After years of hard work, we DID IT!!! We bought our own school house-- Thank you SO much for your support. Now, only with your help can we complete raising the funds to purchase and renovate our new building. Click here for more ways to support us. Thanks!
current event: JENNIFER KIMBALL at the Lizard Lounge May 21
SAVE THE DATE: THURS. MAY 21, 6:30-9PM
Jennifer Kimball and her band (including talented artists and Agassiz parents Billy Beard,Andrew Mazzone, Niels Ringstad, Michael Romanyshyn, and Josh Safdie) are playing a benefit concert for Agassiz at the Lizard Lounge.
Tickets: $25 in advance at www.brownpapertickets.com (also available for purchase at Agassiz). Also check out samples from Jenn's latest album at Amazon here.
So get your babysitters lined up now - it's going to be a fun social night! If you're in the mood to hang out longer, the Senegalese drummer Lamine Toure and his band Group Saloum will be playing at the Lizard at 10PM.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Lizard Lounge
1667 Mass. Ave. Cambridge.
617. 547.0759 www.lizardloungeclub.com
current event: 2009 ANNUAL YARD SALE on SATURDAY, MAY 16
Date: May 16, 2009 RAIN OR SHINE! YARD SALE WILL BE HELD IN THE BUILDING IF IT RAINS
Time: 9am to 3pm
Location: North Prospect Church on Massachusetts Ave in Porter Square
Our huge annual yard sale, raffle, and bake sale is coming up soon! Over 50 families will be contributing all sorts of new and gently used items, including children's and grownup's clothing, toys, shoes, books, and housewares. Mark your calendars! Please contact us via our email address below if you are interested in making item donations or buying raffle tickets for $5.
news flash: WE HAVE A NEW BUILDING!
We are thrilled to announce that we HAVE CLOSED on a new property at 184 Summer Street (corner of Spring and Summer) in Somerville at the end of April! 184 Summer meets our needs with a large outdoor space, plenty of light-filled rooms for open play areas, and a central location very close to our current community. The same values that brought us all together under Agassiz's original roof--the sense of unrivaled community, the focus on engaging and nurturing cooperative education, and the true school-family partnership-- will continue to thrive at our new location in Somerville.
The Relocation Committee has been working diligently with several local lenders to procure a manageable mortgage and construction loan for the renovation. The total cost of the property and renovation will be $1.15 million. To date we have secured significant support through fundraising and cost savings, and anticipate a very favorable rate on our funding provided we can meet two conditions: additional grants and gifts to close the gap between funding and funds raised to date and a demonstrated commitment of the involvement of the Agassiz community.
This is where you come in. We now need to renovate the residential property so that it can be used as a school this fall. Please click on "4 easy ways to help", below, to see how you can help us raise this money. For a donation of $250, you can buy a tile to decorate and install in the new school! Please contact us for more information.
4 easy ways to help
Here are a few easy ways to help us:
Donate now!
Either of the buttons below can be used to contribute to our school.
This button uses Google Checkout (does not charge us a fee).
This button uses PayPal (does not require a PayPal account).
Use email to spread the word.
Please take just one minute to put our web address at the bottom of your email signature.
You can copy and paste one of the following texts if convenient:
Visit Agassiz Preschool online and browse our growing database of early childhood resources!
http://agassizpreschool.org/
Agassiz Preschool needs a new home by 2009!
Visit our website at http://www.agassizpreschool.org
to browse our library of early childhood resources and support high quality, nonprofit early education. Our annual yard sale is May 17, 2008-- mark your calendars!
You can also grab the snazzy "Agassiz Early Childhood" button at right, and choose "Add to email signature" from the drop box.
Or, recruit friends and family to help us spread the word-- ask for their suggestions in helping us fundraise!
Shop.
Click through the igive or Amazon links and they'll donate a small percentage of the sale to us! You can also bookmark these links for convenience.
Help us with your blog, website or social network.
If you have a presence online, you can link to our site. Even better, you can help us collect donations by placing one of our cool fundraising counters on your site! Just click on the "copy" tabs at the bottom of the ChipIn widget to get the code to paste in your own website or page. Ask your family and friends to place our widget on their blogs, sites, or networks, too!
If you need assistance (would like a new widget for your MySpace, blogger, TypePad, etc. page) please
!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! for your support. Every little bit you can give helps us a lot!
All funds raised from this website and the ChipIn widgets will go into an restricted escrow account dedicated to buying and renovating the new building.
Why we need a new home fast: Since the 1970s, Agassiz Cooperative Preschool has been located in the basement of North Prospect Church. From this location, we provided decades of low cost, high quality, not-for-profit care and education to young children in Cambridge and Somerville. However, the church was sold recently, and despite the kindness of our new landlords in extending our lease for two years, we must leave the property in 2009. Our current goal is to raise enough capital to make a down payment on a local property (our bid has been accepted on a fantastic building in Somerville only a few blocks away from our current location) for a schoolhouse... current estimates (as of 2/2009) are that we still need to raise a minimum of $100,000 to make this happen and to keep tuitions affordable.
The online campaign is the latest chapter in our fundraising efforts. Our annual tree and yard sales (funding scholarships) have become beloved traditions in the neighborhood. To date we have held an auction gala (100 Red Balloons, October 2007) and two concerts (Preschoolapalooza I and II). All the parents and staff of Agassiz have been working overtime for this effort, but we need your help to make it happen!
Coming soon: how Agassiz got started, and more pictures!
Just click through the Amazon link. Or, if you use igive to shop at over 600 stores (including Staples, Land's End, Best Buy, eBay, and Expedia), they will contribute a small percentage of your sale to us. These links can be bookmarked!
Adding this ChipIn widget to your web page is an easy way to help us pay for and fix up our new school! This fundraising meter reflects only amounts raised with the widget, not total amounts raised.
