Six local restaurants have teamed up with Crisis Nursery to support dine&donate, a new fundraising program for the nonprofit.

The Crisis Nursery, a child care facility in Urbana for families going through temporary crises, is expanding its services and in need of more staff. The nursery previously only took infants through children up to age 5, but they now accept 6-year-olds as well. They will also be doing more outreach to the local Latino community.

The restaurants  — D.P. Dough, The Great Impasta, Kofusion, Village Inn Pizza, Butcher Boy Burgers and Java Connection — have agreed to donate ranging portions of their profits to the fundraiser for one business day each month to help the nursery as it expands, according to a press release. The program will begin Jan. 30 at D.P. Dough.

“Like Crisis Nursery, these local restaurant owners depend on community members for support,” said Stephanie Record, executive director of Crisis Nursery, in a press release. “In addition to helping the Nursery fulfill our mission, we’re confident this partnership will bring restaurants increased business and positive feedback.”

D.P. Dough owner Steve Fiala said he will donate 20 percent of his restaurant’s gross sales to the program and hopes to break even after his donation to the nursery.

“When they asked if I wanted to help pilot this program, it sounded like a no-brainer,” he said. “They are a great organization, and they can use all the help they can get.”

Fiala said he hopes the program will bring new customers to the restaurant and make his current customers happy as they will be participating in giving to a good cause.

Kristen Bosch, the nursery’s development and marketing director, said restaurants seem to be excited about participating, and one restaurant, Kofusion, approached her about being part of the program after hearing about it.

“They called us and said that they wanted to be involved and they wanted to be associated and they wanted to give back to a good cause,” Bosch said. “It was really meaningful to us that they saw how meaningful that this could be for their business as well as giving back to a local charity.”

She added that the Crisis Nursery has worked with restaurants similarly in the past requiring flyers or verbal mention of the promotion, but dine&donate doesn’t require anything extra of the customer. This way, the donations “come back to Crisis Nursery with no strings attached,” Bosch said.

“It’s an easy way to try something new and also know that their money’s going somewhere that can really use it,” Fiala said.

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