National Systems
Building a sustainable supply of child care is a challenge for city, county, state, federal and Tribal governments. Child care is an essential public good delivered mainly outside the public infrastructure.
Since 2019, FCF’s National teams have worked across diverse economic, geographic, and political environments to:
Support and strengthen child care businesses
Build a robust supply of child care in communities
Analyze supply gaps
Create partnerships among providers, businesses, and community members
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What We Can Help With
- Cost Modeling – We use custom, detailed financial tools to provide
states and Tribes with a nuanced understanding of child care cost drivers and funding gaps. - Engagement – Child care providers are creative and entrepreneurial and best positioned to inform policies that sustain and build child care supply. We are experienced in creating equitable, accessible, and provider-centered engagement processes that result in actionable solutions.
- Facilitation and Partnership Building – We help agencies and organizations work collaboratively to build child care supply, with a special focus on cross-sector and public-private initiatives.
- Landscape Analysis – Child care businesses exist within a complex ecosystem. We help our clients understand the comprehensive landscape that impacts local child care supply–from access to capital, zoning and regulatory barriers, cross-sector workforce dynamics, and more—and develop systems-level solutions.
- Tribal Child Care Systems Building – We understand the shared child care challenges and the unique cultural, economic, and policy contexts that impact Tribal child care systems.
Tribal Nations and Communities
The First Children’s Finance national team partners with Tribes that are sovereign nations located within the current boundaries of the United States. Tribes have a deep commitment to the well-being of children and use their sovereignty to enact policies that prioritize the needs of children, families, and future generations.
Read on about how we can help your Native Nation or Tribe on our First Children First Nations Child Care Collaborative Page
ECE Business Collaboratory of Tribal Nations
Designed to build the capacity of cross-sector Tribal leaders to think systemically about the current state of child care. The Collaboratory carves out dedicated time and space for cross-sector Tribal teams to break down siloes and collaboratively focus on child care while revealing the interplay between components of Tribal systems and how they impact the supply and sustainability of child care including economic development, workforce, and finance