News Archive
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Greater Lowell YMCA receives $1 million for renova.../ Dec 28, 2019Smiling kids smear green paint on paper plates. It’s Christmas Eve, and children in the Greater Lowell YMCA’s school-age care group are crafting cone-shaped pine trees. ...
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Central Mass. YMCA receives $1M state grant to imp.../ Dec 27, 2019The YMCA of Central Massachusetts was among six early education providers around the state this month to receive a $1 million grant to improve their facilities. In total, Gov. Charlie Baker a...
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YWCA Gets Piece of $6 Million Grant from State to .../ Dec 20, 2019
The Baker-Polito Administration and the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC) announced $6 million in grant awards for facility improvements at early education and care p...
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YMCA Cape Cod Receives $1M Grant for Hyannis Early.../ Dec 20, 2019
The YMCA Cape Cod has been awarded a $1 million grant from the state to support a new early education center in downtown Hyannis. The grant was one of six announced Thursday at the Hyannis Vi...
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Baker-Polito Administration Awards $6 Million for .../ Dec 19, 2019
The Baker-Polito Administration and the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC) today announced $6 million in grant awards for facility improvements at early education and ...
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YMCA Cape Cod gets $1M grant for child care center/ Dec 19, 2019
The Hyannis Village Marketplace will be home to a new early education center this fall with help from a $1 million capital grant the YMCA Cape Cod received from the Baker-Polito administration. ...
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YMCA Cape Cod To Receive $1 Million Grant for New .../ Dec 18, 2019On Thursday December 19th, Early Education and Care Commissioner Samantha Aigner-Treworgy; Senator Julian Cyr, and Representatives Will Crocker, David Vieira and Tim Whelan; and YMCA Cape Cod P...
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Child Care of the Berkshires Ready for Next Renova.../ Dec 10, 2019
Child Care of the Berkshires took a moment Friday to mark the end of the first phase of its $1.75 million renovation — and the start of the second. It's been a long journey, said President an...
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Cost of early child care is unsustainable/ Dec 05, 2019
Two recent articles (“In academia, a caste system for parents,” Page A1, Dec. 1; “Poor workers struggling with a child-care debt trap,” Page A1, Dec. 2) demonstrate that parents at ever...
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Springfield’s Educare Facility Is State-Of-The-A.../ Nov 12, 2019Nikki Burnett says Springfield’s Old Hill neighborhood and those surrounding it certainly need the gleaming new $14 million Educare facility constructed next door to the Elias Brookings Elementa...
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YWCA unveils Under One Roof project/ Nov 08, 2019
The YWCA cut the ribbon for its “Under One Roof” project on Friday, showing off the extension of its building, containing residential housing and after school programming. ...
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Some Boston neighborhoods face severe shortage of .../ Nov 05, 2019The chasm between supply and potential demand for child care is so wide across much of Boston that in some neighborhoods, there aren’t enough seats for roughly half the children, according to a new ...