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Massachusetts has just announced the release of $4.1 million in facilities grants. Typically, these funds help early education and after school programs repair, renovate, and expand their buildings. This round of funding...

Rotting wood and rusted bolts at the Rainbow Child Development Center’s old play area have been replaced by brand-new playsets, thanks to the generosity of donors and a six-figure government grant. Just as important, ...

The Baker-Polito Administration and the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC) today announced $4.1 million in grant awards for facility improvements at early education and care programs that serve...

Federal, state and local officials converged on a vacant School Street building Thursday to celebrate its future as an early childhood education facility, and the infusion of more than $1 million toward the effort. Lt...

The historic Sarah T. Haskins School is about to get a $1.75 million facelift and modernization to better serve Child Care of the Berkshires and its programs. The bulk of the funding, a $1 million grant from the state...

Child Care of the Berkshires announced a $1 million grant for renovations to its Haskins facility on State Street on Thursday. The funding will pay for the installation of an elevator, construction of handicapped acce...

LYNN — Aspire Developmental Services is halfway to completing its $4.3 million headquarters on Franklin Street. When the renovation of the former O’Keefe Alternative School is finished, the nonprofit will have 15,...

What makes communities strong? “For many families a good place to live is a community that provides for the safety and healthy development of its children,” CEDAC’s executive director, Roger Herzog, says in the ...

Dear Friends, In this newsletter, we highlight recent successes and transitions for CEDAC and our affiliates, Children’s Investment Fund and Commonwealth Workforce Coalition.  As we note in the article on supportiv...

The research has been consistent – children from low-income communities make tremendous educational gains when they have access to high quality early education programs. Early education has become an important priority...

MassDevelopment has issued a $2,420,000 tax-exempt bond on behalf of Aspire Developmental Services, Inc., an organization in Lynn and Salem that provides programs for children and adults with physical and developmental d...

Based in the Bronx, New York City, Little Scholars exemplifies what a preschool can become with adequate facilities funding. Children stack blocks and point at pictures in books in a classroom that is filled with nat...