Randall and Peggy Rollins have challenged CBH by making a pledge to match every dollar raised for a new endowment.  The new MA-RAN endowment will support the proposed Child Development Center.  "In honor of the tremendous generostiy of the Rollins family, the board of trustees has agreed to name the center The Margaret H. Rollins Child Development Center," says board chair, Martha Tschantz.  "The opportunity this challenge grant provides is nothing short of a miracle.  The task of raising money in our current economic environment is daunting at best, but Mr. and Mrs. Rollins' gift gives us great leverage to create excitement for a permanent program to serve some of Sussex' County's most vulnerable children."

This endowment will ensure sustainable programs to serve preschool aged children with special needs.  The center will serve approximately 16 three- year-olds in the first year and as they move to a four-year-old program the following year, 16 more three-year-olds will be added.  The school is being built and licensed for a capacity of 60.  The plan is to open the center in September 2013.

Lydia Chichester duPont founded CBH in 1936 as a place where she could bring children with orthopedic challenges to experience the same healing qualities she herself had discovered on Lewes Beach.  Today, the organization serves children with communitcative disabilites in unique, research-based programs in the Youth Development Program (YDP).  The new preschool will allow CBH to identify children with communitcative disabilities earlier and expand services from ages 3 through 18.