Donate

Donate

Associated is deeply connected to the communities we serve. Our commitment to early care and education reaches beyond our classroom walls to the State House and beyond. Your help is crucial in helping us carry out our mission. Please give generously to help ensure a brighter future for Boston's working families with children.

Your gift will support our efforts to make a difference at one of the most important development stages in the life of a child.  Each and every child entrusted to our care is given a fair chance to lead a healthy and successful life.

Join us in our efforts!

Your support will make a significant impact on their lives, on their families, and on the entire Greater Boston community by:

  • Guaranteeing that the children we serve, roughly 600 of whom are living below the poverty threshold, receive three nutritious meals each day, five days a week.
  • Making it possible for children and families who have extra social and emotional needs to receive support from our Family Development staff, who provide resource and referral services as well as counseling and therapy.
  • Providing a high quality early education curriculum for children who most need it and whose families are hard-pressed to afford the cost of any child-care, let alone a licensed or accredited program, by offering care on a sliding fee scale.

Supporting Associated also means helping us to grow and improve.  We serve over 1,000 children, but there are many more who would benefit greatly from our centers and from our family child care homes.  Furthermore, while we strive to nurture the whole child, the children in our programs still encounter barriers to success, such as lack of preventative health care, that we aim to reduce by developing more comprehensive programming, including health services in partnership with local clinics.

In addition to making a monetary contribution, please consider donating things that you no longer need.  Thanks to auctionPal, a company that specializes in making online selling simple, you can now convert unwanted goods—bicycles, computers, cameras, or other treasures cluttering your basement or closet—into funding for Associated.