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Early educators, who often make minimum wage, support the children of our community each day. We ask you to support them to ensure child care providers have the resources to remain solvent.
We are asking you to help support childcare in our community by donating today.
The ELC will distribute funds raised to support childcare through:
- Childcare scholarships to ensure access
- Stability funding for childcare providers so they can reopen
- Financial relief for child care providers and teachers returning to work
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Emergency Childcare
Support Fund
As our community begins to reopen and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, we have established the Emergency Childcare Support Fund in partnership with the Pinellas Community Foundation, with the goal of ensuring the backbone of our county’s economy remains stable. Funds collected will be used to provide relief to families through childcare scholarships in Pinellas County and support the reopening of licensed family and center-based childcare programs forced to close during the crisis.
Help Supply Pinellas Childcare Providers
As a result of Covid-19, child care providers report a need for items such as paper goods, bleach, cleaning solutions, face masks, and more in order to meet local and CDC guidelines. Donations of goods directly support provders who are on the front lines every day.
ALERT: Providers in need of face masks! Click below to see how you can help.
Thrive By Five Pinellas
A collective impact initiative, Thrive By Five helps mobilize community partners in developing and promoting programs via high-functioning, countywide collaboration, which supports families with children ages 0 – 5. Thrive By Five looks at childhood development holistically, focusing on supporting a child’s physical, social-emotional, language, and cognitive development. The initiative engages a wide network that proactively connects families and caregivers with the County’s many available resources.
Amazon Give Back
AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon with the same products, prices, and shopping features as Amazon. The difference is that when you shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products to the charitable organization of your choice. Click here to have 0.5% of your purchases donated to the ELC, at absolutely no cost to you!
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