Neighborhood Villages
Neighborhood Villages envisions a transformed, equitable early education and child care system that lifts up educators and sets every child and family up to thrive.
What We Do
Neighborhood Villages is showing child care systems change in action. Through innovative and collaborative solutions to the biggest challenges facing early education and child care providers serving families with children ages 0-5, we are advancing sustainable, equity-driven reform.
The Why
The How
Neighborhood Villages In The News
The Boston-based nonprofit hosted the Massachusetts premiere of “Make a Circle” at the Strand Theatre
Episode three of our hit podcast “No One Is Coming To Save Us” takes on the issue of housing. We hear firsthand experience from Caitlin Liversidge who became pregnant and homeless last year and has since moved through transitional housing into her own apartment with her healthy two-month-old daughter.
Massachusetts only state to continue funding child care stabilization grants at same level federal government did.
These services share one key characteristic: because they are essential, there is constant demand and people are prepared to pay handsomely for them. “Child care is something that families need in order to work,” says Elizabeth Leiwant, director of government relations at Neighborhood Villages.
Proposal Includes $1.52 Billion For Early Education and Care, Makes C3 Grant Program Permanent
Zaentz Early Education Initiative looks for fresh ideas to transform the early education landscape
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey took the podium alongside U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo at the inaugural National Child Care Innovation Summit.
Early Learning Nation magazine asked leaders and experts, “How can parents and caregivers make this a playful learning summer?” Here are their responses.
Inspired by this research, Neighborhood Villages recently launched a new play-based curriculum in partnership with the LEGO Foundation and Boston Public Schools. “In early childhood, play is learning,” says Binal Patel, chief program officer.
Final Senate FY25 Budget Includes $1.58 Billion For Early Education and Care with $475 Million Reserved for Child Care Operations Grants
A Q+A with Elliot Haspel on How Private Equity and Shareholders Are Reshaping American Child Care
Tune into NBC 10 Boston to learn more about how Neighborhood Villages is unveiling a new curriculum for toddlers.
Neighborhood Villages has created a new learning curriculum for toddlers in an effort to fill the gaps in pre-K childcare and education.
Developed high-quality early education curriculum available for free to educators across the country.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee’s FY25 Budget Earmarks $1.58 Billion For Early Education and Care, Including $475 Million for Child Care Operations Grants
Neighborhood Villages — a Boston-based nonprofit that advocates for solutions to the greatest challenges faced by the early education sector — celebrated the passage of the $58 billion fiscal 2025 state budget put forward by the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Neighborhood Villages Apprenticeship Program Graduates First Cohort and Continues to Grow
Daycare costs parents a small fortune, yet many providers still don’t even make a living wage.
Neighborhood Villages is pleased to announce that it has received Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Community Health Impact Funds to support Neighborhood Villages’ work with Ellis Early Learning in Jamaica Plain in piloting a multi-layered, comprehensive behavioral health model for ECE settings that can be scaled across the state.
“Because the program has been so successful, more and more [child-care providers] are participating. And as programs open new classrooms or bring on more teachers, they become eligible for more money in their grant,” said Lauren Kennedy, cofounder of the early-education advocacy nonprofit Neighborhood Villages.
Binal Patel, chief program officer at Neighborhood Villages, previously helped launch and then ran an early childhood program for infants, toddlers and preschoolers in Watertown, MA.
Neighborhood Villages Senior Director of Advocacy Latoya Gayle said the industry is “inherently broken” with families struggling to find spots for their children.
Neighborhood Villages – a Boston-based nonprofit that advocates for solutions to the greatest challenges faced by the early education sector – today applauded the Massachusetts Senate today for passing a comprehensive early education and care reform bill.
The state Senate is introducing a comprehensive early education and care reform bill that will help teach our youngest learners and stabilize this crucial sector of our economy.
Neighborhood Villages applauded the Massachusetts Senate today for introducing a comprehensive early education and care reform bill which will be taken up next week.
In recognition of National Apprenticeship Week, Neighborhood Villages released a case study on its early childhood education (ECE) Registered Apprenticeship Program that illustrates how apprenticeship programs help address the child care workforce crisis.