Playfair Daycare a finalist for BASF giving program
Public can vote for a chance for daycare to win $25,000
April 7, 2025, 1:02 pm
Kara Kinna
Out of 612 nominations from across Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario, Playfair Daycare in Moosomin is one of three finalists in Saskatchewan for the Growing Home with BASF 2025 community giving program, giving the daycare a chance to win $25,000.
Once the finalists are chosen by a panel of judges, the public must vote on who they want to win. First place gets $25,000, second place gets $10,000, and third place gets $5,000.
Playfair Daycare is in the running against Farm It Forward in the Mossbank area, Little Seedlings Daycare in Wilkie.
Online voting is open until April 15.
Playfair Daycare is in the process of raising money for a second daycare in Moosomin that will add 90 new spots. Currently the daycare has a waitlist of over two years. The total cost of the new building is $4.4 million.
“Winning the $25,000 prize would significantly aid in completing this new facility, ensuring that more children can access quality care and education,” says the daycare. “By investing in this initiative, we can help alleviate the childcare shortage that impacts various sectors, including healthcare and agriculture, and support the growth of Moosomin as a vibrant place for families to settle and prosper.”
“Growing Home was launched in 2023 and the purpose of it was to create a marquee giving and investment program. This is our way to give back to the places where our customers live, work and play,” says Kasia Kistelski, the external communications manager with BASF.
“The first phase is the nomination phase and that is where we do the call to action to have our farmer and retail customers nominate an organization that’s important to the community for a chance to win the $25,000 in each province.
And then there’s the judging phase, and at that point in time that is when we take all the nominations that we have received and then we review them. We narrow it down to the top 20 per province and then we send it off to different subcommittees who help us narrow it down to our finalists.
“Then once we have our finalists, we go into the voting phase where we announce the top three per province and then the voting phase is a two week period where anyone in Canada, regardless of if they are a customer or not, as long as they are the legal age of majority in their province, can place one vote per province.”
Kistelski says when looking for finalists they base it on the community story and how great a need there is for the project. The project must also align with BASF’s giving pillars of building safe and healthy communities, advancing science, and sustaining modern agriculture. She says they also take into consideration the number of entries received by a community to nominate a project. “This is an opportunity for communities to rally together for an organization that is important to them,” she says.
Voting is open until April 15. To vote for Playfair Daycare, scan the QR code and select Saskatchewan. https://agro.basf.ca/growinghome/voting.html
