We have found the following initiatives and resources to be helpful in supporting childcare providers and the care ecosystem. They assist in building sustainable businesses and ensuring high-quality care is accessible for children and their families.

• **Home Grown:** Home Grown is a national collaborative of funders committed to improving the quality of and access to home-based child care.
• **SEIU Education and Support Fund:** The SEIU Education and Support Fund (ESF) is a 501(C)3 non-profit organization founded for the purpose of developing and managing worker-centered education, training and professional development programs. We work closely with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the labor union that represents nearly 2 million workers in healthcare, the public sector and property services.
• Tides: Tides is a partner for justice in the social sector, working closely with doers and donors to build the power of historically excluded groups who face systemic barriers. We provide fiscal sponsorship, donor advised funds, impact investing, and a variety of grantmaking solutions to advance social justice and equity.
• National Association of Family Child Care: The National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC) is a nationwide non-profit organization dedicated to promoting high quality child care by strengthening the profession of family child care for nearly one million paid home-based early learning programs serving almost 40% of the 6.7 million children who receive care from a nonrelative on a regular basis.
• BUILD Initiative: The BUILD Initiative is a national organization that advances work on behalf of young children from prenatal to five, their families, and communities.
• Child Care Aware of America: Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA) works with a national network of more than 500 child care resource and referral (CCR&Rs) agencies and other partners to ensure that all families have access to quality, affordable child care.
• UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Child Care Employment: CSCCE provides research and analysis on the preparation, working conditions, and compensation of the early care and education workforce.
• Opportunities Exchange: Our mission is to transform the business of early care and education to both improve child outcomes and also ensure that practitioners are well-compensated and work in supportive environments. We believe that every early care and education director (center-or home-based) deserves an administrative team, that every teacher deserves guidance from an experienced pedagogical leader, and that every child deserves a skilled, reflective teacher.
• Low Income Investment Fund: As a leading CDFI since 1984, LIIF has always been at the forefront of the community development and financial industry. While we’re always evolving, one thing has remained constant: our daily commitment to supporting and uplifting communities across the United States.
• The Imagine Institute: The Imagine Institute was founded by a group of family child care providers in partnership with their union, SEIU 925. Together they hoped to build an organization for early learning professionals, by early learning professionals. Our name comes from a conference in which SEIU 925 members imagined a future filled with professional opportunity, financial wellbeing, and access to quality education. The Imagine Institute is rooted in the belief that this future is possible, as long as providers guide the way.