Your Generosity Can Help Support the University of Michigan Early Childhood Programs

The University of Michigan is dedicated to providing a healthy, well balanced and supportive working and learning environment to faculty, staff and students. As part of that commitment, the University has six early childhood education and care programs on central, north, Flint and Dearborn campuses. The high quality of education and care provided to infants and young children in our programs contributes to their optimal development and their readiness for success in school and in life.

Although U-M Children’s Centers work to be self sustaining, the need to recruit and retain highly qualified early childhood educators, the need to maintain affordability to parents and the ever escalating costs of health insurance and other operations mean that contributions from donors are more important than ever to maintain high quality early childhood programs.

You can contribute to the future success of the young children in our care by contributing to any or all of the funds listed here:

Friends of University of Michigan Early Childhood Programs
When you make a gift to this fund, you also give the University of Michigan Children’s Centers the much needed gift of flexibility. Our program directors can use these unrestricted funds immediately for their most pressing initiatives.

Friends of Towsley Children’s House
This fund will target donations to benefit Towsley Children’s House. Gifts may be used for multiple needs such as purchase of needed toys, materials and equipment, and to provide child care financial support for Towsley families.

Polly Cuthbert Professional Development Fund
This fund dedicates a portion of its annual distributions to enhancing the professional development of early childhood teachers at the Towsley Children’s House. Established in 2007 to honor educator Polly Cuthbert’s twenty years of professional excellence, the fund helps us secure specialist consultation when children are struggling with challenges such as sensory integration, speech/language delays, cognitive, physical and social/emotional difficulties. It also helps us send more teachers to professional workshops and courses that further their understanding of child development and their ability to implement best practices in the field.

UMCC Sternberg Scholarship Fund
This fund was established in 1995 to honor former U-M Children’s Center Senior Director and Associate Professor of Psychology Steven Sternberg. Distributions from this fund help the Children’s Center with the cost of professional development and equipment purchases.

Friends of UMCC
The current cost of child care is well beyond the reach of many University faculty, staff and students and, in fact, outstrips the current cost of undergraduate tuition at the University. Without funding strategies to make care affordable, parents have limited choices and often must choose care that is less reliable or lower quality. Your contribution will help us offer more affordable prices to parents with lower incomes at the University of Michigan Children’s Center.

Marsha Greenberg Endowment Fund
The Marsha Greenberg Endowment Fund was established in honor of the founding director of the University of Michigan Health System Child Care Center who retired in 2004. The goals of this fund are to provide early intervention to ensure inclusion of children who may require services and support, provide family support, and support staff professional development.

DONATE NOW.
You can make a gift to fund or funds of your choice right now through U-M’s secure, encrypted system! You can designate up to three funds with each electronic transaction.

Thanks for your support!