How to Help

How YOU can help

Volunteer for a Smart Beginnings Central Virginia event.
Volunteer for a local preschool or child care program.
Learn about child care issues in your community and talk to friends, neighbors, and your child’s teachers/daycare providers about these issues.
Talk to child care providers about Smart Beginnings Central Virginia
Encourage your employer to get involved with Smarat Beginnings Central Virginia.
Contribute to Smart Beginnings Central Virginia through United Way of Central Virginia.

How YOUR BUSINESS can help

Provide information to employees about our programs.
Ask your staff to volunteer for a Smart Beginnings Central Virginia program (for example, reading at a local preschool).
Sponsor a child care provider to attend training/education classes.
Sponsor parent education classes in your workplace.
Provide funding for Smart Beginnings Central Virginia projects.

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Investment in the early years can improve the cognitive, social, and health outcomes of our children. Ultimately this investment will pay off in our communities.

“The bottom line is that we need to invest more in our younger children. Business in general, and banks in particular, understand the importance of making investments. Like front-end business investments, early investing in young people can reap big rewards and pay social dividends for decades to come.”

–Charles Gifford
Bank of Boston