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Date: 1/5/2007 6:12:00 PM
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Author:
Bev Lozier
(adventureinlearn@aol.com)
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Subject:Seeking own business -- response
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Sherry,
You have the desire and the interest, traits conducive to success!
Based upon my own experience, I recommend that you begin with a small, in-home childcare service. If you put off starting your own childcare business until you can go "from zero to forty in sixty seconds," so to speak (zero children to 100 or 200 right away), you may be trying to bite off more than you can chew, or may feel the goal is too overwhelming right from the starting gate. As with any large task or goal, consider breaking it into small pieces. If you provide quality care and developmental activities and curriculum for a small group of children, your parents will notice and will, naturally, speak well of you and your program within your community. Given your proven success, references and the great need for quality childcare, the result would be that your business would grow. Privately-owned child-service businesses are "word-of-mouth" businesses. Your small successes will lead to more opportunities -- more families. This happened with me. This will also allow you to develop your business and professional skills as you grow. Regardless of your level of education or experience, there is much to learn in any new business endeavor. Starting small will also eliminate the immediate need for significant start-up funds and the need for a business loan, because it takes very little to start a high quality childcare/preschool service for a small group of children. As you learn and earn, you can grow at a pace that suits your personality, your abilities and your budget. I started small and could grow and grow and grow if I didn't set limits, by choice, in order to maintain higher quality. Believe in yourself, do what you love to do, and you will live and work joyfully and successfully. To quote a Nike slogan, "Just do it!" Good luck and e-mail me if you would like encouragement, advice or resources.
bev Lozier
Adventures In Learning Preschool and Childcare
New Albany, IN
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Date: 3/7/2007 5:47:00 PM
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Author:
ms. thompson
(mthompson807@yahoo.com)
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Subject:thank you
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hello i was browsing through and ran across your message and was very encoraged by the encouraging words that you wrote to another person. I actually already have a small but growing home daycare. I just wanted to let you know that your message to another person really encouraged me so thank you for the advise as well. I receive that god bless you.
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Date: 1/8/2007 12:03:00 PM
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Author:
Linda
(lmlttn4mom@yahoo.com)
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Subject:If you can dream it, you can do it.
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Sherry, about 30 years ago I started an "in home" child care center that was state licensed, and it grew into another location (with financial backers). I recommend that you start small and then grow bigger, as there are more overwhelming challenges when you become "BIG". There is definitely a need for SPECIAL NEEDS CARE. Your local licensing agency will be a great help with getting started. Good luck and God bless.
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Date: 3/7/2007 5:02:00 PM
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Author:
ms. thompson
(mthompson807@yahoo.com)
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Subject:special needs
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hello i was reading your comment to another person about the need for special needs. is it any special requirements needed to care for special needs. i am in the process of opening up special needs group homes and they required alot of training so i was wondering if it was about the same. can you please contact me back and share whatever information you have with me concerning this issue? thank you sweetie and god bless you. my email is above and my number is 904-379-9128
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Date: 1/15/2007 6:04:00 PM
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Author:
Missy LeBert
(missylebert2@yahoo.com)
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Subject:Positive Mentor and leader
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"With God all things are possible to them who believe."
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Date: 6/10/2007 2:38:00 PM
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Author:
Karen
(elaimaginationstation@yahool.com)
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Subject:grants
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Shirley,
When we started our Preschool last year in Iowa, we started with the small business bureau. From there we looked for a bank that would deal in government secured small business loans. We found we could do better directly through the bank, so purchased our building through the bank, and got a business loan. We also worked with our Empowerment Board (with guidance from our regional Child Resource and Referral consultants) and applied for a grant to purchase equipment.
If you are a nonprofit there are other avenues--google grants, nonprofit preschool. Very few are available for "brick and board", most are equipment and professional development.
What is your Department of Education doing for Preschool? It might be a source, it is in Iowa this coming year.
Word of warning. Make sure you have upfront operating money for about a years worth of operation incase the kids came slow. It's the one thing we weren't as prepared for, but managed to survive.
