The eSpirit of Head Start of Greater Dallas

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Head Start Child Writing

You Can Help Right Now

We depend on community members like you to help us achieve our mission of providing the very best educational resources for our neediest children in Dallas. Won't you help us give a child a head start?

Please consider making your tax-deductible contribution of:

$10 will buy a preschool book for a classroom

$90 will pay for program supplies for one child per year

$150 will buy a math/science curriculum kit for one classroom

$545 will fund an indoor/ outdoor climbing panel for a center

$1,000 will buy five classroom printers

After your selection, you will be taken to PayPal's online payment system to process your donation. Thank you.

Volunteer Opportunities

Preschoolers need you! Find out about the many volunteer opportunities available at any of the Head Start of Greater Dallas centers. Read a story, teach an art project - be a kid again with our infants, toddlers and preschoolers. For more information and to download an application, visit this link.

Greetings!

We are wrapping up March and looking ahead to the Spring season where we will have many wonderful activities planned.

Next month we will be celebrating the national event, Week of the Young Child, April 13-19. This week is a time to recognize the importance of early learning and early literacy and to celebrate the teachers and policies that bring early childhood education to young children. This is the perfect opportunity for you to volunteer at a center activity or help us raise awareness.

Please join us April 14-18 by calling 972.283.6457 to learn more about center events planned on this special week.

We hope you enjoy this issue and decide to make a difference today.

March Volunteer Spotlight

Jamie is a social worker who has served as a youth advocate, homeless shelter worker and with foster children and realizes the importance of becoming involved in people's lives. "I know this is a federal program with limited funding and it can be so difficult to make ends meet.

Jamie has three children, a husband and a fulltime job. Her twin daughters are preschoolers at our Gannon Head Start center. "It was instilled in me from childhood to give back..." Full Story

I Am Moving, I Am Learning Debuts at Fair

Head Start of Greater Dallas has been selected as one of the test areas for I Am Moving, I Am Learning, a pilot program designed to help preschoolers exercise and eat healthier. The program will debut in Head Start centers this spring. Full Story

Head Start Heroes Event

We're rounding up silent auction items for the Annual Head Start Heroes event May 24.

If you or your business, church or organization would like to help disadvantaged Head Start children by donating an item for the event, please let us know by e-mailing enews@hsgd.org.

Tickets for the evening of Western fun will go on sale soon!

Plan to join us as we line dance, eat, honor volunteers and enjoy more surprises.

Thank you for your continued support of Head Start of Greater Dallas.

Sincerely,

Your friends at HSGD

HEAD START of Greater Dallas provides children with the foundation of skills and knowledge they need to be successful in school and life and fosters self-reliant families and communities.

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