Provider Grants & the Future of Child Care Financing
Neighborhood Villages and Strategies for Children hosted a panel event about the critical need to make direct-to-provider operations grants a permanent vehicle for funding the early education and care sector.
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Presentation by Neighborhood Villages and Strategies for Children
Provider Voices
Remarks by Massachusetts Education Committee Chairs MA Rep. Alice Peisch and MA Sen. Jason Lewis
In 2021, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Department of Early Education launched the Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) Stabilization Grant Program, which provided operations grants directly to licensed early education and care centers, Family Child Care providers, and out-of-school-time programs. The C3 Stabilization Grant Program had nearly instantaneous impact, helping to prevent program closures and promote badly needed investments in teacher salaries.
Watch how evidence from the Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) grant program demonstrates that direct-to-provider operations grants have:
Preserved family access to care, especially in lower-income communities;
Contributed to increased educator wages; and
Stabilized tuition fees and affordability.