Members

We are women and minority small business owners.  The childcare sector is the only sector in which women nursing infants and toddlers can and do actually become successful entrepreneurs, supporting their families while lovingly supporting other moms in their community who have to work outside the home. We are black, white, Latino, Chinese, Indian, Muslim, Jewish, low income, middle income, with and without diplomas and degrees; English, Spanish, Cantoneese, Russian and Hindi speaking. Our businesses are home-based, center-based, and some of us have, from the ground up, grown our small enterprises into community-based N – 8 private schools  - even as we are raising our children.  We are the heroic women who are the fabric of this city; the wheels that keep the cogs moving.  Acknowledge and respect us now as essential to public health, and the saving and rebuilding of our economy.  There is nothing more essential today, than the business of sustaining and growing our programs.  the small businesses sector that is women and minority owned childcare and education enterprises.  

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SUPPORTING ONE ANOTHER DURING CHALLENGING TIMES

Members have worked together during this Covid crisis in many ways. We have provided one another with both practical, financial and emotional support during these challenging times. We have pooled our funds to make it possible for a member to make a down payment on a lease.  In addition, we have reached out to childcare and pre-schools, and early childhood programs city-wide.  We have met with organized groups of childcare providers in Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Manhattan, and The Bronx, as well as statewide advocacy organizations.  We have met with public officials, at the three levels of government to make our voices heard and make them aware of our needs.  We encourage you to read our statement of needed policy changes on our homepage.  If you agree, let us know.  If we have left something out, please let us know.  If you have suggestions for tactics, or ideas for collaboration, please let us know.  

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PRE-SCHOOLS AND CHILDCARE PROVIDERS

 COLLABORATING IN MARKETING EFFORTS

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We can become a platform for marketing your program.  With your help we will build a childcare referral service that allows us to support you in building your enrollment.  Simply by being listed on our website you are able to increase the visibility of your program to those seeking your services via SEO.  Beyond that, once we reach a critical mass of members, we will invest in a directory that can be of service to all member early childhood and daycare programs in Manhattan.

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