This month, a local non-profit childcare center (ACAP) will hopefully be moving back into the education wing at our church’s building. ACAP has been located on city property down the street from us, but the city’s now going to build a multi-use venue on the site and ACAP needs to vacate by mid-November (actually just ten days from now).
Thirty years ago, a group of community and faith leaders in Auburn, Washington met to find ways to help low income families become or stay employed. The focus continues to be on providing children with a positive early childhood educational experience. ACAP originally met at White River Presbyterian Church in Auburn before moving to their current site.
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http://snurl.com/acap [www_pnwlocalnews_com]
After numerous applications for extensions, grants, and attempts to sell their current portable buildings, ACAP is faced with the difficult decision of perhaps needing to shut their doors forever. This would be a sad blow to many low income and needy families of our city.
ACAP has been the one place in town where difficult-to-place children were accepted without question, loved unconditionally, and provided quality care at a reasonable price. Those kids that other childcare centers in the area were unwilling to take — mainly because of behavioral problems and special needs — now have a caring, committed “family,” and a place to call home during the day.
If ACAP closes their doors forever, these families (currently about 65 kids) will have no place else to turn for their childcare needs, having already been turned down by other agencies and childcare centers in town. For ACAP’s doors to stay open and for them to be able to move to their new location at our church, they need to raise some funds before the 15th of this month.
Unbeknownst to ACAP, I decided to put this special announcement in my email newsletter, Simple Times, and on my blogs, just in case anyone out there would like to help support a worthy cause. I thought it would be such a blessing and encouragement to the teachers and board members at ACAP to receive a few gifts from unknown sources around the country. None of the money raised would go to me, or to the church, or to any other individual — it would all go toward the moving and upcoming renovation costs involved with relocating ACAP to their new home.
Because ACAP’s an official non-profit organization, all gifts are tax-deductible, too. 
I asked ACAP’s Director how people could donate to the moving costs, and she told me it’d be best for any donations to be sent to the church’s address since ACAP soon won’t have their current street address available.
If you have any sort of a desire to help at all in this project, simply make checks payable to “ACAP” and send to:
ACAP
c/o White River Presbyterian Church
526 – 12th Street SE
Auburn, WA 98002
Thanks so much for your patience with this request!
And please don’t feel any sort of obligation whatsoever to help with this. I just thought maybe there might be a handful of people out there who may want to help with this situation in a small way.
Thanks, again!
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