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Private Equity Is Coming for Child Care. What Does That Mean?
A Q+A with Elliot Haspel on How Private Equity and Shareholders Are Reshaping American Child Care
Neighborhood Villages Unveils New Curriculum for Toddlers
Tune into NBC 10 Boston to learn more about how Neighborhood Villages is unveiling a new curriculum for toddlers.
Local Nonprofit Launches New, Free Curriculum For Toddlers And Caregivers
Neighborhood Villages has created a new learning curriculum for toddlers in an effort to fill the gaps in pre-K childcare and education.
Neighborhood Villages Launches New Play-Based Toddler Curriculum Designed in Partnership with Boston Public Schools and the LEGO Foundation
Developed high-quality early education curriculum available for free to educators across the country.
Neighborhood Villages Commends MA Senate for Investment in Early Education in FY25 Budget
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 Applauds Early Education Funding in House FY25 State Budget
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.
Growing the Pipeline of Early Childhood Educators
Neighborhood Villages Apprenticeship Program Graduates First Cohort and Continues to Grow
Taming the country’s highest child care costs
Daycare costs parents a small fortune, yet many providers still don’t even make a living wage.
Neighborhood Villages Awarded Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital Community Health Impact Funds
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.
With cuts to child-care grants looming, providers worry about future of program
“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.
“This Is Our Moment”: Six Bank Street Policy Fellows Share Their Strategies
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.
Mass. Senate passes early education and child care bill focused on affordability, access
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 Applauds Massachusetts Senate for Passing Comprehensive Early Education Bill
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.
Massachusetts needs a robust child-care system
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 Statement on Senate Child Care Legislation
Neighborhood Villages applauded the Massachusetts Senate today for introducing a comprehensive early education and care reform bill which will be taken up next week.
Hugs don’t pay the rent: How one early educator is working to save his future
As the child care workforce struggles, so do the families that rely on it. Half the problem for working parents is the cost, which can compare to a second mortgage. On average nationally, child care runs about $11,000 dollars a year per child.
The Healey-Driscoll Administration Announces $5 Million in Apprenticeship Expansion and Opportunity Grants
The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD) today announced $5 million in Apprenticeship Expansion and Opportunity Grants to 25 organizations to train and place 1,000 new apprentices across the state. The grants leverage $2.4M in state funding complemented by remaining support from federal funds to train apprentices in high growth industries like clean energy, early childhood education, and more.
Neighborhood Villages Statement on Child Care Reform Legislation
Neighborhood Villages – a Boston-based nonprofit that advocates for solutions to the greatest challenges faced by the early education sector – applauded the Legislature today for advancing legislation to improve early childhood education and care in Massachusetts.
Elliot’s Provocations: The Bay State is Becoming an Early Learning Beacon
The C3 grant program also allows the state to collect important information about the sectoral landscape. According to state data, as Neighborhood Villages recently summarized, “50% of center-based providers and 47% of [family child care] providers reported that C3 allowed them to delay tuition increases; while 66% of center-based providers and 57% of FCC providers reported that they would increase tuition in the absence of C3 grants.”
Neighborhood Villages Applauds Governor Healey for $1.6B Investment in Early Education in Proposed FY25 Budget
Neighborhood Villages — a Boston-based nonprofit that advocates for solutions to the greatest challenges faced by the early education sector — applauded Governor Maura Healey for committing more than $1.6 billion in early education funding in her proposed fiscal year 2025 budget announced today.