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Last spring a plumbing supply outfit sent us a hundred dollars a month for four months and never once asked for a photo

The gym floor at our site has a dead spot near the free throw line, and every kid in the program knows exactly where it

Somebody asked me last month whether we were a nonprofit or a daycare, and honestly the line blurs by five o'clock

Recurring gifts help more than one-time gifts, but only if you actually keep them going

Thank-you notes from the kids sit in a folder on my desk, most of them misspelled

Twelve families sit on our waiting list this month and the only thing between them and a seat is one more staff member

I run an after-school program in a building that used to be a church basement

I run an after-school program on the east side and I am writing to ask you to buy something specific

Ask your site coordinator how many minutes a week they spend chasing ratio coverage

Twelve weeks of programming, four part-time staff, one storage closet — that describes a lot of the sites we hear from

Last Thursday in the parking lot, a mother asked whether we would still be open in the spring

There is a crate of broken headphones under the front desk that I keep meaning to throw out