{"id":27581,"date":"2016-12-09T12:34:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=27581"},"modified":"2016-12-20T15:27:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:27:27","slug":"super-kids-christian-day-care-powers-up-with-help-from-the-sbdc-at-fiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2016\/12\/super-kids-christian-day-care-powers-up-with-help-from-the-sbdc-at-fiu\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Kids Christian Day Care powers up with help from the SBDC at FIU"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"Super$ <\/p>\n

Marie Adline Aurubin and her husband have operated the Super Kids Christian Day Care in Miami\u2019s Little Haiti since 1995, caring for children as little as 3 months and as big as 5 years.<\/p>\n

The brightly colored fenced school is conveniently located on busy Northeast 54^{th<\/sup> Street, allowing parents for an easy drop off and pick up on the way to and from work. It\u2019s no wonder then that the demand for the child care soon grew.<\/p>\n}

However, the school could only take 35 children, leaving the business at the break-even point. Aurubin knew she had to expand. After all, putting kids on a waiting list or turning kids away was not part of the mission.<\/p>\n

She needed to find more money, but where?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s as if her prayers were answered when Aurubin received an email about a free workshop on access-to-capital assistance and met a finance specialist with the Florida Small Business Development Center<\/a> at Florida International University.<\/p>\n

Working with the Florida SBDC at FIU consultant, who provided financial guidance, she applied for a loan and got the money to expand.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\nObtaining the loan with the help of Florida SBDC at FIU, she said, \u201cwas so helpful. We are now licensed for 85 children.\u201d<\/p>\nWhile getting the loan was Aurubin\u2019s primary goal, she said the Florida SBDC at FIU consultant has since become like a member of her family. The school employees have gotten to know the consultant, as did Aurubin\u2019s husband and kids.<\/p>\n\u201cThey really care, they didn\u2019t just [help me get] the loan and that was it,\u201d Aurubin said, calling the consultant \u201can angel.\u201d \u201cShe comes here all the time to help me.\u201d<\/p>\nAurubin said her business has not come easy. She has had to reach for the virtues of patience and perseverance to \u201cmake it at the end,\u201d but \u201cit took us a long time.\u201d<\/p>\nShe advises other entrepreneurs to do their homework and be as knowledgeable as possible. That includes, she said, using the resources at the Florida SBDC at FIU, which she did not know about — until that fateful email about the workshop appeared a wing and a prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marie Adline Aurubin and her husband have operated the Super Kids Christian Day Care in Miami\u2019s Little Haiti since 1995, caring for children as little as 3 months and as big as 5 years. The brightly colored fenced school is conveniently located on busy Northeast 54th Street, allowing parents for an easy drop off and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":27585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3121,4128,4129],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27605,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27581\/revisions\/27605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}