Support The Children’s Playhouse
Help The Children’s Playhouse survive and thrive. Did you know that the per-person-per-visit cost of running The Children’s Playhouse is double the $5 admission fee? The continued success of this valuable community asset depends on donations from individuals like you. Please give today!
There are many different ways you can get involved. Email Kathy@goPlayhouse.org or call 828-263-0011 if you would like to discuss ways you can help The Children’s Playhouse. Donations to The Children’s Playhouse are tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law.
Donor Levels
- Adopt a scholarship family ($100) Provide a low-income family with a one year membership to The Children’s Playhouse.
- Playhouse Pal (up to $150)
- Friend ($151-300)
- Builder ($301-500)
- Dreamer ($501-999)
- Playhouse Sustainer ($1000 and above)
Click donate below to choose your amount.
Help Keep The Playhouse Accessible to Low Income Families
“I am so thankful to have a place like the Playhouse to take my son to. I don’t know what we would have done, when he was three and we were living with my husband’s parents.” --Playhouse Scholarship Recipient.
“In our crazy life The Playhouse has allowed my child to just go be a child and forget about ‘Big People’ problems.” --comment on 2009 Playhouse survey.
As parents grapple with “Big People” problems from mounting bills to mounting stress, The Playhouse provides a space for play and love, a time for families to reconnect and renew. We are both pleased and concerned that the requests for scholarship memberships for low-income families and agencies serving at-risk children increased by 65% this past fiscal year to a high of over 53 memberships. At the same time, our United Way allocation this year will only be $1000--only enough for 10 families. Your help is needed to keep The Children's Playhouse accessible and the quality of our services high for all families. A donation of $100 will provide a free membership for a low-income family, but please click below to make a donation of any amount.
Community Support
The Children's Playhouse is supported in part by Watauga County, the Town of Boone, and the High Country United Memberships, admission fees, and class fees make up less than 25% of our income. More than 60% of our operating budget is raised from fundraising events, individual donations and corporate sponsorships.
Playhouse Wish List
These are items both big and small that would help us with our mission. Maybe you have one of these squirreled away in your attic or would like to pick one up at the store! Check back as this list changes from time to time.
- Large rug for our "Meadow Room"--we have a design for custom rug (complete with meadow, river, and bridge) which would be created for us by an Appalachian State University interior design prof out of environmentally friendly FLOR carpet tiles but we need at least $500 to make it happen.
- Improved signage in our parking lot and on Tracy Circle.
- Gardening help.
- A picnic table.
- Books on topics such as discipline (Parenting with Love and Logic, for example), nutrition, and developmental stages (the Your Three Old, Your Four Old ,etc books) for parenting library.
- Electric warming tray
- Permanent shade structure for our play yard
- Non-toxic plants and flowers for our play yard
- Vacuum cleaner, high quality like Oreck (will be used a lot!)
- Paper towels and toilet paper
- Liquid soap
- Cloth hand towels or washcloths
- Laundry detergent
- Pantry items: salt, cream of tarter, baking soda, white vinegar, rigatoni noodles (for stringing)
- Printer/copy paper—letter, legal and 11”x 17” size.
- Dress-up clothes in good condition
Yogurt Brigade: Help the Environment and help The Children’s Playhouse!
Finally, a use for those yogurt containers piling up in your kitchen! Yogurt containers cannot be recycled in Boone, but now you can bring them back to the grocery store and help The Children's Playhouse!
Bring your clean 6oz and 32oz Stoneyfield Farms, Dannon and Brown Cow yogurt containers to Earthfare, Lowe’s Foods, Harris Teeter, or the Children’s Playhouse, and help the Playhouse earn money from each container. We cannot accept Breyer’s or Yoplait because they are the wrong shape, but store brand containers are acceptable.
These containers will be reused by Terracycle for planting pots. What a great win-win for everyone! All proceeds benefit The Children's Playhouse, a nonprofit children's museum in Boone. For more information, call The Children's Playhouse, 828-263-0011.
GoodSearch
What if even a fraction of the $8 billion generated by search engine advertisers was distributed to nonprofits like The Children's Playhouse?
That is the concept behind a new search engine, developed by Internet entrepreneurs and brother sister team Ken and JJ Ramberg. GoodSearch.com – powered by Yahoo – donates 50% of its revenue, approximately a penny per search, to the charities designated by its users. You use it exactly as you would any other search engine and the pennies add up quickly – just 500 people searching four times a day will earn around $7,300 in a year!
Search the web with www.goodsearch.com, choose The Children's Playhouse as your charity, and money from Yahoo advertisers will go to The Playhouse! You can also easily add GoodSearch to your browser toolbar. Just take a minute to set it up and from now on you'll be helping The Playhouse every time you search!