How You Can Help

Volunteer

4Cs Home Ties Child Care Center

The homeless and at risk children at 4Cs Home Ties need positive role models and caring adults to help car for them each day. For more information: 319-341-0050.

Take and Play And Education Resource Center

 

The Take and Play Resource can use help making activity boxes and setting up other resources for our parents and child care providers. If you are interested in helping please contact hana@iowa4cs.com

Secretarial or Special Projects

We need help at our main office folding and printing newsletters, and sometimes putting together toys and infant equipment. If you are interested in helping, call Susan at 319-338-7684 ext 103 or email: susan@iowa4cs.com.

Board of Directors

Would you like to help lead the 4Cs into its next 30 years? If you are interested in creating policies, examining budgets, and fundraising for a good cause, call Susan at 319-338-7684 ext 103 or email: susan@iowa4cs.com.

Donate

A Little Can Go a Long Way

Supporting a child in child care can cost 5 to 10 thousand dollars a year. Your donation can help give children toys to play with, food to eat, and clothes to wear.

Make a Gift that Lasts a Lifetime

Introducing the Child Care Endowment Fund of Johnson and Washington County

4Cs Community Coordinated Child Care Resource & Referral is pleased to announce the creation of an endowment that will be focused on child care and school readiness issues in Johnson and Washington Counties.

The Challenge: An anonymous donor offered to match $2 for every $1 donated to the CCE Fund by February 1, 2005, up to $4,000.

The Challenge was met! Thank you to all who contributed!

Future CCE Fund earnings will go to things such as:

Please send check or money order to:

4Cs Child Care Resource & Referral
CCE Fund
1500 Sycamore Street
Iowa City, IA 52240

Wish List

4Cs' Giving Clubs

The Hobby Horse Club (Donations over $10,000)

The Red Wagon Club (Donations $5,000 - $10,000)

The Storybook Club
(Donations $1,000 - $4,999)

The Building Block Club
(Donations $500 - $999)

The Puzzle Piece Club
(Donations under $500)

4Cs Community Coordinated Child Care is a 501 (c)(3) organization and a tax-exempt agency. All donations to 4Cs are tax deductible. Please include your name and address with your gift so that we may send you a receipt and our thanks.

Spread the Message

Tell your State Representatives, Governor Chet Culver, and U.S. Senators Harkin, Loebsack, and Grassley that children are important! For a complete listing of your representatives, visit: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/ Letters to the Editor - Letters to the editor can be a powerful tool for getting the message out. If your local community lacks adequate child care programs or quality child care providers, writing to the editor of your local newspaper can inform the community and build support. These things, in turn, lead to better child care and happier, healthier children. It is important that letters to the editor be both meaningful and factually correct. State fact sheets are available from Child Care Now: Families Working, Children Learning at (202) 662-3556, or check the Economic Policy Institute's Web site, http://www.epinet.org/.

There is no set formula for writing a meaningful letter. The fact that you care enough to put the work into such an undertaking is a significant first step. Beyond that, it is important to keep the letter focused on the issue at hand. The goal of writing should be to bring information about the need for quality child care. Avoid casting blame on particular groups (deserving or not) as it detracts from the focus of your letter. Instead, try to be inclusive. Keep the reader's attention on the children and families, on the child care assistance and government support they so desperately need.