Good Luck,
Karen
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Date: 6/30/2007 6:43:00 AM
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Author:
Rose
(Roseb441702@nospam.com)
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Subject:Seeking A Center...................
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I just posted to my daycare page at:
http://members.aol.com/Roseb441702/daycare.htm
about how a woman started her own daycare center. She started small by starting out of her house. As word got around and she got more children she needed more space and my page talks about how she got that space.
She also got "seed money" to help finance it.
Now I don't know if you're talking about providing daycare or providing educational curriculum.
Since I do grant research I can tell you that there are grant programs out there that you may be eligible to apply for. In your specific case you're talking about getting the business started first. There are grant programs for people that want to start their own business so you should definitely look into them. You have to have a business plan. You have to show what you are going to use the money for. You have to show that you have thought this through and are serious about what it is that you want to do.
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Date: 1/5/2007 11:49:00 AM
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Author:
Amy
(amy.r.cuddlebunnykids@gmail.com)
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Subject:Help
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Look on-line for cilren's first finance. After that drop me an e-mail and we can chat about other questions you may have! Amy
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Date: 1/6/2007 6:12:00 PM
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Author:
marie
(marie42268@hotmail.com)
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Subject:finance
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Amy, what is the name of the finance company?
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Date: 1/6/2007 6:46:00 AM
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Author:
Susan
(susanandtoodalways@hotmail.com)
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Subject:Reply to sherri
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Sherri,
First start out with in home care. You need to be licensed in the state you live and there are many rules and regulations you have to go through first. Opening a center requires continous monitoring. DON'T get in over your head!!! Go small First MAKE sure this is what you want. Call or write to me I would like to see how you are doing. I am currently a daycare provider in WV and have a base of 18 children. Also, check into the local Social Service or Health Dept for Rules. Any questions let me know.
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Date: 1/7/2007 4:11:00 PM
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Author:
Deb Fitzgerald
(cubcareus@yahoo.com)
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Subject:reply to Sherri
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Your dream is an important one, and I am glad to see that you have an interest in providing care for children with special needs. This is a much underserved group. I am the Exec Director of a large center (200+) serving Pre-School and School Age Children and I would not recommend that you try to start out as a large center. Our program grew from 20 children in a church basement in 1988 to the center it is today. There is so much more to running a large center than just the fun parts creating activities for the children. There is the fiscal responsibility of running a sound business that will be there to continue to provide the services that your families come to depend upon. If you have an interest in running a large center I would first look into working at a center in your community. Possibly one that is interested in expanding into providing services for children with special needs. Learn first hand what it take to run a center, and find out if it is what you are really interested in. Good Luck!
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Date: 1/13/2007 3:51:00 AM
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Author:
pamela
(firelillynyg@yahoo.com)
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Subject:nutrition
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I AM A TEACHER IN A DAY CARE SCHOOL.WE HAVE 24 TEACHERS IN THIS PROGRAM AND WE ARE DOING OUR OWN TRAINING.I TAUGHT A CLASS ON NUTRION AND HAD TEACHERS MAKE RECIPES THAT ALL AGES CAN MAKE LET ALONE WE TAKED ABOUT MY PYRAMID.
WELL MY PROBLEM IS THAT I DO NOT WANT TO DO THE SAME THING FOR THIS CLASS COMING UP.DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY HELP ON HOW THEY TEACH NUTRITION?
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Date: 6/9/2007 8:23:00 AM
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Author:
Alicia
(advoegerl@yahoo.com)
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Subject:nutrition
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Last year I used a program called Little D's Nutrition for my second grade class.(This next school year, I will be teaching preschool). It was a wonderful program and I think alot of it could be motified for young children. Best of all it is free through the Dairy Counsel. It has alot of good resorces and even has a CD-ROM with nutrition games. I don't remember the exact site address, but it should pop up with a search for little d's nutrition. I hope this helps.
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Date: 1/15/2007 12:12:00 PM
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Author:
Heather R.
