Press Release

Contact Person: Luz Horta, Executive Director, bbluzz@hotmail.com

Telephone: 609-448-6226

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - July 17, 2012

Better Beginnings Child Development Center Receives Community Foundation Grant

Hightstown, NJ- Better Beginnings Child Care Center of East Windsor/Hightstown, NJ, Inc. recently received a $25,000 grant through the Harbourton Foundation and the Princeton Area Community Foundation serving Mercer County and Central New Jersey for operating support. Better Beginnings is one of twenty organizations throughout Mercer County to receive funding through the Community Foundation’s Greater Mercer Grant Program. Local organizations were awarded grants totaling to $511,724 and will be used for a full-range of community building, program, and operating support.

Better Beginnings, in unity with the Board of Directors, Executive Director, families, and children, extend their heartfelt gratitude to each of the foundations for their generous allocation. Executive Director Luz Horta states that the grant of $25,000 will help the center maintain financial stability, as well as support its mission of providing high quality, affordable child development, early learning, and after school care in our community. We will continue “Shaping minds when time matters most” by providing developmentally age-appropriate learning experiences in a safe, healthy, and nurturing environment while giving parents the opportunity to be self-supporting, contributing, and involved members of the community.

Better Beginnings, a NAEYC accredited center, has evolved from providing a nursery school experience for economically disadvantaged children in 1967, to serving 99 children between the ages of 2 ½ to 11. The center is located in the educational wing of the First Presbyterian Church of Hightstown.

The Princeton Area Community Foundation promotes philanthropy in order to continuously advance the well-being of our communities. The Community Foundation provides charitable giving expertise to individuals, nonprofits, and corporations. Each year the foundation invests millions of dollars into the community through grants and scholarships. For more information on the Community Foundation, please call 609-219-1800 or visit www.pacf.org.