Local Business Collaborative
Early Childhood Center
WHAT WE PROPOSE
A cooperative early childhood center model where businesses unite to meet a common goal: Providing a quality childcare solution for their employees and the community.
How it works
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Establish a collaborative 501c3 made up of local businesses to oversee multiple child centers.
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Collaborative run by single administrator with host child care center site directors.
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Businesses commit to providing yearly stability funding to help with operating expenses, which allows the Collaborative to break even while keeping weekly childcare costs manageable for families.
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Businesses decide if and how much they will subsidize guaranteed slots for their employees.
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Multiple 20-150 child centers located across Norfolk all housed under the collaborative umbrella
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Businesses become collaborative members and provide a childcare benefit to their employees while increasing community capacity.
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Bonus: You have an opportunity to be a host site and have childcare facilities in your building supported and run by the collaborative .
SUSTAINABLE MODEL
Our goal is to create an operating model with business partnerships to provide a sustainable solution to the childcare options that can be replicated throughout Madison County and the state of Nebraska.
WHAT YOU GET IN RETURN
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An opportunity to provide an attractive benefit to current and future employees.
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A shared solution to employee recruitment and retention that doesn’t require you to run a childcare center or figure out the issue alone.
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Shared administrative costs, benefits, and risks across multiple sites.
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Access to high-quality early childhood education for your employees.
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An opportunity to help solve a difficult community issue by driving positive change in the local quality and capacity.
Our Solution
MORE THAN JUST A DAYCARE
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Centers will provide curriculum based learning and will include children from infant through Pre-K.
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Step-Up to Quality level 5 certified.