Capital Campaign

NBCC’s Buy A Brick Campaign

Engraved Brick Order Deadline: January 3, 2025

NBCC’s Bright Futures childcare facility will serve 176 infants, toddlers and preschoolers’ in full day programs, year round. It will also house our Garden of Eatin’® Learning Lab which will serve the broader community of early childhood educators.

However, we have a way to go before this vision turns into reality. To date, we’ve raised over $11 million dollars thanks to our very generous community of donors and local government support. With $700,000 left to go we need your help to take this project across the finish line.

For only $250 dollars you can be a part of the North Bay Children’s Center legacy by purchasing a brick with your name engraved on it that will pave the way for future success.

Lead Campaign Donors

Generous contributions from the following lead donors have helped us launch the Bright Futures Capital Project

Al & Lisa Brayton

Buck Family Fund of Marin Community Foundation

California Department of Social Services

Jordan & Kathy Shields

Mark Enlow Family

State of California

Count Me In

To build a state-of-the-art child development center and learning lab to ensure ALL North Bay children have access to the essential start they deserve.

Make a One Time Gift

Naming Opportunities

Naming opportunities are available in honor or memory of donors or those who they choose to recognize with their gifts.

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Photos from NBCC’s Topping Off Ceremony, held on September 12, 2024

Ensuring a Path to Academic Success for All Children

Evidence demonstrates that academic success and indeed, one’s economic and social status in life
are often determined by the level of reading, math and learning skills attained by the third grade.
In other words, building a solid pre-school foundation is essential.

For building and garden naming opportunities or to make a one time pledge to the Bright Futures Campaign, contact:
Lori Mogan, VP of Development
lmogan@nbcc.net 415.883.6222

In the North Bay, there is a widening gap between children growing up in strong, economically secure families—within thriving communities—and children who are not.

Yet right here in one of the most abundant places we call home:

35% of Marin County 3- and 4-year old children do not attend preschool, often due to the high costs for families.
65% of Marin’s disadvantaged children do not read at grade level.
As many as 800 Marin families are currently on a wait list and unable to secure affordable child care.

And there are simply not enough facilities or trained teachers to meet the rapidly growing needs in both counties.

North Bay Children’s Center is in the final stages of a capital campaign for the redevelopment of its headquarters site in Novato, CA. The 11M project will replace badly deteriorated, unusable buildings with a safe, permanent, modern, and nurturing child development center. Once completed, this project will have a lasting and absolute impact on our ability to nearly double the childcare capacity of the replaced buildings from 72 to 176 children, and in concert with our 13 satellite sites, annually deliver early childhood education to more than 600 low-income children in Marin and Sonoma Counties, positively changing the future educational and economic achievement for our community’s youngest learners.

The Bright Futures campaign will strengthen our early education workforce by creating a North Bay Learning Lab for training teachers, parents and school administrators in the ingredients of NBCC’s successful formula. These highly trained teachers will be able to integrate NBCC’s core competencies’ such as “Raising a Reader” and Garden of Eatin’® nutrition education into their daily lessons. The Lab will also provide needed space for NBCC to further fine tune and enhance these key determinants of student success.

With an expanded, solid infrastructure to fully support more sites throughout Marin and Sonoma Counties, NBCC will increase the number of North Bay children with access to preschool and the path to economic and academic success. And each dollar invested in the Bright Futures campaign will decrease the inevitable costs to society if these children fail to prepare for the work force and are unable to earn a living wage.

Bright Futures
Construction Phases:

Phase 1: Off-Site Improvements
COMPLETED!
Permits, sewer, domestic water, reclaimed water, and storm water trenching and piping; connections to utility districts; backfill and functional testing of services.

Phase 2: Site Improvements
COMPLETED!
Permits, demolition, remove old foundations, clear site, underground piping for utilities, site grading, install bioretention systems, sidewalk, curbs and street drainage, base for perimeter fencing, parking lot modifications, paving, site lighting.

Phase 3: Core and Shell
IN PROGRESS
Site concrete, foundation, ramps and stairs, floors, walls, roof, HVAC rough-in, electrical rough-in, plumbing rough-in, exterior windows and doors, parking lot charging station installation, some interior framing, fire sprinkler installation, exterior paint, fencing, security system and IT cabling and routing.

Phase 4: Fixtures and Finishes

All interior walls, final utility distribution and trim, casework, flooring, kitchen appliances, ceilings, paint, doors, all toilet rooms. Final functional testing, inspections, and occupancy certificate.

The Bright Futures Campaign will transform the lives of our youngest learners. In order to be successful, families need access to affordable child care and a strong educational start for their children. Each child and family we serve has a greater chance of success in leading productive healthy lives and we all have a chance at a brighter future when we eliminate the academic achievement gap before it begins.

Al Brayton, Honorary Chair

For more Information:

Susan Gilmore,
President & CEO
sgilmore@nbcc.net

Lori Mogan,
VP of Development
lmogan@nbcc.net

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