A rendering of the new Evergreen Day in the Cambridge Highlands. (Image: Brooks Mostue)
The Evergreen day care and preschool, a nonprofit serving area families since 1989, needs donations for relocating between buildings on the Sancta Maria Nursing Facility in the Cambridge Highlands. The money will go toward costs and improvements – from buying easels and paints to essentials such as a heating and air conditioning system and flooring – for when Evergreen completes its move in the fall.
The fundraiser has raised $19,775, a little under a third of a $65,000 goal that became vital after coronavirus changed the lending environment.
“Pre-Covid, we had multiple banks that were scheduled to fund us larger amounts, but our timing was such that we were filling out applications in the middle of Covid, and the banks became much more conservative,” said Tucker Lewis, a member of…
