Preparing Your Child Care Business for Tax Season
A useful guide to help you analyze your past tax returns to see opportunities for you to save more money this year.
Maintaining Your Child Care Facility Investments Guide
Guidance for developing a maintenance and inspection program as well as tips tailored to some of the most common uses of early childhood facility grant funding.
Monthly Budgeting for a Child Care Business
This guide includes four simple steps to build a monthly budget, plus easy-to-use templates to track spending.
Building Innovation for Equitable Child Care Impact Calculator
This tool is intended for use during predevelopment by project teams to quantify the anticipated social impacts of intentional, thoughtfully planned co-location on children and families.
How to Choose a Tax Preparer
A guide created to help child care business owners to understand what to look for when choosing a tax preparer to meet the unique needs of their business.
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.
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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 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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Co-location Impact Calculator
A calculator for planning and quantifying the anticipated social impacts of intentional, thoughtfully planned co-location of child care space within community development projects.
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Blogs + Stories
Hear from our experts in our collection of blogs, op-eds and press releases related to LISC's Child Care efforts.
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