Child Care Resource Guide Series

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9.05.2024 -

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.

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8.07.2024 -

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.

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7.15.2024 -

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.

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4.26.2024 -

Maintaining Your Child Care Facility Investment

This webinar offers guidance on developing a maintenance and inspection program and tips based on common uses of early childhood facility grant funding.

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4.12.2022 -

Child Care Center Design

This resource highlights the connection between well-designed space and high quality programming.

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4.12.2022 -

Creating Quality School-Age Child Care Space

This guide offers strategies for designing and equipping space in a way that supports program goals and activities.

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4.12.2022 -

Child Care Center Equipment & Furnishings

This guide is designed to help you with selecting furnishings and equipment that make your space usable and comfortable, child-safe and child-friendly, and attractive and functional for your needs.

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4.12.2022 -

Greening Early Childhood Centers

This guide focuses on high-impact green design and capital investment strategies that can be implemented over the long term.

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4.12.2022 -

Child Care Center Playgrounds

This guide assists with the planning of an early childhood facilities outdoor space to achieve a successful natural environment for young children.

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4.12.2022 -

Child Care Center Facilities Development & Financing

This guide identifies all of the steps in the real estate development and financing process.