Support your local nature-based preschool as we expand our classrooms and provide infant care
Our children's home away from home here at Northern Dutchess Daycare needs a boost and we need your help. Surrounded by a 250-acre forest preserve, our preschoolers, from 18 months to 5 years, learn to respect all creatures, great and small. Founded in 1970 on nature-based principles, it's here that lifelong learning begins. It's time that our building receives that same tremendous care we give to each and every child.
Currently, Hudson Valley is considered an "infant care desert." Despite this, daycares across the Hudson Valley are shuttering their doors. By becoming a fully independent non-profit in 2025, Northern Dutchess Daycare avoided closure and proudly serves the growing needs of our local community. We are dedicated to supporting more families in the Hudson Valley by ensuring and expanding access to early education. To do this, we will open an infant room in early 2026 that provides much needed child care to babies 6 months and up.
But, our facility needs a major makeover to make this dream a possibility. New bathrooms, walkways and sidewalks, updated lighting, better emergency egress, handicap-accessible ramps, new flooring, and foundation repairs—long overdue improvements will support the addition of our new infant care room and expand services for existing students.
We have raised a significant amount through the generosity of a local foundation, the Frost Memorial Fund. We now need community support, here and beyond, to fundraise the remainder needed to ensure high quality, accessible daycare for years to come.
Support your local nature-based preschool as we expand our classrooms and provide infant care. Please donate below to lift up our children and secure the future of Northern Dutchess Daycare. More information can be found on our website.
Thank you for championing early education childcare. We are truly grateful for your support and for spreading the word throughout our community.
