This manual grew out of the need expressed by community groups and their advisers for a centralized source of information on how to start a day care center. It is divided into 16 parts: (1) The Agency for Child Development: The Structure of the New Agency, (2) Finding a Site for a Day Care Center, (3) Financing a Day Care Center through the City Interim Funding Program, (4) Financing a Day Care Center through the City Direct Lease Program, (5) Financing a Day Care Center with Money from New York State under the Youth Facilities Improvement Act, (6) How to Buy City-Owned Property for Development as a Day Care Center, (7) Planning a Health Program for Your Day Care Center, (8) Discussion Paper on Drop-In Day Care, (9) Incorporation of Day Care Centers, (10) Writing By-Laws for a Day Care Center Corporation, (11) Getting Tax-Exempt States for Your Day Care Center, (12) Accounting and Management for Day Care Centers, (13) Some Notes on Recruiting and Hiring Staff for Your Day Care Center, (14) Report of the Training and New Careers Committee, (15) Ideas for Putting a Day Care Classroom Together and Things to Make and Do with Children, and (16) Purchasing Equipment for Your Day Care Center. (CK)