Our Goals for 2015

2014 was a great year for the 

Joyful Noise C-Fund!

We offered free Gift of Music classes over the summer that traveled all over Ottawa County libraries for young children and also offered a free family Easter Egg Coloring and Dinner event in April of 2014! 

Thanks to a grant from the Mary Anne Sherwood Families and Children Field of Interest Fund, the Grand Haven Area Community Foundation and the generosity of individual donors in 2014, we were able to invest in the futures of children and families all around us in an educational and meaningful way.

So what's in store for 2015?

The Joyful Noise C-Fund hopes to achieve more of the same success in 2015 that we enjoyed in the previous year! We also have plans in the works for several new events and services to young children and families in our community with the following programs:

• A continuation of free Gift of Music classes
• A celebration of literacy event with book reading and free children's book giveaway
• A nutrition and physical education event for young children that utilizes local experts.

Please follow along with the blog to receive updates and news on the Joyful Noise C-Fund! As always, your continued support and donations are very appreciated!

Joyful Noise C Fund Holiday Support!

www.JoyfulNoiseKids.com                         www.CThePossibilities.org

                   

Check out the offical FB event page here!

Joyful Noise to offer FREE music classes!

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We're SO excited to be bringing you a BRAND NEW and FREE community program--one of a series and hopefully other programs to come--through support from the C-Fund! Read our official press release below:

Joyful Noise Christian Childcare of Grand Haven, Michigan has created an early childhood music program like none other in the tri-cities area; it’s FREE! Partnering with early childhood resources such as the Grand Haven WIC office, Joyful Noise aims to reach the underserved and lower income population in the Grand Haven area with the gift of music. 

The weekly classes, which will be held on site at Joyful Noise, in First Presbyterian Church, are constructed in three week mini-sessions on Wednesday mornings from 10:30-11:15 a.m., the first of which is scheduled to begin on April 24th. The first course, centered around Latin music and created for 2 ½ to 5 year olds, will incorporate age appropriate song, dance, and instrument exposure.  Students will receive a free “guiro” (a Latin rhythm instrument) upon enrollment, to be used each week. Parents are required to attend. Families participating in the WIC or FIA program will automatically qualify for the classes, but Joyful Noise hopes to connect with a broad spectrum of children and parents who could not otherwise afford to attend similar (and expensive) music programs. “The cost of programs like ‘Kindermusik’ or ‘Music Together’ can be completely unfeasible for some families,” says the program’s instructor and coordinator, Chantal McDaniel, who has been teaching early childhood music at Joyful Noise for ten years. “All children deserve to experience the joy and developmental benefits of music and culture, and we’re hoping that this is the first of many free classes that will do just that!”

Plans for more sessions are underway as Joyful Noise aims to provide a fun, active and multicultural experience for children from infancy through school age.  The service is an extension of the vision that Joyful Noise, a 501 (c)3 non-profit, seeks to fulfill through their “C-Fund”, a giving program that facilitates not only the center’s growth, but also future programs providing free early childhood services (such as classes and resources) to the community.

Interested parties can stop by the website to fill out an application at www.JoyfulNoiseKids.com/GiftOfMusic, or read more about the community based vision for the C-fund at www.CthePossibilities.org. Physical copies of the session flier and enrollment application are available at Joyful Noise at 508 Franklin St. in Grand Haven, Michigan or at the Grand Haven WIC office, located at 1705 S. Beacon Blvd.