Innovate, Create, and Elevate: Child Care as Infrastructure
On September 16 and 17, 2024, the LISC Child Care and Early Learning team held a Child Care is Infrastructure regional convening at historic Hotel Phillips in Kansas City, MO. Over 50 participants representing diverse geographies and backgrounds were in attendance, engaging in an immersive experience of expert perspectives, essential information, peer learning, networking & inspiration. Topics covered included funding opportunities through a federal and local policy lens, strategic partnerships, and infrastructure supply building strategies.
Kiddie Kastle Child Care Center
LISC provided Kiddie Kastle an acquisition loan to acquire the building it currently occupies.
Building Your Budget for Home-based Child Care Providers
Creating a monthly budget is a key component of managing your business finances, ensuring what you care about most in your program is possible. In this webinar, we will explore four simple steps to build a monthly budget, plus easy-to-use templates to track spending.
Tax Preparation Strategies for Child Care Businesses
Learn about tax-related topics that are crucial for your child care business, including tax preparation, tax mitigation, commonly misunderstood deductions, and the tax implications of grant funding.
Launch of the Child Care Co-location Impact Calculator Tool
In this webinar, LISC Child Care & Early Learning and LISC Community Research and Impact share a new tool created to support development project teams in planning and quantifying the anticipated social impacts of intentional, thoughtfully planned co-location of child care space within community development projects to better support children and families. The teams present the rationale and purpose of the tool, how to use it, and strategies for using the information in concert with forecasting and grant proposal tasks.
Supporting Business Development for Child Care Providers: A BDO Playbook
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Child Care Resource Library
To complement our training and technical assistance activities around financing and facilities, LISC Child Care & Early Learning has developed a series of guides to help providers, stakeholders and communities navigate the complexities of building high-quality early learning environments.
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Making Space Matter
The Toolkit
The Making Space Matter toolkit is a concrete, interactive, step-by-step guide to help craft child care and early learning facilities policies of the future.
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The Report
A collection of resources on child care facility development and related strategies you can use to actively plan for an interconnected system of support.
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The Launch Event
On March 6th the LISC Child Care & Early Learning team officially launched the Making Space Matter toolkit.
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