By Teddy McGlynn-Wright The night before coming home from visiting family in New York, my daughter was diagnosed with a double ear infection and prescribed that lovely pink liquid familiar to all whose baby has been on antibiotics. Five minutes later I’m holding my daughter upside...
To make Tiny Trees accessible and affordable for families we are excited to be exploring how we can offer before and after care for working families. In the last few weeks a number of potential partners have expressed interest in working with us and we...
When in college I had a brief love affair with Margaret Mead, the famed anthropologist. I loved her books, full of vivid imagery and her stories of travel and high adventure in the South Pacific of the 1930s. She went abroad and immersed herself in...
Tiny Trees is an idea, a concept that has fed people’s imagination, tickled their curiosity and given hope to families looking for affordability, academic quality and a real childhood. On Friday night this idea won its second award this time from Sustainable Seattle for “Tiny...
We've been nominated for Sustainable Seattle’s Leadership Awards! We are one of three finalist! For the first time ever, there will be a People's Choice Award, help us win by voting before Fri., Dec. 19th at sustainableseattle.org. One thing we forgot to tell you about...
Jen Apfel: “I am so excited about this, can I share it on our Facebook group?” Francesca Holme: “Yes!!!” By the next day 20 families had seen Jen’s post and enrolled online at TinyTrees.org to reserve a spot and cast a vote on which parks in Seattle...
[embed]https://vimeo.com/114395991[/embed] On October 28th, 2014 Tiny Trees Preschool won Social Venture Partner’s Fast Pitch Competition for Best Non-Profit Start-Up (A $15,000 prize) and as a result was featured in Geekwire and by CrossCut as innovators to watch and was nominated for the Sustainable Seattle Leadership Award for...
Quite a few friends have asked me to explain the difference between the two preschool initiatives on the Seattle ballot. My quick answer is: vote yes, and then vote 1B. On first read both sound like great ideas and in fact if either passes it...
Wahoo! After a fierce round of competition at the Semi-Finals Tiny Trees Preschool has moved on to the final showdown for Social Venture Partner's Fast Pitch competition. 100+ organizations applied, we gave 5 minute pitches on our potential impact and business plan and after two rounds...
After two rounds of competition Tiny Trees Preschool will compete in the semi-finals for Social Venture Partners Fast Pitch Competition on Tuesday, October 7th. We are one of six non-profit start ups that will compete for the opportunity to take the show to Macaw Hall...