Children’s Day Nursery and Family Center, one of the oldest childcare centers in the country, opened its doors to the community in 1892 at a rental site on Jefferson Street. After the turn of the century, the Center’s Founding Mothers campaigned vigorously to raise money so they could build a more permanent “home away from home” that they could call their own. The stately brick building that is pictured on this page is that home. This site at 104 Jefferson Street has been providing child and support services to the neediest families in the area for the past century. A generous 2006 grant enabled us to give a facelift to the building’s façade. It now presents as handsomely as it did at its opening celebration in 1907.

However, there are still many other pressing renovations to the inside of the building that should be made. Your participation in our Donor Brick Campaign will help fund many of the needed repairs and renovations to the interior space

• Replacement of the cracked and worn floor tiles in 8 classrooms. Even the littlest feet can wear a floor out over time.
• Replacement of the entrance hall tiled floor. Three hundred forty feet have passed through this hall at least twice a day for the past 10 years…. That’s a minimum of 1,774,800 footsteps. No wonder that the tiles are worn and cracked.
• Replacement of the sub-floor and tiles in our kitchen, where 135 meals and 250 snacks are prepared, cooked, and served 261 days a year.
• Ripping up the carpet and restoring the hardwood floors in the central office
• Putting a fresh coat of paint on our 8 classrooms.

Personalized Donor Bricks (4”x8”) are being offered at $100 each and will be proudly mounted and displayed on the wall of the hallway that connects the new and original parts of the building. You may personalize your donor brick with 3 lines of text, 18 characters per line.

We invite you to partner with us in this worthwhile endeavor. Simply complete the form and choose your method of payment.