Things You'll Need:
- Phone book
- Library card [optional]
- Internet access
- Paper
- Pen or pencil
- Time
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Step 1
Pull out your phone book and call licensed daycare centers. Talk to the director and ask her if she would be willing to give you a sample copy of their budget. If she is not willing or able, ask about other sources for obtaining a free sample daycare budget.
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Step 2
Go to your local library. Look for the most current publications available regarding daycare centers, financing day care centers, and sample budgets for businesses. A few examples would be Entrepreneur magazine, Early Childhood Today, and Childhood Education.
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Step 3
Use the Internet to run searches using various keywords and keyword combinations regarding daycare centers, daycare facilities, daycare budgets, daycare financing, sample budgets, business financing and any other combinations you can think up. Because new information is continually being posted on the internet 24 hours a day, seven days a week, a search run today may produce different results than a search run next week. See Resources below for a few of the credible information sources available on the web.
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Step 4
While online, check out reliable business information sites such as the Small Business Administration for any resources available for free sample budgets for daycares. Other resources to check would be the big daycare financing/grant sites such as Head Start, CCDF, TANF and Social Services Block Grant.