(happythoughtslearningcenters@yahoo.com)
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Subject:Starting a Center
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I agree with others, start with a small group or in-home child care center, then move up. As a minority in several areas you more likely than not would qualify for several grants, however it is much easier to get grants to expand a successful buisness than to get start up grants. I know one individual who qualified for a $500,000 grant because she was a single mother. However, she started from an in home child care, then moved to a facility licensed for 27 children, and now is building a full-scale child care center--it has taken her 15 years to work up to that. Her website is:
http://www.freewebs.com/tjstots/
I have a similar dream, to have a center that is open extended hours and serving children with special needs, my current plan is to buy a forclosed home & start a small family group home (12-16 children), perhaps repeat this process in several different areas until I have a series of 4-6 small family group homes, and then apply for a grant to build a facility that will provide full-time care for up to 115 children, act as community action center (providing access to resources for high-risk families) and be a central location to provide training for the staff from the family group homes (and possibly staff from other child care centers, privately run family child care homes, etc). This way I can provide both in-home and center-based care, based on the family's location and individual needs, as well as addressing several of the community's ongoing needs. I estimate moving to the point where I can have a full scale center will take about 10 years, I have already spent 5 years getting a college degree, extensive child development & buisness management training, and experience working in nearly every licensed center and many of the unlicensed preschools in the county.
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Date: 6/8/2007 2:50:00 PM
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Author:
Nancy
(nancyshouse@sbcglobal.net)
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Subject:Start up child care centers
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Heather--you have a great start on your career here and you are doing it right! I commend you. My state will not let one open multiple family child care homes, however, thus limiting access to quality child care AGAIN. I think you have a great plan here and I know you will achieve your goals. Your thoughts are for the children and quality care, as are all of ours. The state people can seem to see that and limit us more and more all the time. The costs and requirements of opening and operating a child care center are becoming too exhorbitant for just about anyone to do. Yet it is such a needed business. Good luck to you!
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Date: 2/8/2007 12:38:00 PM
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Author:
Shirley
(reyn1789@bellsouth.net)
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Subject:Start-up grants and loans
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I have a home learning and developmental school/daycare. I have been open for 6 years. In this time I have been accrediated for 3 years and obtained my associate degree in Early Childhood. I was a Pediatric Nurse for 18 years. In the state of Alabama you can only have 6 children in your home. I would like to expand to a new facility. Stressing reading skills start at birth. To help our children be prepared for kindergarten. How can I find money to start-up this business outside my home. Help!
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Date: 5/28/2007 12:26:00 PM
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Author:
Shirley
(reyn1789@bellsouth.net)
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Subject:Start-up Grants/Loans
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If anyone has some information on funding of for profit/nonprofit child learning center in Alabama please, please help me. I would like to know is there any money out there for assitance in opening a child care facility in Alabama? I need some HELP!
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Date: 6/8/2007 12:35:00 PM
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Author:
Heather R
(happythoughtslearningcenter@yahoo.com)
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Subject:SBA Resources
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Check out your area to see if you can find the SBA official. In our area they are called the Small Business Development Center, I got their contact information from our local child care resource and referall agency. I met with the director yesterday and he walked me through selecting a business entity, gathering the forms I needed to file for a business license, researching funding options (including government-underwrited SBA loans, each bank is required to give a % of their SBA loans to minorities including women-owned businesses), and much more! The meeting took two hours, I left with a binder full of information and a checklist of tasks to complete before our next appointment in two weeks. It would have taken me weeks to get all this information together myself!
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Date: 6/15/2007 9:48:00 AM
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Author:
Tammy
(ttown_tammy@yahoo.com)
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Subject:Help in Alabama
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I came across your request for help and thought I'd share some info that is local to myself. I am in Tuscaloosa (University of Alabama) and we have a facility on the University campus called Child Development Resources (CDR) who provides much help for teachers, directors, parents. They are able to provide excellent training classes, evaluate and provide grant funded financial help to parents in need of childcare, and help those starting new centers. They are very helpful and if they cannot answer your questions will probably be able to point you in the right direction. I do not know what area you live in, but CDR is responsible for Tuscaloosa County and several surrounding counties. If they cannot help you, they probably can give you a similar facility in your area. The phone number is 348-2650. Good luck!
