We’re a research collaborative making the Case for Childcare—to save huge costs for businesses & to empower advocates and parents.
Let’s build the future of Childcare.
Childcare is an opportunity too expensive to miss
by investing in childcare policies employers see a huge return
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Childcare is an opportunity too timely to miss.
By investing in childcare policies and programs employers see a huge return
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Retain and
attract client by
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Meet your starting points.
The Collaborative
behind the research.
The Case for Childcare Collaborative formed in 2022 to explore the business case for supporting childcare. For many businesses, childcare is often seen as an expensive ‘nice-to-have’ but the responsibility ultimately rests with families themselves. After conducting a year of research and design sessions with our partners, we believe the cost of childcare cannot be shouldered by families alone. Childcare is an opportunity for businesses to enhance revenue, ultimately helping the bottom line while supporting parents, caregivers, families, and the future workforce for generations to come. In turn, childcare is a benefit to the economy, because a strengthened workforce builds a stronger economy.
Our Collaborative partnered together to dig through the evidence to make a practical Case for Childcare—so businesses can work alongside families to foster a more sustainable, inclusive and prosperous future for all.
And for 2024, we’re stretching our horizons further. Our focus will be on actively engaging employers of frontline, hourly, and gig workers to support childcare. In assessing the wider ecosystem of employer support for childcare, we found that frontline, hourly, & gig workers are often excluded from any childcare benefits that do exist. Leveraging the assets of our Collaborative, we aim to shed light on tactical ways businesses can provide childcare support and benefits so that all parents and caregivers can thrive in the workplace.
This research was supported by and designed with the organizations below. We are grateful for their partnership. The findings and conclusions presented on this website are those of the author(s) alone, and do not necessarily reflect the sole opinions of the following organizations.
American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
National Domestic Workers Alliance
Pivotal Ventures
Working for Women
NationSwell
We know that working in silos is too limiting to achieve the impact we seek.
The challenges we face call for collaboration and shared action. NationSwell Collaboratives convene cross-sector leaders committed to advancing progress on a specific issue. Together, we illuminate challenges and opportunities in that space and align on action to advance each other's work, and the industry as a whole.
This work would not be possible without the groundbreaking work of:
And so many more incredible early childhood educators, nonprofits, and advocates.