How to Find a Free Sample Budget for a Day Care Center

Get a budget for your day care center.

There are a lot of sources for sample day care budgets around, but few are free. If you are in need of a free sample day care budget, where can one be found?

Things You'll Need

• Phone book
• Library card (optional)
• Internet access
• Paper
• Pen or pencil

Instructions

1. Pull out your phone book and call licensed day care centers. Talk to the director and ask her if she would be willing to give you a sample copy of her budget. If she is not willing or able, ask about other sources for obtaining a free sample day care budget.

2. Go to your local library. Look for the most current publications available regarding day care centers, financing day care centers and sample budgets for businesses.

3. Use the Internet to run searches using various keywords and keyword combinations regarding day care centers, day care facilities, day care budgets, day care financing, sample budgets, business financing, and any other combinations you can think up.

4. While online, check out reliable business information sites such as the Small Business Administration for any resources available for free sample budgets for day cares. Other resources to check would be the big day care financing/grant sites such as Head Start, CCDF, TANF and Social Services Block Grant.

Tips & Warnings

• Review multiple sample budgets in order to get the best overall numbers and expense items.

• The Small Business Administration offers many free classes including some related to budgeting and finance.

• Check with state and local agencies that assist in the startup of a day care. If they do not have sample day care budgets, they may have resources available to you that have them.

• Look for the most current sample day care budget you can find to ensure accuracy and reliability.

• If you're starting your own day care center, be sure to consider other items not listed in your sample budgets, but that your particular facility may encounter such as special licenses, special equipment, startup costs and extra advertising.

Resources

• Small Business Administartion (SBA) Free Classes and Resources
• Create Your Own Daycare Budget