Lemberg Children's Center

The General Fund is used to send staff to professional conferences, purchase equipment, hire substitute teachers and replenish funds used for emergencies. Your contribution to our operating expenses makes possible some wishes we’ve put off. Thank you for donating to our daily needs.

It is critical to our mission to make our services available to all families. Our sliding scale tuition helps our diverse community, including international families, lower income Brandeis employees and graduate students, afford the high quality educational program we provide, and gives them peace of mind while working and studying. Donations to this fund have helped hundreds of families when parents lose jobs, or break ups sever financial support. These funds allow us to accept children on state vouchers, since government tuition payments are well below our lowest rates. Your donation to scholarships helps Lemberg be diverse, responsive and supportive when it is really needed.

It is essential to ensure that teachers and parents have specialists to consult with for each child’s healthy development. We work with specialists in speech, communication, motor development, sensory processing, and emotional or behavioral needs.

Established with a gift in 1996 from Gunnar and Rosemary Dybwad, global leaders in educational inclusion and human rights for all, we have weekly consultant support. Donations to this fund supports specialists working with children and their parents as well as our teachers.

Since the 1970s, Lemberg has advanced creative movement and drama as an important part of our teacher training and practice. Named to honor the memory of Barbara Harris, former Lemberg Board President and Brandeis theatre faculty member, this fund has brought many guest artists to work with our teachers, teaching assistants and children.

Music is a wonderful way for children to develop concentration and collaborative skills while making connections with math, science and their creative abilities.

This fund established by the Milenders:

1. Helps us purchase musical instruments & equipment.
2. Supports research with Brandeis University’s Psychology Department.
3. Helps our teachers work with University students to implement Arts for Critical Thinking and other music curriculum at senior centers and other schools.

Help us build and sustain the Lemberg Cloud, where young children may enjoy activities, and adults can find rich resources for projects with children. At the Lemberg Cloud, you can check out our guidebook for Environmental Education and Gardening with Children or workshops for leading your own Thinking in Music program. Your donation funds the site's construction, enrichment and creative opportunities for artists and other educators to share with families of young children.

Our front lawn has long been a place for families to meet as well as staff to have lunch.  Until recently children played in an old wooden playhouse and we had some adirondack chairs nearby our picnic table, well they are gone now.  In 2021 we asked playground architects, studioMLA, to sketch some ideas for adding musical instruments, benches, of course a playhouse and picnic area to support our long standing tradition.  While the Pandemic prioritized funding other things, we can surely use a safe and fun way to meet families in different classrooms while making sure we shout out our tributes to community members who have prioritized us with decades of service. A playground xylophone itself costs upwards of $6,200! It would be great to raise $25,000 for this spring's construction.