Key Peninsula Preschool

The Key Peninsula community is about to get their first licensed childcare center for babies as young as 3 months!

Key Peninsula Preschool has been working towards this goal for close to 4 years and we are just weeks away from opening their doors. Once we are open, families will have quality, loving and safe childcare just minutes from their homes.

To ensure that we have everything that we need to become a licensed childcare for children as young as 3 months old, we are asking for help among the community to raise the funds for the last few things that we need to become licensed.

We are asking for 60 members in our community to donate $100.

These funds will go to:

Why is childcare so necessary on the Key Peninsula?

When we opened up the waitlist for this childcare, our spots filled within 24 hours and our waitlist continues to grow. This means that the need in our community is high. In the past 4 years, we have spoken to families that:

A simple gift from you can help us solve these problems (and more!).

Thank you for your support,

Key Peninsula Preschool staff

Oh, and please feel free to share this fundraising campaign with others... you do not need to have a young child on the Key Peninsula to support this fund!

KP news story about our preschool

https://keypennews.org/stories/co-op-preschool-works-to-bring-childcare-to-the-kp,7923?

Hi, my name is Kimberly Shaw, also known as Teacher Kim and I am reaching out on behalf of the Key Peninsula Cooperative Preschool. We are a nonprofit preschool that has operated on the Key Peninsula in Washington State for almost 40 years. The Key Peninsula is a childcare desert with hundreds of families and children impacted by a lack of childcare options. We have been working on adding childcare to our program on the Key Peninsula for the past year and a half. We have encountered many obstacles (you can read about them in the news article above if you are curious). Still, we were hit with our most significant obstacle this week. Our grant provider has lost their funding source, and they will not be able to fulfill the financial support they have promised us for several months. This hurdle might be the final straw that "breaks the camel's back." Still, we have decided to try one last ditch effort to reach out to our community on the KP and our many family members and friends to see if we can raise enough funds to help us get by. We need funds to open our planned outdoor nature-based childcare, summer camp, and cooperative preschool. All funds raised will go towards buying the materials we need to create a forest classroom, providing scholarships for kiddos to attend our summer camp, and helping us re-open our cooperative preschool in the fall. Any amount will help. Thank you for being our community, family, and friends. It means the world to us!

Here is a link to our Facebook page if you want to learn more about us!

https://www.facebook.com/keypeninsula.cooppreschool/photos

Our Website

https://www.keypeninsulapreschool.org/