Our July Goal

 $3000
$525

Our lease ends in 2009, but hopefully not our 30 years of affordable, not-for-profit, high quality care for young children! Our goal is to buy a schoolhouse of our own this year, and only with your help can we complete raising the capital that we need to purchase a building. Our progress meter, to the right, will be updated every week with the latest amount raised. Click here for more ways to support us. Thanks!

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current event: THANK YOU! OUR YARD SALE WAS A GREAT SUCCESS!

With returns still being counted, our yard sale on May 17, 2008 has raised a projected $3500, over our target goal of $3000! This will allow us to continue supporting a quarter of our children with scholarships, and free us to focus on our pressing goal of raising funds for a new school building. Thank you SO MUCH to the hard working organizers and parents who made the yard sale happen, and the generous donors!!! And thank you to everyone who shopped our sale too!

4 easy ways to help

Here are a few easy ways to help us:

  • Donate now!
    Either of the buttons below can be used to contribute to our school.
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    		This button uses PayPal (does not require a PayPal account).
  • Use email to spread the word.
    Please take just one minute to put our web address at the bottom of your email signature. You can copy and paste one of the following texts if convenient:

    Visit Agassiz Preschool online and browse our growing database of early childhood resources!
    http://agassizpreschool.org/

    Agassiz Preschool needs a new home by 2009! Visit our website at http://www.agassizpreschool.org to browse our library of early childhood resources and support high quality, nonprofit early education. Our annual yard sale is May 17, 2008-- mark your calendars!

    You can also grab the snazzy "Agassiz Early Childhood" button at right, and choose "Add to email signature" from the drop box.

    Or, recruit friends and family to help us spread the word-- ask for their suggestions in helping us fundraise!

  • Shop.
    Click through the igive or Amazon links and they'll donate a small percentage of the sale to us! You can also bookmark these links for convenience.
  • Help us with your blog, website or social network.
    If you have a presence online, you can link to our site. Even better, you can help us collect donations by placing one of our cool fundraising counters on your site! Just click on the "copy" tabs at the bottom of the ChipIn widget to get the code to paste in your own website or page. Ask your family and friends to place our widget on their blogs, sites, or networks, too! if you need assistance.


Thank you, thank you, thank you! for your support. Every little bit you can give helps us a lot!
why donate? a schoolhouse of our own
All funds raised from this website and the ChipIn widgets will go into an restricted escrow account dedicated to buying and renovating the new building.

Why we need a new home fast: Since the 1970s, Agassiz Cooperative Preschool has been located in the basement of North Prospect Church. From this location, we provided decades of low cost, high quality, not-for-profit care and education to young children in Cambridge and Somerville. However, the church was sold recently, and despite the kindness of our new landlords in extending our lease for two years, we must leave the property in 2009. Our current goal is to raise enough capital to make a down payment on a local property for a schoolhouse.

The online campaign is the latest chapter in our fundraising efforts. Our annual tree and yard sales (funding scholarships) have become beloved traditions in the neighborhood. To date we have held an auction gala (100 Red Balloons, October 2007) and two concerts (Preschoolapalooza I and II). All the parents and staff of Agassiz have been working overtime for this effort, but we need your help to make it happen!

Coming soon: how Agassiz got started, and more pictures!

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Just click through the Amazon link. Or, if you use igive to shop at over 600 stores (including Staples, Land's End, Best Buy, eBay, and Expedia), they will contribute a small percentage of your sale to us. These links can be bookmarked!

 

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