Donate

What Makes Peninsula Children’s Center Special?

Peninsula Children’s Center is the only North Portland child care provider with a sliding-scale tuition structure, which is based on gross monthly income and family size. Peninsula also provides Scholarships that cover 90% of childcare costs through the City of Portland’s Children’s Investment Fund. We accept Oregon Department of Human Service child care tuition reimbursements at no additional cost to families.

$

Our affordable tuition structure is an essential component of our service – without it many of our families simply could not afford child care. This is where you come in: As an independent nonprofit child care center serving primarily low-income children and families, community support is crucial. We need you to help us help families.

About Peninsula Children’s Center

Founded in 1970 , Peninsula started out in a church basement with seven children. Today, we have the capacity to serve 160 children, ages 6-weeks to 12 years old, out of three locations.

  • 68% of Peninsula’s children come from families with incomes less than $18,000/yr. Portland’s median household income is $67,900/yr.
  • Peninsula’s children are: 45% African American; 28% Caucasian; 12% Latino; 4% Native American; 3% Asian; 8% other/unknown.
  • 81% of our families are single-parent households. 32% of households in Multnomah Co. are single-parent.

 

Here’s how your donation can help support our children & families:

    • $50 is enough for bottles of green and orange and purple and red and blue and yellow and brown and white paint, and 82 paint brushes, 6 smocks and 12 paint palettes – the tools for masterpieces.
    • $250 buys 36 new books so our children can enjoy and learn from The Bear Under the Stairs; Things I Like About Grandma; and Running the Road to ABC.

  • $500 pays for 2 lbs. of pom-poms; 900 wiggly eyes; 1 lb. of feathers; 450 sheets of tissue paper; 3,000 craft sticks; 1,500 tongue depressors; and 6 rolls of butcher paper. Children need art because “[b]y fostering different kinds of learning, arts programs have been shown to help students use analytical thinking and problem-solving skills,….” (Carol Fineberg, “Arts and Cognition”).
  • $1,200 buys a month of breakfast, lunch and snack for the 42 little ones in the Infant, Toddler and Junior rooms.
  • $10,000 provides program scholarships for two months of quality care for 60 children in our Preschool Program!

For more information on supporting our work with children and families, contact Development Director Joellen Pail: (503) 280-0534, ext. 13;
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it