The Northern Door Children’s Center recently completed one expansion project, but it needs your help to think even bigger.

The Sister Bay-based early childhood center finished a $1.2 million expansion earlier this year, adding a teacher resource area, a garage/storage space, and two 4K classrooms for its new collaboration on preschool offerings with Gibraltar Area School District. Northern Door Children’s Center recently launched the second phase of its $3.6 million Essential Campaign, which will turn its focus to expanded and reconfigured classrooms for its infant, toddler, and 3K classrooms, a new outdoor classroom, indoor/outdoor bathrooms, a library, kitchen, multi-purpose room, and administrative space. The second phase carries a price tag of $2.4 million as Northern Door Children’s Center goes down the path of other child-care facilities trying to address the shortage of services for Door County families. The Door County Community Foundation is partnering with the Northern Door Children’s Center to support the campaign.

The Northern Door Children’s Center is one of three childcare facilities in Door County and the only one north of Sturgeon Bay. 

To kick off the public portion of its Essential Campaign, the center is holding an open house on Saturday from 12-3 p.m., featuring tours and informational sessions about the planned improvements.