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Date: 6/23/2007 8:44:00 AM
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Author:
Kim
(cinnamontoastandsugar@yahoo.com)
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Subject:funding for licensed homes
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Hello all:)
I am licensed in Indiana and am having a horrible time finding any kind of assistance in funding. I would love to offer more in my home daycare- however, since I am newly licensed, kids are coming slowly, so what money I make goes into groceries. I have decided not to be on the food program, for tax reasons ( my husband is self employed, and we always owe) ...would anyone know where to turn to (besides a bank) for assistance- some kind of grant? Please help if you can.
Thank you so much.
Have a great summer!!!!
Kim
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Date: 7/14/2007 3:48:00 PM
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Author:
Shawnna
(llegrand@preciousmomentsacademy.com)
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Subject:Grants
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I have a home daycare and I have decided to branch out and open a Daycare Learning Center in Indiana. Is their anyone, with information on how to obtain a Grant to help get started.
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Date: 7/16/2007 6:35:00 PM
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Author:
Rose
(Roseb441702@aol.com)
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Subject:Re: grants
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First of all going from an in-home daycare to a separate facility will cost a lot of money. Since I do a lot of grant research I can tell you that there are more grant programs for start-ups as opposed to already established businesses. However there are exceptions to the rule.
Here is a link to my daycare page:
http://members.aol.com/Roseb441702/daycare.htm
As you will see on the page there have been lots of funding programs for daycare.
What concerns me though is that you must have some sort of idea of the costs that will be involved in starting a new (and separate) facility. A lot of the start-up grants that I have dealt with are in the $20,000 to $50,000 range (again there are exceptions)
One of the things that you should do is check your state's website and see what available funding programs they have open. I say this because I just posted on my grants blog about a new grant program that was started in one state to "help people achieve the american dream" - which were the words of the sponsors of this grant program.
It just goes to show you that there are new grant programs popping up all the time!
Rose
Grant Basics 101 Blog
http://grantbasics101.blogspot.com
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Date: 8/31/2007 9:06:00 AM
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Author:
shirley griffith
(prettygirl76542@yahoo.com)
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Subject:how did you get your day-care start
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Can you please tell me how you got start.
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Date: 7/31/2007 10:54:00 PM
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Author:
vasheffia ware
(vware@charter.net)
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Subject:starting a daycare center
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do you have any information that can help me with my educational needs for being a director of my own daycare facility ? i am currently a licenced family childcare provider,my goal is to expand and have my own daycare center out of my home, i will be the director/administrator what educational requirements are needed to obtain this goal. i have no desire to teach but to hire teachers, and teachers asst.my role is administrator/director do i need a certificate, degree, or licence
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Date: 8/1/2007 8:36:00 AM
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Author:
Barbara
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Subject:First, I would check the licensing regul...
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First, I would check the licensing regulations for your state. In Pennsylvania, the director needs to have at least an associate degree and 3 years experience with children. Check with your state's training organization to see if they have a Director's Certificate. I took the course after working as a director for 4 years and learned so much. It is a very difficult job. You have to wear many hats and be able to do several things at one time. You are dealing with children, staff and parent issues. None of those are easy. Good luck!
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Date: 8/29/2007 8:17:00 PM
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Author:
Marnie
(marniegretchen@yahoo.com)
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Subject:Funding for Startup Center
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We are looking for funding for startup with all the red tape licenses. We have to apply to the city for a change of use for the building we would like to rent. and other fees that are taking up time and red tape Money each of us do not have since we will be a non profit. How do we get funds just to get through the red tape to even get started?
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Date: 10/4/2007 3:51:00 PM
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Author:
schemingturkey
(howser432@yahoo.co.uk)
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Subject:greetings
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hey everyone,
i just joined and wanted to say hi. :)
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