding of the importance of early learning for all children as a valuable economic investment.

3. Continue to foster family engagement through continuous and systematic opportunities.

4. Offer industry competitive compensation and benefits in order to retain and increase our skilled and committed workforce.

5. Uphold Rainbow Child Development Center’s high standards associated with the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) accreditation, Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) Standards, and MA Curriculum Frameworks.

6. Implement best practices and principles to promote and integrate social and emotional wellness for children and families. Integrate holistic wellness principles into Rainbow’s early childhood curriculum. Implement supplemental programs to increase children’s resilience and develop lifelong strategies to maintain their mental health.

Fundraising Events/Opportunities

• Sponsor a family-friendly event for Rainbow’s children and parents, i.e., ice cream social or cookout for Rainbow’s children and their families

• Sponsor Rainbow Child Development Center’s Annual Golf Tournament

• Designate a donation to continue Rainbow CDC’s STEAM, literacy, speech and/or healthy lifestyle initiatives

Giving Opportunities

• Participate in Rainbow Child Development Center’s Annual Golf Tournament

• Donate to Rainbow Child Development Center’s Annual Appeal

• Designate a donation to sustain Rainbow’s Healthy Lifestyle Initiatives

• Participate in Rainbow’s holiday drives

• Identify support to Rainbow Child Development Center via the United Way Campaign

• Donate online at www.rainbowcdc.com

Volunteer Opportunities

Rainbow Child Development Center’s administration and staff welcomes, encourages volunteers. Rainbow’s volunteers are vital and have a positive impact on hundreds of low-income children.

The list below identifies volunteer opportunities where passion and positivity are the only requirements.

• Committee Involvement: Advancement and Special Events

• Share a special skill or hobby with school-age children between the hours of 3:00-5:00 p.m. Volunteers are needed to read with children, play a board game or share a creative talent

• Foster children’s mind growth by mentoring a school age child who enjoys Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and/or Math

• Lead small groups of children in music, dance, gardening or yoga

• Join the Center’s Parent Task Force

• Attend the Center’s family and community events, art exhibits and literacy celebrations

Rainbow Child Development Center

MISSION STATEMENT

To transform the lives of at-risk children and their families by providing quality educational and therapeutic programs and services.

 

Rainbow Child Development Center

10 Edward Street Worcester, MA 01605

Phone: 508-791-6849

www.rainbowcdc.org

Full-time employees: 18

Annual revenues: $2,498,746

Year founded: 1972

 

SERVICE AREA

Worcester, MA

 

TOP FUNDING SOURCES

State Contracts 79%

Parent Fees 13%

Foundations 6%

Board of Directors

Linda Hyde, Healthcare Consulting, Vice President

Erin Rosenlund, Shepherd & Goldstein, Treasurer

Peter Boyd, Boyd Financial Strategies

Jared Fiore, Bowditch & Dewey, LLP

Patrick Harvey, Residential Mortgage Services

Andrea Healy, North Brookfield Savings

Sharon Hogan, UMass Memorial Health Care

Anna Mary Kraemer, Aberman Associates, Inc.

Karen Longo, Harvard Pilgrim Health

Senator Michael Moore, Commonwealth of MA

Nadine Premo, Uniquely Your Decor

Shirley Williams, Psychiatry & Counseling Associates