Better Beginnings Child Development Center of East Windsor/Hightstown, NJ, Inc. 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 20 Mercer County organizations to receive funding through the Community Foundation’s Greater Mercer Grant Program. Grants totaling $511,724 were awarded to local organizations 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 the foundations for their generous allocation. The Executive Director, Luz Horta states that the grant of $25,000 will help the center maintain financial stability and 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 a few economically disadvantaged children in 1967 to serving 99 children ages 2 ½ to 11 and is located in the educational wing of the First Presbyterian Church of Hightstown.The Princeton Area Community Foundation promotes philanthropy to advance the well-being of our communities forever. The Community Foundation provides charitable giving expertise to individuals, non profits and corporations, and each year invests millions of dollars into the community through grants and scholarships. For more information on the Community Foundation please contact them at 609-219-1800 or online at www.pacf.org.
